Press This WordPress Community Podcast

In this episode, we interview form optimization expert and popular WordPress community fixture Josh Pollock of Caldera Forms. Josh will be sharing his tips for maximizing form engagement by using visitor-delighting usability techniques, lead-boosting CRO, best practices for data management, and critical email deliverability tips. If you're a developer building sites for others, or if you're trying to optimize lead forms for your business, don't miss this chance to make sure you build forms that also help build your bottom line!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, we interview form optimization expert and popular WordPress community fixture Josh Pollock of Caldera Forms. Josh will be sharing his tips for maximizing form engagement by using visitor-delighting usability techniques, lead-boosting CRO, best practices for data management, and critical email deliverability tips. If you're a developer building sites for others, or if you're trying to optimize lead forms for your business, don't miss this chance to make sure you build forms that also help build your bottom line!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join us as WordPress core contributor and super-popular WordCamp speaker Steven Word shares how the WordPress ecosystem works. If you've used WordPress in your business and just never bothered to learn about the community or if you're a seasoned WordPress pro, you'll learn valuable information you can use to stay on top of your WordPress game. If you want to build amazing things with WordPress, you don't want to miss this podcast!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join us as WordPress core contributor and super-popular WordCamp speaker Steven Word shares how the WordPress ecosystem works. If you've used WordPress in your business and just never bothered to learn about the community or if you're a seasoned WordPress pro, you'll learn valuable information you can use to stay on top of your WordPress game. If you want to build amazing things with WordPress, you don't want to miss this podcast!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

So, you want to be a professional blogger? But what exactly do you need to do to make money from this? This week we take a deeper look at how to start generating revenue from your blog. Whether you have a fledgling WordPress blog or are a well seasoned blogger with an entire community built up, there are a number of avenues you can go down. But which is best? And how do you actually make it all happen?•There are always some growing pains as every new blog strives to get its feet off the ground, not least of which is trying to generate revenue. We start off this week by taking a closer look at the stages of development a site goes through as it matures.•Joost gives an insight into the journey of his own site, Yoast.com, and gets down to the nitty gritty of what worked for him and what didn’t. •Joost lifts the lid on Google AdSense, and explains its pros and cons.•Affiliate marketing; we explain the importance of having both high readership and the trust of those readers. We recommend taking a look at PepperJamNetwork and Commission Junction. •We explore other avenues within traditional banner advertising, including some surprising and very neat little hints and tips! •The value of the personal brand: In the long haul, this could be the most beneficial thing you do. We explain the how and the why. Joost tells us how his blog has lead to consultancy work for some top customers.•Fred talks through the benefits of monetising old blog content by selling it as an eBook. Producing products that can be ‘built’ once and sold multiple times has huge benefits.•The importance of scarcity!•Who you take advertising from is important – if they are ads for less than respectable services or products it could be incredibly detrimental to your personal brand and the reputation of your blog. There is no escaping accountability, and especially not on the web! •Why you should be careful about asking your readers for money. The bottom line? Make money, but always keep your readers in mind!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We are kicking things off this year with Christina Warren, a writer, podcaster, blogger, twitterer (@film_girl) and all round gadget-junkie. Christina is a full time writer for mashable.com and you can find her blog at www.christinawarren.com. She also co-hosts ‘Briefly Awesome’ on 5by5.tvWe start this week’s show off with Christina as she fills us in on what she is up to at the moment, including heading to Las Vagas this week for the Fourth Annual Mashable Awards, and coverage of the 2011 International CES Convention.WordPress 3.1 release candidate 2 has just come out, and in line with this we get down to the nitty-gritty of custom post formats. Christina explains what they are, and how it all works.The admin bar is a new addition to WordPress 3.0.1 rc2 and is already the source of much discussion. We find out who likes it, who doesn’t, and debate whether it should be an option rather than a default.Christina lets us in on some great tips when it comes to writing and blogging. Considering she writes an average of 1.5 million words a year, we highly recommend taking her advice! One of the tools she uses is TextMate, a Mac text editor. She explains its bundle system and how easy it makes her life when writing blogs and articles.Christina tells us all about the Mashable Awards, its nominees and who to look out for.She lets us in on some of the more unusual companies she will be looking out for in 2011 including the Quora.com QA service and Kickstarter.com, a crowd funding platform.Christina gives her top tips for WordPress, talking about Markdown Quicktags, reducing the number of plugins on your site, jQuery and using spiderbug, and some fantastic advice on becoming mobile friendly (essential if you have a business based on offering a service).We talk about the WordPress apps that are out there for the iPad and iPhone. Improvements are inevitable, and we discuss what is really needed, and our opinions on some of the changes that should be made.Christina’s plugin picks and plugins she mentioned:WP Admin Bar RemovalDisable Admin BarBlogsmith Bundle – Has a lot of useful tools for blogging, including IOS linking and a built in thesaurus, word count tools and much more!Markdown QuicktagsJoost’s plugin picks of the week:Comment Email Verify – This plugin forces people to verify their email address when they post a commentSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

WordPress core developer and consultant Andrew Nacin speaks about how he got into the WordPress family. He also discusses what changes he would like to have made, like domain mapping into the core and more multi-site flexibility.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Toni Schneider is the CEO of Automattic, the core team behind the WordPress project. Since leaving Switzerland for Silicon Valley, he has been working with and successfully exiting startups. Before leaving Yahoo! to join Automattic, Tony was a WordPress user and part of the community. On today's show we touch on: The huge Windows Live Spaces migration to WordPress.com Who is Toni and why he chose to work with Automattic Progress Automattic is making in terms of growth Steps WordPress is taking as a CMS The mantra and thought process behind Automattic's products Where Automattic is going next and the ways to engage with the communityPlugin Picks of the Week: Shrimp Test – Easy A/B testing to maximize site performance. Ultimate Taxonomy Manager – A solid tool for simplifying custom taxonomy management for non-developers. Yet Another Related Posts – Increase page views / time on site, by suggesting relevant posts to readers.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

At the very beginning of this episode there's a short interview with Toni Schneider, the CEO of Automattic, and Dharmesh Mehta, Director of Product Search. Only an hour before we recorded this interview they were on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to announce that all the Microsoft Live / MSN Spaces users would be moved over to WordPress.com.We talked about what this meant for future work between Microsoft and Automattic / WordPress, and whether any of this would impact WordPress.org users.This interview is followed by another (much longer) interview with Brian Gardner and Nathan Rice of StudioPress and Genesis. In this interview we discuss how Genesis came to be over the last year, what it's benefits are over a normal theme and what the process of going from a set of themes to a framework was like.We discussed the SEO settings of Genesis, which has some of the more advanced SEO settings ever seen in themes, but also whether these kinds of settings should be in themes at all. I referenced a recent post of mine and we talked about a plugin Nathan developed, the SEO Data Transporter that allows you to transport your SEO meta data from a plugin to a theme, or from one theme to another etc.Another interesting point was the discussion of how to set up a community around a theme framework like this, and Brian showed us, for instance, dev.studiopress.com. We also talked about the Genesis Simple Sidebars plugin, a very cool way of allowing people to change sidebars for posts.Then there were two plugin picks:Nathan picked Simple URLs, a very cool new method of doing redirects using a custom post.Joost picked Press This reloaded, a "re done" version of the Press This bookmarklet that allows setting of SEO titles etc. from within the Press This screen too.It's really an information packed show, so go ahead and listen right now!PS sorry for my sore voice and coughing, I've got a quite heavy cold pestering me.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Liz Strauss gave a masterclass tonight; at least, that's how it felt to both Frederick and myself. We talked about communicating with your audience, and Liz shared some experiences about open comment nights. We discussed positioning yourself and your blog, and how important personal branding can be.She told us about feedback loops, and how to use them to listen to your users / clients / audience. She tought us to build our network before we need it, and why and how you should be treating your blog like a business, even if it's just a hobby. Aren't you curious yet? Start listening then. You'll be a wiser man or woman for it at the end of this.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy