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#684 WP-Tonic "This Week In WordPress & Tech" 15th of April, 2022 at 8:30 am PST Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel. This Weeks Special Guest is Rob Walling Co-Founder of TinySeed And The Popular Podcast - "Startups For The Rest Of Us" https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ This Week's Stories For Discussion #1 - WordPress Contributors Host 6.0 Walkthrough https://wptavern.com/wordpress-contributors-host-6-0-walkthrough #2 - Shopify announces 10-for-1 stock split, proposes founder share for CEO https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shopify-announces-10-1-stock-111812516.html #3 - Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter in takeover attempt https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/14/23024905/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-twitter #4 - Another Theranos Trial Begins, This Time Without the Fanfare https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/technology/theranos-trial-balwani.html #5 - Why American Teens Are So Sad https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/american-teens-sadness-depression-anxiety/629524/

#683 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS With Guest Akshat Choudhary Founder and CEO of BlogVault, MalCare, and WP Remote   Akshat Choudhary Akshat Choudhary is the Founder and CEO of BlogVault, MalCare, and WP Remote - successful WordPress plugins designed for complete website management. He has always prided himself on his ability to teach himself things. Since starting BlogVault, Akshat has transformed his side-project into a profitable venture that is scaling new heights in the Indian startup space. As a member of the WordPress community for almost a decade, Akshat's core belief when building any product is to ensure the end-user doesn't need assistance and to assist them in the best possible manner if they do. https://blogvault.net/ Main Topics/Questions Of The Interview   #1 - Can you give some further insights connected to yourself and BlogVault, MalCare, and WP Remote? #2 - In a lot of IT departments WordPress is seen as being very insecure do you agree with this statement and what can be done about this view? #3 - You got a new product/service WP Remote that speeds up WordPress websites can you tell us more? #4 - What have been some of the most difficult problems you have to deal with in the past year which like to share with the audience? #5 - What are one or two key advice points you would give to somebody who is thinking of developing either a plugin or service in the WordPress ecosystem? #6 - Why would you like BlogVault to be in the next couple of years' time?

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel. This Weeks Special Guest is Debbie Levitt Founder of Deltacx.com     This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - WordPress.com Makes Major Unannounced Pricing Changes, Slashes Free Storage Limits https://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-makes-major-unannounced-pricing-changes-slashes-free-storage-limits #2 - What Elon Musk could mean for Twitter https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/6/23012831/twitter-elon-musk-parag-agrawal-ceo-board-seat-what-next #3 - Jetpack 10.8 Introduces QR Code Post Sharing, Adds Openverse Media Provider https://wptavern.com/jetpack-10-8-introduces-qr-code-post-sharing-adds-openverse-media-provider   #4 -10 investors discuss the no-code and low-code landscape in Q1 2022 https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/10-investors-discuss-the-no-code-and-low-code-landscape-in-q1-2022/ #5 - RT America, You Were Very Weird and Bad https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/03/russia-today-propaganda-shut-down/627606/

Lessons Learnt Connected to Rejuvenating an Old Plugin   This Week's Key Questions for Ronnie #1 - Ronnie How did you get into the world of WordPress? #2 - Over the past 10 years you have worked for a number of well-known WordPress plugin service providers, now you working for Automattic what' are the major differences culturally and how have you personally dealt with these differences if any? #3 - You are now working on the Sensei LMS plugin what are Automattic medium plans for the plugin and what are the opportunities do you see for the plugin? #4 - What are some of the leading trends in the world of online education that excite you the most? #5 - What are some of the leading lessons have you learned that you like to share with the tribe connected to building commercial WordPress plugins? #6 - What are some of the biggest challenges do you think the WordPress platform and community face in the next 18 months? https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronnieburt/

#680 WP-Tonic "This Week In WordPress & Tech"1st of April, 2022 at 8:30 am PST Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel. This Weeks Special Guest is Nathalie Lussier Joint Founder & CEO of Accessally https://accessally.com/   Special Guest Panelist This Week is This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - Yoast WordPress Plugin Update Causes Fatal Errors https://www.searchenginejournal.com/yoast-wordpress-plugin-update-causes-fatal-errors/443217/ #2 - Etsy sellers will go on strike in April and want customers to boycott https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/30/23001727/etsy-seller-strike-boycott-fee-increase   #3- The WordPress.org Pattern Creator Now Open to the Public https://wptavern.com/the-wordpress-org-pattern-creator-now-open-to-the-public   #4 - Women in Tech: Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer https://masterwp.com/women-in-tech-ada-lovelace-the-first-computer-programmer/   #5 - Performance Team Proposes Enabling WebP by Default in WordPress 6.0 https://wptavern.com/performance-team-proposes-enabling-webp-by-default-in-wordpress-6-0

#679 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS With Guest Nick Amabile Founder of Das42 Google analytics + Analytics Technologies Like Snowflake More About Nick provides strategic direction and business support to many types of businesses and industries, applying his technical abilities, product management experience, and understanding of eCommerce and technology companies He has held senior roles in analytics and business intelligence at four eCommerce companies, including Jet.com during hyper-growth and Etsy through their IPO. He previously worked at NERA Economic Consulting where he assisted in econometric analysis and statistical programming in antitrust litigation for Fortune 500 companies. He has over 10 years of experience designing and implementing analytical and technical solutions for businesses as an analyst, engineer, and consultant. https://das42.com/people/nick-amabile/   Main Questions of the Interview With Nick Amabile #1 - Can you give us some background info on you and your company Das42 and what was your joining into this area of data analytics and usage? #2 - Can you give us some insights connected to new analytics technologies like Snowflake? #3 - Nick why do so many data projects often fail in your option? #4 - Got any advice and tip connected to starting a data program with a client that gets results? #5 - Have you got any insight on where you think Google is taking Google Analytics in the next 12 to 18 months? #6 - Are there any particular data technologies that are not prime time at the present moment that gets you really excited?

#678 WP-Tonic "This Week In WordPress & Tech" 25h of March 2022 at 8:30 am PST Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel. Special Guest Panelist This Week is Vito Peleg Founder & CEO of Atarim - https://atarim.io/about/   This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - Weglot Raises €45M From Partech Partners https://wptavern.com/weglot-raises-e45m-from-partech-partners #2 -How We Manage Projects at Howard Development & Consulting https://masterwp.com/how-we-manage-projects-at-howard-development-consulting/   #3 - WP Engine, Pantheon, and Others Drop Support for Russian Business Customers https://wptavern.com/wp-engine-pantheon-and-others-drop-support-for-russian-business-customers   #4 - Good Design Is All About Good Timing https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/03/design-is-all-about-good-timing/   #5- NASA announces plans to develop second Moon lander, alongside SpaceX’s Starship https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/22993287/nasa-second-human-lunar-lander-moon-artemis-spacex

#677 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS With Guest Lesley Sim Building An Audience From Zero To a Successful Plugin Launch The Shows Hosts Jonathan Denwood & Andrew Palmer More About Lesley Sim Lesley Sim has been a government employee, an ad agency suit, and a freediving instructor... and then she found WordPress. She built sites on WordPress as part of her digital marketing agency and moved on to building plugins last year. Now, she focuses on Newsletter Glue, a plugin that connects your email service provider to WordPress and turns the block editor into a newsletter builder so you can build and send newsletters directly from WordPress.   https://newsletterglue.com/ https://lesley.pizza/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleysim/ Main Questions of the Interview #1 - Can you give the audience some background information connected to yourself and what lead you to lunch Newsletterglue? #2 - The building and the sending out emails is a large but very competitive market, what was your process connected to deciding to build a plugin in this particular sector? #3 - What have been some of the major lessons you have learned in the process of getting the Newsletterglue launch and what things would you do differently? #4 - Where would you like Newsletterglue to be in a year's time? #5 - You are based in Singapore by your LinkedIn profile so what are the WordPress and SaaS startup communities like in Singapore?

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel.

Katie Keith Joint Founder of Barn 2 a Leading WordPress Plugin Shop How To Run A Highly Successfully WordPress Plugin Company Remotely As Semi Digital Nomads 'm Katie Keith - Director and Co-Founder at Barn2 Plugins. I started the company back in 2010 with my husband Andy, and we now have a team of about 12 people and sell WordPress and WooCommerce plugins to website owners and agencies in over 140 counties worldwide. Our bestselling plugins are WooCommerce Product Table (https://barn2.com/wordpress- plugins/woocommerce-product-table) and Document Library Pro (https://barn2.com/wordpress- plugins/document-library-pro). I'm from the UK and am currently living on the sunny island of Mallorca for a year, enjoying the flexibility of running a WordPress company which I can operate from anywhere in the world.I have a 10-year-old daughter called Sophia and enjoy hiking, yoga and eating out   Main Questions of the Interview #1 - Katie can you give the WP-Tonic's tribe your's and Barn 2 background history? #2 - I'm right in saying that you and your husband are digital nomads and if yes how has this directly affected how you run Barn 2? #3 - Like a lot of founders of successful WordPress plugin shops your origins seem to be serving clients as a traditional digital agency if this is correct and can you give some key tips, connected to successfully moving into the plugin shop space? #4 - Can you give the tribe one or two key lessons you have personally learned connected to building up Barn-2? #5 - I get the impression from a lot of theme and plugin shops have had a difficult couple of years connected to dealing with a large increase of support tickets linked to the fragmentation of the WordPress market linked to the number of page builders out on there and also dealing the constant changes linked to Gutenberg, would you agree with this statement? #6 - What do you see as some of the key opportunities in the WordPress ecosystem at the present moment?   https://barn2.com/