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WP-Tonic is a podcast for WordPress professionals and Bootstrap SaaS startup entrepreneurs or anybody looking to build a business online.
We cover a large number of areas with our main show. We interview some creative WordPress and startup entrepreneurs plus online experts who, with their insights, can help you build your online business.
Jonathan Denwood and Kurt von Ahnen host and produce the WP-Tonic podcast, which is one of the longest-running WordPress podcasts. Each episode brings you valuable insights with one goal: to help you generate more income and impact through online businesses.
Latest episodes

Nov 9, 2021 • 1h 6min
#644 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show on the 5th November,, 2021 With Guest John Overall of The WordPress Plugins From A to Z Podcast
#644 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show on the 5th November,, 2021 With Guest John Overall of The WordPress Plugins From A to Z Podcast
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 Week In WordPress & Tech With Special Guest John Overall of The WordPress Plugins From A to Z Podcast
#1 - Jetpack Acquires WordPress Vulnerability Database WPScan
https://jetpack.com/2021/11/04/jetpack-acquires-wordpress-vulnerability-database-wpscan/
#2 - Ona by DeoThemes Just Raised the Bar for WordPress Block Theme Design
https://wptavern.com/ona-by-deothemes-just-raised-the-bar-for-wordpress-block-theme-design
Paul Charlton Founder of Wptuts
#3 - Why WordPress Freelancers Don't Make More Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhOdB271ozk
#4 - How to Create More Engagement in the Workplace Amid Growing Employee Burnout & ‘The Great Resignation’ Misses the Point
https://www.inc.com/heather-wilde/how-to-create-more-engagement-in-workplace-amid-growing-employee-burnout.html
https://www.wired.com/story/great-resignation-misses-the-point/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
#5 - The return of ABBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygkcwU0SWNk
#6- WordPress Takes Steps to Achieve Performance Lead
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-performance-team-meeting/425613

Nov 4, 2021 • 34min
#643 This Week In WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Sherry Walling PhD
What Are The Real Qualities You Need To Be a Successful Entrepreneur?
Next Thursday, October the 28th at 9 am PST we will be interviewing Sherry Walling PhD of the "Zen Founder" & "Mind Curious" podcasts You can join us live on WP-Tonic's Facebook group page and YouTube, where you be able to watch the whole interview (plus bonus content) live we will be discussing the real qualities needed to be an effective entrepreneur or leader, is social media damaging us and our children, and education, plus IQ testing. It should be a fascinating interview please join us.
Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, best-selling author, yoga teacher, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, provides mental wellness resources to leaders and entrepreneurs as they navigate the transition, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience.
She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. She is also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast exploring innovations in mental health care and the new science of psychedelics.Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there.
Dr. Walling is an expert in trauma, stress, and burnout and her research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Traumatic Stress
Sherry and her husband, Rob, reside in Minneapolis where they spend their time driving their children to music lessons. She has also been known to occasionally perform as a circus aerialist.
Rob Walling the joint founder of Drip and the host of the popular podcast "Start-up For Rest of Us."
https://www.sherrywalling.com/

Nov 2, 2021 • 1h 5min
#642 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show on the 29th of October,, 2021 With Guest Robert Jacobi of CloudWays
#642 This Week In WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Robert Jacobi Cloudways Director of WordPress
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 Week In WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Robert Jacobi Cloudways Director of WordPress
Robert Jacobi Cloudways Director of WordPress
Robert Jacobi Cloudways Director of WordPress Will be joining us on next Friday's WP-Tonic's "This Week in WordPress & Tech" round-table show
Robert brings a host of experience and industry know-how to the team having worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. For example, Robert previously served as President of Joomla and Executive Vice President of Perfect Dashboard. Back in 2000, he founded Arc Technology Group whose clients included giant names like Eli Lilly, Abbott Laboratories, and Microsoft. Alongside working with Fortune 500 companies, Robert has frequently partnered up with major web-hosting providers, and now he’s turning his focus completely on Cloudways.https://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-evangelist-robert-jacobi-joined-cloudways/
https://robertjacobi.com/
This Weeks Articles To Be Discussed By The Panel
#1 - On With my Head! A return from Headless WordPress
https://aaron.jorb.in/headless-wordpress-no-more/
#2 Facebook changes its company name to Meta
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/28/tech/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-keynote-announcements/index.html
#3 - Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Unsealed: Google Internal Documents Show AMP Pages Brought 40% Less Revenue to Publishers
https://wptavern.com/unredacted-antitrust-complaint-unsealed-google-internal-documents-show-amp-pages-brought-40-less-revenue-to-publishers
#4 - #2 - : LinkedIn launches global freelancer platform to compete directly with Upwork, Fiverr
https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/27/daily-crunch-83/
#5 - WPChill Takes Over Gutenberg Forms, Plans To Shake Up the Free Forms Market
https://wptavern.com/wpchill-takes-over-gutenberg-forms-plans-to-shake-up-the-free-forms-market

Oct 29, 2021 • 37min
#641 WP-Tonic This Week In WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Amanda Natividad Marketing Architect at SparkToro
Special Guest Amanda Natividad. Marketing Architect at SparkToro
Finding Your Target Audience's Sources of Influence
Finding Your Target Audience's Sources of Influence & Contact Marketing The Modern way
Amanda Natividad is a marketing architect at SparkToro and formerly head of marketing at Growth Machine and Lifopiahttps://sparktoro.com/

Oct 26, 2021 • 1h
#640 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show on the 22th of October,, 2021 With Guest Chris Badgett CEO of LifterLMS
640 This Week In WordPress & Tech on the 22nd of October, 2021 at 8:30 am PST
#640 This Week In WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Chris Badgett CEO of LifterLMS: https://lifterlms.com/
Every Friday at around 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the bonus content on our WP-Tonic's Facebook Group Page:https:https://www.facebook.com/groups/wptonicmastermind or the WP-Tonic
This Weeks Articles To Be Discussed By The Panel
#1 - Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web? – TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/19/automattic-tc1-acquisitions/
#2 - Building process and becoming a technology-driven service business (Alex Denning)
https://www.alexdenning.com/becoming-a-tech-driven-service-biz/
Free Video Workshop With Atarim & WP-Tonic
Delivering Website Projects Without Client Delays, Scope Creep, and Missed Deadlines
Friday 29th of October at 10:30 pm PST
With Atarim and founder Vito Peleg
#3 - Matt's Page Builder (Justin Ferriman)
https://justinferriman.com/matts-page-builder
#4 The HeroPress Network Launches Find It WP, a Cooperative Resource Archive for WordPress
https://wptavern.com/the-heropress-network-launches-find-it-wp-a-cooperative-resource-archive-for-wordpress
#5- A New WordPress Resource Archive: Find It WP
https://heropressnetwork.com/a-new-wordpress-resource-archive-find-it-wp/
#6 - The most important WordPress Theme in history? (Jamie Marsland) of WooBuilder Blocks WooCommerce https://www.pootlepress.com/woobuilder-blocks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Vvc17Y1LU
Panel Recommendations of the Week
Jonathan Denwood:: Dune (2021 film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(2021_film) By Frank Herbert
This Week Extra Bonus Topic for Discussion " What are the Leading and Best WordPress Page Builder on The Market In 2021 And Do Any of Them Have a Future?"
Gutenberg Native
Best Gutenberg Add-ons
Block Navigation: https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-navigation/
GenerateBlocks Pro https://generateblocks.com/
Kadence Blocks: https://www.kadencewp.com/kadence-blocks/pro/
EditorPlus: https://wordpress.org/plugins/editorplus/
Stackable: https://wpstackable.com/
Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-addons-for-gutenberg/
Lazy Blocks: https://wordpress.org/plugins/lazy-blocks/
Best Gutenberg Themes
Astra Pro Version https://wpastra.com/
Kadence Theme: https://www.kadencewp.com/
Blocksy Theme: https://creativethemes.com/blocksy/
Elementor: https://elementor.com
Divi 4.0: https://www.elegantthemes.com
Beaver Builder: https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com/
Oxyge Oxygen: https://oxygenbuilder.com/
Brizy Builder and Brizy Cloud: https://www.brizy.io/
Bricks: https://bricksbuilder.io/
Zion Builder: https://zionbuilder.io/
Live Canvas: https://livecanvas.com/

Oct 21, 2021 • 35min
#639 WP-Tonic This Week In WordPress & SaaS :Why is successful Positioning & Niching Down is so Hard?
Why is Positioning & Niching Down is so Hard For WordPress SaaS With Special Guest Kai Davis
https://kaidavis.com/

Oct 19, 2021 • 1h 7min
#638 WP-Tonic's This Week in WordPress & Tech on the 15th of October,, 2021 at 8:30 am PST
#638 This Week In WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Matt Medeiros Director of Podcaster Success at Castos and Founder & Host of the Matt Report Podcast
Every Friday at around 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic 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:https:https://www.facebook.com/groups/wptonicmastermind or the WP-Tonic YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/Wptonicgoogle
Special Guest Panelist This Week is: Guest Matt Medeiros Director of Podcaster Success at Castos and Founder & Host of the Matt Report Podcast : https://castos.com/
This Weeks Articles To Be Discussed By The Panel
#1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Brizy Page Builder Plugin Allow Site Takeover
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/10/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-brizy-page-builder-plugin-allow-site-takeover/
#2 - Inside Blue Origin: Employees say toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’ led to mistrust, low morale and delays at Jeff Bezos’s space venture
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/11/blue-origin-jeff-bezos-delays-toxic-workplace/
#3 - WPCloudDeploy Brings Site and Server Management to the WordPress Admin
https://wptavern.com/wpclouddeploy-brings-site-and-server-management-to-the-wordpress-admin
#4 - Apple’s Stunning Plan To Strike Facebook Is A Triumphant Success
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2021/10/09/apples-stunning-plan-to-strike-facebook-is-a-triumphant-success/
#5 -Drugs, Robots and the Pursuit of Pleasure—Why Experts Are Worried About AIs Becoming Addicts
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/drugs-robots-and-the-pursuit-of-pleasure-why-experts-are-worried-about-ais-becoming-addicts?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Oct 13, 2021 • 30min
#637 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS: How To Develop a Real Digital Brand in 2021?
With Special Guest Randy Herbertson Founder and CEO of "The Visual Brand"
Randy is a recognized brand strategist, conceptor and creative director with over twenty years of marketing and innovation experience in the client, agency and media worlds, from entrepreneurial to corporate environments. Randy has worked in the WPP and Omnicom agency networks, Conde Nast Publications, Allied Domecq and E&J Gallo. He also spent several years in the digital start up world in during the height of the dotcom boom. Most recently, Randy has worked in the boutique agency world, owning and operating two firms, including The Visual Brand, founded in 2013. He has a strong expertise in social media, digital innovation, packaging, industrial and environmental design.
Randy has balanced his training and experience to play a key role in a number of product innovations and corporate transformations. He has worked with a diverse range of companies industries that include retail, financial, professional services, technology, and entertainment, pharmaceutical, automotive and consumer packaged goods.
He has spoken on numerous industry panels, and is a corporate mentor to a number of emerging companies and individuals.Have You Got Promotional Head Shot That You Like Us To Use?
http://www.thevisualbrand.com/

Oct 11, 2021 • 1h 32min
#636 This Week in WordPress & Tech on the 8th of October, 2021 With Craig Hewitt CEO of Castos
Every Friday at around 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic 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:https:https://www.facebook.com/groups/wptonicmastermind or the WP-Tonic YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/Wptonicgoogle

Oct 7, 2021 • 34min
#635 WP-Tonic Interview Show: Building a SaaS in the WordPress Ecosystem
Building a SaaS in the WordPress Ecosystem
With Special Guest Jonathan Wold
https://growinwp.com/
https://jonathanwold.com/