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#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

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/

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/

Why is Positioning & Niching Down is so Hard For WordPress SaaS With Special Guest Kai Davis https://kaidavis.com/

#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

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/

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

Building a SaaS in the WordPress Ecosystem With Special Guest Jonathan Wold https://growinwp.com/ https://jonathanwold.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 show LIVE on our WP-Tonic's Facebook Group Page:https:https://www.facebook.com/groups/wptonicmastermind

With Special Guest Nathan Monk Co-Founder From Smile a WordPress Agency That Specializes in the building of university websites in the UK and North America. https://wearesmile.com/