

WP-Tonic | WordPress | SaaS | Bootstrap SaaS | Startups
Jonathan Denwood & Kurt von Ahnen
WP-Tonic is a podcast for WordPress professionals, Bootstrap SaaS startup entrepreneurs, and anyone looking to build a business online.
We cover a large number of areas with our main show. We interview creative WordPress and startup entrepreneurs, plus online experts who share insights to 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.
We cover a large number of areas with our main show. We interview creative WordPress and startup entrepreneurs, plus online experts who share insights to 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.
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Nov 25, 2021 • 45min
#649 This Week In WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Morten Rand Hendriksen Senior Staff Instructor LinkedIn Learning
#649 This Week In WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Morten Rand Hendriksen Senior Staff Instructor LinkedIn Learning
With Special Guest Morten Rand Hendriksen Senior Staff Instructor LinkedIn Learning
"The Future of Online eLearning For Entrepreneurs & Educators"
Since joining forces with lynda.com (now LinkedIn Learning) in 2010, Morten has published 60+ courses on WordPress, front-end web design and development, and web standards, reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers from all over the world. I also contribute to the web community as a public speaker, author, educator, web developer, and design philosopher.
We going to be discussing the future of online education with Morten Rand Hendriksen senior staff instructor LinkedIn Learning, who is also a well-known public speaker and technologist. After COVID - 19 pandemic, the training and education landscape has been dramatically changed what are the medium and long-term consequences connected to online training how will technologies like virtual reality and AI (artificial intelligence) affect eLearning?
https://mor10.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mortenrandhendriksen/?originalSubdomain=ca

Nov 22, 2021 • 1h 12min
#648 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show With Guests Matt Medeiros, Tania Quintieri, & Tom Fanelli
#648 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show on the 19th November, 2021 at 8:30 am PST
#648 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show With Guests Matt Medeiros, Tania Quintieri, & Tom Fanelli
Tania Quintieri of Mrs Divi https://mrsdivi.com/
Tom Fanelli of Convessio https://convesio.com/
Matt Medeiros of The Matt Report: https://mattreport.com/
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 Stories For Discussion
#1 - Blocks, Boards & Fishing Reels – How Gutenberg has Divided WordPress by (Paul Lacey)
https://thewpminute.com/blocks-boards-fishing-reels-how-gutenberg-has-divided-wordpress/
#2 - DAO bids on the Constitution
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/18/constitutiondaos-bold-crypto-bid-for-us-constitution-falls-short/
#3 - State of the Word 2021
https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/state-of-the-word-2021/
#4 - Lost in translation: The global streaming boom is creating a severe translator shortage
https://restofworld.org/2021/lost-in-translation-the-global-streaming-boom-is-creating-a-translator-shortage/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Nov 18, 2021 • 36min
#647 This Week In WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Vito Peleg Founder of Atarim
#647 This Week In WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Vito Peleg Founder of Atarim
https://streamyard.com/79v4mbyytd
https://youtu.be/ps_ewTBlgpY
With Special Guest Vito Peleg Founder of Atarim
Vito built his first website on "Geocities" almost 20 years ago - Featuring his friends' skateboarding crew when he was 14 y/o. As a former touring (and broke) musician, he looked for ways to allow him to work while he was touring the world playing my RNR to thousands of people and the web was, once again, therefor he.
He started to build websites for clients from the back of the van (and sometimes the odd broom closet) and his passion for the field grew with each project. When the band finally broke up he moved from the van to a tiny room at home, then to a larger room with one employee sitting right next to him all the way to having his own agency with 12 guys on my team. Between then, through my WordPress agency years later, we created 600+ websites using WordPress.
https://atarim.io/about/

Nov 15, 2021 • 1h 16min
#646 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show on the 12th November, 2021 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 Week Stories For Discussion
#1 - Pagely We did it.
https://pagely.com/blog/we-did-it/
#2 -John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/john-carmack-sounds-a-skeptical-note-over-metas-metaverse-plans/?fbclid=IwAR10zxYTXxFXpTF1iQh1vfCbqPWlq6MUokqZXUJ85vaEfWzvv0GsOTTmS-k
#3 - Google Drops Sites Hosted on SiteGround
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/siteground-problem/426852/
#4 - Zillow Just Gave Us A Look At Machine Learning's Future
https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/zillow-just-gave-us-a-look-at-machine
#5 - New Block Plugin Displays Post Formats
https://wptavern.com/new-block-plugin-displays-post-formats
#6 -The Market Is Never Too Crowded
https://chrislema.com/the-market-is-never-too-crowded/

Nov 12, 2021 • 38min
#645 This Week In WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Paul Charlton of Wptuts YouTube Channel
With Special Guest Paul Charlton of Wptuts YouTube Channel
Paul Charlton
After 10 years as an IT Tutor and 11 years as a web designer and business owner, Paul felt it was a great background to combine and start helping others improve their skills through YouTube.This is why the WPTuts channel was created - as an online outlet for me to share the skills and knowledge I'd acquired and was still acquiring with like-minded people.This has now morphed into an amazing online community of passionate individuals helping each other to develop their skills
https://youtu.be/OmZxUCoHMpE

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/