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Joe is a course developer and college professor and has a Master's Degree in Software Engineering and a WordPress Front End Developer, plus he hosts multiple podcasts and also teaches PHP and Web Development on Lynda.com He started freelancing in 2002 and has been a teacher at the college level for over 10 years. His passions in both areas have driven him to build Creator Courses, a school for those who want to create online businesses. As a big proponent of learning by doing, He loves creating focused, task-driven courses to help students build something. When he isn't teaching, he interviewed people for his podcast, How I Built It. https://casabona.org/ https://howibuilt.it/ https://www.lynda.com/Joe-Casabona/1993620071-1.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcasabona

We discuss this week’s best WordPress & internet news stories. We also have a great panel of WordPress community and marketing internet junkies. This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ GroundHogg: https://www.groundhogg.io/ #1 - WordPress Contributors Discuss Launching an Official Block Pattern Directory https://wptavern.com/wordpress-contributors-discuss-launching-an-official-block-pattern-directory #2 - Trump Campaign Site Hacked – What We Know & Lessons Learned https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/10/trump-campaign-site-hacked-what-we-know-lessons-learned/ #3 - Media coverage in WordPress should take another route https://pixelgrade.com/upstairs/media-coverage-in-wordpress-should-take-another-route/ #4 - America’s Toxic Love Affair With Technology https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/10/america-mishandling-technological-progress/616711/ $5 - Can’t drag and drop blocks in 5.5 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-drag-and-drop-blocks-in-5-5/ https://www.loom.com/share/6bb99328c6674267abb86383433f9d37   #6 - How To Use WordPress With Amazon S3? https://chrislema.com/wordpress-with-amazon-s3/

Ronald Gijsel Our story would be too long and boring to be told here, but we can give you two or three frames. For example, how we met. It all started in July, on a random Friday… Nando was the CEO of a web agency based in Catania, Sicily. I was a web designer, and I lived in Tuscany. We both used the internet for our jobs, but we didn’t use it just for that, apparently… Who would have thought that the internet would have connected us so much that we would become life partners? Well, it happened, and Noemi, our daughter, is the sweetest proof of that. https://yithemes.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronald-gijsel-31429344/?originalSubdomain=uk

This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ GroundHogg: https://www.groundhogg.io/ #1 - WordPress 5.6 Release Team Pulls the Plug on Block-Based Widgets https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-6-release-team-pulls-the-plug-on-block-based-widgets #2 - Justice Department Sues Google For Search Anticompetitive Business Practices https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/357002/justice-department-sues-google-for-search-anticomp.html # 3 - Stripe Acquires Paystack for $200M+ https://wptavern.com/stripe-acquires-paystack-for-200m #4 - Biggest Y Combinator Failed Startups https://www.failory.com/blog/y-combinator-failures #5 - The Grumpy Designer’s WordPress Plugin Pet Peeves https://speckyboy.com/the-grumpy-designers-wordpress-plugin-pet-peeves/ #6 - Welcome PushEngage to the WPBeginner Family of Products https://www.wpbeginner.com/news/welcome-pushengage-to-the-wpbeginner-family-of-products/

Ian Reynolds Founded in 2009, Zibtek is a leading software development consultancy led by industry veterans with the real-world experience of starting, building, and exiting multiple companies. Your company’s drive for success in your digital transformation efforts is our core mission. https://www.zibtek.com/blog/author/ian-reynolds/ https://www.zibtek.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianjhreynolds/

This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ GroundHogg: https://www.groundhogg.io/ #1 - The Future of Starter Content: WordPress Themes Need a Modern Onboarding and Importing Tool https://wptavern.com/the-future-of-starter-content-wordpress-themes-need-a-modern-onboarding-and-importing-tool #2 - Social Media CENSORING Hunter Biden Article! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ-HIAY0DhE #3 - What you should do for WordPress Black Friday 2020 https://getellipsis.com/blog/black-friday-2020/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issue-186 #4 - The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers https://css-tricks.com/the-widening-responsibility-for-front-end-developers/ #5 - TikTok Sensation: Meet The Idaho Potato Worker Who Sent Fleetwood Mac Sales Soaring https://www.npr.org/2020/10/11/922554253/tiktok-sensation-meet-the-idaho-potato-worker-who-sent-fleetwood-mac-sales-soari?utm_source=pocket-newtab #6- Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/14/theranos_trial_ruling/

Vinodh David Vikraman the founder of the company Revmakx which has developed a number of very popular WordPress plugins see list below. We discuss David's history with WordPress and some of the company's new plugins. https://infinitewp.com https://wptimecapsule.com https://wpmerge.io https://wpcal.io https://cartimize.com https://revmakx.com/

This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ GroundHogg: https://www.groundhogg.io/ #1 - WordPress IPO? https://robertjacobi.com/wordpress-ipo.html #2 - Product-Market Fit is a Broken Concept. There’s a Better Way. https://sparktoro.com/blog/product-market-fit-is-a-broken-concept-theres-a-better-way/ #3 - iThemes Buys WPComplete, Complementing Its Recent Restrict Content Pro Acquisition https://wptavern.com/ithemes-buys-wpcomplete-complementing-its-recent-restrict-content-pro-acquisition #4 - Intuitive Design? No Such Thing! https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/09/intuitive-design/   #5 - America scrambles to take part in the Mark Zuckerberg $250 million gold rush https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/7/21502789/mark-zuckerberg-center-for-tech-and-civic-life-donations #6-How to get promoted https://defmacro.substack.com/p/how-to-get-promoted

Jamie Marsland the founder of Pootlepress. PootlePress are passionate about WordPress. We've trained over 2500 people on WordPress in the past 4 years, we have over 750 members to our online training Academy and our plugins are used by thousands of customers worldwide. https://www.pootlepress.com/

This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ GroundHogg: https://www.groundhogg.io/ Join me Adrian Tobey CEO of Groundhogg connected to a training webinar we do on Tuesday the 6th of October, 2020 at 9am PST "Three Essential Marketing Automation Strategies That Will Make Your Membership Site More Profitable." We also will be answering all your questions connected to marketing automation during the webinar:https://www.wp-tonic.com/webinar/   #1 - W3C Selects Craft CMS for Redesign Project https://wptavern.com/w3c-selects-craft-cms-for-redesign-project https://w3c.studio24.net/updates/on-not-choosing-wordpress/?utm_campaign=brianleejackson&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter #2 - Hype Man of The Century https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisition-justin-sun-us-china #3 - Jetpack 9.0 to Introduce New Feature for Publishing WordPress Posts to Twitter as Threads https://wptavern.com/jetpack-9-0-to-introduce-new-feature-for-publishing-wordpress-posts-to-twitter-as-threads #4 - Facebook has removed more than 6,500 militia groups and pages https://www.engadget.com/facebook-removed-6500-militia-groups-pages-002343444.html #5 - Themes Team Releases a Web Fonts Loader, Likely To Prohibit Hotlinking Any Off-Site Assets https://wptavern.com/themes-team-releases-a-web-fonts-loader-likely-to-prohibit-hotlinking-any-off-site-assets #6 - Michael Sandel: The Tyranny of Merit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFaLj3YWkGo https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/06/michael-sandel-the-populist-backlash-has-been-a-revolt-against-the-tyranny-of-merit