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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

Oct 1, 2020 • 31min
#534 WP-Tonic Show WordPress We Going to Be Discussing WordPress Hosting
We Going To Be Discussing All Things Hosting With My Temporary New Co-Host Steven Sauder The CEO of a hosting company ZipFish https://zipfish.io/ Yes with WordPress hosting there so many options from GoDaddy to WP-Engine we going to try and make things a bit clear and hopefully shine some light on what are you real value options when it comes to hosting in 2020! The going to be discussing two particular new hosting technologies LiteSpeed: All-in-One Optimization with LSCache Plugin https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/ Vultr High-Frequency Servers: https://www.vultr.com/resources/benchmarks/ Join me Adrian Tobey CEO of Groundhogg connected to a training webinar we doing 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. You can REG here: https://www.wp-tonic.com/webinar/ This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ GroundHogg: https://www.groundhogg.io/ My Co-Host Steven Sauder: https://zipfish.io/

Sep 28, 2020 • 54min
#533 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday,September 25th, 2020 at 8:30 am PST
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/ Join me Adrian Tobey CEO of Groundhogg connected to a training webinar we doing on Tuesday the 6th of October, 2020 at 9 am 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 - Matt Mullenweg and Jamstack Community Square Off, Making Long-Term Bets on the Predominant Architecture for the Web https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-and-jamstack-community-square-off-making-long-term-bets-on-the-predominant-architecture-for-the-web 2 - Letter From the CEO: Elementor 3.0, Lessons Learned https://elementor.com/blog/elementor-3-0-lessons-learned/ #3 - Gutenberg Hub Launches Landing Page Templates Directory https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-hub-launches-landing-page-templates-directory #4 - False Simplicity in UI Design: Simple is not always better https://tomkenny.design/articles/false-simplicity

Sep 24, 2020 • 37min
#532 WP-Tonic Show Email & CRM Part 2
We go into a deep dive connected the differences between the leading CRM (customer relationship managers) We discuss all the leading player like MailChimp, ActiveCampaign and Drip plus a lot more... Join me Adrian Tobey CEO of Groundhogg connected to a training webinar we doing 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. You can REG here: https://www.wp-tonic.com/webinar/ This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ GroundHogg: https://www.groundhogg.io/

Sep 21, 2020 • 1h 4min
#531 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday,September 18th, 2020 at 8:30 am PST
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/ Join me Adrian Tobey CEO of Groundhogg connected to a training webinar we doing 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/

Sep 17, 2020 • 31min
#530 WP-Tonic Show We Discuss All The Ins & Outs ofcTransitional & Marketing Emails
We discuss all the fundamental questions you might have connected to running an LMS, membership, and eCommerce website connected to email what the difference between business, transactional, and marketing emails. Why using your hosting provider email service for marketing email or transitional is really a bad idea!

Sep 14, 2020 • 59min
#529 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday,September 11th, 2020 at 8:30 am PST
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 Support Team Seeks to Curb Support Requests for Commercial Plugins and Themes https://wptavern.com/wordpress-support-team-seeks-to-curb-support-requests-for-commercial-plugins-and-themes #2 - The Return of the 90s Web https://mxb.dev/blog/the-return-of-the-90s-web/ #3 - Jetpack Launches Email Marketing Tools with Creative Mail Integration, WooCommerce-Triggered Store Emails Coming Soon https://wptavern.com/jetpack-launches-email-marketing-tools-with-creative-mail-integration-woocommerce-triggered-store-emails-coming-soon #4 - IPG Mediabrands Names Global Chief Culture Officer: New Position Overseeing Diversity https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/355549/ipg-mediabrands-names-global-chief-culture-officer.html #5 - WordPress Theme Directory Now With a “Delist” Status for Naughty Themes https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/delist-status-in-wordpress-theme-directory/ #6 - Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/career-costs-working-from-home/615472/

Sep 10, 2020 • 45min
#528 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Cory Miller Founder of iThemes & Partner in Post Status
Cory Miller is a passionate entrepreneur who believes in finding and maintaining work happiness that aligns with your purpose and plays to your strengths, talents and ambitions, while challenging you to do great things with your life. In 2008, he started iThemes, a pioneer in building cutting-edge web design software and training for tens of thousands of customers around the globe. Over a decade and starting from a home office, Cory grew iThemes into a multi-million dollar enterprise, leading a team of 25+ people, in four countries, with an office headquarters in Oklahoma City. In 2011, iThemes was named the 7th fastest growing company in Oklahoma City by the Metro 50. That same year, he co-founded The Div, Inc., a nonprofit tech foundation aimed at inspiring and training the next generation of software developers through its kid’s program, Div, Jr. After a decade of successful business, in January 2018, iThemes was acquired by Liquid Web, a premiere web hosting company, and is now an independent unit within the company. In addition to being a regular leadership speaker, trainer and writer, he is the co-author of WordPress All-in-One for Dummies (Wiley, 2011). He is a member and past board member of the Oklahoma chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), a network of over 8,000 entrepreneurs in 40 countries with companies that have revenue over $1 million dollars annually. Cory has also served as an EO moderator for 3 peer-to-peer “forum” groups and started and seeded two forum groups during his membership. He is also is a trustee for WP&UP, a nonprofit providing mental health support in the WordPress community. He is married to Lindsey Miller, who is a political fundraising consultant. They have an adorable son named Caloway and a little sweetheart daughter named Lillian. I use this blog to talk about my adventures in entrepreneurship (the roller coaster ride), things I am continually learning about marketing, new business announcements (yes, I will shamelessly promote my life’s work here!) and anything else I want to share with the world, in particular, my very amateur photos, which are most likely taken with my iPhone https://corymiller.com

Sep 7, 2020 • 51min
#527 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday,September 4th, 2020 at 8:30 am PST
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 - iThemes has acquired Restrict Content Pro from Sandhills Development https://poststatus.com/ithemes-has-acquired-restrict-content-pro/ #2 - Apple, Google, and Amazon respond to European tech taxes by passing on costs https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/2/21418114/european-uk-digital-tax-services-apple-google-amazon-raise-prices #3 - Founders Yoast SEO take a stake in WordProof to push timestamp relevance for SEO results https://wordproof.io/founders-yoast-seo-take-a-stake-in-wordproof/ #4 - Stepping Into a Market With Major Players, Mario Peshev Acquires WP-CRM System https://wptavern.com/stepping-into-a-market-with-major-players-mario-peshev-acquires-wp-crm-system

Sep 3, 2020 • 32min
#526 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Cindy Nicholson
WHAT I DO: I help Entrepreneurs, Business Coaches & Consultant increase revenue, scale their business and save time by providing online course and e-learning consulting services. WHAT MAKES ME UNIQUE: As a former high school math and phys-ed teach AND as a corporate trainer, I've spent the past 15 years translating concepts and theories into teachable, ROI-driven trainings. I know how important it is to get real results for my clients. WHY IT MATTERS: If you've decided you want to create an online course so you can scale and add an additional income stream to your business, but aren't sure how to make it happen I can help. I help entrepreneurs create courses that are effective, engaging and gets the transformation that the students are looking for. I help my clients in three different ways: 1. Course strategy session: helping clients create the outline and structure for their online course 2. Online course - Do It With You: similar to a book editor I provide coaching, advice and feedback on the development of the course 3. Online course - Do It For You: similar to a ghost writer, I design and develop and create the online course (with my clients as the subject matter expert) WHAT OTHERS SAY: 'I can not recommend Cindy enough!! I am blown away and moved to tears with the ways she is helping me craft my zone of genius into a super clear, super smart, and super EFFECTIVE program with her zone of genius! 10-star recommendation!' Carol Egan, carol-egan.com 'Go to Cindy Nicholson, if you want your next course to be more student experience based, more structured and of a higher level. Learn it together with a gentle, warm and wise teacher. Your next course will shine!' Anneke Camstra, annekecamstra.com READY TO TALK? If this sounds like you and you need to create a course that your clients will rave about, let's chat. Book a call: https://bookme.name/cindynicholson/30-minute-intro-call I look forward to speaking with you to see how I can help

Aug 31, 2020 • 1h 7min
#525 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday, August 27th, 2020 at 8:30 am PST
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/ WPFunsion: https://wpfusion.com/ #1 - Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases after all https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/22/21397424/apple-wordpress-apology-iap-free-ios-app #2 - Facebook's 'classic' look dies in September https://www.engadget.com/facebook-classic-redesign-septemver-235525075.html #3 - Full Site Editing in WordPress: Lowering Barriers to Entry or the End of Themes? https://torquemag.io/2020/08/full-site-editing-in-wordpress-lowering-barriers-to-entry-or-the-end-of-themes/ #4 - Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/google-plan-disrupt-college-degree-university-higher-education-certificate-project-management-data-analyst.html #5 - WordPress Documentation Team Discusses Modifying External Linking Policy Following Opposition to the Ban on Commercial Links https://wptavern.com/wordpress-documentation-team-discusses-modifying-external-linking-policy-following-opposition-to-the-ban-on-commercial-links #6 - WordPress Should Bump PHP Support on a Transparent and Predictable Schedule https://wptavern.com/wordpress-should-bump-php-support-on-a-transparent-and-predictable-schedule