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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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Oct 19, 2020 • 1h 2min
#539 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday,October 16th, 2020 at 8:30 am PST
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/

Oct 15, 2020 • 30min
#538 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Vinodh David Vikraman
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/

Oct 12, 2020 • 57min
#537 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday,October 9th, 2020 at 8:30 am PST
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

Oct 8, 2020 • 34min
#536 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Jamie Marsland of PootlePress
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/

Oct 6, 2020 • 58min
#535 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday,September 25th, 2020 at 8:30 am PST
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

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!


