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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

May 11, 2020 • 57min
#493 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday May the 8th, 2020 at 8:30am PST
#1 - Announcing Genesis Pro and the Future of Genesis https://studiopress.blog/announcing-genesis-pro/ #2 - 28,000 GoDaddy Hosting Accounts Compromised https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/05/28000-godaddy-hosting-accounts-compromised/ #3 - ACF Blocks Provides Assortment of Blocks Built from Advanced Custom Fields Pro https://wptavern.com/acf-blocks-provides-assortment-of-blocks-built-from-advanced-custom-fields-pro #4 - Bye, Amazon https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon #5 - ‘It’s bullshit’: Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dropshipping-instagram-ads #6 - What marketers have learned from Arielle Charnas. https://www.prweek.com/article/1682071/brands-agencies-avoiding-covidiot-influencers This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta https://kinsta.com/ LaunchFlows LaunchFlows customizes your WooCommerce Checkout Experience with Elementor. It liberates the function and design layout of your individual checkout components into powerful selling tools....so you can turn your vision into reality with No Coding Required" Use this coupon code WPTonicRocks to get a 25% discount - https://launchflows.com/

May 7, 2020 • 29min
#492 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Ryan Moore Co-founder at Uncannyowl
Ryan Moore is the co-founder of Uncanny Owl, a digital agency specializing in elearning solutions powered by WordPress. Our WordPress plugins and platforms power over 10,000 elearning websites. Ryan helps small and medium-sized organizations deliver engaging and cost-effective elearning with WordPress. As an award-winning elearning expert with over 13 years of industry experience, I create compelling online training solutions that achieve measurable results. https://www.uncannyowl.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmooreca/?originalSubdomain=ca

May 4, 2020 • 59min
#491 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday May the 1st, 2020 at 8:30am PST
#1 - Tectonic Shifts in Retail Industry are Creating Unprecedented Opportunities for Independent Stores https://wptavern.com/tectonic-shifts-in-retail-industry-are-creating-unprecedented-opportunities-for-independent-stores #2 - This Is How Much YouTube Paid Me for My 1,000,000 Viewed Video https://onezero.medium.com/this-is-how-much-youtube-paid-me-for-my-1-000-000-viewed-video-1453cad73847 #3 - David Vongries Takes Over as New Owner of the Kirki Customizer Framework https://wptavern.com/david-vongries-takes-over-as-new-owner-of-the-kirki-customizer-framework #4 - Facebook usage soars during coronavirus pandemic https://www.engadget.com/facebook-q1-2020-earnings-204041879.html #5 - What WordPress Agencies Need to Survive and Thrive During the Pandemic [WP Feedback virtual summit https://convesio.com/what-wordpress-agencies-need-to-survive-and-thrive-during-the-pandemic #6 - It’s Time To Learn https://scottberkun.com/2020/its-time-to-learn/ This Show's Sponsors Kinsta https://kinsta.com/ LaunchFlows LaunchFlows customizes your WooCommerce Checkout Experience with Elementor. It liberates the function and design layout of your individual checkout components into powerful selling tools....so you can turn your vision into reality with No Coding Required" Use this coupon code WPTonicRocks to get a 25% discount - https://launchflows.com/

Apr 30, 2020 • 35min
#490 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Chris Badgett Joint Founder of LifterLMS
More about Chris and LifterLMS We help education entrepreneurs to help their learners achieve desired outcomes, to truly change lives, and make a great living in the process. We help them by creating the software, strategies, communiity, and training to grow high value online courses or training based membership websites from nothing. The change we want to make is to democratize learning in the digital classroom, to put power in the hands of education entrepreneurs, and help as many people as we can to reach their dreams. We'll know we are successful when we are seen as the organization that can help any education entrepreneur that is on a mission to help their learners overcome problems, capture opportunity, and make a huge impact in their community. We'll know we are successful when our education entrepreneurs consistently achieve financial, location, and creative freedom. We'll know we are successful in the WordPress community when we are seen as the model for how to do freemium in WordPress. We will create our legacy by changing lives for WordPress LMS site building professionals, our customers, their learners, our families, our communities, and the world in every way we can. https://lifterlms.com/

Apr 27, 2020 • 55min
#489 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday 24th of April, 2020 at 8:30am PST
#1 - Frontity Raises €1M with Automattic and K Fund https://wptavern.com/frontity-raises-e1m-with-automattic-and-k-fund #2 - Stripe is Silently Recording Your Movements On its Customers' Websites https://mtlynch.io/stripe-recording-its-customers/ #3 - The Block Lab team are joining WP Engine https://getblocklab.com/the-block-lab-team-are-joining-wp-engine/ #4 - IT’S TIME TO BUILD https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/ #5 - Is Yelp Past Its Peak? Should You Invest in Yelp Review Marketing https://starfish.reviews/is-yelp-past-its-peak-should-you-invest-in-yelp-review-marketing/ #6- Shake Shack is returning its PPP Loan. Here’s why https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/shake-shack-returning-its-ppp-loan-heres-why-randy-garutti/ This Show's Sponsors Kinsta https://kinsta.com/ LaunchFlows LaunchFlows customizes your WooCommerce Checkout Experience with Elementor. It liberates the function and design layout of your individual checkout components into powerful selling tools....so you can turn your vision into reality with No Coding Required" Use this coupon code WPTonicRocks to get a 25% discount - https://launchflows.com/

Apr 23, 2020 • 33min
#488 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Akshat Choudhary of BlogVault & MalCare
We Discuss All Things Security & Backup Connected to WordPress 2020! Akshat Choudhar: is the founder of blogVault & MaiCare (http://blogvault.net), a popular WordPress backup service. Over the past 3 years, we have built a premium WordPress backup solution with over 3300+ customers across the globe. https://www.malcare.com/

Apr 20, 2020 • 1h 7min
#487 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday 17th of April, 2020 at 8:30am PST
We discuss this weeks best WordPress & internet news stories. We have a great panel of WordPress and marketing internet junkies. #1 - The Road Ahead: What’s in Store for WordPress for the Rest of 2020? https://wptavern.com/the-road-ahead-whats-in-store-for-wordpress-for-the-rest-of-2020 #2 - Marketing Right Now Is #$%*ing Hard. https://sparktoro.com/blog/marketing-right-now-is-hard/ #3 - 10 Largest Web Hosting Companies in 2020 (Based on Data From 4 Independent Sources) https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/largest-web-hosting-companies/ #4 - Why you should stop using Google Analytics on your website https://plausible.io/blog/remove-google-analytics #5 - Go Behind The Scenes With 30+ World-Class WordPress Agency Owners, Developers & Marketers… https://wpfeedback.co/summit/#join "LaunchFlows customizes your WooCommerce Checkout Experience with Elementor. It liberates the function and design layout of your individual checkout components into powerful selling tools....so you can turn your vision into reality with No Coding Required" Use this coupon code WPTonicRocks to get a 25% discount - https://launchflows.com/

Apr 16, 2020 • 30min
#486 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Peter Winick CEO of Thought Leadership Leverage
Peter Winick is the founder and CEO of Thought Leadership Leverage. For the past two decades he has helped individuals and organizations build and grow revenue streams through designing and growing their thought leadership platforms as well as acting as a guide and advisor for increasing business to business sales of thought leadership products. His clients come from a diverse set of backgrounds and specialties. They include New York Times bestselling business book authors, members of the Speakers’ Hall of Fame, recipients of the Thinkers50 award, CEOs of public and privately held companies, and academics at prestigious institutions such as Yale, Wharton, Dartmouth, and London School of Business. https://thoughtleadershipleverage.com/about/

Apr 13, 2020 • 60min
#485 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday 10th of April, 2020 at 8:30am PST
#1 - Proposal to Move WordPress Theme Review Process to GitHub https://wptavern.com/proposal-to-move-wordpress-theme-review-process-to-github #2 - Jack Dorsey Vows to Donate $1 Billion to Fight the Coronavirus https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/technology/jack-dorsey-donate-1-billion-coronavirus.html #3 - How To Offer Multiyear Contracts That Make Sense https://chrislema.com/multiyear-contracts-that-make-sense/ #4 - Microsoft thinks coronavirus will forever change the way we work and learn https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/9/21214314/microsoft-teams-usage-coronavirus-pandemic-work-habit-change

Apr 9, 2020 • 40min
#484 WP-Tonic Show What To Do To Protect Your Code Or Website?
Its always a shock when you find somebody has totally copied your website or code. What should you do in this situation we discuss your options!