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Sangi is founder of Mindful & Ruthless, a weekly podcast & community for lifestyle-driven new-world entrepreneurs. Sagi is a User Experience Designer and Entrepreneur. He is the founder of Mindful & Ruthless, a weekly podcast & community for lifestyle-driven new-world entrepreneurs. Sagi also now works with some top entrepreneurs, boosting their digital designs & brand to the next level. He has one hell of a story too, coming from a failing business and debt to building a vision and crushing his goals, and just recently was also featured on SPI by Pat Flynn.

In this week WP-Tonic episode we have a great panel and interesting discussion. Well the big day is coming WordPress 5.0 is slated for public release on November 19, 2018. This is going be one of most important moments in the history of WordPress so we have a bit of chat about it at the beginning of the show. 1 - WordPress 5.0 Slated for November 19, 2018 https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-0-slated-for-november-19-2018 2 - What Have We Learned From Google? https://medium.com/s/story/what-google-teaches-us-2613711712de 3 - WP Simple Pay Joining Sandhills Development https://wpsimplepay.com/joining-sandhills-development/ 4 - 50 million Facebook user accounts hacked https://marketingland.com/50-million-facebook-user-accounts-hacked-249197 5 - Do You Need to Know React as a WordPress Developer? https://torquemag.io/2018/10/do-you-need-to-know-react-as-a-wordpress-developer/

We Discuss With Peter Investing In The Knowledge Education Economy of 21st Century Peter worked at Red Herring magazine from June 1999 to May 2001, first as Associate Editor then as a writer. He was co-founder and Editorial Director of Gizmodo from July 2002 until March 2004, leaving to co-found Engadget. Two months later he also founded the video game blog Joystiq. Both were part of Weblogs Inc., a blog network that was purchased by AOL in 2005. Along with Josh Deutsch of Downtown Records, Peter launched the online record label RCRD LBL in 2007. In July 2008 Peter left Engadget to start the consumer electronics social networking site GDGT.The site premiered in 2009 and was co-founded with Ryan Block, Peter’ successor as Engadget editor-in-chief. In February 2013 GDGT was purchased by AOL. As of July 2018, he is a partner at Betaworks Ventures.  

We have a great show here with some interesting stories starting with WordPress 4.9.9 and what’s the real story about this released of WordPress and then we talk about Android plus we have three to four other really interesting topic in this week show. 1 - WordPress 4.9.9 Release May Shift Focus to PHP 7.3 Compatibility, Gutenberg Merge Proposal Timeline TBD https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-9-9-release-may-shift-focus-to-php-7-3-compatibility-gutenberg-merge-proposal-timeline-tbd 2 - Android at 10: the world’s most dominant technology https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/26/17903788/google-android-history-dominance-marketshare-apple

We Discuss How To Avoid The Major Mistakes Connected To Building a Online Course

We got a great show here with some great stories that we discuss during the show, see the articles and links below. I was on holiday in the UK visiting family and friends so I appear at the beginning of the show however, I have to leave after a couple of minutes however my friend John Locke does a a great job of being the main host of the show In this episode of the WP-Tonic round-table show we discuss Gutenberg community library of custom blocks. We then discuss Nike's choice of Colin Kaepernick as the face of its 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign. Then we move on and talk about Gutenberg and Genesis.   1 - Gutenberg Cloud: A Cross-Platform Community Library for Custom Gutenberg Blocks https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-cloud-a-cross-platform-community-library-for-custom-gutenberg-blocks 2 - The Gangster Marketing Move of 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLXzPDteFks&t=84s 3 - The Future of Gutenberg and Genesis https://studiopress.blog/the-future-of-gutenberg-and-genesis/ 4 - The anti-Google documentary The Creepy Line is a conspiratorial playbook for right-wing tech backlash https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878332/creepy-line-anti-google-facebook-conservative-censorship-documentary-review-right-wing 5 - How to Create Custom Post Types in WordPress https://elementor.com/wordpress-custom-post-types

We Discuss Micro-learning & How It Can Help Membership/LMS Websites Improvement Their Engagement Isaac is a tech entrepreneur and futurist at heart, humanizing the digital training experience to equip and fuel progress for the learner. We live in a world where employees have a free agent mentality with changing motivations. The right culture is the deeper retention solution that lasts. Isaac has a unique understanding of how to craft and drive forward the right organizational culture that engages, retains, and boosts employee performance. Isaac is a co-founder of micro-learning solution ConveYour.com that’s the leading learning engagement platform for companies. https://conveyour.com/

We have a great regular panel and a special guest Rachel Cherry. We discuss latest release of WordPress 4,9,9 and how this might effect the release date of Gutenberg. Then we talk about Rand Fishkins recent presentation at the INBOUND conference 2018. 1 - WordPress 4.9.9 Release Focus Items Include Site Health Project and Gutenberg Preparation https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-9-9-release-focus-items-include-site-health-project-and-gutenberg-preparation 2 - Rand Fishkin: My Presentation from INBOUND 2018 Might Make You a Better Entrepreneur https://sparktoro.com/blog/my-presentation-from-inbound-2018-might-make-you-a-better-entrepreneur/ 3 - What if Wix really is better than Wordpress? https://twitter.com/CyrusShepard/status/1039268777081200640 https://zyppy.com/ 4 - A Brief Guide About Competitive Analysis https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/08/guide-competitive-analysis/ 5 - How to Use Your Website to Attract Millennials https://webdevstudios.com/2018/09/11/website-to-attract-millennials/ 6 - Jeff Bezos is going to create schools where ‘the child is the customer https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/13/17855358/jeff-bezos-day-one-fund-nonprofit-preschool-amazon

Why Getting Your Legal Ducks In A Roll Is All Important For The Course Owners & Website Owners In General! In this episode WP-Tonic show we’re talking about the legal matters that course entrepreneurs might not be aware of connected to their businesses. We're talking to our guest Sarah Kornblet of Destinationlegal.com Sarah is an online attorney, business owner and passionate traveler and regular contributor on the Social Media Examiner website. https://destinationlegal.com/ https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/author/sarah-kornblet/

1 - AMP for WordPress Plugin to Introduce User-Friendly Theme Support Settings in Upcoming 1.0 Release https://wptavern.com/amp-for-wordpress-plugin-to-introduce-user-friendly-theme-support-settings-in-upcoming-1-0-release 2 - Let's Stop Pretending Facebook and Twitter's CEOs Can't Fix This Mess https://www.wired.com/story/ellen-pao-facebook-twitter-ceos-can-fix-abuse-mark-zuckerberg-jack-dorsey/ 3 - THE REAL REASON WP-SPAMSHIELD WAS KICKED OFF WORDPRESS.ORG? https://www.redsandmarketing.com/blog/real-reason-wp-spamshield-kicked-off-wordpress-org/ 4 - Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/30/ten-arguments-deleting-your-social-media-accounts-right-now-jaron-lanier 5 - Find the Right WordPress Membership Plugin for Your Site https://wpappstore.com/blog/right-wordpress-membership-plugin/