Press This WordPress Community Podcast

Welcome to a special "Word Around the Campfire" edition of the Press This podcast. This month we talk with Jeff Chandler, a Marketing Generalist at StellarWP, and Mike Davey, the Senior Editor of Delicious Brains. We talk about what is new in WordPress 6.4, the cURL issue that led to the 6.4.1 release, shake ups at Tumblr, and Sarah Gooding's exit from WPTavern.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of PressThis, Delicious Brains Senior Editor Mike Davey and WP Engine Community Manager for Developer Relations Sam Brockway join us for our monthly "Word Around the Campfire" episode where we review news and updates from the WordPress community.For our April 2023 episode, Sam tells us about her favorite new features in WordPress 6.2 and Mike shares some of his recent experiments with AutoGPT and WordPress.If you're looking to keep up with the latest news in WordPress, listen to this episode of PressThis now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"The new WordPress block editor (codenamed "Gutenberg) has introduced a world capability for developers and content creators. As brands and agencies adopt these new capabilities inside of WordPress #core, they are starting to realize that empowering the relationship between the developer and content creator unlocks incredible operational agility. Ideas move faster than ever before.Using block-focused strategies is allowing content creators to create unique and beautiful experiences the same day they have the idea, and often without needing help from a developer. Developers are discovering that by empowering content creators they are now free to innovate in inspiring ways without being saddled with a mountain of ""soul-crushing"" landing page tickets. Of course, brands are benefiting from the increased velocity in bringing ideas to life and the innovation and integrations development teams are now free to build.The web is poised to innovate a LOT faster.But what about YOUR block strategy? What are you doing to inspire your dev team and empower your marketing teams?In this episode of PressThis, host David Vogelpohl shares his thoughts on the impact the new block editor is having in WordPress, strategies tactics for building your own ""block arsenal"", and how you can deploy a block strategy that allows your developers to build innovative experiences your content creators LOVE to use.Stop wondering ""I wonder what the heck I'll do with Gutenberg?"". Listen to this episode of PressThis now!"Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Did you know that 80% of B's in an A/B test fail to beat the original version? EIGHT times out of TEN when a marketer and designer sit down to purposefully increase a KPI with a new design, they FAIL. Welcome to the landing page failure paradox.In this episode of PressThis, we interview Lorraine Ball of Roundpeg about her thoughts on one of the most fundamental and important factors in helping you create landing pages that actually succeed... What you say!Lorraine explores her strategies for segmenting audiences to deliver the right message to the right people, evoking emotion from your audience, making irresistible offers that visitors WANT to purchase, and how you should think about landing page layouts to tell the value story you're trying to deliver.If your landing page strategy starts and stops with UX optimization, open up your mind and learn how optimize your landing pages that tell compelling stories can help you escape the landing page failure paradox.Listen to this episode of PressThis now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you an advanced developer looking to optimize your CI/CD workflow with WordPress? Are you still beefing up your dev chops and are wondering "What the heck is a CI/CD"? In either case, you need to listen to this episode of PressThis now!In this episode of PressThis, we interview the super-smart Peter Suhm of Branch CI about his thoughts on approaches and strategies for CI/CD for WordPress. For those that don't know, CI/CD (continuous integration / development) is a set of principles and approaches that allow you to release better and more stable software more frequently.Peter will cover his ideas around how to tackle the "build" and "test" phases of your workflow, what's available for CI/CD in the WP world today,and what a well doneWordPress CI/CD workflow looks like.If you're trying to up your dev game, listen to this episode of PressThis now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you're running a WooCommerce store or building them for others, you generally have one mission. Convert visitors into paying customers!Of course, conversion rate optimization is super important to that journey, but it's not just the number of sales which are important, but also the size of your orders.In this episode of PressThis, we interview James Kemp of Iconic the makers of the Sales Booster plugin for WooCommerce. James shares his thoughts on what you can do to not only drive more customers to complete their orders, but have carts overflowing with items your customers WANT to buy.If your conversion rate strategy ends with adding orange buttons, listen to this episode of PressThis now and start working on delighting your customers and your CFO by building even more useful and valuable sales experiences than ever. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of PressThis, we do our monthly "Word Around the Campfire" episode where we review news and updates from the WordPress community.For our July 2019 update we cover updates from WCEU which was held in Berlin as well as huge changes happening in the WordPress ecosystem, like WP Engine's acquistion of Flywheel and much more.If you're looking to keep up with the latest news in WordPress, listen to this episode of PressThis now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The digital world is changing. Fast. The next evolution of the web and WordPress will open up all new experiences you can use to delight and surprise your audience in ways that deliever more value to the visitor and the businesses that serve them than ever before.In this episode of PressThis, we interview WordPress futurist and owner of the advanced WordPress agnecy Pragmatic David Lockie about Web 3 and the future of digital.Web 3 technologies are either already here or on the horizon such as AR, AI, bots, 5G, edge computing, blockchain, and many more. Together these technologies present huge opportunities to innovate and drive growth. For many brands,Web 3 offers powerful tools which are delivering value now; however, for many other brands these technolgies are currently out of reach.David explores his ideas on how brands can take advantage of Web 3 today and for those not ready to take advantage , David shares what you can do to prepare for the next generation of digital.Don't miss this chance to learn about the future of digital and what you can do to leverage this amazing new world and deliver awe inspiring experiences your customers will love and drive unique and powerful value for your business. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you maintain or plan on creating a public WordPress-focused product like a plugin or theme? Do you create your own private-use plugins or themes? One of the key ways to grow the user base of any product or brand is to support multiple languages. This can be a great way to increase your total addressable market without having to come up with new features or products. Of course, that's not to say translation is easy. It isn't!... but it doesn't have to be as hard as you think and the power of open source can help.In this episode we interview the infamous Remkus de Vries of Yoast SEO who contributes in many ways to open source projects including the Genesis framework translation project. Remkus shares his tips for managing translation projects, the tech to consider, best practices and more.If you're looking for ways to make your software helpful for more people all around the world, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you considered building your own WordPress plugin or theme as a driver for your business? In this episode of PressThis, we interview the super-smart Raitis Sevelis of the uber-popular Visual Composer about strategies for selling your WordPress product on your own site vs. leveraging marketplaces.Raitis does a deep dive into the factors you should consider including marketplace fees, support, distribution, building a brand and more as it relates to your marketplace vs. direct sell strategy.Don't miss this chance to learn valuable information you can use on a product you're about to launch or if you've ever considered launching a WP focused product in the future. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Each and every one of us who build websites with WordPress have one over-arching mission. To drive growth. Each design we create, line of code we labor over, and call-to-action we craft is designed to generate visitors, revenue, donations, or attention for your or your clients' brands. We pride ourselves on our eye-popping designs, well oiled funnels, and diligent SEO. Despite all those fine-tuned strategies, many of us have yet to take advantage of the power of Schema to increase the indexibility and discoverability the experiences we create.In this episode of PressThis, we interview the original-host of PressThis and founder of Yoast SEO Joost de Valk about the recent addition of Schema support to the uber-popular Yoast SEO plugin.We cover why Schema is important, the challenges opportunities in addressing Schema from the Yoast plugin perspective, and how you can leverage your Schema strategy to help drive growth for you or your clients.If you're unsure of how you're going leverage Schema or if that even matters for you, listen to this episode of PressThis now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

I'm sure you've heard someone give a "why WordPress" or "how to pitch WordPress" talk before, but those talks or interviews are often given my crusty-old veterans of WordPress far-removed from the actual personal decision of choosing WordPress.. or NOT!In this episode of PressThis, we interview digital veteran Eric Sharp of ProtoFuse as he discusses his recent decision process for choosing WordPress as the CMS of choice for his agency.We cover Eric's journey ending in the summer of 2018 in deciding which CMS was the right choice for his business. Eric explores his decision process and how talent, capabilities, reputation, and ultimately success for his clients influenced how he made his decision.Don't listen to another industry veteran spout out about how to pitch WordPress to others. Listen to this episode of PressThis now and learn from someone who wasn't already "all in" and had to make the best CMS choice for his business and his customers!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Does WordPress play a valuable role in your business? Have you thought about contributing to WordPress #core or the WordPress community, but don't know how to do that in a meaningful way?In this episode of PressThis, we interview often-host of PressThis and WordPress #core committer Anthony Burchell. Anthony shares the details of how to contribute code to #core, strategies for picking the right tickets to tackle, ways you can support WordPress even if you're not a developer, and all the amazing opportunities for contributing at WordCamps and WordPress meetups.Giving back to the WordPress community is a great way to support the technology you rely on, but it can also unlock a sea of valuable relationships and friendships from people running technology businesses just like yours. The insights, partnerships, and kindred spirits you'll meet along the way can have a profound impact on your growth both professionally and personally.If you're wondering how to contribute to WordPress #core in meaningful ways, listen to this episode of PressThis now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of PressThis we explore news from around the WordPress ecosystem for the month of May 2019 as part of our ongoing series "Word Around the Campfire".We explore the release of WordPress 5.2, the upcoming WordCamp EU, schema updates by Yoast, accssability WordPress core, and much more!If you're too busy to keep up with all the happenings in the WordPress community, listen to this episode of PressThis!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you're an agency, freelancer, or work on an internal digital team, getting accurate and meaningful feedback from your clients can mean the difference between a comfortable life filled with happy customers and an endless quagmire of confusion resulting in you doing and and then redoing your work... over.. and... over... again... Arghhh!We've all been there or are even there right now. It's an icky place to be and definitely not fun.In this episode of PressThis we interview Aloke Pillali of Pastel (a client feedback platform) to explore strategies for optimizing your client feedback approach. Aloke will share tips for getting meaningful feedback from clients and how you can use that feedback to get to the heart of what matters and comfortably deliver exactly what your clients need.We explore healthy approaches to eliciting feedback, when and how to ask for feedback, and what you should do when dealing with clients with different levels of digital proficiency.If you haven't taken time recently to optimize your feedback funnel, get some actionable ideas from someone who lives and breathes optimizing client feedback funnels every day. Listen to this episode of PressThis now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Web developers often think of SEO as a linear exercise of trying to be the top ranked website on a search result for a particular keyword; however, with search personalization and a variety of search result layouts the notion of "what is the top rank?" can mean vastly different things.In this episode of PressThis, we interview the super-smart Dave Davies of Beanstalk IM as he unpacks the different ways search engines (particularly Google) rank and display information in search results. You'll learn tips on what you should be doing to make sure your best content is large and in charge in a variety of search result layouts.If you still think of search results as a top 10 list, then your information is dated and you need to listen to this episode of PressThis now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of PressThis we explore news from around the WordPress ecosystem for the month of April 2019 as part of our ongoing series "Word Around the Campfire".2019 has been a huge year in WordPress and we cover some of the biggest news stories like important updates to WordPress itself, a naughty plugin in the ecosystem doing really creepy things, and key partnerships in WordPress which could have a direct impact on the sites you manage.If you're too busy to keep up with all the happenings in the WordPress community, listen to this episode of PressThis!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you're creating course, podcast, or other educational experiences for your brand or your customers, but you don't know the first thing about actually educating people, you need to listen to this episode of PressThis now.In this episode we interview Joe Casabona a web developer and college professor about tips and tricks you can use to plan your educational experiences to actually be educational.Delivering content experiences that both delight and educate people is key to the success of the course sites, podcast sites, or support sites you build. How you structure your information architecture, how content is delivered, how you get feedback from people you'll never meet, and how you to continue to reinforce what people have learned can mean the difference between a site that's okay and one that empowers your users to become better people or simply get better at using the product or service you're trying to educate them on.If you're stabbing in the dark with your strategy on the educational sites you build, you need to listen to this episode of PressThis now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We've all heard about JS decoupled "headless" WordPress deployments using frameworks like React and Angular, but are these approaches right for you? In this episode of PressThis we interview the super smart Jonathan Jeter of Click Here Labs about his thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of JS decoupled headless WordPress architecture.Listen now to get insights into how headless affects things like speed, workflow efficiency, capabilities, and hiring. If you're confused about choosing headless as part of your approach to building web applications, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you or your customers interested in using video content to help customers and visitors get the most out of your website or products? Coming up with an effective video learning solution can be super tricky, but if you dial in on the right approach you might make a meaningful impact to your or your clients' businesses.Join us for this episode of PressThis as we interview Shawn Hesketh of WP101 about his philosophy around creating video learning strategy that not only helps to reduce support load and delight customers, but also as an engine of growth.If you or your team is spending all of your time answering questions, and you'd like to learn clever techniques for turning your learning content into an engine of growth, don't miss this episode of PressThis!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of PressThis we cover how brands are shifting the places that their visitors enter the website using content-driven SEO. This sweet organic traffic now comes to content-oriented pages, often on blogs. But brands often forget that their articles are no longer just content pages, they're now LANDING PAGES!Brian Massey of Conversion Sciences shares his advice on how to turn a content page -- article or blog post -- into a content landing page that turns organic visitors into leads and customers.If you build it, they will come, but will they buy?!?! Listen to this episode of PressThis to supercharge your content strategy to actually drive growth for your brand or customers.https://conversionsciences.com/lead-generation-solutions/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For those of us looking for an edge when optimizing digital experiences for growth, personalization is an attractive strategy. Who doesn't want a website or mobile experience that recognizes an individual and serves them the best content and tools that are specific to that person's needs? It all sounds incredible, but the cost to create and maintain personalized experiences can be quite high. Is personalization worth the trouble?In this episode of PressThis, we interview 10up's Phil Crumm about the evolution of personalization, how brands use personalization today, the business case for personalization (when it does / doesn't make sense), and how personalization will evolve in the future. You'll learn keen insights into the strategies you can use to delight customers and optimize for growth.In the end, each brand must choose if personalization is the right strategy, but we hope you'll get a little help in finding your direction on your personalization strategy on this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Page speed is a big deal. Every second of load time is an excruciating eternity of pain for your site's visitors which slowly bleeds revenue out of your funnel and away from your bottom line. In one study from 2016 Google reported that the average U.S. retail mobile site loaded in 6.9 seconds, but, according to their then most recent data, 40% of consumers will leave a page that takes longer than three seconds to load. Ouch!Site owners are painfully aware that slow load times cause high bounce rates and thus creating site visitors who aren't buying, aren't clicking on ads, and aren't becoming advocates for your brand or the brands you serve as an agency or freelancer. Page speed has a direct impact to your ability to grow!In this episode of PressThis, we interview the world-renowned Patrick Meenan of Cloudflare and founder of the uber-popular WebPageTest.org about what you can do to help make your WordPress sites faster and more profitable. As part of his new role at Cloudflare, Patrick has been working on technologies that help make WordPress faster including a newly released plugin called Cloudflare Page Cache.We're super excited to have Patrick back on PressThis to help explore how you can improve your page load times and drive even more value from the experiences you create. Don't miss this opportunity to drive more value from the traffic you already have. Listen to this episode of PressThis now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you running your own development-focused freelance or small agency business? Have you mastered the skills to sell your services and close the right kind of clients to keep you growing? Selling your services can often be an uncomfortable or even often overlooked area when managing a development focused freelance or small agency businesses. Of course, these are some of the very skills you'll need to keep your billable hours full and money adding to your bottom line!In this episode of PressThis we interview popular WP community contributor John Housholder as he talks about his trasition from a developer centric role to one focusing on helping to drive growth. John explores the challenges of shifting contexts, getting around the fear of talking to people, and coming to terms with the important role of sales in helping a business move forward.As a former freelance developer, John has been in the trenches and his insights into how to approach sales conversations in efficient and effective ways are a must hear for any freelance developer wondering.. "How am I going to do this sales thing?!".If you're struggling with how to up your sales skills to support your growing freelance or agency business, don't miss this episode of PressThis!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ecommerce platform provider BigCommerce recently released an ecommerce plugin for WordPress with a really unique approach. The plugin leverages the BigCommerce platform to offload many of the workloads required for ecommerce sites in order to let WordPress focus on delivering great content with awesome performance.This was big news in the WordPress community and was even featured during the State of the Word talk at WCUS. For this episode of PressThis, we've invited Topher DeRosia of BigCommerce to share how their solution works and how they think about the opportunity of offloaded ecommerce to help WordPress ecommerce sites.We're super excited for the chance to chat about this exciting development in the world of WordPress ecommerce. If you're looking for new ways to use WordPress to generate revenue from direct sales or on how you can help customers of your freelancer or agency business win with WordPress and ecommerce, listen to this episode of PressThis now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As you spend time thinking about how you'll be able to deliver new audiences and revenue to your business or the businesses you serve as an agency or freelancer, you've likely thought quite a bit about creating mobile apps. For many organizations the investment in creating and maintaining mobile apps on iOS and Android can be quite daunting.In this episode of PressThis we interview the infamous Brian Messenlehner of AppPresser about strategies you can use to leverage WordPress to build mobile apps. Brian explores creative ideas around your technology strategy, how you can use the native experiences you build to unlock new audiences and revenue, and why you shouldn't be leaving money on the table by not addressing this valuable channel for growth. If you're an agency or freelancer, you'll love hearing Brian's tips and how they can help you increase billable hours with your clients.Help scratch your growth FOMO itch, listen to this episode of PressThis, and learn how to drive growth by creating native mobile experiences with WordPress!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of PressThis we are joined by founder of Atomic Blocks, Mike McAlister as we revisit his journey in creating new WordPress products in a post-Gutenberg world. With the release of WordPress 5.0, product makers in the WordPress ecosystem are now faced with the challenge of learning new Javascript technologies and new editorial markets. Listen in as we explore Mike’s best strategies and tips for creating innovative products in this new era.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Original Air Date: January 23, 2018Join us for this episode of PressThis as we interview crazy-smart Karim Marucchi of Crowd Favorite on the future of WordPress and open source for the Enterprise. Will Enterprise brands continue to adopt WordPress and open source? How will views on the scale, security, and reliability of open source change in the future? Karim is uniquely positioned to answer these questions as his agency serves enterprise brands like X, Y, and Z. If breaking into the enterprise is part of your plan for your agency or WP product business, don’t miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now! Original Air Date: March 6, 2018WordPress is growing at a mind bending pace and so are the businesses that support and rely on the ecosystem. If you’re wondering how you’ll grow your WP-focused team while defending your quality, lifestyle, and culture, check out this episode of Press This. In this episode we’ll be interviewing the super-popular and insightful Shane Pearlman to hear about the challenges and successes he’s had growing his business Modern Tribe. Tribe is a force in the WordPress community and Shane will share his thoughts on scaling a WordPress focused business while honoring the open source roots and culture that has made WordPress such a phenomenon and helped fueled the growth of his business. Don’t miss this episode.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of PressThis we do a recap of all the things you missed at WordCamp US in December 2018 in Nashville. Get the latest on the State of the Word, happenings from around the show, and the best content at WCUS. Scratch your FOMO itch, and get relive WCUS on this episode of PressThis.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of PressThis we interview lead developer of the Genesis Framework for WordPress Nathan Rice. Nathan will be sharing what he and the rest of the newly expanded Genesis engineering team and core contributors are working on for the future of Genesis. Nathan will cover exciting new updates for Gutenberg, a partnership with Google, and audits the team is doing into the digital marketing features within Genesis. Don't miss your chance to learn about how the framework that revolutionized WordPress, will continue to do so with Gutenberg and beyond! Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The slower your ecommerce site is, the less money you or your clients make. That's just a fact. If you're not spending time to invest in performance as a product, you're leaving money on the table. Join this episode of PressThis as we interview the super smart Zach Stepek of Mindsize around how you can optimize WooCommerce for speed and reliability. Mindsize and Zach are leaders in WooCommerce performance and Zach will be sharing his best tips for improving performance and reliability. Don't miss this chance to boost performance, boost your conversion rates, and boos your revenue. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you at your whit's end servicing clients? Are you overworked, frustrated, and struggling to grow? Running an agency or freelancing business is hard. There is a never ending sea of things to do between you and growth. The hardest part of running an agency business is that the more you grow, the list of things to do exponentially increases! In this episode of PressThis, we interview the super smart Sara Dunn of 11WEB as she shares her ideas around achieving growth by doing less. Sara will share how focusing the services you offer can help you deliver more value to your customers and more value to your business. You'll learn how to think about your business in ways that can help make your life more livable, your employees happier, your customers delighted, and your bank account full. Drop the hamster wheel for a bit and take some time to learn how to to use less as a driver of growth on this episode of PressThis!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The WordPress community is abuzz with activity with the pending release of WordPress version 5.0 on Nobember 19th. Join us for this episode of PressThis as we explore important updates to tools in the WordPress ecosystem, the upcoming WordCamp US in Nashville, and a whole host of topics that will help you stay ahead of the curve on the biggest updates in WordPress. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of PressThis we interview the infamous Carrie Dils on leveraging the Genesis framework for agencies and developers. Carrie details what you need to get started, the basic concepts of Genesis, and how to leverage Genesis to help you create better sites at a faster pace. Carrie is a community veteran with excellent Genesis courses on Lynda, LinkedIn, and carriedils.com. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tune in to this episode of PressThis where we interview online marketer, WordPress expert, and SEO consultant, Rebecca Gill. Rebecca has been focusing on SEO and WordPress for over a decade and now you can listen in as she shares her tips and opinions on how to wring the most out of your digital experiences. We'll cover all of the latest technologies that are driving modern SEO best practices including semantic markup, accessibility, and much more. Don't miss out on this opportunity to hear from one of the most compelling and articulate speakers in the WordPress SEO space. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you use the Genesis framework to build themes for WordPress? Have you considered using Genesis? Join us for this episode of PressThis as we interview Genesis community pillar Gary Jones. Gary is a core contributor to the Genesis framework and admin of the Genesis community group on Slack. Gary will share his thoughts on the evolution of Genesis, power and depth of the community, and how brands and agencies use Genesis to scale their work and build better experiences. Don't miss this chance to learn about Genesis and the community from someone who has been a leader throughout Genesis' evolution. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join us for this very special episode of PressThis as we interview Foundation Digital's Greg Boser of SEO Rockstars' fame! Greg has been at the cusp of digital marketing with WordPress since nearly the begining, and he'll be sharing his views on what has changed, what has stayed the same, and what the future opportunities are for businesses looking to drive growth with WordPress. Greg has a deep understanding of the principles of digital marketing and the technology of WordPress. Don't miss this chance to hear a legend in digital marketing share his thoughts on the opportunities you could be leveraging to drive growth for you or your clients. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If your knowledge of SEO is semantic HTML and meta fields, you're missing out. Creating sites as a builder or managing a site as an operator requires you to keep up with the latest techniques in SEO. SEO is changing though and old-school SEO techniques are still rife within the WordPress community. Join us for this episode of PressThis as we interview Andrea Volpini of WordLift as he discusses how the next generation of web developers are helping their sites win in SEO. WordLift is an AI powered SEO tool, so Andrea is well positioned to talk to you about how SEO has changed and what you can do to stay ahead. If your answer to SEO is to add meta fields to the site you build, you need to listen to this episode of PressThis!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you're building sites for your brand or as an agency building for others, getting your review strategy dialed in can be the difference between a healthy site churning out revenue and a wasteland of empty carts and absent checkouts. In this episode of Press this, we interview Tevya Washburn of Starfish Reviews about strategies you can use to gain more insightful, helpful, 5-star reviews and use those to to improve your business and products. If you've been wondering what to do about your review strategy, don't miss this episode of PressThis!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The WordPress community is obsessed with the new Gutenberg page building experience, but what about the existing suite of page builders like Beaver Builder? What role do they play in a Gutenberg world? In this episode, we interview Beaver Builder co-founder Robby McCullough and discuss how Beaver Builder is approaching the Gutenberg editor, what key areas he sees which differentiates Beaver Builder today, and how Beaver Builder will be delivering value to customers well into the future. If you're using Beaver Builder in your stack or if you've considered doing so, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Pattern Lab (http://pattern-lab.info/) and Fractal (https://fractal.build/) are both popular tools for creating pattern libraries and style guides. How can we leverage them in our WordPress themes to avoid duplication and breaking the link between the style guides and the website? In this episode of Press This, we’re chatting with Ryan Ogden, Directory of Technology at ExpandTheRoom, about using pattern library tools successfully within our WordPress themes. If you are contemplating using these tools or are looking for ways to parellize front-end and back-end theme development listen to this episode to gain valuable insights. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We all know WordPress is more than a blogging platform for mom-and-pop bloggers, but rather a powerful, secure, and extensible CMS. That being said, not everyone shares this perspective. In this episode of PressThis we interview WebDevStudios' CEO Brad Williams about the challenges WebDevStudios helps enterprise brands with in deploying WordPress experiences.WDS provides services to brands like Campbell's Soup, Skype, Microsoft, Discovery Channel, and NBC. Listen now to hear valuable insights into how you can help make sure the WordPress experiences you build are optimized for the enterprise. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

WordPress has long held a not-deserved reputation as a bastion of "bad code". Users often fear plugins, disparage developers, and generally assume WordPress itself is flawed. Of course there are bad products and developers in the ecosystem like any other framework; however, there are tons of great products and developers. How can you tell the difference though?Listen to this episode of PressThis as we interview Jonathan Wold of XWP. XWP created a code quality tool called TIDE that is part of the official WP core project. Tide will help plugin developers around the world improve the quality of their plugins and the ability to help any developer improve the quality of their code. The Tide is turning on WP code quality. Listen to PressThis now to find out why!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of PressThis we discuss the latest news and updates in the WordPress community. This is a huge episode covering some very big news in WordPress core, movers in the WP product world, and from around the community. Don't miss this chance to keep up with the latest news in WordPress, so you can adjust your strategy and stay a step ahead. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today we’ll be talking with Scott DeLuzio about a broad range of topics ranging from community involvement to mental health in freelancing. As a soldier, Scott brings unique perspective to the development world. We’ll talk a bit about how that experience equips him in a career in freelancing and product development. We’ll touch on WordCamps, freelancing, and how mental health plays an important role in our work lives. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

253 million people worldwide have some sort of visual impairment. As developers, we can help a lot of people by making the web accessible to everyone. We will explain what ADA Section 508 is and what that means for developers and web accessibility. Don't miss this episode of PressThis to learn how to make the web accessible for all!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Making the Most of Mailing Lists as Anthony Burchell speaks with the President of Gelform, Inc, Corey Maass. Corey is a full-stack web developer with a love for entrepreneurship and building web apps on WordPress. He built his first website in 1995, his first SaaS app in 2003, and his first WordPress plugin in 2009. In 2015, after 4 years of full-time WordPress development, he combined his passions and launched his first commercial plugin, Kanban for WordPress.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

WordPress plugins and the companies and individuals who produce them are undergoing a drastic transformation as the scale of WordPress eclipses more than a third of the web and larger and larger organizations are relying on plugins to power enterprise digital experiences. WPMU DEV executive Ronnie Burt joins us for this episode of PressThis as we explore how WordPress plugins are shifting from zip files with wholly contained functions that execute on your site to offloaded, SaaS powered, and API driven hybrids. Is this transformation okay? Why are plugins evolving in this way? What opportunities exist for product makers? We explore these questions and more with Ronnie who will be pulling from his wealth of experience at WPMU DEV and its suite of WordPress plugins. Don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

WordPress plugins and the companies and individuals who produce them are undergoing a drastic transformation as the scale of WordPress eclipses more than a third of the web and larger and larger organizations are relying on plugins to power enterprise digital experiences. WPMU DEV executive Ronnie Burt joins us for this episode of PressThis as we explore how WordPress plugins are shifting from zip files with wholly contained functions that execute on your site to offloaded, SaaS powered, and API driven hybrids. Is this transformation okay? Why are plugins evolving in this way? What opportunities exist for product makers? We explore these questions and more with Ronnie who will be pulling from his wealth of experience at WPMU DEV and its suite of WordPress plugins. Don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

When Google launched there were countless search engines available, yet Google now dominates global search marketshare. Being first isn't a pre-requisite for success, yet so many of us freak out that someone else already had our idea or has even built it! In this episode of PressThis we interview Akshat Choudhary to talk about his product BlogVault and why he choose to enter the crowded security market and the successes and challenges he's faced along the way. If you're discouraged about pursing your idea because it's been done or even been done thousands of time before, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy