WP Café: Recent Episodes
WP Café
WP Café - the show where we chat with WordPress professionals about practical solutions for solo and small WordPress development teams.
In today’s episode, Keith and Mark discuss their new project; Offline.Kids. How it came about, progress, and some of the interesting technical challenges they have faced.
Keith and Mark chat more about their current FSE build including the successes and challenges along the way. Watch the video
Keith and Mark chat about the recent Create Content Model plugin launched for WordPress as well as other news happening during the week. Watch the video
We’ve been thinking a lot about how to approach our next site build. Is Bricks the answer? Watch the video
In today’s episode, Keith and Mark discuss the following: – Starting their latest Full-site-editing build – Should clients be able to edit their own website content? – A new WordPress meetup in London Follow us: X / https://twitter.com/highrisedigital | https://twitter.com/wpcafeshow Linkedin / https://www.linkedin.com/company/highrisedigital/ Website: https://highrise.digital/ | https://wpcafe.show Checkout our products: JobRelay: https://jobrelay.io Integrate your WordPress […]
Keith and Mark chat about what they have been working on this week including wins loses. Watch the video
In todays episode, Keith and Mark are chatting about how to build WordPress websites for clients using Full Site Editing (FSE). With a new project in the pipeline they have a lot of learning to do! Follow us: X / https://twitter.com/highrisedigital | https://twitter.com/wpcafeshow Linkedin / https://www.linkedin.com/company/highrisedigital/ Website: https://highrise.digital/ | https://wpcafe.show Watch the video
With a new web project build in the pipeline, Keith and Mark chat about how to go about building a modern WordPress site and the workflows that can be used, particularly looking at how these are different from a “classic” WP build. Additional topics also include: Watch the video Follow us: X / https://twitter.com/highrisedigital | […]
In this episode, Mark and Keith discuss the pros and cons of working with high and low budgets. Watch the video
In this episode, Mark and Keith discuss the big questions around design and data separation. Watch the video
In this week we talk about showing the block editor to potential clients and how it can be a little…underwhelming! Watch the video
Mark and Keith discuss the new concept of WordPress components, hopefully coming in WP 6.6 Watch the video
Mark and Keith discuss if WordPress projects should be fully design-led, or should the platform dictate the design. Watch the video
Keith and Mark chat about the problems of having products that are built on another product and what happens when that changes. They will also cover some issues with hosting recently and look into what is “Managed Hosting”? Watch the video
Some upcoming stuff in WP 6.5, Mark’s first pull request and things we’ve been reading/watching this week. Watch the video
In this weeks episode Keith and Mark discuss a range of topics including: – Background processing in WordPress – Patterns vs Template parts vs Templates – Aligning blocks outside of groups – What is the stack block? Things we have been reading / watching this week.
In this episode, Keith and Mark talk about their journey from client project work into a more product focused business. It hasn’t been all plain sailing! Watch the video
In this episode Mark and Keith discuss how to deal with customer support for WordPress products. What is expected, what is reasonable, what is “above and beyond” and when are customers asking too much? Watch the video
In this episode Keith and Mark discuss dealing with the hidden complexities of WordPress projects. Watch the video
The block editor is changing. From 6.3 it will (usually) be contained in an iframe and this has implications for how to load assets. Mark and Keith discuss the use of ‘enqueue_block_editor_assets’ and how to ensure the new system doesn’t break out sites. They also discuss trying out FreshDesk support software and the new ZipWP […]
Mark and Keith react to Matt Medeiros’ reaction video! We also discuss adding FreshDesk to our wsupport workflow and sending marketing emails to promote RecPress. Watch the video
It’s an ongoing dilemma for us: How do we market our products and services? Like many developer-led businesses, we really struggle with marketing. We can conceive of, and build, great products but how do we get them in front of an eager audience? In this episode, Mark and Keith have an open discussion about marketing […]
This week, Mark and Keith talk about building a financial forecasting model for their products, handling customer support, and doing more client interviews. Watch the video
Note: There are a few connections issues towards the end of this episode, but we get through it! In this episode, Keith and Mark talk about why they are getting tired of the “new project dance.” They also discuss options for migrating content as part of your projects. Watch the video
Keith and Mark discuss some of the upcoming features in WordPress, as well as a couple we feel are still missing. Watch the video
We talk about an experience this week where we really felt a client’s pain, even though we were also feeling frustrated. Watch the video
Happy birthday, WordPress! Wow, 20 years. That’s a long time in software years. Watch the video
We discuss the “Create Block Theme” plugin, improving our support process, and an update on our product journey. Watch the video
In this episode, Mark chats about all the different pieces of software that he uses to build WordPress websites and products.
Are you finding it harder to find work? Are enquiries hard to come by and the sales pipeline drying up? Keith and Mark discuss if this is a WordPress or global trend, what might be causing it and what we can do about it. Watch the video
Keith and mark discuss their new WordPress product: RecPress, using !important in CSS, and GitHub Co-pilot Watch the video
Apologies for the audio issues on this one. We thought about not publishing, but we wanted to keep the order of shows intact. Watch the video
This week we take on a listener question: I know the block editor is the unavoidable beast at the moment, but it would actually really good to go through your process as an agency. Do you guys have themes you use and tailor to clients, or do you start from scratch every time.
This week’s episode is a lighthearted rant about the difficulties of modern WordPress development. Join us as we wallow in despair (and just a hint of optimism!).
Mark is away, so this week Keith is joined by Fränk Klein, Principal Engineer at Human Made, to discuss Full Site Editing for agencies.
In this episode Keith and Mark discuss the launch of their new product as well as whether or not hamburger menus should be used on desktop screen sizes. Video
In this episode, Keith and Mark chat about moving things fast, launching a new WordPress product and dealing with support requests. All that and some questions from the live audience here on Youtube. Video
In this episode of WP Café Keith and Mark chat about: A new site launch for a large recruitment brand Contemplating launching JobRelay on the WordPress.org plugin repository More discussion about CSS in WordPress core – particularly in the block editor Email threads Finally meeting up in person after 2.5 years Video
In this episode Keith and Mark discuss whether WordPress is still the right tool to use. Additional topics of discussion include visual regression testing and WP Engine acquiring the Delicious Brains plugins. Video
In this episode Keith and Mark chat about the new release of WordPress (v6.0), responsive typography and undertaking client interviews. Video
Keith and Mark had a chat about what has been happening with them and with WordPress over the last week or so.
In this episode we are joined by Michael Bragg to chat about automating workflows and deployments when developing on WordPress. Video
With full site editing coming in WordPress 5.8, due for release later in July this year, we chatted to Fränk Klein all about what it is and what it offer to users and developers. Video Related links WP Development course – Building block based themes Show sponsor This episode is sponsored by JobRelay, the easiest […]
In this episode Keith and I host a discussion and question and answer session about the main topics surrounding the WordPress project at the moment. Watch the video Show sponsor This episode is sponsored by the excellent SpinupWP. SpinupWP is a Modern Cloud-Based Server Control Panel and the best way to have your own extremely […]
What does the future hold for the WordPress open source project? In this episode we spoke to Matt Mullenweg and Josepha Haden Chomposy about the future of WordPress. Watch the video Show guests Matt Mullenweg Matt is the co-founder of WordPress and the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, WordPress […]
There are many plugin developers in the WordPress community and some of them are making money from their plugins. In the show we chat with Iain Poulson and James Kemp about making money by selling WordPress plugins. Watch the video Show guests Iain Poulson Iain is a developer, podcaster, and business owner. By day he’s […]
WordPress recently shipped with a new theme, the Twenty Twenty-One theme. In this episode we ask the people that built it all about the ideas and decisions about how it was built.
In this episode, we were joined by Tom Greenwood, Hannah Smith and Jack Lennox to discuss the environmental impact of our work and what we can do to make our WordPress websites more sustainable.
Deserved or not, WordPress has a reputation problem when it comes to security. In this episode, Keith and Mark are joined by WordPress security experts Tim Nash and Chris Wiegman.
Mark and Keith are joined by expert WordPress developer Bill Erickson to discuss how to work with Gutenberg when building custom, modern WordPress themes.