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Web accessibility has been a hot topic recently. Making the web more accessible for everyone is something that most people would agree is a good idea, but not everyone knows how to make that happen. We’re going to be talking with a group of people who are passionate about making it easier to access the web for everyone, regardless of their physical limitations.
Because WordPress powers more than 20% of the web, it seems like the perfect place to start pushing for a more accessible web. If you build client sites or WordPress themes, this is an episode you need to pay particular attention. In some countries, laws which require accessibility to be implemented are even starting to be passed.
Recently, Smashing Magazine published an article on mobile accessibility and why it matters. In that piece, they cover a lot of the basic things that can be done to help improve usability on your website. There are already a few plugins in the repository which attempt to make WordPress conform to accessibility standards, but in order for a site to truly be accessible, best practices need to be implemented throughout the site.
We’re going to find out exactly what needs to be done to make a site accessible and what you can do to start moving towards making sure everyone can use the websites you create. Come join us Tuesday at 1pm and learn about what you can change on your website or in your workflow to make your work easy for everyone to enjoy!
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If you’ve wondered about managed WordPress hosting and whether it’s right for you, this is definitely a show you don’t want to miss. Over the last couple years, the hosting space has exploded with companies dedicated entirely to serving the needs of the ever-growing WordPress user base. The latest craze is something called managed WordPress hosting.
Check out this managed #WordPress hosting discussion panel with CEOs of WP hosting companies!
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We’re going to be talking with some of the CEOs and founders of a number of companies providing this service and find out what makes it different from more traditional types of hosting. We’ve assembled a dream-team of WordPress hosting business owners and they’re going to explain exactly how their business operate, what differentiates them from each other, and what you can expect from a managed WordPress host.
If you want to find out what all the fuss is about and decide if a managed host is something you should spend you or your clients money on, you need to tune in. We’ll be taking questions from the audience and actually asking them this time. We’ve even finally added a live chat feature to the site so you can talk along with us throughout the show. Join us Tuesday May 20th at 1pm EST for the managed WordPress hosting discussion to end all discussion!
Here’s Our Managed WordPress Hosting Panel:
Ryan Sullivan Founder of WP Site Care
http://www.wpsitecare.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryandonsullivan
Dusty Davidson CEO of Flywheel
http://getflywheel.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustydavidson
Jason Cohen Founder of WP Engine
http://wpengine.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncohen
Joshua Strebel CEO of Pagely
https://pagely.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jstrebel
Dante Baker Product Manager Shared Services at MediaTemple
http://mediatemple.net
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dante-baker/8/919/8ab
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This show has been a while in the making. We’ve wanted to do something related to WordPress hosting for quite some time, but we really wanted to make sure it was an amazing show. As anyone who cares about quality will tell you… good things take time. Believe me when I tell you, this is going to be good.
Check out this #WordPress hosting discussion panel featuring CEOs of the top hosting companies!
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We’ve finally put together what we think is the most amazing WordPress hosting panel ever assembled. We’ve got an all-star group lined up to talk about the business of WordPress hosting and where things are headed at all the major hosting companies. We’re going to chat about how WordPress is changing the hosting business and what that means for you and your business.
If you’re interested in choosing the best WordPress host, learning more about what to expect when you self-host your own WordPress site, or just finding out about how the hosting business works, this is a show you can’t possibly miss. Come join us tomorrow at 12pm EST!
Here’s Our WordPress Hosting All-Stars:
Ryan Sullivan Founder of WP Site Care
http://www.wpsitecare.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryandonsullivan
Tenko Nikolov CEO of Siteground
http://siteground.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tnikolov
Ben Welch-Bolen CEO & Co-Owner of Site5
http://www.site5.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bweeb
Vanessa Vasile Tier 3 Systems Architecture Lead of InMotion Hosting
http://www.inmotionhosting.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessavasile
James Grierson VP Business Development of Bluehost
http://www.bluehost.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesgrierson
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Chris Pearson is the man who started the WordPress theme framework craze back in 2008. Since then, a lot has changed. There’s been competition, drama, and all sorts of interesting stuff since the launch of Thesis. Aside from his usual witty Twitter banter, It’s been a while since Chris has spoken publicly. We’re pretty excited to hear about what he’s been up to lately and hear about some of his thoughts on where WordPress is headed.
Over the years, Chis has blogged, spoken, and tweeted about quite a few different subjects related to the web in general. He’s written a number of interesting posts about Typography and design which approach things a bit differently than most. Chris has also written a lot on one of my favorite subjects: SEO. Lately he hasn’t blogged a whole lot, but you can read some of the killer posts from his his more active blogging days on the Pearsonfied Valut. There’s a lot of gems in there that still ring true today, which is really saying something in the toss-away content culture we’re in at the moment.
I’ve never personally met Chris, but literally everyone who has ever mentioned him to me has included the fact that he’s a genius. No matter what their overall opinion of Thesis, the GPL, or anything else related to Chris is, they always seems to toss that in there. I can’t really think of anyone else who has that kind of renowned respect, so I’m really interested to hear what Chris has to say. We’ve got some great questions in mind, but if there’s anything you’d like to ask Chris, don’t hesitate to hashtag it up on Twitter or leave us some comments bellow. Stay tuned everyone, this is gonna be a good one!
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Everyone Wants to Make Money With WordPress… but How? There are lots of ways to make money with WordPress, but almost all of them require one thing: marketing. Marketing is changing. The old school methods of cold calling, pounding pavements, and networking are starting to be replaced by digital marketing efforts. Gradually the things that large companies have been doing over the past 5-10 years are making their way into the small and medium sized business space.
Our next guests are extremely familiar with exactly what it takes to use WordPress as part of a marketing strategy. Seth Spears is a long-time marketing professional and Katie runs a wildly successful health and wellness blog called Wellness Mama.
Traditional Marketing is Now Digital Seth has changed his business model as the times have changed and now he works with a lot of our WordPress developer friends building custom websites for his marketing clients. He helps them learn about how to market their business with WordPress through blogging, social media engagement, and community building.
One of his most successful clients is Katie AKA the Wellness Mama. Katie has been blogging about natural and healthy ways to live your life over at the Wellness Mama for years. Over time she’s built up a loyal following and a lot of it has been due to her marketing efforts. Seth and Katie are going to share some of their marketing secrets and talk about what it takes to make a successful WordPress blog or business website. If you’re interested in growing the following your own site, this is an episode you can’t miss!
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This week our guests are Bob Dunn and James Dalman and they’re thinking about starting their own podcasts. With a world that seems to be on a podcasting frenzy, how can someone start one without being yet another voice that gets lost in the crowd?
I actually had this same dilemma before we started WP Bacon, but I knew we could have fun and do something that could turn into something great, so I went for it. It hasn’t been as easy as I expected it would be, but we’ve kept the dream alive and now we’re going to talk to some potential podcasters about podcasting. It’s really more interesting than it sounds, I promise.
OMG ANOTHER WORDPRESS PODCAST?! WHY?!?! There’s a lot of WordPress podcasts out there already… so why should you care? Well, for one thing James and Bob are both really interesting characters. James is a veteran working on a start-up to help his brothers and sisters in arms called Happy Joe and Bob is one of the most well-known WordPress training experts around. They’ve both been around WordPress for much longer than I have and they’ve seen it all, done it all, and now they want to talk about how they got to where they are and whether people are really interested in tuning into listen to them every week.
Personally, I think they both have the kind of unique voices that people will identify with. I also think they both reach an audience well outside of the WordPress “community” which is something that I think is really important. Everything that centers around WordPress tends to focus entirely on WordPress and WordPress-related issues… but WordPress is much more than that. We’ll be talking about all of this and more tomorrow at 12pm EST, so come join us! If nothing else, it’ll probably be the most meta thing you do all week. And we’ve got bacon. Cmon.
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Being Successful and Being Popular Are Two Entirely Different Things Part of the reason we started this podcast is because we wanted to explore the far reaches of the WordPress ecosystem. Most of the people who work with WordPress aren’t part of the “WordPress community” at all, but that’s the group that gets the most attention. Why is this? What purpose does the WordPress community serve exactly? How does someone join the community and what are the benefits of doing so? These are all questions we’d like to answer over the course of this show.
Diane is someone who has been working on the web for pretty much as long as it’s been a viable career. She was part of the original dotcom boom and she’s managed 100s of programmers building massive sites with massive budgets. Since then she’s been busy running her business The Versatility Group where she manages projects of various sizes using both WordPress and Drupal as a basis for her work. While her business has always been profitable, Diane has recently felt the urge to start interacting more with the WordPress community. As someone who made this decision a couple years ago, I’m interested to hear more about what’s driving her to get involved.
Joining in The WordPress Fun Diane is already part of the WordPress community, but she’s never really been all that public. You can find her on Twitter talking with her group of friends, but for the most part she keeps her head down and works. This recent decision to be more active in WordPress can be seen with her participation in Carrie Dils’ Genesis Office Hours and her upcoming speaking engagement at WordCamp Miami 2014.
We’re going to be talking with Diane about why she decided to jump into the WordPress space and what she thinks about all this WordPress stuff as it compares to the world she’s lived in the past 15 years. Is WordPress really ready for the big boys? Are there things that we can learn from companies like Microsoft and Oracle? Come find out with us tomorrow at 12pm EST!
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Just Kidding. WordPress is for Posting Memes. Alright… maybe it’s both. Somehow we’ve managed to convince a guy who doesn’t eat pork and runs one of the most serious WordPress agencies on earth to join us on the red-headed stepchild of WordPress podcasts… on April Fools Day. I’m pretty sure this is how you know you’re winning.
If you’ve spent any time around the WordPress community, you’ve probably heard of Jake and 10up. They’ve worked with huge brands like Tech Crunch, Google, and Universal. 10up is one of a handful of companies bringing WordPress into the enterprise space and they have a unique perspective that many of us never get to see.
Big Business Could Change WordPress Forever Money has a way of changing things. As WordPress continues to grow and move into new territory, I think it’s important to remember where the platform came from. WordPress has always been about sharing, community, and making publishing easier for anyone who has something to say. We hope the recent interest that big business has shown in WordPress doesn’t change that.
We’re going to be chatting with Jake about why WordPress has been working its way into the enterprise and what that means for the future of the platform. We’ll also be talking about their recent move into the WordPress product space with a new plugin called PushUp. I’m sure we’ll jump into a bunch of other interesting WordPressy topics as well… so come check out the show!
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It’s WP Bacon… Texas Style! So, it’s been a while since we did one of these shows. We’ve had a lot of stuff going on lately and one of the biggest issues was a negative SEO attack. We’re getting back on our feet again, and thought we’d try a new format for the Baconcast. Instead of a formal interview style show, we’re doing a more casual hangout and Q&A type show this time around.
Lots of our WordPress Friends Live in Texas Maybe it’s because WordPress was born in Texas, or maybe it’s just because Texas is awesome. Whatever the case may be, we moved to Texas recently and thought it’d be fun to have a bunch of the Texas WP community hang out with us and talk shop for a while.
In this episode, we had the following awesome Texans: * Carrie Dils * Shayne Sanderson * Shawn Hesketh * Matt Gross * Stefanie Newton * Christopher Harris * Jon Bellah
Plus Non-Texan * Matt Medeiros
We had a lot of fun on this show and while it probably wasn’t the most informative or productive episode of the Baconcast, we did talk about a few important issues. One that stuck out was the recent XML-RPCÂ vulnerability within the core of WordPress. Matt Gross pointed out that he’d like to see WordPress core address this somehow. At the moment, your only real defense is disabling XML-RPC entirely which can be done with a plugin. Hopefully this gets sorted out soon!
Aside from that, we talked a lot about WordCamps and how they’ve grown over the years. Since WordCamp Austin is coming up April 26 & 27, 2014 we talked about who’s going to be there and what you can expect at a WordCamp. Ozzy rambled about sports for a while and offended all the guests by assuming they love the Cowboys and Carrie brandished a firearm in a threatening manner.
We heard a bit about what’s been going on with the Thesis framework lately from Matt Gross which was cool because things have been a little quite on that front lately. Matt explained why they do things the way they do within Thesis and how they’ve moved away from some of the core functionality of WordPress. We’d like to talk more about this in the future so keep an eye out for an upcoming show with Thesis creator Chris Pearson.
Overall, this was a really awesome show full of cool WordPress information and great WordPress people. Hope you enjoyed it. Let us know in the comments if you’d like to see more of these types of shows!
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Entrepreneurial Reporting Brings Home the WordPress Bacon Matt Medeiros’ ascent in the WordPress community began back in 2008 when he co-founded Slocum Studio. Since then, he’s worked with tons of clients and launched a couple of podcasts. If you haven’t heard him on the Matt Report, you’ve probably been living under a rock.
While it lacks bacon, the Matt Report is definitely the #1 WordPress business podcast and we’re really excited to talk to Matt about how and why he started it. He’s a lot more pro at podcasting than we are, so we’ll also be grilling him for some podcasting tips. If you’re interested in starting your own podcast, this is definitely a Baconcast you should be watching.
We’re Trying Something New So, since we launched our new product Audit WP the other day, this week seems like a great time to try new things. We’ve been kicking this idea around for a while and I think we’re going to give it a shot on the show with Matt.
If you have any questions or comments for us or Matt, make sure you follow the #WPBacon hashtag at 12pm EST tomorrow. We’ll be selecting at least one listener to join us live on the air with their question. All you have to do is tweet your questions to us and make sure you follow the @WPBacon account. We’ll DM you a link to join the hangout live and ask your question! GOOD TIMES!!
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