WPcast.fm - The Professional WordPress Podcast: Recent Episodes
David Hehenberger and Doug Yuen
In this episode, we talk to Barry Kooij about building your own products vs. working for a company, delivering quality customer support as a solo developer, and the benefits of the plugin extension model.
In this episode, we talk to Peter Suhm, creator of the WP Pusher plugin. We cover a lot of topics: GitHub, version control, deployment strategies, how Doug and David use WP Pusher on their own sites, and alternative traction channels to WordPress.org.
In this episode, Doug and guest Troy Dean discuss the importance of quality and keeping your content up to date, the origins of WP Elevation, and more.
In this week's podcast, Doug and David discuss WordCamp Europe 2015 and share updates on how their businesses have been progressing over the last few months.
Our guest for this episode is Robby McCullough, one of the co-founders of the Beaver Builder plugin and the FastLine Media agency. Beaver Builder is a great drag and drop page builder, which we've used ourselves.
Now that the first quarter of 2015 is over, we talk about our progress on our goals for the year.
In this episode, our guest Pietro Saccomani discusses how his business, Mobiloud, builds mobile apps for WordPress sites.
In this episode, we we answer a listener question about refunds and discuss the future of WPcast.
This Week We Discuss An Exciting New Marketing Tool. Optin Cat Is A Powerful WordPress Plugin That Helps Businesses And Bloggers Get More Email Subscribers.
This week, Brad Touesnard joins us to discuss hiring developers, building and managing a distributed team, and more.
Masterminds have had a huge positive impact on both our businesses. In this episode, we share what we've learned participating in business masterminds.
In this episode "Product Validation at WooThemes", Patrick Rauland (WooCommerce Product Manager) shares how the WooThemes team validates product ideas.
In this episode, we discuss the business applications reputation, including why reputation matters and how to build up a great reputation.
In this episode, we discuss the business applications of The 80/20 Principle. Many of these ideas come from the book The 80/20 of Sales and Marketing.
Our guest this week is Jean Galea, the man behind the popular WP Mayor blog and the WP RSS Aggregator plugin. We discuss the upcoming WP Mayor podcast, networking and conferences, and more.
This week's episode is the last episode of the year. In it, we're discussing our goals for 2015.
In this episode, we discuss some of the best practices and tools you can use to deliver top-notch support in your business.
This week, we're answering some questions about starting a plugin business. We discuss licensing options, and some ideas on how to pick what plugin to start with.
This week we're sharing 7 lessons about product validation. We're also talking about optimizing your plugin for the repository, pricing and running a beta.
This week, we've got Dan Norris as our guest. Dan is the co-founder of WP Curve, a high-growth WordPress support business. He recently started Helloify, a business messaging platform, and he's the author of The 7 Day Startup. And he also brews beer.
In this podcast we're talking about how you can automate your business / your workflow by integrating WordPress and Zapier.
Our guest is Matt Medeiros, who runs the most famous WP podcast, Matt Report. He's also the co-founder of Slocum Studio and creator of the Conductor Plugin.
In this week's episode, we discuss SEO for WordPress and quick tips on what you should be setting up.
This week's episode is a behind-the-scenes look at David's flagship product at Fatcat Apps, Easy Pricing Tables.
This week's episode is all about social sharing. We talk about strategies and best practices for social - many of which we've been lazy in implementing ourselves.
In this episode, we talk about WordPress site migrations with guest Ben Perove from WP Motion.
In this episode, we talk about the different types of hosting options for your WordPress site - shared, managed, dedicated, or closed systems.
In this episode, we discuss our thoughts and experiences on living abroad and working remotely.
In this episode, we discuss mobile responsive design: what it is, why it's needed, and our 7 tactics for making better responsive websites.
In this episode, we go beyond the basics of Google Analytics and talk about how you can use it effectively.
In this episode, we talk about pricing models for premium themes and plugins, and what you should be considering, whether you're the seller or the consumer.
In this episode, we discuss the pros and cons of WordPress multisite, and when it's better to use multisite or stay with separate installations.
In this episode, we discuss the top software and services we recommend for project management.
In this episode, we talk about promoting, developing, and supporting premium plugins and themes, focused around David's experience with Easy Pricing Tables.
In this episode, we discuss the nature of WordPress security, and steps to take in order to make your site secure.
For our 10th episode, we talk about why we started our podcast, the other podcasts we listen to, and our future plans for this podcast.
In this episode, we go into detail about the business model and mechanics of Doug's business, PodWP/EfficientWP.
Almost every website needs a form, but there are many options out there. Where do you start? We discuss some common form plugins and our recommendations.
You're probably backing up your website already. But do you know what to do with the backup, and how do you know if it actually works? In this episode, we discuss some of the different backup tools you can use, and the best practices you should be following.
In this episode, we discuss some of the common plugins we install on new WordPress sites.
In this episode, we give an overview of some of the best options to take payments with WordPress, on or off your site.
In this episode, we compare free and premium WordPress themes, and discuss the pros and cons. This episode is inspired by an article from WP Tavern, "What’s Your Perception of ThemeForest?"
In this episode, we discuss how to get the most out of networking and conferences, particularly our experiences attending and speaking at WordCamps.
How do you hire great software developers? We discuss how to filter through the noise of bad applicants in this week's episode.
What works and what doesn't when you're providing WordPress consulting services? We discuss consulting in this episode.