Your Website Engineer: Recent Episodes
Dustin Hartzler
Join us for an entertaining and informative look at creating a high quality website for your business or personal blog by using WordPress.
If you already have a website, this podcast can help you create a high quality site.
A website doesn't have to be the hardest part of owning a small business. With this show, I will show you how you can take charge of keeping your website maintained and always up to date. This show focuses on WordPress and how it is the best solution for small businesses looking to create a website.
My goal is to inspire you to do amazing things online, whether that be creating websites for clients, developing plugins for users, or just tinkering with your own personal blog, there is so much we can do with WordPress, I'm going to show you how.
In today’s episode we talk about the five benefits of participating in the WordPress community.
In today’s episode we explore the ways a WordPress website owner can contribute to the WordPress community.
My goal is to inspire you to do amazing things online, whether that be creating websites for clients, developing plugins for users, or just tinkering with your own personal blog, there is so much we can do with WordPress. I'm going to show you how.
In today's episode we start a month long series on different ways to contribute back to WordPress and today's show focuses on ways for the blogger to give back.
In today's episode, we talk all about the newest feature coming to WordPress, the Gutenberg editor.
Today's episode is an interview with other Happiness Engineers from Podcast Movement 2017.
In today's episode we talk about the new offering from Automattic, WordPress.com for Business.
In today's episode we explore all the options and settings in your host's cPanel interface.
On today's episode we dive in and see how to set up a custom email address for our WordPress Website.
In today's episode we take a look at the three major types of hosting for your WordPress site: shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting.
In today's episode we discuss how Nameservers and DNS Record Types are used to allow domain names to work.
In today's episode we take some time to breakdown and understand what a domain name is, how they work and the differences between domains and URLs.
In today’s episode, we dive into the powerful possibilities of using WP-CLI to manage your WordPress site.
In today’s episode we dive in the heart of customizing WordPress by exploring hooks, actions and filters.
In today’s episode we talk about the WordPress Template Hierarchy and how it affects the pages on your website.
In today's episode, we talk about how we can add customized areas to your WordPress Dashboard with Custom Post Types.
In today's episode we talk about thirteen great sites to learn WordPress thru video content.
In today's episode, we talk about 20 great WordPress blogs to find out more about, well, WordPress.
In today's episode, we take a look at all the new features in the latest version of WordPress, version 4.8.
In today's episode we look at 14 other popular WordPress podcasts to help you learn more about WordPress.
In today's episode, we take a look at our last type of website; how to build a portfolio website using WordPress.
In today's episode, we breakdown the steps to create an eLearning / online course WordPress website.
In today's episode, we look at three different eCommerce extensions to use to build your online store or membership site.
In today's episode we look at the steps involved to build a business site with WordPress.
In today's episode we start a new series on how to build certain types of websites. First up, how to build a podcasting website.
In today's episode, we wrap up our series on learning about our visitors with four more ways to analyze our visitors.
In today's episode, we take a look at all the valuable information you can learn from your audience by installing heat tracking software on your site.
In today's episode, we talk about how to install the incredibly useful Facebook Tracking Pixel, which will allow you to target your site visitors.
On today's episode, we talk about all the information you can learn about your website visitors by looking at Google Analytics.
In today's episode, we talk about the 10 performance improvements that we can easily make to make our websites load faster.
In today's episode, we talk about eight easy tweaks that we can do this week to update our site.
In today's episode we highlight the different ways and best practices for your widget areas on your WordPress site.
In today's episode we talk about two different ways to find and target the necessary CSS to make small visual changes on your site.
In today's episode, we do an evaluation to see if your current fonts are correct and if not, how to change them to a meaningful font.
In today's episode we talk about three different WordPress tools that will help you keep your databases in sync between live and development.
In today's episode, we talk about the built in features of WordPress to debug your code, as well as 15 other plugins that makes sure your site is built correctly.
On today's episode, we talk about different types of plugins that every WordPress website needs to be utilizing.
In today's episode, we talk about 5 different ways to make changes to your website without your visitors seeing the modifications.
In today's episode we talk about the steps to take to secure your website with an SSL certificate and the importance of doing so in 2017.
In today's episode we look at different items that should definitely be on your home page in the new year.
In today's episode we talk about the seventeen things that should be removed from every website for success in the new year.
In today's episode we talk about some potential goals you could set for yourself in 2017 to become better at WordPress or give back to the community.
On today's episode, we talk about a new software package that will give you the ability to develop your WordPress sites locally on your computer.
In today's episode we look back at what's happened in 2016 with a recap from Matt's State of the Word address at WordCamp US.
In today's episode, we talk thru all of the new features in WordPress 4.7, including new editor and Customizer features.
In today's episode we talk about the different ways we can be more efficient with navigating our WordPress sites.
In today's episode, we talk about some strategies to shortcut to learn how to become a WordPress developer.
In today's episode we look at a few ways that we can repurpose our blog posts into other types of content that will drive traffic to our sites.
In today's podcast we take a look at five of the most popular plugins that will turn your website into an online course platform.
In today's episode we explore some of Jetpack's most powerful features and why every WordPress site should be using this plugin.
In this week's episode, we take a look at some of the interesting statistics about WordPress' popularity.
In today's episode we talk about the importance using the latest version of PHP and how to update it.
In today's episode, we tackle more WordPress terms, focusing on the admin and code terms.
In today's episode, we break done some of the key phrases and terminology in WordPress.
In today's episode we talk about the steps to take to secure your website with an SSL certificate.
In today's episode, I share the software and tools I use daily to help troubleshoot WordPress sites.
In today's episode I share the ten software applications I use to work on and manage my WordPress websites.
On today's episode, we talk about the steps I take to troubleshoot a broken WordPress site.
In today's episode we talk about how Your Website Engineer got it's start, by going to a WordCamp.
In today's episode we talk about the four different ways to properly customize your WordPress site.
In today's episode we talk about the new features in the newest version of WordPress, WordPress 4.6.
In today's episode I share a bunch of ideas of things you can work on when you have some time to spend with your website.
In today's episode we talk about the most popular framework to build a WordPress theme.
In today's episode, we explore your website's technology, MySQL and how it works with PHP to dynamically create your website pages.
In today's episode we talk about twenty two different things to check before launching your new website.
In today's episode we talk about best practices to automatically charge your customers on a regular basis.
In today's episode, we talk about five different online training sites to become more proficient with WordPress.
In today's episode we talk about when to use templates and when to use hooks when customizing a theme or a plugin.
In today's episode, we talk about all of the cool new features in the newest version of WooCommerce 2.6
In today's episode we dive into six different plugins and how they can be used on your WordPress site.
In today's episode we explore the three types of WordPress hosting: shared, VPS and dedicated hosting.
In today's episode, we will explore the benefits of using a maintenance mode plugin and the reasons to use them.
In today's episode we talk about the different levels of our website needs; which will help us build a solid web foundation.
In today's episode we talk through the process of getting your text in your plugins and themes translatable.
In today’s episode, we talk about three different contact forms to power our WordPress websites: Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms.
In today's episode we look at all of the new features in WordPress 4.5 and explore the WordPress news over the last two weeks.
In this week's episode we finish the three part series on how to secure our WordPress website.
In today's podcast, we continue the discussion on how to secure our WordPress website with more advanced strategies.
In today's episode we will begin a three part series to improve the security of our WordPress websites.
In today's podcast, we take a look at 10 small snippets of code that can be added to give your WordPress site extra functionality.
In today's episode, we talk about the things to think about and plan for to have a great WordCamp.
In today's episode, we explore we can control our WordPress site without using the WordPress Dashboard.
In today's episode, I will share the features that lead me to switch from MailChimp to ConvertKit for collecting email subscribers.
In today's episode, we take a close look at how many plugins I was using on this site and my plan to consolidate and clean them up.
In today's show we will dig into five things that have become outdated and need to be removed in 2016.
In today's episode we explore all WordPress mega menus. We dive in to learn what they are and the benefit for adding to our WordPress site.
In today's episode we explore all things Woo, well, WooThemes that is, including a brief overview of all the plugins and extensions.
In today's episode we dig in and address some key things to think about when considering making a change to a new WordPress theme.
In today's episode, we talk about how to find any customizations you might have made to a parent theme and move to a child theme.
In today's episode, we look at two different ways to create a new site; by starting completely from scratch and building on top of your current site.
In today's episode, we talk to Shane Melaugh, from Thrive Themes, about how to get more email subscribers in 2016.
In today's episode, we talk about goals that we can set for ourselves in 2016 to make us more efficient in using WordPress in the new year.
In this week's episode we talk about different tools and services that you can invest in to improve your WordPress expertise.
In today's show we recap the State of the Word Address from WordCamp US and all the exciting things that have happened in WordPress this year.
In today's episode we celebrate the five year anniversary of the podcast and how WordPress has changed in five years.
In today's episode we talk about the new admin interface with WordPress.com and the new mac desktop app.
In today's episode, we explore how to build a website for less than $100 on both WordPress.org (self-hosted) and WordPress.com.
In today's episode, we take a look at the top twenty free plugins on the WordPress repository and explain why you'd want to use them.
In today's episode we learn how to use icon fonts to display images on our sites. Icon fonts give us the ability to customize the images in WordPress.
In today's episode we explore the best practices for setting up a brand new WordPress website.
In today's episode we talk about how to add a form to our website by using Google Forms.
In today's episode we look at different ways to contribute back to the WordPress community; and for most of them, you won't even need to write any code!
In today's episode we review our online accounts and how we can make them more secure, including our own WordPress installation.
In today's episode we talk about four different ways to make money with your website, which doesn't include selling physical products.
In today's episode we discuss the different ways we can create a Coming Soon page or Under Construction page for our WordPress websites.
In this week's episode, we take a look at the six services / apps that I use to manage all of my WordPress websites.
In today's episode, I share how you can manage all of your Jetpack enabled WordPress sites with the new interface at WordPress.com.
In today's episode, we dig into the future of WordPress and learn about the WordPress REST API.
In today's episode I share different Chrome extensions that can be added to make using your WordPress site easier.
In today's episode I share an outline of things to cover when you are sharing how to use WordPress with clients or friends.
In today's episode we talk about the 4 different ways you can make money by using WordPress in a targeted market.
In today's episode, we look at two alternatives for protecting content on a WordPress site without using plugins.
In today's episode we learn how to use a plugin called Admin Columns to easily rearrange and add new columns to the list view in your WordPress Dashboard.
In today's episode, we dig into six different troubleshooting techniques to get your website back up and running quickly.
In today's episode we explore how we can turn our WordPress site into an app that can be downloaded and installed from the iOS or Android App Stores.
In today's episode, we will discover the two different ways that you can customize your WordPress login page; one way is with a plugin and one way is with some custom code.
In today's episode, learn how add social icons to your WordPress menu with these slick plugins.
In today's episode I share the four main reasons why I left MailPoet in favor of MailChimp for my email newsletter provider.
In today's episode we will discover how to make our website smarter using a neat plugin called Cerebro
In today's episode we explore how to change your WordPress site's domain name and completely rename your site.
In today's episode we look at how to improve our skills and become a better WordPress developer.
In today's episode we talk about the different options for hosting your video files for your WordPress website.
In today's episode we discuss the different ways to restore a backup of your WordPress site.
In today’s episode, we are going to talk about four different options to back up your WordPress site. This week we will focus on getting our backups set up and next week, we’ll talk about how to restore our sites.
In today's episode, I share four of the benefits of using custom post types on your WordPress website.
This week, I pull back the curtains and let you see my workflow for how I stay organized and create my weekly show.
In today's episode, I share which plugins and why I am using them on my 2015 version of my site.
In today's episode, we talk about all of the pieces of code that makes up a WordPress website and how each piece works.
In today's episode we will take a look at Google's new way to display mobile search result; spoiler - it's all about mobile friendliness.
This week, we look at a few new ways to make our WordPress sites easier to maintain, update and customize.
In today's episode, we discover some of the big wins the team from Never Settle learned by launching 12 products in 12 weeks.
In today's episode we explore the WordPress database and the default tables to see where all of our website's data is stored.
In today's episode we talk about the differences between a 'regular' website will lots of pages versus a one page website.
In this week's episode, I share the 5 main reason why I'm sticking with WordPress. These are items that the other CMS's do not have.
Join us for a comparison between WordPress and the popular eCommerce solution Magento this week on the podcast!
In today's episode, we dive into another one of self-hosted WordPress's competitors; Joomla. Here the advantages and disadvantages of this platform.
In today's episode, I continue comparing WordPress versus other Content Management Systems. This week, we take a look at Drupal.
On today's episode, learn how to write CSS code much faster using the preprocessor Sass to compile your stylesheets.
Today's episode continues the discussion from last week about shortcodes. Today we tackle how we can add them to our site from a few different options.
Discover one of the best features in WordPress, shortcodes. Today I'll break down what they are, how they work and why we should use them.
In this week's episode we dig into the big differences between WordPress pages and posts and how we can most effectively use them on our websites.
Discover in today's podcast the cool 2014 Annual Report that's generated by Jetpack / WordPress.com.
In today's episode discover the new features in the newest version of WordPress, version 4.1. This will be the final release of the year, plus I was a contributor!
Discover the benefits of using Hover to register all of your domains, as they are a fast, simple, domain registrar and they sell tons of the new top level domains.
In today's episode we dive into the brand new stats interface for WordPress.com and self-hosted sites using the Jetpack stats module.
In today's episode, we tackle a complex topic; how domain name works. We explore how they work and the different types of DNS records.
It's that time of year again in the States. A time to reflect on all the things we are thankful. In today's episode, I share why I'm thankful for WordPress.
Today we take an in depth look at a platform that is the most similar to WordPress, Ghost. It looks to be a great platform for writers.
We continue our comparison today between different website platforms by taking a look at Weebly. After reviewing, I'm impressed. Here my thoughts on this week's episode.
In today's episode, we continue comparing WordPress to other online website building tools. This week we target Rainmaker, which could be a huge competitor to WordPress.com.
In today's episode, we look at all the changes that have happened with WordPress since last year's WordCamp San Francisco. Hard to believe all the improvements in just over one year.
In today's battle, we compare WordPress with Wix to see which one is easier to create a great looking website. Surprisingly, Wix has some really nice features that I explain in the show.
In today's episode, we dive into the advantages and disadvantages of using Squarespace as the software behind your website instead of WordPress.
In today's episode, discover the importance of having two factor authentication enabled for your WordPress sites and other online accounts.
In today's episode, discover the importance of using complex passwords for all of your online accounts, including your WordPress site.
In today's episode, we talk about the precautions to take when hiring a WordPress developer and giving them access to your site.
In today's episode, I interview the founder of MotoPress; a premium WordPress plugin, that allows you to create the perfect layout for a WordPress page.
In today's episode, we talk about Net Neutrality and the new simple enhancements to WordPress version 4.0.
In today's episode, we talk about the reasons that every website should have a mobile experience available and I share a few plugins that can help to transform your site into a mobile version.
Pressed for time? In today's episode, I share a list of ideas for small items that you can work on to make your WordPress website better.
In today's episode, we look at how we can take the power of IFTTT to automate our website in ways that will make us more productive.
In today's episode, I share different ways to organize your content in your WordPress site so that it's easy for you and your website viewers to find the correct content.
Have you ever went to a site and landed on a page that didn't exist? That's a 404 page and today we talk about how we can spice up our 404 to make it a pleasant experience for our visitors.
In today's episode, we dive into two different ways to use WordPress to power subdomains for your website or blog.
Today's guest shares his new platform for learning WordPress via video. We'll dive in to how you can learn from some of the most brilliant minds in the WordPress community.
WordPress.com is a great place to start your website or blog, but what if you need more power? Today we talk about how to move to a self-hosted version of WordPress.
In today's episode, we break down what makes a great About page and how to make this highly trafficked page convert.
WordPress is easy to use, kinda. It's not too simple to change colors of fonts and other basic tweaks. Today I share how to make CSS adjustments easily.
Today we wrap up the 4 week long series on email newsletters by talking about how to send out your opt-in freebee once someone gives you their email address.
In today's episode, we dive into the different types of content that you can send to your email newsletter subscribers.
In today's episode, we explore three different premium solutions to create great looking sign up forms to entice your audience to give you their email address.
One of my new favorite plugins is called MailPoet and today I share how you can use MailPoet to manage your email subscribers inside the WordPress Dashboard.
Today we dive in and explore the importance of branding for your company or blog as well as some things to think about when developing a brand.
Join us today for a look at the importance of your personal brand and what you can do to improve what others learn about you from the web.
In today's episode, I recap my session from WordCamp North Canton and share the highlights for having a podcast for your business.
Markdown is a huge timesaver when it comes to formatting your WordPress posts and pages. Learn how to use this coding language this week.
WordPress 3.9 introduced some big changes to the way we add images to our blog and how to visually modify widgets.
This is a special episode recorded in Barbados, highlighting what a normal day looks like working for Automattic, including team meetups.
You have options when it comes to who provides your website hosting. Listen in on my journey through 6 different hosting companies in the last 3.5 years.
Picking a WordPress theme isn't as simple as it sounds. Take into consideration these 8 things before you purchase your next theme.
In this week's episode, we explore the 10 different types of blog posts you could create for your audience to consume.
In today's episode, we talk about the new iThemes Security plugin and how to use Lead Pages to increase your email signups.
Today's episode highlights the new features that will ship with the next version of WordPress, 3.9.
Listen in as I recap WordCamp Dayton, which happened this past weekend and the benefits of attending WordCamps and other local WordPress meetups.
In today's episode, I share the 13 services / products that Automattic makes in addition to WordPress.
Learn about why it's good to not use WordPress installation scripts and how to set up a development environment for your site.
In today's episode, I share 15 different things to do this spring to clean up your WordPress website.
In today's episode, we talk about some of the new plugins / software that has been recently created for WordPress.
In this episode, we talk about the systems I have in place to make edits to my development site and how I push those changes live to my server.
Today, I do my best to explain how the mySQL database works with WordPress and how it's the most important piece of your backup procedure.
Today, we talk about how to control, manage, migrate and backup our WordPress websites, so we can use WordPress efficiently.
In this episode, we take a look at the six most popular contact form plugins / services to build a form on your WordPress site.
In today's episode, we look at one of my big goals for 2014, improving my website's bounce rate. I share what it is and how to improve it!
In the first episode of 2014, we look back and look at the changes WordPress has made over the last year and the things to look forward to in 2014.
In this short episode, I want to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
In today's episode, we take a look at the newest version of WordPress, 3.8, and talk about what happens to domain names once the expire.
In today's episode, we take a look at the differences between the free WordPress.com solution and the self-hosted WordPress.org version
In this week's episode, I take a look at different ways to gain exposure for your WordPress development business. If you want to grow your business, this show is for you!
In today's episode, I take some time to reflect on the 13 services that impact my business and allow me to run my company and other online ventures smoothly.
In today's lesson, learn how to manage all of your social media accounts visually with a service call CoSchedule.
In today's episode, we take a look at seven different ways to optimize your email campaigns for mobile devices.
In today's episode, we take a look at different options to share our posts with our audience; both via email and RSS.
Changing your theme is a lot of work. Follow these steps to make sure you don't miss anything when it comes to refreshing your website's look and feel.
In today's podcast, learn how you can increase the number of people who come to your website to read your content and note you don't have to post more often!
In this episode, we dive in and learn why more of our keyword search terms are falling into the (not provided) bucket, what that means, and new ways to analyze our data.
In today's show, I share the exact steps I use to as I try to sort through the thousands of themes to find a perfect template for a project.
Learn how to easily make changes to your purchased Genesis Child, plus how to use the new Evernote web clipper and which plugin to use for tracking site stats.
In today's episode, we look at how we can make our WordPress installation much more secure with a free plugin and how we can take credit card payments.
In today's episode, I want to provide you some inspiration from the creator Pressgram and an interview about using WordPress for the enterprise.
In this episode, I interview Gregg and Marc from Server Press about their solution for running WordPress on your computer: Desktop Server.
In today's episode, I sit down with Brennen Byne of Clef at WordCamp Grand Rapids as we discuss a revolutionary new way to log in WordPress websites.
In today's episode, I get a chance to talk to Matt Mederios, another WordPress podcaster about the business side of WordPress.
In today's episode, we take a look at Matt Mullenwig's keynote address from WordCamp San Francisco and all the exciting things that are happening with WordPress.
In today's episode, I interview Dusty Donaldson from Flywheel and learn how Flywheel is creating a great solution for WordPress users.
Tune in this week to learn about the importance of supporting retina images and how to easily add retina graphics to your website.
In today's episode, we talk about three different services to host your video content and why each one serves it's own purpose.
In today's episode, I take some time to dive in and look at 5 different WordPress plugins that can help you sell digital or physical goods on your website.
In today's episode I take an in depth look at seven different WordPress membership plugins to help you find the perfect one.
One of the easiest ways to improve your SEO rankings is to link your Google+ account with your WordPress site. Today I'll explain how.
In today's episode, I take a look at each one of the Jetpack's 25 modules and explain the benefits of using each one.
This week I talk to Dan Norris from Inform.ly about different ways to analyze your data about the visitors who are viewing your website.
Today I talk with a friend of mine who has developed a script to run WordPress on an Amazon server and you can help us beta test!
Have you ever wondered on how to get sublinks to show up underneath your website in Google results? You'll find out in this week's episode!
In this week's episode, I answer questions about subdomains, Jetpack statistics plugin, how to upload files and automatically bill clients.
In this week's episode, we take a look at the 10 most overlooked features that are built in to WordPress and how to use them.
In this episode, we look at a new tool you can use to keep a development site and a live site in sync.
In today's episode, I interview 4 different interviews of WordPress developers to hear what tools they use for their development.
Sometimes responsive design isn't the way to go. In today's episode we talk to the co-founder of WPTouch.
I am pleased to have Cynthia Sanchez, a Pinterest expert, to share how we can make sure our sites are Pinterest friendly.
In this week's episode, I share about the recent Brute Force Attack on over 90,000 IP addresses
In this episode, I share the details of how I get information from a client before starting their project.
In today's episode I'll teach you how to help a friend out by building a WordPress website but not have to charge them a lot of money.
This week we expand on last week's discussion about where you can find high quality images for your WordPress site.
Today we take a look at the different options for adding high quality images to your blog posts
In this weeks episode, learn how to create correct sized images, my webinar service and how to quickly and easily create a shopping cart on your website!
With over 22,000 free plugins in the WordPress repository, it can be difficult to find the perfect one. Learn my step by step approach!
The world is in desperate need of more programmers. In this episode learn six reasons to start coding today!
Join us today as we take a look into how to remove some of the bloat from our WordPress database.
Join me today for a chat with my friend Wade Wingler about the benefits of having a accessible site. If you haven't thought about this before, it's time to now!
Join me today with special guest Justin Dorfman from MaxCDN to explain the importance of using a content delivery network to help speed up your website.
In today's episode, learn to paste blog posts without formatting, extend your gravity forms plugin and properly troubleshoot theme or plugin issues.
Join me as I share my reason for attending live conferences, plus hear from four other attendees!
In this episode, I talk with Sean and Randy from beAutomated about the value of looking at wordpress.com to host their company website.
In this episode, I share the top things that WordPress website owners and WordPress developers should focus on learning / doing in 2013.
In this interview with Dave Clements, we talk about the dangers of putting custom code in the functions.php file.
In today's episode, I share a resource for checking how quickly your website loads and point out five different things that cause some websites to load slower than they should.
Learn about the brand new version of WordPress along with new plugin favorites area, plus I share how I teach my clients to use WordPress.
In today's episode, learn how to charge your customers for the maintenance of their WordPress websites. I also spend time talking about my week of being disconnected from the grid.
This week, I have an inspiring story to share. Join us to hear Chad Warner is slowly phasing out of his "real job" into a full-time freelancer.
In today's episode, I share two new tools and my strategy for setting up new accounts for your friends or website clients.
Hear my reviews on the WordPress iPad app, understand the benefit of using Google Libraries and see the benefits of using custom post types.
In today's episode, I share two new tools, answer a few questions and spend most of the time discussing WordPress backup strategy.
This week's show is a little different as we had a round table discussion to hear what are the can't live without WordPress plugins from our community.
In this week's episode, I spend some time chatting with Sean and Randy of beAutomated about how we as developers can enjoy web programming.
Today I share the software tools I use to run my website development business. Some items I mention: mac, espresso, coda 2, flow, forklift, acorn, adobe creative cloud and more!
Back by popular demand, I've recorded another episode that highlights tools that 4 different developers use to keep their WordPress site updated.
I spend some time answering a question about the JetPack Plugin and spent the majority of the episode outlining the way that I move content from a development website to a live site.
In this episode, I interview 4 different WordPress developers and learn what tools they use on a daily basis to build websites.
In today's episode, I talk about GoDaddy's recent security breech, share a cool tool for managing multiple WordPress accounts, explain how to hide a page from Google robots and teach you my step by step approach to selling digital products online.
In today's episode, I cover the most recent WordPress security release, share a new live blogging tool, discuss the JetPack Plugins and spend time discussing different ways to make changes to a live site.
In today's episode, we dig into the importance of version control, who should use it and how it has save catastrophes from happening.
Join us to learn about my upcoming webinar, my free giveaway, my favorite mobile RSS readers, and how to find paying WordPress clients.
In todays episode, I recorded a live question and answer session with some of my new friends from WordCamp Grand Rapids.
Hear Matt Mullenwig's 2012 recap of WordPress. WordCamps have expanded from 1 in 2006 to 75 in 2012 and he shares new features in WordPress 3.5.
Today's episode features an interview with iThemes founder Cory Miller. We talk all about backups, especially with BackupBuddy.
Listen to learn how to transfer your blog from Blogger to WordPress. It's not hard to do and with the benefits of WordPress, you'll be glad you did!
In today's episode I discuss a solution for a support ticket plugin and I share three different methods of handling your affiliate links in your WordPress website.
Today I break down the differences between themes and frameworks and which one is better for developers.
Listen in to discover nine website faults that many users make when building a website. Remove these items and make your audience happy.
Listen to the interview with Brad Touesnard as we discuss the WP App Store. Brad is crushing it with a great idea to make it easier to add themes and plugins to WordPress!
Calculating Website Bandwidth and Memory doesn't have to be difficult. Join us today to to hear how to calculate it and don't overpay for hosting.
Listen this week to hear about the downfalls of the Facebook Plugin, a new service called bmobilized, information about transferring domain names between registrars and how large of an image to use for a website background.
Tune in this week to learn about the new Facebook Plugin, how to fix spam on images, how to find a great theme, what questions to find a person to outsource to and uncover the purpose of your WordPress site.
Today I interview Jeremy Hicks, who works for Livefyre. We talk about the plugin you can use to increase your community interaction by making it easy for people to comment.
In today's podcast, I share the benefits of using FeedBurner for WordPress sites. Don't miss out on this powerful way to syndicate you content to your audience.
In this episode, I share some of things that I learned while traveling to Europe and trying to maintain my sites while on the go and my frustrations of using a mobile device for all my computing needs.
This interview is with a senior at Penn State University that has created an awesome plugin. Listen in to hear how you can take your site to the next level by adding this easy to use plugin.
Today I outline the different ways to hire a WordPress developer. Sometimes we need help with a project and today I share tips on how to hire the correct person.
Today I break down the differences betweent trackbacks and pingbacks are and how they work on your WordPress website.
In today's episode, I explain how to link a Facebook Thumbnail image to each page that will show up in your social media profile's page.
New technology for website developers is on the way and you don't want to be left in the dust. What is HTML5 you ask? Listen in to find out.
Listen in as I share eight ways to secure your WordPress site. These tips are easy to do and will prevent your site from being hacked.
In this episode, I talk with Daniel Miller of Benchmark Email about the secrets of email marketing and how to create a great campaign.
Here's an audio guide to teach you how you can change your blog layout using WordPress. One of the solutions doesn't require any coding.
Today's topic is how to create an email newsletter autoresponder. Set up a autoresponder once & continue to engage with your audience.
The Benchmark Email Plugin is the best plugin I have found to capture email addresses for a email marketing company, hear from the developers of the plugin today.
In today's episode, I catch up on my listener feedback hotline. If you are interested in leaving a question for the show, be sure to call 740.666.4865
In today's episode, I had the honor of talking with Randi Thornton. She shared great content of what you can do to optimize your WordPress website.
Today's episode focuses on how to create redirects for affiliate links. Learn the best way to handle affiliate links to make money from your blog.
In this episode, I dug into three listener questions. What should I charge for a website? Why can't I install WordPress on ISP? And how scalable is WordPress?
Today I wanted to share with you some of my online tools that I use to run my website development business and keep my life in order.
In today's episode we talked about the hidden features found in the Screen Options panel. These settings are tucked away, so you don't want to miss them!
Are you a curious developer and wonder what platform a website is built on? Well wonder no more. Add this extension to chrome and you'll know exactly what CMS a site is using.
In this week's episode, I talk about all the websites that will be blacked out in protest of SOPA / PIPA and how the passing of legislation could affect the internet.
Out of need to figure this out to get into a client's website, I explain exactly how I added a new administrator account to a mySQL database.
This year, I want you to focus on the 11 things that you should do to have the best online experience possible.
Every website needs to have a favicon for brand recognition and to easily identify a website tab that is open.
This week I talk through the many different choices you have website hosting companies. I want to you be informed and pick the one that works best for your site.
Tune in today to learn 9 easy ways to organically speed up your website. These things are easy enough to tackle all of them in one afternoon.
Listen to my story of pain when my WordPress site became hacked and I was blacklisted by Google. Not a good day!
Thanks for tuning into Episode 052 and sticking with me for an entire year. I look forward to the months and years to come!
This week Sean and Randy join me from beAutomated to share with us what happened at the Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA.
In this week's episode, learn how to take your website to the next level by adding custom page templates to your WordPress theme.
Today, I take another look at the popular form building plugin Gravity Forms. I explain why I'm loving this plugin and how it saves me tons of time.
The discussion with Sean and Randy was centered around all the necessary information needed before a programmer (either, software, plugin or theme developer) can actually start coding.
In this episode, I share three different ways that you can create a mobile version of your WordPress website for people to get the best experience on their phone.
Do you want to have a custom look for your WordPress login screen? Today, I share a few different ways to handle this task, which will make your site look more professional.
Your website hosting company's cPanel is a powerful tool. Learn how I use the cPanel to make developing websites a breeze.
This week I had the privilege of having Sean and Randy from beAutomated as guests on the show. They shared some great information about plugins that even I didn't know.
There are many different eCommerce options out there and in this episode, I break down two different solutions, WP e-Commerce and WooCommerce.
Fonts on a website don't have to be boring, spice them up with custom fonts. In this episode I outline three different ways to implement custom fonts on your site.
Today I want to share with you some of my favorite online services that I use every single day to run my business. Some are web tools and others are apps for my mac.
It's simple to move your site from one hosting company to another. If you are paying too much or aren't getting good support, you should think about moving companies today!
Today's episode features Sean and Randy from beAutomated. Today's topic is understanding Domain Name System (DNS), how it works and how to use it to your benefit.
You can enhance your WordPress site by adding some or all of the plugins that we talked about on today's show. I also summarized Matt Mullenwig's State of the Word address.
Working a WordPress website offline, saves an incredible amount of time since you don't have to wait on an internet connection and the public can't see your development sites.
In this episode, I outline four different ways you can recover from installing WordPress in the incorrect directory. All of them will make your viewer think it's installed in the root directory.
On this week's episode, we continue the discussion about WordPress performance. I think you might find it surprising that if your website takes too long to load, it will even affect your Google ranking!
This week I have a special guest on the show, Phil Graham & we had a great discussion about different ways you can speed up your WordPress website.
Today's show topic is about backing up our WordPress websites and how to restore your site if something goes horribly wrong.
In this episode, I breakdown the new version of WordPress and share different ways to create a hard to hack password.
This week's episode is all about security and to help me, I had Sean and Randy on from beAutomated. These guys are experts when it comes to WordPress security.
This week I answer some listener's questions and discuss the benefits of using the Thesis theme or the Headway theme.
This week I found a great article that had twelve different types of sites that could be build using WordPress.It opened my eyes to a few new applications as well.
In today's episode, I highlight how I keep my WordPress website updated on the go. This is one of the benefits of using WordPress; ease of updating.
Are you looking to drive more traffic to your website? This is a great add-on plugin that will enhance your followers experience when they leave comments on your website.
This week Sean and Randy on from beAutomated and we had a great discussion about why you would have a custom plugin developed.
WordPress finally stops supporting IE6 and I walk you through how to transfer your website to another hosting company.
Today I have two special guests on the show from beAutomated.com and we discuss why WordPress is the best content management system.
Today I would like to continue our discussion from last week about how to capture email addresses on your WordPress website.
Building a high-quality, responsive mailing list is hard work. It takes more than just slapping a few thousand email addresses into your database and then blasting out offers.
Today's episode features a guest, Eric Wignall from Wignall Media. We talked about how great WordPress is and our concerns that WordPress maybe too simple to use.
Today I am shared about the importance of maps on your website. Plus I share some tips on how to add an embeddable map to your WordPress site.
Today I share seven different ways to drive traffic to your WordPress website, which includes sending your WordPress feed to other directories.
In this episode, I share a step-by-step approach of how to move your WordPress website from one hosting company to another.
Today's show is about adding contact forms to your WordPress website. You can manually add them or you can use one of two plugins that I discuss on the show.
WordPress is a great choice for serious bloggers, but like any out of the box solution it has a few limitations when it comes to search engine optimization.
WordPress 3.1 is hear and I spend some time answering questions from the community, including how to automatically post to Facebook.
Today I highlight the importance of creating a professional email account using the form you[at]yourdomain[dot]com.
This week I sat down with Brad Vincent, a WordPress plugin developer to talk about one of his plugins that I discovered this week called Blackbird Pie.
In this episode, I will explain why I do not like using GoDaddy and what are the best ways to register a domain and hosting.
In this episode, I discuss the security update 3.0.5 along with how to look at your WordPress stats and use different commenting plugins.
In this episode, I walk you step by step how to transfer your WordPress.com website to a self hosted WordPress.org website.
Unfortunately, there are many developers out there who add malicious code to their themes and today I explain why you should never install themes found on Google.
In this episode I stress the importance of updating to the newest version of WordPress 3.0.4. I also answer questions from three different listeners.
Today I want to share with you some best practices for setting up your WordPress website, this info is great whether you are new to WordPress or currently have a WordPress site.
Today I would like to talk to you about the difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org. The distinction between WordPress.com and WordPress.org can cause some confusion for people.
As a Wordpress developer, I have been telling anybody and everybody that, when it comes to building your first small business website, WordPress is the only way to go and of course this is a biased opinion.
Hosting is like renting an office. You can do it yourself out of your garage, or you can pay for better facilities with all the essential plumbing and security features.
Today I share seven tips for selecting the perfect domain name. With hundreds of domain names registered every day, it's getting harder to find that perfect name.
In this episode, I am going to share with you some information about myself, the purpose of this podcast and how I am going help you create a high quality website for a fraction of the cost of hiring a web designer.