In Episode 115 of the WP-Tonic Podcast, we address the contentious issue of visual builders for WordPress. In theory, great. In practice, often a complete mess. And despite the promise of easy awesome, many of them have a considerable learning curve. Continue Reading WP-Tonic 115: Visual Builders for WordPress The Good, Bad, and Ugly–but Mostly the Ugly
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WP-Tonic 113: How Do You Write Winning WordPress Proposals?
Jonathan Denwood, John Locke, Jackie D’Elia, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, and I talk about writing proposals for WordPress development work in WP-Tonic 113. Proposals are an ongoing evolution fueled by our own mistakes, but also enhanced by tools like the WP Elevation’s $10K Proposal Template. Continue Reading WP-Tonic 113: How Do You Write Winning WordPress Proposals?
WP-Tonic 111: What Makes a WooCommerce Site Successful?
Although WooCommerce has a lot of built-in features and extensions that let you create the kind of store you really need, some of the secrets to having a successful ecommerce store have nothing to do with technology: they’re equally true whether you build your store with WordPress, Magento, Shopify, or anything else. In Episode 111 of the WP-Tonic podcast, Scott Buscemi, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, John Locke and I talk about what those things are. Continue Reading WP-Tonic 111: What Makes a WooCommerce Site Successful?
WP-Tonic 109: The Real Difference between Web Copy and Print Copy
A close look at what it means to write good web copy and what it means to write good print copy reveals more similarities than differences. So what IS the difference between web copy and print copy? The WP-Tonic Live Panel sat down to discuss this, and concluded that the issue is not so much a difference between web copy and print copy, as between marketing or sales copy and other kinds of writing. Continue Reading WP-Tonic 109: The Real Difference between Web Copy and Print Copy
WP-Tonic 105: Speeding Up WordPress From Slow Dog To Young Speed Machine
The key ingredients for WordPress performance that we discussed in WP-Tonic 105 are hosting (because the most important optimization happens on the server side), using a CDN, caching plugins, image compression, and eliminating unnecessary overhead (unused or poorly-coded plugins, for instance). Continue Reading WP-Tonic 105: Speeding Up WordPress From Slow Dog To Young Speed Machine
