This week I Share The Black Friday 2024 Must Do List 

Upcoming Events

• WordCamp San José - 11 October–12 October, 2024
• WordCamp Karlsruhe - 12 October, 2024
• do_action Cagliari (online) 12 October, 2024

Segment 1: In the News

• WordPress Enforces Plugin Check and 2FA for New Plugin Submissions

Segment 2: Black Friday 2024 Must Do List

Segment 3: Tool of the Week

• https://writefreely.org/

This week I share 5 Things To Not Do Before Black Friday!

Upcoming Events

• WORDCAMP ROCHESTER, NY October 5, 2024
• WP Campus Connect Ajmer 5 October–26 October, 2024
• WordCamp Gdynia 4 October–6 October, 2024

Segment 1: In the News

• Patchstack Secures $5M in Series A Funding

Segment 2: 5 Things To Not Do Before Black Friday!

Segment 3: Tool of the Week

• WordPress Admin Switcher

This week I share 5 Ways to Contribute to the WordPress Project

Upcoming Events

• WordCamp Bretagne 27 September, 2024
• WordPress Diversity Day Valencia 28 September, 2024
• WordCamp Nagpur, Maharashtra, India 28 September, 2024
• WordCamp Managua, Nicaragua 28 - 29 September, 2024

Segment 1: In the News

• MariaDB Swallowed by Private Equity
• Gravity Forms + smtp - now available at lower cost.

Segment 2:  5 Ways to Contribute to the WordPress Project

No WPDRAMA Here! 

Segment 3: Tool of the Week

• https://wordpress.tv/

This week I Answer Listener Questions

Upcoming Events

• WordCamp US, Portland Oregon  — September 17–20, 2024
• WordCamp Pontevedra sobre emprendimiento -Spain -  20/22 September 2024

Segment 1: In the News

• WordPress Community Team to Close Inactive Meetup Groups by September 16, 2024
• WordPress 6.7 roadmap 

Segment 2:  Listener Q/A

1. How to find good business resources - Joe
2. How do you recover your WP website login url if it has been changed. -Stephen.
3. Is it better to use the native Gutenberg or a builder like Elementor? - Levi

Segment 3: Tool of the Week

• Bigin CRM

This week I Interview Dustin Hartzler

Upcoming Events

• do_action Bhopal 2024 15 September 2024 

Segment 1: In the News

• Automattic is Migrating Tumblr to WordPress 

Segment 2: Interview with Dustin Hartzler 

Dustin's Tools 

• Arc Browser
• Descript
• Omnifocus
• Hey Email
• Nova - Mac code editor

Follow Dustin Twitter/X

Segment 3: Tool of the Week

• https://fundwp.com/

This week I Recap The Past Year Of Running The Agency Full Time

Upcoming Events

• WordCamp Jinja 2024 5 September–6 September, 2024. - uganda

Segment 1: In the News

• Registrations are now open for WordPress Accessibility Day 2024, scheduled for October 9-10, 2024.1

Segment 2:  8 Years Later! 

Projects Mentioned:

• Your Pulse Monitor
• Silly Little Goals
• Run Adam Run

Segment 3: Tool of the Week

• Emergent Mind

This week I share updates from two past podcast interviews.

Upcoming Events

• WordCamp Bogotá 30 August–31 August, 2024

Segment 1: In the News

• The WordCamp Asia organizing team has extended the speaker application deadline to September 8, 2024.   -  Camp is February 20-22- 2025
• Wordfence posted that the GiveWP Plugin Critical Vulnerability Patched $4,998 Bounty Awarded

Segment 2:  updates from two past podcast interviews.

• Carrie Dills
• John Hawkins

Segment 3: Tool of the Week

• Chrome Extension  Don't F*** With Paste

This week I Talk All About Lead Magnets

Upcoming Events

• WordCamp Cebu 2024 24 August, 2024
• WordCamp Lira 2024 24 August, 2024

Segment 1: In the News

• InstaWP — now offers multisite
• WordFence Bug Bounty Superhero Challenge
• WP Watercolor is shutting down
• WPTavern is back!

Segment 2: 

• Why Are Lead Magnets Still Important?
• What Makes a Good Lead Magnet?
• Best Practices for Creating and Delivering Lead Magnets

Segment 3: Tip/Tool of the Week

• Image creation with Deep Dream Generator

This week Talk About The Rhythm of Work & Does GTD Still Make Sense?

Upcoming Events

• WordCamp Minneapolis/St. Paul 16 August, 2024
• WordCamp Rio 2024 16 August–17 August, 2024

Segment 1: In the News

• thewp.world - Biz Directory listing now free! 
• Multiple reports of a trojan in WordPress 6.6.1 took a curious detour into a relatively arcane XML coding standard.  — culprit was http vs https —
• Tech Crunch reports that Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com, has launched a new AI tool

Segment 2:  The Rhythm of Work: Does GTD Still Work? 

Segment 3: Tool of the Week

• Local by Flywheel

This week I talk about The Battle of The Bots & Bad Actors

Upcoming Events

• None

Segment 1: In the News

• A Brand-New Way to Learn WordPress

Segment 2:  The Battle of The Bots & Bad Actors

Segment 3: Tool of the Week

• PNG Maker