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#660 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Chris Badgett of LifterLMS

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel.

With Special Guest: Chris Badgett Joint Founder & CEO of LifterLMS: https://lifterlms.com/

This Week Stories For Discussion

#1 - WooCommerce Aims to Produce MVP of Custom Tables for Orders by Q3, 2022

https://wptavern.com/woocommerce-aims-to-produce-mvp-of-custom-tables-for-orders-by-q3-2022

#2 - Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion

https://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-133637845.html?guccounter=1

#3 - What you need to know about WordPress 5.9

https://www.kadencewp.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-5-9

#4 - Backlash as US billionaire dismisses Uyghur abuse

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60045076

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbeHyN15HQE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya

As a Small Player Can You Succeed In The WordPress Ecosystem In 2022?

Brian Jackson is the joint founder with his brother of Forgemedia a WordPress focus plugin shop that has a small but interesting library of commercial plugins.

Also, Brian was for a period of time the chief marketing officer at Kinsta and was one of the key people in Kinsta connected to helping it grow as one of the leading WordPress managed-to-host providers in the last 5 years. Here is a list of their plugins

Novashare: https://novashare.io/

Perfmatters: https://perfmatters.io/

WP-Coupons: https://wpcoupons.io/

#658 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Brian Gardner WPEngine

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel.

With Special Guest: Brian Gardner WPEngine: https://wpengine.com/

This Week Stories For Discussion

#1 - What Are Block Themes? What You Need To Know Before WordPress 5.9

https://wptavern.com/what-are-block-themes-what-you-need-to-know-before-wordpress-5-9

The Next Generation of WordPress Theme Authors Will Design From the Site Editor

https://wptavern.com/the-next-generation-of-wordpress-theme-authors-will-design-from-the-site-editor

#2 - Deep Sentinel's AI now stops crime using POE cameras

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deep-sentinels-ai-now-stops-crime-using-poe-cameras-301271956.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN19gndkRK4

#3 - Acquisitions & Exits: How Much Is Your WordPress Business Worth?

https://freemius.com/blog/acquisitions-exits-wordpress-business-worth/

#4 - Corner Stores Are the New Darlings of the Global Tech Industry

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/12/tech-companies-winning-over-corner-stores/620964

#5 - How I Saved My Design Agency & Tripled My Profits

https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2022/01/how-i-saved-my-design-agency-tripled-my-profits/

Stephen Interview Me Plus We Look at Our Favorite Interviews of 2021

To say that 2021 was a difficult and interesting year would be a slight understatement also when it comes to the WP-Tonic's interview show
we had some amazing guests and interviews. In this our first show of 2022 I and Steven look back at our favorite interviews in 2021.

#1 - #607 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Rand Fishkin https://youtu.be/mpQ3HNkF89I

#2 - #593 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Morten Rand Hendriksen Chief Instructor At LinkedIn Learning https://youtu.be/c18VbdIGp0s

#3 - #585 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Ben Ritner Founder of Kadence Themes & Plugins https://youtu.be/Uc5MEA2y7dg

#4 - #579 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Adii Pienaar The Joint Founder of WooCommerce https://youtu.be/ILYs6RXaDMs

#656 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Tom Fanelli of Convesio

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel.

With Special Guest: Tom Fanelli of Convesio https://convesio.com/

This Week Stories For Discussion

#1 - Yoast Moves Outside of Open Source Platforms to Launch SEO App for Shopify

https://wptavern.com/yoast-moves-outside-of-open-source-platforms-to-launch-seo-app-for-shopify

#2 - U.S. jury finds Theranos founder Holmes guilty of fraud

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jury-theranos-trial-cannot-agree-verdicts-all-charges-2022-01-03/

#3 -

Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?

https://www.protocol.com/matt-mullenweg

WordPress founder lays out the debate over the future of the internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaacWgrCX3Y

#4 - Starboard acquires stake worth $800 mln in GoDaddy

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/starboard-acquires-stake-worth-800-mln-godaddy-wsj-2021-12-27/

Looking for advice connected to the best WordPress translation plugin what are the best way to have your WordPress website available in multiple languages?

With Special Guest Tanya Quintieri From MrsDivi

Main Topic - How Internationalization is Affecting WordPress & The Internet?

Sub Questions

#1 - Tanya can you give some more details based on your quick intro on how you got into the crazy world of translation and WordPress?

#2 - How has Covid-19 changed the world of the translation industry has it just quickened quite general trends or has it made a dramatic difference?

#3 - Before choosing one particular WordPress translation plugin/service what are some of the basic things does a developer or client needs to understand?

#4 - What are some of the leading and best translation plugins in this space and can you give us some insights for the audience of their particular strengths and weaknesses.

#5 - How is AI changing the translation industry and in your opinion have these trends been for the good or bad?

#6 - What are a couple of the key points you like the listeners and views to remember from this interview connected to translation?

#654 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech 17th of December, 2021 at 8:30 am PST

#654 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech With Special Guests Chris Brogan & Robert Jacobi this is going to be our last live.show for 2021 way don't you join us? https://youtu.be/-mloAcObt_Q
@chrisbrogan @RobertJacobi

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel.

With Special Guests

Chris Brogan & Robert Jacobi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Brogan

https://chrisbrogan.com/

Robert Jacobi

Director of WordPress at CloudWays

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-evangelist-robert-jacobi-joined-cloudways/

This Week Stories For Discussion

#1 - State of the Word 2021

https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/state-of-the-word-2021

State of the Word 2021: WordPress Passes 43% Market Share, Looks to Expand the Commons Through Openverse

https://wptavern.com/state-of-the-word-2021-wordpress-passes-43-market-share-looks-to-expand-the-commons-through-openverse

#2 - OSHA opens investigation into fatal Amazon warehouse collapse in Illinois

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22833012/amazon-fatal-warehouse-collapse-osha-investigation-illinois-tornado

Amazon employees speak out against controversial phone ban after deadly tornado kills at least 6 warehouse workers in Edwardsville, Illinois

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-workers-speak-out-against-phone-ban-tornado-warehouse-deaths-2021-12

Sonmi-451 Papa Song's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e4eP_g2E7w

Niander Wallace Jr Blade Runner 2049

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ

#3 - Elementor: WordPress’ secret growth driver?

https://joost.blog/elementor-wordpress-secret-growth-driver/

#4 - Saagar Enjeti: Tim Cook CAUGHT Capitulating To China In Secret Deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLFGybONAM

#5 - Wrestling with Capitalism

https://accessally.com/blog/wrestling-with-capitalism/

The Title of the Interview "Community-Owned Headless Checkout for E-commerce Platforms"

Main Interview Questions

#1 - Maybe you can give the audience some background history info connected to founding CartHook and your new company Rallyon?

#2 - Your company CartHook ingrates with Shopify and you have been quite public on the "good, bad and ugly" parts of semi relying on somebody else's eco-system can you give the audience some quick insights connected
to this?

#3 - Can you give some 2 to 3 of the most important lessons you have learned connected to founding CartHook which would be the most important to share with our audience?

#4 - Your new company Rallyon you state that it's a "Community-Owned Ecosystem" what does this really mean and why should people care?

#5 - How hard was it to raise $6 million for the project and what are some of the things you have learned from the process?

#6 - Can you give us three people of books that have influenced you the most in your business or personal journey?

More about Jordan Gal and Rallyon

We're excited to announce that we've raised $6m in seed financing to build a world-class eCommerce checkout and a community-owned eCommerce ecosystem.

You can read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/g55-u8BR

A very big thank you to our investor group.

The round was led by Rainfall Ventures with participation from Felix Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Afore VC, Commerce VC, and some extremely helpful angel investors.

If you're a merchant on BigCommerce or WooCommerce, sign up for early access here: https://www.rallyon.com/

https://www.rallyon.com/

https://jordangal.com/

#652 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech 10th of December, 2021 at 8:30 am PST

With Special Guest Paul Charlton of WPTuts

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel.

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This Week Stories For Discussion

#1 - Gravatar Says It Was Not Hacked After “Have I Been Pwned” Service Notifies Users of a Breach

https://wptavern.com/gravatar-says-it-was-not-hacked-after-have-i-been-pwned-service-notifies-users-of-a-breach

#2 - Better.com CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/business/better-ceo-fires-employees/index.html

#3 - Black Friday

https://justinferriman.com/bleeping-black-friday

https://getellipsis.com/blog/unstoppable-black-friday-2021/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issue-243

#4 - AWS appears to be down, and it's taken popular services like Ring smart-home systems, Netflix, and Disney+ with it

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-servers-are-down-and-its-affecting-dozens-of-services-2021-12?fbclid=IwAR3BBmfBq2AbJc4u8u11wxQqGzn7n5yzV-7Oh9nRY3cK1cEluNGhqtcrriU

#5 - State of the Word 2021

https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/state-of-the-word-2021/

With Special Guest Stephanie Hudson of Focuswp.co

Hi! I’m Stephanie - a geek, entrepreneur, inventor, craft beer lover, and notebook hoarder. I was fascinated by all things tech even as a kid, taking apart the family computer to see how it all worked.I have freelanced, worked full-time for a micromanager, and run my own successful Web Agency. So, if you are in the web game, chances are I've experienced what you're going through and get it. My current passion is helping freelancers and small agencies scale and thrive.

Stephanie Hudson

https://focuswp.co/