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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.

This Week Stories For Discussion

#1 - ACF Solicits Lifetime License Holders for Contributions, Urging Them to Purchase Annual Subscriptions

https://wptavern.com/acf-solicits-lifetime-license-holders-for-contributions-urging-them-to-purchase-annual-subscriptions

#2 - How Jack Dorsey Failed Twitter

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/jack-dorsey-failed-twitter-parag-agrawal-will-be-way-better.html

#3 - Ask the Bartender: Should I Use a Page Builder or Wait for Block Themes?

https://wptavern.com/ask-the-bartender-should-i-use-a-page-builder-or-wait-for-block-themes

#4 - On User Tracking and Industry Standards on Privacy

https://css-tricks.com/on-user-tracking-and-industry-standards-on-privacy/

#649 This Week In WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Morten Rand Hendriksen Senior Staff Instructor LinkedIn Learning

With Special Guest Morten Rand Hendriksen Senior Staff Instructor LinkedIn Learning

"The Future of Online eLearning For Entrepreneurs & Educators"

Since joining forces with lynda.com (now LinkedIn Learning) in 2010, Morten has published 60+ courses on WordPress, front-end web design and development, and web standards, reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers from all over the world. I also contribute to the web community as a public speaker, author, educator, web developer, and design philosopher.

We going to be discussing the future of online education with Morten Rand Hendriksen senior staff instructor LinkedIn Learning, who is also a well-known public speaker and technologist. After COVID - 19 pandemic, the training and education landscape has been dramatically changed what are the medium and long-term consequences connected to online training how will technologies like virtual reality and AI (artificial intelligence) affect eLearning?

https://mor10.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mortenrandhendriksen/?originalSubdomain=ca

#648 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show on the 19th November, 2021 at 8:30 am PST

#648 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show With Guests Matt Medeiros, Tania Quintieri, & Tom Fanelli

Tania Quintieri of Mrs Divi https://mrsdivi.com/

Tom Fanelli of Convessio https://convesio.com/

Matt Medeiros of The Matt Report: https://mattreport.com/

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.

This Week Stories For Discussion

#1 - Blocks, Boards & Fishing Reels – How Gutenberg has Divided WordPress by (Paul Lacey)

https://thewpminute.com/blocks-boards-fishing-reels-how-gutenberg-has-divided-wordpress/

#2 - DAO bids on the Constitution

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/18/constitutiondaos-bold-crypto-bid-for-us-constitution-falls-short/

#3 - State of the Word 2021

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

#4 - Lost in translation: The global streaming boom is creating a severe translator shortage

https://restofworld.org/2021/lost-in-translation-the-global-streaming-boom-is-creating-a-translator-shortage/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

#647 This Week In WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Vito Peleg Founder of Atarim

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https://youtu.be/ps_ewTBlgpY

With Special Guest Vito Peleg Founder of Atarim

Vito built his first website on "Geocities" almost 20 years ago - Featuring his friends' skateboarding crew when he was 14 y/o. As a former touring (and broke) musician, he looked for ways to allow him to work while he was touring the world playing my RNR to thousands of people and the web was, once again, therefor he.

He started to build websites for clients from the back of the van (and sometimes the odd broom closet) and his passion for the field grew with each project. When the band finally broke up he moved from the van to a tiny room at home, then to a larger room with one employee sitting right next to him all the way to having his own agency with 12 guys on my team. Between then, through my WordPress agency years later, we created 600+ websites using WordPress.

https://atarim.io/about/

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.

This Week Stories For Discussion

#1 - Pagely We did it.

https://pagely.com/blog/we-did-it/

#2 -John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/john-carmack-sounds-a-skeptical-note-over-metas-metaverse-plans/?fbclid=IwAR10zxYTXxFXpTF1iQh1vfCbqPWlq6MUokqZXUJ85vaEfWzvv0GsOTTmS-k

#3 - Google Drops Sites Hosted on SiteGround

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/siteground-problem/426852/

#4 - Zillow Just Gave Us A Look At Machine Learning's Future

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/zillow-just-gave-us-a-look-at-machine

#5 - New Block Plugin Displays Post Formats

https://wptavern.com/new-block-plugin-displays-post-formats

#6 -The Market Is Never Too Crowded

https://chrislema.com/the-market-is-never-too-crowded/

With Special Guest Paul Charlton of Wptuts YouTube Channel

Paul Charlton

After 10 years as an IT Tutor and 11 years as a web designer and business owner, Paul felt it was a great background to combine and start helping others improve their skills through YouTube.

This is why the WPTuts channel was created - as an online outlet for me to share the skills and knowledge I'd acquired and was still acquiring with like-minded people.

This has now morphed into an amazing online community of passionate individuals helping each other to develop their skills

https://youtu.be/OmZxUCoHMpE

#644 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show on the 5th November,, 2021 With Guest John Overall of The WordPress Plugins From A to Z Podcast

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.

This Week In WordPress & Tech With Special Guest John Overall of The WordPress Plugins From A to Z Podcast

#1 - Jetpack Acquires WordPress Vulnerability Database WPScan

https://jetpack.com/2021/11/04/jetpack-acquires-wordpress-vulnerability-database-wpscan/

#2 - Ona by DeoThemes Just Raised the Bar for WordPress Block Theme Design

https://wptavern.com/ona-by-deothemes-just-raised-the-bar-for-wordpress-block-theme-design

Paul Charlton Founder of Wptuts

#3 - Why WordPress Freelancers Don't Make More Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhOdB271ozk

#4 - How to Create More Engagement in the Workplace Amid Growing Employee Burnout & ‘The Great Resignation’ Misses the Point

https://www.inc.com/heather-wilde/how-to-create-more-engagement-in-workplace-amid-growing-employee-burnout.html

https://www.wired.com/story/great-resignation-misses-the-point/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

#5 - The return of ABBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygkcwU0SWNk

#6- WordPress Takes Steps to Achieve Performance Lead

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-performance-team-meeting/425613

What Are The Real Qualities You Need To Be a Successful Entrepreneur?

Next Thursday, October the 28th at 9 am PST we will be interviewing Sherry Walling PhD of the "Zen Founder" & "Mind Curious" podcasts You can join us live on WP-Tonic's Facebook group page and YouTube, where you be able to watch the whole interview (plus bonus content) live we will be discussing the real qualities needed to be an effective entrepreneur or leader, is social media damaging us and our children, and education, plus IQ testing. It should be a fascinating interview please join us.

Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, best-selling author, yoga teacher, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, provides mental wellness resources to leaders and entrepreneurs as they navigate the transition, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience.

She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. She is also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast exploring innovations in mental health care and the new science of psychedelics.
Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there.

Dr. Walling is an expert in trauma, stress, and burnout and her research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Traumatic Stress

Sherry and her husband, Rob, reside in Minneapolis where they spend their time driving their children to music lessons. She has also been known to occasionally perform as a circus aerialist.

Rob Walling the joint founder of Drip and the host of the popular podcast "Start-up For Rest of Us."

https://www.sherrywalling.com/

#642 This Week In WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Robert Jacobi Cloudways Director of WordPress

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.

This Week In WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Robert Jacobi Cloudways Director of WordPress

Robert Jacobi Cloudways Director of WordPress

Robert Jacobi Cloudways Director of WordPress Will be joining us on next Friday's WP-Tonic's "This Week in WordPress & Tech" round-table show

Robert brings a host of experience and industry know-how to the team having worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. For example, Robert previously served as President of Joomla and Executive Vice President of Perfect Dashboard. Back in 2000, he founded Arc Technology Group whose clients included giant names like Eli Lilly, Abbott Laboratories, and Microsoft. Alongside working with Fortune 500 companies, Robert has frequently partnered up with major web-hosting providers, and now he’s turning his focus completely on Cloudways.
https://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-evangelist-robert-jacobi-joined-cloudways/

https://robertjacobi.com/

This Weeks Articles To Be Discussed By The Panel

#1 - On With my Head! A return from Headless WordPress

https://aaron.jorb.in/headless-wordpress-no-more/

#2 Facebook changes its company name to Meta

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/28/tech/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-keynote-announcements/index.html

#3 - Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Unsealed: Google Internal Documents Show AMP Pages Brought 40% Less Revenue to Publishers

https://wptavern.com/unredacted-antitrust-complaint-unsealed-google-internal-documents-show-amp-pages-brought-40-less-revenue-to-publishers

#4 - #2 - : LinkedIn launches global freelancer platform to compete directly with Upwork, Fiverr

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/27/daily-crunch-83/

#5 - WPChill Takes Over Gutenberg Forms, Plans To Shake Up the Free Forms Market

https://wptavern.com/wpchill-takes-over-gutenberg-forms-plans-to-shake-up-the-free-forms-market

Special Guest Amanda Natividad. Marketing Architect at SparkToro

Finding Your Target Audience's Sources of Influence

Finding Your Target Audience's Sources of Influence & Contact Marketing The Modern way

Amanda Natividad is a marketing architect at SparkToro and formerly head of marketing at Growth Machine and Lifopia

https://sparktoro.com/