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Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber

This Week Show's Sponsors

Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/

LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/

#1 - WordPress Proposal To Align Release Cycle With Industry Standard

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-proposal-to-align-release-cycle-with-industry-standard

#2 - Stupid

https://www.profgalloway.com/stupid

#3 - Competition and positioning for WordPress products in 2021 and beyond

https://getellipsis.com/blog/positioning-for-wordpress-products/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issue-196

#4 - The biggest story in tech no ones talking about is Uber discovering they’d been defrauded out of $100M - or 2/3 of their ad spend.

https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345774768746852353

#5 - Damn. Gutenberg Smokes Elementor

https://theadminbar.com/damn-gutenberg-smokes-elementor/

#6 - Sandhills Development 2020 Year in Review

https://sandhillsdev.com/2021/01/2020-year-in-review/

We discuss building a modern WordPress plugin for WooCommerce... how to avoid the pitfalls and what WC brings to the table for so many WP users.

https://launchflows.com/

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber

Our Special Guest Panelist is Brian Gardner - https://briangardner.com/

This Week Show's Sponsors

Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/

LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/

Our Special Guest Panelist This Week is Brian Gardner

Webinar Friday the 15th at 10:30 am PST

#1 - WordPress.com Rattles Freelancer Community with New Website Building Service Launch

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-rattles-freelancer-community-with-new-website-building-service-launch

#2 - Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/technology/google-employees-union.html

#3 - 2020: Liquid Web Acquires The Events Calendar WordPress Plugin From Modern Tribe

https://wptavern.com/liquid-web-acquires-the-events-calendar-wordpress-plugin-from-modern-tribe

#4 - The Rise and Fall of Invision

https://seandexter1.medium.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-invision-dc2d58c65534

#5 - Block System Will Create More Commercial Opportunities for WordPress Theme Authors

https://wptavern.com/block-system-will-create-more-commercial-opportunities-for-wordpress-theme-authors

John founded bbPress in 2005 while he was looking for GPL forum software with profile pages and hierarchical categories, BuddyPress shortly thereafter, and WordPress as a result.

https://jjj.blog/

https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnjamesjacoby/

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Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber

This Week Show's Sponsors

Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/

LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/

Our Special Guest Panelist This Week is Andrew Palmer

#1 -State of the Word 2020: WordPress Moves Toward Full Site Editing

https://wptavern.com/state-of-the-word-2020-wordpress-moves-toward-full-site-editing

#2 - In 2021, we need to fix America’s internet

https://www.theverge.com/22177154/us-internet-speed-maps-competition-availability-fcc

#3 - Introducing Learn WordPress

https://wordpress.org/news/2020/12/introducing-learn-wordpress/

#4 - Death of an Open Source Business Model

https://joemorrison.medium.com/death-of-an-open-source-business-model-62bc227a7e9b

#5 - Own your website content to control the experience

https://pixelgrade.com/upstairs/own-control-content-website/

#6 - BuddyPress 7.0.0 Adds 3 New Blocks and Admin Screens for Member and Group Type Management

The Most Effective Marketing Strategies for Increasing Online Sales

In this episode, we discuss with Chris Badgett joint founder and head of marketing and sales at LifterLMS what has he and his team have found to be the most effective strategies connected to online marketing in 2020?

Chris Badgett

Chris started learning about online education on a glacier in Alaska. He's created courses on everything from organic gardening to woodworking. He is passionate about helping other entrepreneurial educators find success and create an impact.

https://lifterlms.com/about-us/

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber

This Week Show's Sponsors

Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/

LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/

Special Guest Panelist Brian Jackson of Forgemedia: https://forgemedia.io/

#1 - Automattic Acquires MailPoet

https://wptavern.com/automattic-acquires-mailpoet

#2 - Olive Attracts Additional $225.5MM Investment to Fast-Track AI Workforce For Healthcare

https://oliveai.com/media/olive-attracts-additional-225-5mm-investment-to-fast-track-ai-workforce-for-healthcare/

#3 - WordPress 5.6 “Simone” Includes New Twenty Twenty-One Theme and Improved Editor

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-6-simone-includes-new-twenty-twenty-one-theme-and-improved-editor

#4 - How to Run a Ponzi Scheme for Tech People

https://callmenish.com/how-to-run-a-tech-ponzi-scheme/

#5 - Privacy group files complaint against five online test-proctoring services

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/9/22166023/epic-proctorio-examity-privacy-online-testing-school-lawsuit-proctoring

#6 - Facebook crushed rivals to maintain an illegal monopoly, the entire United States yells in Zuckerberg’s face

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/09/facebook_crushed_competitors_to_maintain/

We Discuss The Lessons Learnt By A Founder of WP Feedback Pro Vito Peleg

We are honored and excited to have Vito Peleg for an interview with Cloudways. Here, we’ll throw light on Vito’s journey and most importantly learn all about his new WordPress plugin that is set to revolutionize the way you collect client feedback

https://wpfeedback.co

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber
This Week Show's Sponsors

Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/

LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/

#1 - Why WordPress Will Soon Power 50% of All Websites

https://www.namecheap.com/blog/wordpress-market-share/

https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-9-5-improves-site-editor-and-adds-new-options-for-cover-and-code-blocks

#2 - Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/01/salesforce-buys-slack/

#3 - Why Flywheel and Divi are the perfect pair for your WordPress workflow

https://getflywheel.com/divi/

#4 - More than 20,000 users submit cases to Facebook oversight board

https://www.axios.com/facebook-oversight-board-20000-cases-submitted-six-chosen-028b1b7a-2b91-4f40-80af-1783d505690a.html

#5 - Is Medium’s New Logo A Sign Of Bigger Problems?

https://medium.com/the-partnered-pen/is-mediums-new-logo-is-a-sign-of-bigger-problems-101f8dd84b44

#6 - Parler’s got a porn problem: Adult businesses target pro-Trump social network

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/02/parler-pornography-problem/

Yes its happen to all of us either we have updated some plugins and we get the white screen of death or which is a lot more common we update and there is some form of conflict problems connected to not working correctly with your theme or suddenly it affects how another important plugin works. In this week's show me and Steven go through what we do when we come across this type of problem.