WP-Tonic | WordPress | SaaS | Bootstrap SaaS | Startups

PRESS THIS LINK TO WATCH THE MAKEING OF THE PODCAST

PRESS THIS LINK TO WATCH CRUSOE

We cover four frameworks for WordPress but first....

1)      Genesis Framework:

Genesis Framework from StudioPress http://www.studiopress.com is one of the most popular of all the WordPress frameworks its very developer focused and need quite a bit of development experience to get the best from it.

Prices: Genesis Framework on its own $59.95 with all the Studio commercial themes $399

One of the ways to use Genesis if you are not an experience developer is to use this third party plugin tool Dynamik Website Builder for $59. 

Pros

a) very well document.

b) Well coded.

c) Big library of child themes.

Cons

a) complicated if you are not an experience WordPress developer.

b) the chid themes do tend to look very similar in design.

c) Not all the child themes are fully responsive.

2)     Headway Framework

Headway:  from HeadwayThemes http://headwaythemes.com/  is an other very popular WordPress framework its very different to StudioPress Genesis it has it own inbuilt drag & drop page building functionality.

Prices: 1 site $59 with one template or you get the developer license for $199 and you get all of Headway themes included at the present moment they have a Christmas sale on and get everything reduced by 35% discount.

Pros

a) easy to use if you are not an experience developer 

b) very well documented.

c) well and very attractive child themes.

Cons

a) the code can be a bit blotted which can leads to slow loading themes

b) you really are locked into the Headway Framework of doing things. 

c) if you really go down the fully custom route with this Framework you will have to keep in mind that the designs will need quite a bit of testing

3)     Canvas Framework

from WooThemes http://www.woothemes.com/products/canvas/

This is very popular framework from the people who develop and support Woocommerce.

Price: $119 unlimited domains or $399 which includes a number of nice looking themes. 

Pros

a) well coded.

b) Great documentation.

c) Should work with Woocommence.

Cons

a) is not setup to work with child themes.

b) limited selection of themes compared to StudioPress.

c) some of the themes are not responsive.

Thesis Framework

4)       Thesis frameworks

http://diythemes.com/ is one of the oldest WordPress frameworks

This framework uses a very, very custom way of developing WordPress website to the

extent you could say it a real highbred of system that is going its own semi different route to the rest of the WordPress development community.

Price: $87 for one domain license or you could buy the profession level for $199 which give you unlimited live time support and the ability to use the framework on as many different domains as you like.

Pros:

a) very well coded 

2) extremely powerful and in the hands of an experience Thesis developer can prove very quick.

 3) this framework has been around for quite a long time.

 Cons

 a) you really do need to be pretty experience developer to really use this framework. 

b) uses skins not child theme.

c) It really does things it own way which are not compatible to the norm of WordPress.

=========================

WP-Tonic is not only a WordPress maintenance and support service, but we publish a twice weekly WordPress podcast where we talk with some of the brightest minds in WordPress development and online marketing.

LINK TO VIDEO OF MAKING OF EPDISODE 19

LINK TO SHOWNOTES and FORMS

=========================

WP-Tonic is not only a WordPress maintenance and support service, but we publish a twice weekly WordPress podcast where we talk with some of the brightest minds in WordPress development and online marketing.

PRESS THIS LINK TO SEE BEHIND THE SCEENS VIDIO OF THIS LINK

=========================

WP-Tonic is not only a WordPress maintenance and support service, but we publish a twice weekly WordPress podcast where we talk with some of the brightest minds in WordPress development and online marketing.

LINK TO YOUTUBE VIDEO 

Episode 17 Plugins:

Icegram: http://www.icegram.com/

SumoMe: https://sumome.com/

Monarch: http://www.elegantthemes.com/plugins/monarch/

===================

WP-Tonic is not only a WordPress maintenance and support service, but a twice weekly podcast about WordPress where we talk with some of the most successful people in WordPress development and online marketing.

1.Click this text, go to iTunes,   2. Click “Vieåw in iTunes” blue button   3. Subscribe and give us a rating! Thanks!

Tweet: Check out this episode of http://ctt.ec/baD9O+ @billconrad360 #podcasting #podcaster

1. Are you a MAC or PC and what brand of phone do you use?
2. What is your favorite technology, hardware or software? Guitar Amp Modulation Technology
3. What is your favorite quote? “Life is irreconcilable it does not add up”  Salmond Russian
4. What are your favorite books? Judas Unchained (The Commonwealth Saga)

Links: https://plus.google.com/+MortenRandHendriksen/posts

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mor10

YOUR FAVORITE FOOD:

Reindeer medal with red wine reduction sauce!

Please keep the reviews coming in! Thanks  1.Click this text, go to iTunes,   2. Click “View in iTunes” blue button   3. Subscribe and give us a rating! Thanks!

Our guest today is a published author and one of the top WordPress experts in North America.  He is well known as a WordPress staff authors at Linda.

Running a digital media company, he divides his time evenly between building web solutions and teaching others how to do things right and get the most out of the web. Morton grew up in Norway and now makes his home is  Canada his home in 2002.

Check out the Lynda link: http://www.lynda.com/WordPress-tutorials/WordPresscom-Essential-Training/141506-2.html

Go to episode 085, Part 2 for the rest of the story! Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Links: https://plus.google.com/+MortenRandHendriksen/posts

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mor10 

WP-Tonic is not only a WordPress maintenance and support service, but a twice weekly podcast about WordPress where we talk with some of the most successful people in WordPress development and online marketing.

Welcome to WP-Tonic Episode 14. Today Jonathan and I are interviewing a 20 something Austrian who runs a business out of Bangkok, Thailand, but before we get into the show, I would like update you, the listeners, on what Jonathan and I are doing with our businesses.

First,  to the surprise of many, we made it to episode 14 and we are  going strong producing podcasts together, getting better each and every episode! We are both building websites, improving techniques and developing new products.  Jonathan is working hard on his SaaS (Software as a Service) product Mail-Right and I am working on developing a process to help the new podcaster quickly integrate WordPress and new media so they can focus on podcasting.  At the first of the new year, Jonathan and I are starting a new WordPress Meetup Group  called WordPress and NewMedia for Reno Entrepreneurs and Businesses. The meetup will be oriented toward the small business owner and how they can better utilize WordPress and New Media into their businesses. It will  complement the current Reno WordPress Meetup Group which is oriented more at the technical side of WordPress, diving more into  PHP which is a server-side scripting language designed for web development and HTML or HyperText Markup Language.

Well this is the second of two interviews, you can find more about our guest on Episode 80 on Timelines of Success but now, let's  get to our show with, David Hehenberger. David is from Austria,  and he has been traveling the world for 4.5 years. He is currently in Bangkok, Thailand running his company, FatCat Apps, building amazing plugins with his team of coders. He is also co-host WPCAST.FM, a professional WordPress podcast. Now without further ado, let's get right into this episode of WP-Tonic with our guest David Hehenberger.

Jonathan and I get asked often many questions about WordPress, New Media and Podcasting.  One of them is the type of microphone we use. In todays interview, I was using a Heil PR-40 with a pop filter and small mixer. This is one of the best setups you can have. The mixer, the pop filter and microphone cost just under $500 but a good substitute is the ART-2100 microphone which allows you to plug into your computer with a USB connections or go through a mixer. This dynamic microphone with a foam filter will do a great job and stop pops and outside noise. it cost less than $60.

Jonathan was using a Blue Yeti microphone and a pop filter and he sounded very good. The cost is a little over $100. David was also using a Blue Yeti but without a pop filter. If you can listen closely, you can hear the a few pops. These pops are something hard to remove in post editing.  We were all connected on this episode with Skype, David was in Bangkok, Thailand, Jonathan in Carson City, Nevada and I was in Reno, Nevada.

Again thank you for listening to WP-Tonic, We would appreciate it if you would go to iTunes and give us a review. The link is on the bottom and top of your show notes on this episode.

WP-Tonic is not only a WordPress maintenance and support service, but a twice weekly podcast about WordPress where we talk with some of the most successful people in WordPress development and online marketing.

Today's we will go over WordPress Camp San Franscisco, Meetup Schedules and WordPress Security.

1. Sercure Web Hosting

2. Backup

3.Security Socket Layer (SSL)

4. Security Plugins

Additional show notes on WP-Tonic.Com  

=========================

WP-Tonic is not only a WordPress maintenance and support service, but a twice weekly podcast about WordPress where we talk with some of the most successful people in WordPress development and online marketing.

ADAM SILVER, is your LA WordPress go to guy.  He is a teacher, WordPress leader in his community and comedian. This is a weekend wrap special. Saturday, Adam the organizer of the South Bay WordPress Meetup Group in LA, was on the WP-Tonic WordPress organizes Google Hangout. The meetup can be found below the read.  

http://kitchensinkwp.com/

http://silverliningphotography.net/

Also hear Adam's Timeline of Success inteview at:http://timelinesofsuccess.com/076-adam-silver/

=========================

WP-Tonic is not only a WordPress maintenance and support service, but a twice weekly WordPress podcast where we talk with some of the most successful people in WordPress development and online marketing.

1) If You Have Deactivated Plugins Remove Them.

If you have plugins that are not being used i.e. they are deactivated remove them.

2) Cleanup Your Database.

Use plugins to cleanup your database up or disable options.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/disabler/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dbmanager/

3) Us a Caching Plugin.

A lot of people use either W3 Total Cache or Super Cache.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

 4) Good Quality Hosting:

http://www.siteground.com/

http://getflywheel.com/pricing/

https://pagely.com/plans-pricing/

http://wpengine.com/

 5) Don’t Run Plugins That You Don’t Really Need.

Don’t run plugins that you don’t really need, however it not the quantity that the real problem it the quality of the plugins that you run which is the real problem. You can use this plugin to find slow running plugins.

P3 Plugin Performance Profiler Plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/

6)CDNs & Accelerators.

Using a Content delivery networks (CDNs) and Web Performance Optimization (WPO) services can speed up your slow WordPress site. Be careful which one you use. A lot of people use CloudFlare because the basic level is free.

http://www.cloudflare.com/

7) Optimize Your Images.

WP Smush.It

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/

Speed Testing Tools

Google PageSpeed Insights

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/

Pingdom Tools

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

GTmetrix

http://gtmetrix.com/

Resources

http://wpfreesetup.com/how-to-speed-up-wordpress-website/

http://www.rackaid.com/blog/fix-slow-sites/

http://www.rackaid.com/blog/speed-up-website/

http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/why-trying-to-get-95-on-google-pagespeed-insights-will-drive-you-mad/

http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/web-hosting-review-so-just-who-is-the-best/

======================

WP-Tonic is not only a WordPress maintenance and support service, but a twice weekly WordPress podcast where we talk with some of the most successful people in WordPress development and online marketing.