WPwatercooler - Weekly WordPress Talk Show

This week on WPwatercooler we will be discussing how the design of your web design or development agency website affects how people think about you and your work. You've heard of the phrase ‘the cobbler's children have no shoes', how does that directly relate to the kind of work you get as a developer or designer?

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This week on WPblab we're talking with Sherie & Cheryl LaPrade about using Twitter to market your WordPress side hustle. If you run your own business and you are looking for ways to market it, this show will be perfect for you.

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This week on WPblab we're talking with Sherie & Cheryl LaPrade about using Twitter to market your WordPress side hustle. If you run your own business and you are looking for ways to market it, this show will be perfect for you.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can do some spring cleaning in your WordPress database to make it bright, shiny and new again! * Uninstall Options in WordPress Plugins. Should a plugin remove options upon deletion? * WP-Optimize * SQL Query to delete orphans wp_postmeta « WordPress.org Forums * WP-Sweep * Finds and delete orphaned tables in a WordPress Multisite network.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can do some spring cleaning in your WordPress database to make it bright, shiny and new again!

* Uninstall Options in WordPress Plugins. Should a plugin remove options upon deletion?
* WP-Optimize
* SQL Query to delete orphans wp_postmeta « WordPress.org Forums
* WP-Sweep
* Finds and delete orphaned tables in a WordPress Multisite network.

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This week on WPblab we're at a new time 7-8pm Pacific and will be talking with David Blackmon about his Divi Chat podcast and how he used his show to build community around Divi page builder and Elegant Themes. David Blackmon – Divi Chat http://divi.chat/ How to start a WordPress podcast Started in a Facebook group, many folks helping one another in there talking about WordPress and Divi Decided to have a meetup and 15-20 people showed up from around the world!  Nick – founder of ElegantThemes – came down with his team and hung out as well. David had a great love for podcasts and saw the potential in it – great medium, easily consumable, a great marketing vehicle to get a message out Was originally going to start his own podcast, but when he met  up with a bunch of his online WordPress and Divi friends in person, he decided to start a show similar to WP Watercooler, but about the Divi platform  (Using YouTube Live – also uploads the audio to iTunes) Google Spreadsheet with topics listed for upcoming episodes – 30 to 90 days out Getting guests can be tricky, especially if you like to plan ahead – be prepared for cancellations http://roadtreking.com/category/podcasts/ – Mike Wendland (great example of a well put together podcast) His new show: wpthepodcast.com Podcasts are a great way to meet and get connected with the larger community, make new friends and network – often get recognized by your voice in a crowd! MacCast – Adam Christianson – has a very distinctive voice! Met many people because they recognized his voice from his podcast. Soundcloud is another good site to upload your podcast audio to and get greater reach Some very ‘Festive’ episodes with Google’s effects, ie. Party Hats etc. Had lots of laughs, but probably lost some of the audience in the audio version because they couldn’t see what was happening on screen – have to remember the audio audience when doing your podcast YouTube is great because it shows you the exact viewcount of who saw the video when it aired.  You can also see comments, interactions, and how much they saw of each episode If you aren’t doing closed captioning, you may miss out on some of the people trying to watch the podcast video  www.Rev.com – transcription, captions and translations Facebook live is useful because it will alert people when something goes Live … people may not be looking for it, but it pops up and they go “Hey, I’m gonna watch this!” Know where your ‘community’ watches you from … if most of your people find you and watch you via facebook, focus your efforts there …. If most follow you and interact via YouTube, focus there instead Facebook – comments matter – make sure you are engaging.  Not just liking.  “You have to use words to build relationships” – Bridget  … Sharing is important and helpful too, but it’s still not engagement – you still need to comment to build those relationships. If you genuinely want to build engagement on Facebook, you need to spend at least an hour a day commenting and replying to comments – furthering the conversation & relationship! www.yt2fb.com “Make your YouTube Video look BIG and AWESOME on Facebook” -makes YouTube videos look semi-native when posted to Facebook When you are starting a podcast, people are expecting perfection from the get-go … you should take some time to record “Episode Zero” – you know you are going to throw it away, but it gives you a chance to do a run through and feel out what works and what doesn’t and possibly shift direction if needed ...

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This week on WPblab we're at a new time 7-8pm Pacific and will be talking with David Blackmon about his Divi Chat podcast and how he used his show to build community around Divi page builder and Elegant Themes.
David Blackmon – Divi Chat http://divi.chat/
How to start a WordPress podcast
Started in a Facebook group, many folks helping one another in there talking about WordPress and Divi
Decided to have a meetup and 15-20 people showed up from around the world!  Nick – founder of ElegantThemes – came down with his team and hung out as well.
David had a great love for podcasts and saw the potential in it – great medium, easily consumable, a great marketing vehicle to get a message out
Was originally going to start his own podcast, but when he met  up with a bunch of his online WordPress and Divi friends in person, he decided to start a show similar to WP Watercooler, but about the Divi platform  (Using YouTube Live – also uploads the audio to iTunes)
Google Spreadsheet with topics listed for upcoming episodes – 30 to 90 days out
Getting guests can be tricky, especially if you like to plan ahead – be prepared for cancellations
http://roadtreking.com/category/podcasts/ – Mike Wendland (great example of a well put together podcast)
His new show: wpthepodcast.com
Podcasts are a great way to meet and get connected with the larger community, make new friends and network – often get recognized by your voice in a crowd!
MacCast – Adam Christianson – has a very distinctive voice! Met many people because they recognized his voice from his podcast.
Soundcloud is another good site to upload your podcast audio to and get greater reach
Some very ‘Festive’ episodes with Google’s effects, ie. Party Hats etc. Had lots of laughs, but probably lost some of the audience in the audio version because they couldn’t see what was happening on screen – have to remember the audio audience when doing your podcast
YouTube is great because it shows you the exact viewcount of who saw the video when it aired.  You can also see comments, interactions, and how much they saw of each episode
If you aren’t doing closed captioning, you may miss out on some of the people trying to watch the podcast video  www.Rev.com – transcription, captions and translations
Facebook live is useful because it will alert people when something goes Live … people may not be looking for it, but it pops up and they go “Hey, I’m gonna watch this!”
Know where your ‘community’ watches you from … if most of your people find you and watch you via facebook, focus your efforts there …. If most follow you and interact via YouTube, focus there instead
Facebook – comments matter – make sure you are engaging.  Not just liking.  “You have to use words to build relationships” – Bridget  … Sharing is important and helpful too, but it’s still not engagement – you still need to comment to build those relationships.
If you genuinely want to build engagement on Facebook, you need to spend at least an hour a day commenting and replying to comments – furthering the conversation & relationship!
www.yt2fb.com “Make your YouTube Video look BIG and AWESOME on Facebook” -makes YouTube videos look semi-native when posted to Facebook
When you are starting a podcast, people are expecting perfection from the get-go … you should take some time to record “Episode Zero” – you know you are going to throw it away, but it gives you a chance to do a run through and feel out what works and what doesn’t and possibly shift direction if needed
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the WordPress Plugin Directory.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the WordPress Plugin Directory.

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This week on WPblab we'll be speaking with WPShout about learning to do WordPress development. If you are looking to be a WordPress developer this should be the perfect episode for you. http://www.wpshout.com David B Hayes and Fred Meyer – WordPress developers, contributors, and enthusiasts. Our goal is to make the world of WordPress accessible to everybody. Alex Denning – started publishing about WordPress development on WPShout in 2009 One of their projects for meditation – http://medivate.com WPShout – mostly writing for people who are learning or who already are developers – not aimed at beginners David writes a quick guide every Thursday for simple tips and suggestions Good starting place for someone wanting to get into development – Up and Running – step by step introduction to WordPress development Up and Running  – Discount code: WPBLAB – 20% off any package!! If you purchase before end of 3/24, you’ll also be entered to win some cool prizes! Up and Running starts with the core technical fundamentals (and terminology) and breaks it down into a factory analogy to make it easier to understand the process … (Up and Running synthesizes WordPress development into a cohesive package) The goal is to go from knowing about the concepts (html, css, php, wordpress basics, etc.) to becoming proficient and knowing how to use all the pieces and parts, and why & how they work, by the end of the program “Everyone should use CMS’s and WordPress is the best one, so use it!” Recorded a number of interviews with well known WP devs about how they got to where they are – Pippin Williamson, Helen Hou-Sandi, etc. Screenflow is used for their video screen capture Even if you never do the coding stuff or that’s not your focus, the hope is that Up and Running helps make it easier to understand the concepts and why it works the way it does – great for Designers too looking to level up their understanding David started using WordPress in 2007 – learned how to be a web developer by having a website and wanting to make little changes here and there and beating his head against the wall – it was something he cared about strongly so making it better was important to him WordPress is a great way to break into the entire field of Web Development Learn WordPress Plugin Development Some of the best ways to learn are to use Google to search for answers and to really dig through the Codex or the Code Reference * https://codex.wordpress.org/ * https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/ * https://learn.calderalabs.org/ People come to WordPress from so many different backgrounds – sometimes it’s a nurse or an educator or a business person who was the most tech savvy in their office and they ‘inherited’ the site and the responsibility to market it * Udemy.com * Lynda.com * Stackoverflow *