WP Café

#94 Starting our FSE build, and should clients edit their websites?

In today’s episode, Keith and Mark discuss the following: – Starting their latest Full-site-editing build – Should clients be able to edit their own website content? – A new WordPress meetup in London Follow us: X / https://twitter.com/highrisedigital | https://twitter.com/wpcafeshow Linkedin / https://www.linkedin.com/company/highrisedigital/ Website: https://highrise.digital/ | https://wpcafe.show Checkout our products: JobRelay: https://jobrelay.io Integrate your WordPress […]

#93 Our week in WordPress

Keith and Mark chat about what they have been working on this week including wins loses. Watch the video

#92 Building WordPress websites for clients, with FSE

In todays episode, Keith and Mark are chatting about how to build WordPress websites for clients using Full Site Editing (FSE). With a new project in the pipeline they have a lot of learning to do! Follow us: X / https://twitter.com/highrisedigital | https://twitter.com/wpcafeshow Linkedin / https://www.linkedin.com/company/highrisedigital/ Website: https://highrise.digital/ | https://wpcafe.show Watch the video

#91 Modern WordPress development workflows and WP 6.6

With a new web project build in the pipeline, Keith and Mark chat about how to go about building a modern WordPress site and the workflows that can be used, particularly looking at how these are different from a “classic” WP build. Additional topics also include: Watch the video Follow us: X / https://twitter.com/highrisedigital | […]

#90 Low vs high-budget WordPress projects

In this episode, Mark and Keith discuss the pros and cons of working with high and low budgets. Watch the video

#89 Patterns vs post types

In this episode, Mark and Keith discuss the big questions around design and data separation. Watch the video

#88 Selling modern WordPress to clients

In this week we talk about showing the block editor to potential clients and how it can be a little…underwhelming! Watch the video

#87 WordPress “components”?

Mark and Keith discuss the new concept of WordPress components, hopefully coming in WP 6.6 Watch the video

#86 Design-led development vs development-led design

Mark and Keith discuss if WordPress projects should be fully design-led, or should the platform dictate the design. Watch the video

#85 Precarious products and hosting issues

Keith and Mark chat about the problems of having products that are built on another product and what happens when that changes. They will also cover some issues with hosting recently and look into what is “Managed Hosting”? Watch the video

#84 Drop shadows coming in WP 6.5 #fakedeveloper

Some upcoming stuff in WP 6.5, Mark’s first pull request and things we’ve been reading/watching this week. Watch the video

#83 Background processing in WordPress and strange block editor behaviour

In this weeks episode Keith and Mark discuss a range of topics including: – Background processing in WordPress – Patterns vs Template parts vs Templates – Aligning blocks outside of groups – What is the stack block? Things we have been reading / watching this week.

#82 Google Ad Campaign progress and RecPress V2

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#80 What’s coming in WordPress 6.5

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#79 From projects to products: The good, the bad, and the ugly

In this episode, Keith and Mark talk about their journey from client project work into a more product focused business. It hasn’t been all plain sailing! Watch the video

#78 Navigating the fine line of free customer support

In this episode Mark and Keith discuss how to deal with customer support for WordPress products. What is expected, what is reasonable, what is “above and beyond” and when are customers asking too much? Watch the video

#77 Fighting the hidden complexities in WordPress projects

In this episode Keith and Mark discuss dealing with the hidden complexities of WordPress projects. Watch the video

#76 This week in WordPress and our updates

In this week’s show Keith and Mark discuss: Watch the video

#75 Working with APIs

In episode 75 Keith and Mark chat about working with APIs when adding a new job posting provider to their JobRelay product. They also cover the general WordPress news of the week. Watch the video

#27 Clients ruining designs, Blocks vs meta, Reselling client work

#26 FSE for agencies with Fränk Klein

Mark is away, so this week Keith is joined by Fränk Klein, Principal Engineer at Human Made, to discuss Full Site Editing for agencies.

#25 Product launch and hamburger menus

In this episode Keith and Mark discuss the launch of their new product as well as whether or not hamburger menus should be used on desktop screen sizes. Video

#24 The death of themes

In this episode Mark and Keith chat about the death of WordPress themes. Video

#23 Moving fast, a new product and support requests

In this episode, Keith and Mark chat about moving things fast, launching a new WordPress product and dealing with support requests. All that and some questions from the live audience here on Youtube. Video

#22 What kind of show is this?

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#21 – plugins on .org, core CSS and meeting up

In this episode of WP Café Keith and Mark chat about: A new site launch for a large recruitment brand Contemplating launching JobRelay on the WordPress.org plugin repository More discussion about CSS in WordPress core – particularly in the block editor Email threads Finally meeting up in person after 2.5 years Video

#20 – Is WordPress still right for us?

In this episode Keith and Mark discuss whether WordPress is still the right tool to use. Additional topics of discussion include visual regression testing and WP Engine acquiring the Delicious Brains plugins. Video

WordPress 6.0, responsive typography and client interviews

In this episode Keith and Mark chat about the new release of WordPress (v6.0), responsive typography and undertaking client interviews. Video

Episode #18

Keith and Mark had a chat about what has been happening with them and with WordPress over the last week or so.

#17 2021 in review

Episode 17 reviews what we have been up to in 2021.

#16 WordPress development workflow automations

In this episode we are joined by Michael Bragg to chat about automating workflows and deployments when developing on WordPress. Video

#15 Full site editing in WordPress 5.8

With full site editing coming in WordPress 5.8, due for release later in July this year, we chatted to Fränk Klein all about what it is and what it offer to users and developers. Video Related links WP Development course – Building block based themes Show sponsor This episode is sponsored by JobRelay, the easiest […]

#14 Ask us anything WordPress

In this episode Keith and I host a discussion and question and answer session about the main topics surrounding the WordPress project at the moment. Watch the video Show sponsor This episode is sponsored by the excellent SpinupWP. SpinupWP is a Modern Cloud-Based Server Control Panel and the best way to have your own extremely […]

#13 The future of WordPress

What does the future hold for the WordPress open source project? In this episode we spoke to Matt Mullenweg and Josepha Haden Chomposy about the future of WordPress. Watch the video Show guests Matt Mullenweg Matt is the co-founder of WordPress and the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, WordPress […]

#12 Making money from WordPress plugins

There are many plugin developers in the WordPress community and some of them are making money from their plugins. In the show we chat with Iain Poulson and James Kemp about making money by selling WordPress plugins. Watch the video Show guests Iain Poulson Iain is a developer, podcaster, and business owner. By day he’s […]

#11 Building Twenty Twenty-One

WordPress recently shipped with a new theme, the Twenty Twenty-One theme. In this episode we ask the people that built it all about the ideas and decisions about how it was built.

#10 Building sustainable websites with WordPress

In this episode, we were joined by Tom Greenwood, Hannah Smith and Jack Lennox to discuss the environmental impact of our work and what we can do to make our WordPress websites more sustainable.

#9 WordPress security

Deserved or not, WordPress has a reputation problem when it comes to security. In this episode, Keith and Mark are joined by WordPress security experts Tim Nash and Chris Wiegman.

#8 Building Gutenberg-ready WordPress themes

Mark and Keith are joined by expert WordPress developer Bill Erickson to discuss how to work with Gutenberg when building custom, modern WordPress themes.

#7 Using Tailwind with WordPress

We are joined by Ben Furfie and Michelle Barker to talk about a new hot topic in the CSS world - Tailwind.

#6 Marketing WordPress products and services

In episode 6 we were joined by Alex Denning of Ellipsis Marketing and Katie Keith of Barn2 Plugins to discuss strategies and tactics for marketing your WordPress products and services.

#5 Pricing WordPress products and services

In episode 5 of the WP Café show we chatted to Tom Hirst and Jack McConnell all about pricing WordPress products and services.

#4 What can WordPress developers learn from the Laravel community and ecosystem?

In episode 4 we were kindly joined by Ross Wintle and Steve Jones to chat about what WordPress developers can learn from the Laravel community and ecosystem.

#3 Dealing with complex data structures in WordPress

In episode three of WP Café, we’re joined by John James Jacoby and Elliot Condon (ACF) for a chat about how to deal with complex data structures in WordPress.

#2 Development workflow for WordPress multisite

Do you work with WordPress multisite? How do you set up your development environment? Do you use sub-modules with Git? What about deployment? What about staging and test servers? Multisite brings an extra twist to all of these challenges. In episode 2 of WP Café we spoke to JJ Jay and Jonny Albut about WordPress multisite.

#1 Developing themes with Gutenberg (IRL)

In the very first episode of WP Café we chatted to Diane Wallace, Ben Gillbanks and Michael Bragg all about their experiences, tips and tricks of development websites and themes with the WordPress block editor called Gutenberg.