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Sallie Goetsch, Chris Badgett, and John Locke joined host Jonathan Denwood for Episode 264 of WP-Tonic. This episode is brought to you by IntelligenceWP, a WordPress plugin that integrates with Google Analytics to give you more insight into your site’s traffic and user engagement. https://intelligencewp.com/ This week’s roundtable covered several hot stories for the WordPress community.

We Interview Lee Jackson founder of Agency Trail Blazer Community podcast and membership website is on a mission to help design & web agencies fall in love with their business again. This show is dedicated to exploring ways we can improve agency life, grow our businesses, achieve our goals and get back time with our loved ones. https://agencytrailblazer.com/

Ben Arellano is the joint founder of Fly Plugins: We at Fly Plugins offer 3 premium plugin products. WP Courseware which is a learning management system, S3 Media Maestro which is a media protection plugin with Amazon S3 integration, and Churnly our latest product that helps to reduce churn. Our flagship product is WP Courseware and is by far our most popular plugin. https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/260-wp-tonic-friday-round-table-show-19th-jan-2018/

This week on Episode 262 of the WP-Tonic Podcast, the roundtable discussed Virtual Reality in WordPress and WordPress use in higher education. Sallie Goetsch, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Chris Badgett, John Locke, and Adam Preiser joined co-host Kim Shivler in a lively discussion of the future of virtual reality with one member believing it has no future. We launched with WPTavern’s covering of Tuesday’s Higher Ed Conference. https://wptavern.com/free-conference-dedicated-to-wordpress-in-higher-ed-takes-place-january-30th-at-9am-cst

This week, Adam Fout, John Locke, and Adam Preiser joined host Jonathan Denwood for Episode 260. This week, the roundtable covered three news stories relevant to the WordPress and online community. Story 1 WordPress 4.9.2 was released and patches an XSS Vulnerability https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-9-2-patches-xss-vulnerability This was an important update and brought up the overall importance of keeping your sites updated to keep them as secure as possible.

On Episode 259 of WP-Tonic, host Jonathan Denwood and co-host Kim Shivler interview Rachel Cherry of WP-Campus (https://wpcampus.org/). Rachel is a Senior Software Engineer at the Walt Disney Company in California. In the WordPress community, she is more well known as the founder and director of WP-Campus, a community for people in higher education interested in WordPress. This episode is brought to you by Kinsta Hosting (https://kinsta.com). This Premium WordPress Hosting Platform is the power behind WP-Tonic. Check them out today for your hosting needs.

This week, Chris Badgett, Sallie Goetsch, John Locke, and Adam Preiser joined host Jonathan Denwood to discuss two news stories concerning the WordPress ecosystem. This episode is brought to you by IntelligenceWP (https://intelligencewp.com/) a plugin that provides detailed information into your site’s traffic and content value based on Google Analytics. Grab the free version and start gathering more information about your website, today. Story 1 - Introducing Elementor v1.9: Never Lose Momentum With Autosave

David’s passion is to build useful things on the web. David is the founder of FatCatApps, where he makes WordPress plugins that run on more than 100,000 websites across the internet. He also runs a SaaS (Software as a Service) startup called LandingCube. http://davidhehenberger.com/ https://fatcatapps.com/ https://landingcube.com/ You also will find a full set of show notes here: https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/257-wp-tonic-show-interview-founder-fatcatapps-david-hehenberger/  

We discuss the latest WordPress and online news stories of the week. News & Discussion Stories For This Week Friday January 5th, 2018 1 - WPWeekly Episode 300 – Interview with Matt ‘Gutenbeard’ Mullenweg https://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-300-interview-with-matt-gutenbeard-mullenweg 2 -If I were talking about Gutenberg & WordPress… http://chrislema.com/talking-gutenberg-wordpress/ 3 - How To Choose The Right Professional For Your Website Project https://calderaforms.com/2017/12/choose-right-professional-website-project/ Here A link to Sallie Goetsch article link to story 3 https://www.wpfangirl.com/2017/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-can-hire-a-web-developer/      

We'll discuss Conversion Optimization and the importance of converting traffic into leads and customers. We can also discuss this in terms of Online Courses as Brian is about to launch the online version of his popular, live masterclass.

This week Adan Fout, Sallie Goetsch, Chris Badgett, Adam Preiser, and Morten Rand-Hendriksen joined host Jonathan Denwood to discuss Tips and Tricks for Creating Successful Information Products. The biggest key is to create quality content that provides value for your customer. The group mentioned sometimes you give your email to someone and find that the giveaway is fluff. One question arose on whether there are specific types of content that are better suited for information products and if a specific length is recommended. The clear answer was that different audiences may prefer different types and length of content, and that the situation for content may change this interest. Some people like to read content, and the current “long reads” trend gives people an easy way to consume written content in a distraction free environment. Many times when people want to learn something fast, they may be looking for a quick video. On a long run or car trip, an hour+ podcast or even audiobook may be preferred.

Our special guest this week is John James Jacoby the joint presenter of WordPress Weekly podcast and the lead developer of both BuddyPress and bbPress since 2010. John has worked at Automattic on a wide variety of projects ranging from WordCamp.org to WordPress.com VIP.

Main Topic How To Us Affiliate Marketing Successfully To Grow Your Business In this week show we discuss affiliate marketing and we have a special guest Brian Jackson Chief Marketing Officer at Kinsta Wordpress Hosting https://kinsta.com/. Brian https://brianjackson.io/ also runs two successful WordPress plugin businesses with this brother Perfmatters https://perfmatters.io/ and WP-Coupons https://wpcoupons.io/ Also Brian runs a highly successful WordPress and marketing information website that gets over 40 visitors per month Woorkup https://woorkup.com/deals/ We in the second half of the show discuss all things affiliate marketing from what are the best plugin platforms connected to WordPress and affiliate marketing to what works connected to building up affiliate network that really works. This Weeks WordPress News and Main Discussion Topics For This Week Friday 8th of December 2017 1 - Matt Mullenweg “State of the Word 2017” https://wordpress.tv/ 2 - Gutenberg and The Impacts It’ll Have on the WordPres

This week, host Jonathan Denwood and co-host Kim Shivler discussed learning management systems including fully-hosted third party platforms like Thinkific and Kajabi and WordPress Learning Management System (LMS) plugins like LearnDash and LifterLMS.   In other show episodes, Jonathan and Kim have interviewed Justin Ferriman of LearnDash and Chris Badgett from LifterLMS to discuss their products. This time they ventured beyond self-hosted platforms into fully configured and hosted options including Kajabi, Thinkific, Teachable, and Udemy. For many people, a self-hosted plan is a better option. It does provide the limitations of working in someone else’s platform and provides the freedom to create content without worrying about building and maintaining a platform.   KAJABI https://newkajabi.com/   Udemy https://www.udemy.com/

On today’s roundtable, Sallie Goetsch and John Locke joined the show’s co-host Kim Shivler to share tips for making your websites mobile friendly along with recent news stories. While mobile responsive design has been around for many years, and you would think everyone was designing this way by now, we find that many people still ignore it. From large background videos that don’t load well on phones to content that is designed for a print layout not online layout, we still see major issues trying to access websites from a mobile device. John Locke’s top tips included: Pay attention to the typography. He finds many sites with small fonts that are not legible on mobile. He recommends font sizes of at least 16 pixels. Tap targets, those buttons you must tap with your finger on a mobile device, need to be big enough to tap on.

We Interview With Joint Founder & CEO of LifterLMS Chris Badgett Chris Badgett went from managing a dog sled tour company in Alaska to the joint creator of LifterLMS; a software company that allows users to have complete control over the creation of their online courses. He’s also the host of the LMSCast podcast and is dedicated to empowering people to generate more impact, and income, with online education https://lifterlms.com/

Bill Conrad Founder of National Association of Podcasters We Interview founder of National Association of Podcasters Bill Conrad who also was my co-host of the WP-Tonic show for its first 90 episodes. Bill is now the founder of the National Association of Podcasters and has done a number of presentations at WordCamps on how to use podcasting to build your business and reputation online. Also bill offers a number of inexpensive courses connected to helping people get into podcasting. https://podcastershome.com/membership/ The National Association of Podcasters, NAOP.US is a trade association and is organized, founded and funded by new media businesses and members. We are in the process of creating bylaws, forming a board of advisors & directors and hiring an executive director. The NAOP.US participates in public relations activities, advertising, education, political donations, lobbying, and publishing.… https://naop.us/about/

This Weeks WordPress New & Discussion Topics (first half of the show) 1 - Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress ecosystem https://poststatus.com/interview-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-ecosystem-draft-podcast/ 2 - WordPress 4.9 Released with Major Improvements to Customizer Workflow, Updated Code Editors, and New Core Gallery Widget https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-9-released-with-major-improvements-to-customizer-workflow-updated-code-editors-and-new-core-gallery-widget 3 - The blue-collar WordPress worker and the 2,500+ websites built to grow the CMShttps://mattreport.com/growth-of-wordpress/ https://mattreport.com/growth-of-wordpress/ Second half of the show’s main topic “Extending WordPress Using ACF (Advanced Custom Fields)”  

Chris Rogers is the Co-Organizer of WordCamp Las Vegas 2017 and 2014 and Co-Organizer & Frequent Speaker of the Vegas WP Meetup Group. He has a degree in MultiMedia from West Los Angeles College. Chris is a professional actor with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting & Minor in Voice from University of Louisville and started his dance training at the Louisville Ballet. Yesterday, he launched CraftYada teaching people in the Entertainment Business how to create websites for their career. He got the idea from Kim Shivler’s inspiring presentation at WordCamp 2015.

#244: WP Tonic Show We Interview Adam Fout We Discuss The World of Online Content Marketing Does It Really Work? Adam Fout Blue Steele Solutions https://bluesteelesolutions.com/ This is Adam Fout, lead content writer for Blue Steele Solutions and an unabashed content marketing nerd. His articles have been featured on a variety industry sites, including PostFunnel and The Layout, and he'll be speaking this weekend at DFW WordCamp on the topic of content marketing. WordCamp Dallas https://2017.dfw.wordcamp.org/ Key Discussion Point During The Interview 1 Content Marketing Strategy 2 - Style Guilds 3 - How to Delegate, Automate your Content Marketing 4 - Editorial Calendar 5 - Killer Content Research Tactics 6 - Lead Magnets 7 - SOP Standard Operating Procedures