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Mendel Kurland joined us to talk about being an evangelist and building community for GoDaddy. Mendel defines an evangelist as someone who not only promotes the platform or company he represents but befriends and truly understands the community he supports. His work includes supporting the WordPress community and other open source communities, like Drupal.

This week, the WP-Tonic Roundtable featured an almost full house. Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Sallie Goestch, Lee Jackson, Mendel Kurland, John Locke, Kim Shivler, and special guest Tom McCraken joined host Jonathan Denwood to discuss Morten’s article on the upcoming WordPress Gutenberg editor and learn more about what Google Analytics can tell us about our WordPress websites. The panel has discussed the upcoming Gutenberg editor several times. This week’s discussion was brought about based on an article written by Morten (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gutenberg-morten-rand-hendriksen) that was then picked up by WPTavern (

Dagmar is the founder of Search Engine International and Global Empire SEO Consulting. She successfully guides entrepreneurs, subject matter experts, and businesses, by turning their expertise into successful global authorities and revenue generating businesses. Her company offers a unique mix of one-of-a-kind SEO coaching, SEO training, SEO consulting, and done-for-you SEO services to experts who want to build their business, authority and empire globally.

This week’s WP-Tonic Roundtable (Jason Marlowe, Mendel Kurland, Kim Shivler and leader Jonathan Denwood), considered different types of Marketing Automation. While many people think of Email Automation, Marketing Automation covers more than email. As Jason pointed out, it’s taking any process in your business and automating it. Mendel likens automation to a trash compactor. It condenses the time you have to manually spend on tasks so that you have time to do other things within your business. We discussed several Email Automation tools including Drip https://www.drip.co/ and Active Campaign http://www.activecampaign.com/ along with MailChimp https://mailchimp.com/ which now includes automation services in their free accounts. Text options and text messaging automation were also highlighted since these are growing in popularity. Mendel has been actively tracking his traffic and email options for his site https://hikingwithgeeks.com/. He considers how visitors interact with the site and measures the effects of

In this episode and, in this corner, weighing in at an undisclosed weight, the WordPress Wrangler, the Marketing Magician, the Digital Demagogue - Jason Marlowe. Haha. Does that work? If not, you can use this: Jason Marlowe is a WordPress consultant, digital marketer, co-host of the LunchBreak Marketing podcast, and 16-year website design veteran. He's also a husband.

We have a great Friday round-table show with two great special guests Chris Badgett, joint founder of LifterLMS &. Dave Kiss founder of LunchBox. We also have some really interesting news stories which we discuss in the first half of the show. Then in the second half, we go into some detail on the main subject of the show “Creating An Online Video Course Using WordPress.” https://lifterlms.com/ https://wplunchbox.com/

 Special Interview With Kimberly Shivler + How To Get New Clients   In this episode of the show, we interview Kim Shivler who has agreed to be my new co-host. We discuss Kim involvement with WordPress and its community. Kim has spoken at some WordCamps and WordCamp USA. Kim is an expert on LMS (learning management systems), and we discuss this subject in the interview. In the second half of the show, we discuss my latest blog post “The Complete Guide to Customer Acquisition” and all the things I have learned over the past couple of years connected to getting new client online. https://www.wp-tonic.com/blog/complete-guide-customer-acquisition/  

This week’s, WP-Tonic Roundtable (Lee Jackson, Sallie Goetsch, Adam Preiser, Jason Marlowe, Kim Shivler and leader Jonathan Denwood) discussed the different things people mean when they talk about Membership Websites. We covered meanings from content restricted areas to business directories and social networking platforms. With so many different meanings of the term, we delved into the importance of discovery calls with clients when they ask for a membership website. When the requirement is content restriction, the group covered plugins including RestrictContent Pro and MemberPress, and Lee Jackson explained how in many circumstances, restricting content may be better handled with simple coding than the complexity of a membership plugin.

Tracey Halvorsen is a consultant, designer, painter, author, and speaker. Her background in visual art and computer-based technology and her hands-on style of leadership has helped Fastspot consistently create award-winning and industry recognized websites, applications and marketing campaigns.

We had a great round-table show here we really did have some great new stories and a really interesting discussion than in the second half of the show we want to some detail connected to our main topic “Tools For Understanding Your Site Visitors “ We also had a great special guest Jason Marlowe co-host of the LunchBreak Marketing Podcast. Go to WP-Tonic's website for a full set of show notes and links.   Main Topic 215 WP-Tonic Round Table Show :Tools For Understanding Your Site Visitors This Weeks Discussion Stories 1 -  SiteLock Acquires Patchman’s Malware and Vulnerability Detection Technology, Expands WordPress Customer Base to 4 Million https://wptavern.com/sitelock-acquires-patchmans-malware-and-vulnerability-detection-technology-expands-wordpress-customer-base-to-4-million 2 - Adobe to Discontinue Flash Support and Updates in 2020 https://wptavern.com/adobe-to-discontinue-flash-support-and-updates-in-2020 3 - Envato has too much cash, so its staff will share its riches http://www.afr.co

We have a great interview here with Dave Kiss founder of both Vimeography & WPLunchbox. https://vimeography.com/ https://wplunchbox.com/ http://davekiss.com/develop-wordpress-sites-like-a-goddamn-champion/

We have an exciting show here for you folks with a great panel of WordPress experts and thought leaders in the WordPress community. We covered a load of territory in this round-table episode. We had some interesting stories and the main one being “ Inside WordPress.org Theme Review Team: Money, Abuse and Inconsistent Leadership.” Then in the second half of the show, we went on to discuss our most important subject “Speeding Up WordPress Development” with the panel giving some excellent tips and tricks connected to some of the things that have to help them increase the speed of the development.

Robert DeVore is the owner and founder of WP Dispensary, one of the leading plugin and theme shops aimed at the cannabis dispensary industry. We discuss Robert's WordPress journey and what lead him to develop WP Dispensary. What have been the challenges? And what are the key things he has learned from the process?

Tim Smith is a designer and front-end developer from Saint Paul, MN. He’s worked on the web for a decade, working with different companies and clients. Tim loves passing on knowledge by speaking and giving workshops. In 2013, he created The Bold Report, a blog about design, development, technology, and most importantly, Star Wars. When away from his desk, he’s with partner-in-crime Kelly, eating brunch, watching movies, walking the mall, and other sappy-sounding couple stuff. Summary of our Interview with Tim Smith Tim Smith started his design career at the age of fifteen, and is an accomplished UX designer, talented front end developer, and noted podcaster. Today we talk with Tim about being a digital creator, and what he’s focusing on now. We also look at the state of the web industry, both from an agency employee’s view, and from a freelancer’s view. Lastly, Tim shares his advice on working in the web design industry and what it means to be a great collaborator. Links mentioned on the show: Tim’s website h

We have a great discussion here on how to choose the right plugin connected to a WordPress project. When you been working with WordPress for a period, it becomes a lot easier to judge what’s a good quality and what a bad one however when starting outing out its a lot harder. In this round-table episode, the panel tries and give their collective support.

In this episode we discuss all things Ecommerce connected to what a consultant or developer taking on their first Ecommerce project should know to an owner who is trying to develop online site by themselves or understand what are the key elements they really need to understand to have a successful online store in 2017. This episode is just fill with great advice from our panel of WordPress community experts. We also have a number of WordPress news stories which we discuss at in the first half of the shows This Weeks WordPress News Stories 1 - WangGuard Plugin Author Shuts Down Splog Hunting Service Due to Trauma and Death Threats https://wptavern.com/wangguard-plugin-author-shuts-down-splog-hunting-service-due-to-trauma-and-death-threats 2 - WordPress.org Needs to Make Uninstall Options Compulsory http://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wordpress-uninstall-options 3 - Jesse Petersen, Founder of Genesis The.me Passes Away https://wptavern.com/jesse-petersen-founder-of-genesis-the-me-passes-away

Gutenberg is going to directly change one of leading factors at the core of WordPress backward comparability connected to that all core upgrades shouldn’t break people’ themes or plugins as long as they have been coded to agreed standards.

People generally feel you got to be a great developer type to really contribute to the WordPress community. However, nothing could be more wrong there’s loads of things you can do even if you not a developer type from helping out on the support forums to transcribing videos for WordPress TV. Then you got all the things that you help with connected to local WordPress meet ups and regional WordCamps events In the news section of the show we had a lively discussion about Gutenberg!

Kernl is a services that provides private plugin and theme updates for WordPress. This is best illustrated with an example. Lets say that you have a brand new plugin that you are selling. Since you are selling this plugin, you can't host it via WordPress.org because otherwise people could download it for free. Like any good developer, you want your plugin to be integrated with the automatic update functionlity of WordPress. Thats where Kernl comes into play. By simply adding a file to your plugin and shortcode snippet you'll be able to host your updates through Kernl instead of WordPress, therefore giving your users the best possible experience and timely updates.

We really have a great show this week folks, our panel discusses some of the latest news including the Gutenberg project which will really change the public face WordPress in a dramatic way. We then go on and discuss our main topic the importance of having a real understanding of the template structure WordPress plus what you can do with this knowledge is impressive. I was really impressed with the level of this weeks discussion and it just showed me how lucky we are connected to having such a strong panel of WordPress experts.