What are the best practices for growing fans of your WordPress product? In this episode of Press This, Doc Pop interviews Adam Weeks, co-founder of Cirrus Influence, a PR marketing agency specializing in WordPress products. Adam shares insights into building a loyal user base, the challenges of marketing within the WordPress ecosystem, and the importance of simplifying messaging. The conversation also explores the hero’s journey in marketing and strategies for maintaining and recruiting users. Tune in for valuable tips on marketing your WordPress product and creating loyal fans.

Interaction to Next Paint or INP is the latest addition to Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics that’s going to be of importance for WordPress website owners. It’s another measurement to determine the quality of your site’s user experience and also affects your SEO. INP tracks how quickly your website responds to user input, for example, how soon after a visitor clicks on a button they will see the effect. It’s probably no surprise that a fast reaction is preferable. To help you figure out how to ace this part of Core Web Vitals, just like for Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative […]

In this week’s episode of Press This, we discuss the rapid evolution of platforms and the importance of content ownership with Seth Goldstein, a WordPress and marketing expert with more than 15 years of experience. We delve into his latest Substack article, “For Crying Out Loud, Own Your Own Content”, exploring his shift from Substack to WordPress for his newsletter. Seth shares the tools he utilized, the challenges encountered, and his belief in prioritizing self-hosted content before sharing on social media.

If you want your website to succeed, you need to stay on top of its SEO. But that can be a challenge with so many metrics to track. That’s where creating an SEO report comes in handy. A comprehensive report on your site’s search engine optimization collects data from various SEO tools into one place so you or your clients can put that info to work. However, if you’ve never done it before, you might not even know where to start. That’s why we’ve put together this step-by-step guide. Below, you’ll learn how to effectively put together meaningful data to […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. On this episode, we talk to Ben Ritner from Kadence WP about how Kadence AI makes it easier for users to create new WordPress websites.

In this episode of Press This, we talk with Nathan Ingram, the host at Solid Academy and a WordCamp organizer. Nathan shares his WordPress origin story and his current focus as an educator for WordPress professionals. We also talk about AI integration in web development and SolidWP’s public rebranding. Tune in for insights into Nathan’s experiences and the evolving landscape of WordPress education

On this episode of Press This, Doc Pop and Mike Davey talk about the recent “State of the Word” address that Matt Mullenweg gave in Madrid. We recap some of the most interesting moments from the talk and our opinions on “data liberation”, the state of the fediverse, collaborative editing, and how WordPress can interact with WebAssembly in 2024.

Artificial intelligence is pretty much the main topic on the Internet right now. It’s worming its way into all areas of digital life. That includes WordPress, which already offers plenty of ways to use AI in combination with it. That’s not all that surprising. At WordCamp EU 2023, Matt Mullenweg already predicted that AI and open source software would make a good match. To give you a better impression of the possibilities that exist, in this post, we will count the many ways you can use AI in WordPress right now. 1. Create Written Content This one is a no-brainer. […]

If 2023 was the year that generative AI became mainstream, what does that mean for the world of AI and WordPress in 2024? In this episode of Press This, industry experts Rob Howard and Stephen Cuccio share their predictions for the new year. Discover the transformative potential of AI integration within WordPress, from content generation to page building, as we explore emerging trends, and envision the future possibilities of AI-driven website development.