Many website owners I talk to are feeling a bit nervous about SEO right now. With AI search results getting all the attention, it’s easy to wonder if all that hard work is still paying off. You may be wondering if SEO is still worth it in 2025. It’s a valid question, especially when your […]
I’ve built all kinds of WordPress forms over the years, from surveys and contact forms to email newsletter signups. But even with CAPTCHA and other anti-spam tools in place, my inbox kept filling up with junk submissions. When I finally took a closer look at the problem, I noticed a clear pattern: most of the […]
I was reminded today of the profound marketing influence of Kathy Sierra, who was a pretty prolific blogger and speaker back in the day. I would summarize her thesis as such: Your best marketing and communication should talk about how you make your users awesome, not how you’re awesome. If you’d like to check out […]
In this episode, Mark chats with Aurelio Volle from WPUmbrella about his journey in creating a WordPress management tool, maintaining customer focus, and the importance of community and transparency in business growth.
One of the cooler companies I’ve seen in a while is LumaField, which does industrial CT scanning, as they describe it. Industrial X-ray CT (Computed Tomography) works on the same basic principle as medical CT, taking hundreds of X-ray images from different angles to capture the internal and external structure of objects in three dimensions. […]
Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case teaching and using WordPress with low vision. If you’d like to subscribe to […]
Using WooCommerce and open source to take kitchen baking into an online cake business, embracing cake in a jar and building a vibrant brand with community support.
I love creating and managing WordPress websites, but to be honest, it sometimes feels like a full-time job in itself. I remember the early days of juggling content, plugin updates, and marketing tasks, often feeling like there weren’t enough hours in the day to do it all. You’re trying to grow your business, not get […]
Two of my favorite humans, Tim Ferriss and Pablos Holman, had a great interview together. Pablos has a great new book out, and Audrey Capital is a happy LP in his Deep Future fund. Of my many hacker friends, Pablos is probably the most public.
Matthias Pfefferle discusses the Fediverse’s origins and evolution with Evan Prodromou, highlighting decentralized social networks, protocols, privacy, and the future of federated systems.