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507 – Moving to a WordPress VIP Developer Role - Your Website Engineer

Announcements Pocket Casts joins Automattic Blogging Habit Reminders Jetpack mobile app WooCommerce Update Transitioning to a Developer Role I made it into a developer apprenticeship role in Automattic. This means I am no longer part of the support organization and… Continue Reading →

506 – Adding Custom Fonts to WordPress - Your Website Engineer

Announcements The month in WordPress: March 2021 Wix Advertising Campaign Insert Font Awesome Icons Into the Block Editor via the JVM Gutenberg Rich Text Icons Plugin Jetpack 9.6: Sell more stuff with Search for your Woo Store Is there a… Continue Reading →

505 – Writing SQL to View Data in WordPress - Your Website Engineer

Announcements Did You Know About Reusable Blocks? Introducing WordPress Stories: A New Way to Engage Your Audience WordPress 5.7 Writing SQL to View Data in WordPress There are four types of operations that you can do in SQL: Create Read Update… Continue Reading →

504 – Why Learning JavaScript is Important - Your Website Engineer

Announcements Gutenberg 9.9 Adds Color Options for Social Icons, Includes Rounded Borders for Images, and Changes the Theme JSON Format New Report Estimates WordPress’ Market Share of US Higher Education Institution Websites at 40.8% Is there a plugin for that?… Continue Reading →

503 – Checking in on WordPress Security in 2021 - Your Website Engineer

Announcements WordPress Launches WP Briefing Podcast, Episodes Expected Every 2 Weeks Skinning the WordPress Admin, CSS Custom Properties on the Way Plugin Team Draws a Line: Plugins Must Not Change WordPress’ Default Automatic Update Settings The Events Calendar Plugin is… Continue Reading →

502 – How to Know When You Need Custom - Your Website Engineer

Announcements GutenbergTimes.com WhiteHouse.gov WordPress Roadmap Update: Full-Site Editing Targeted for 5.8 Release in June 2021 How to Know When You Need Custom When it comes to creating a new site you have a few options Free or Paid WordPress Themes… Continue Reading →

501 – Things to Come in 2021 - Your Website Engineer

Announcements Kinsta Launches Free Local WordPress Development Tool Show and Hide Content via the Block Visibility WordPress Plugin Gutenberg’s Faster Performance Is Eroding Page Builders’ Dominance Plan for content in 2021 We are still going talk through how-to’s and WordPress… Continue Reading →

500 – Ten Years of Podcasting - Your Website Engineer

Monday August 2nd, I put in my notice to quit my corporate job August 9th bought our first house in Dayton August 16th I went full time, work from home, self-employed with HartzlerDM.com Launched Your Website Engineer in Nov of… Continue Reading →

499 – Life Update - Your Website Engineer

In today’s episode I provide an update on what’s happening around here 🙂 Terrible internet 75Hard Challenge Relaunching PharmToTable.Life WooCommerce 101 Webinars on Thursdays Now the editor of the Distributed Podcast School’s back in session Designing my new home office… Continue Reading →

498 – Why You Need an Email List - Your Website Engineer

Announcements Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites Jetpack 8.9 Ways to grow subscribers and collect donations Automattic and WordPress iOS woes Is there a plugin for that? With more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress repository,… Continue Reading →

497 – Your Questions Answered - Your Website Engineer

Announcements No announcements this week Is there a plugin for that? With more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository. For more… Continue Reading →

496 – WordPress 5.5 - Your Website Engineer

Announcements WordPress 5.5 Released P2 Theme Launches WordPress Cancels All In-Person Flagship Events Until 2022 Is there a plugin for that? With more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I… Continue Reading →

495 – Your Website Engineer Plugins in 2020 - Your Website Engineer

Announcements WordPress 5.5 Release Candidate Are Plugin Authors to Blame for the Poor Admin Notices Experience? WordPress to Stick with Online-Only Meetups and WordCamps for Remainder of 2020 Is there a plugin for that? With more than 50,000 plugins in… Continue Reading →

494 – Where is Data Stored in the WordPress Database? - Your Website Engineer

Announcements WordPress 5.5 Beta 3 Unsplash Launches Official Plugin for WordPress WPCampus Online 2020 Conference Features Accessibility and Higher Education Topics, July 29-30 Astra Becomes the Only Non-Default WordPress Theme With 1 Million Installs Is there a plugin for that?… Continue Reading →

493 – You Need a Backup Strategy - Your Website Engineer

Announcements Admin 2020 Reimagines WordPress Admin and Media Library Update Themes and Plugins via a ZIP File WordCamp Europe Goes Virtual for 2021, In-Person Conference to Resume 2022 Get Options Podcast E134: How do I talk about being laid off… Continue Reading →

492 – Customize VSCode to Work For You – Customizations - Your Website Engineer

Announcements WooCommerce Blocks 2.7 WooCommerce 4.3 Beta 1 Flywheel Relaunches Local Pro with Revamped Live Links and New Host-Agnostic Pre-Launch Tools Smash Balloon Joins Awesome Motive Gutenberg 8.4 Adds Image Editing, Includes Multi-Block Controls, and Enables Block Directory Search Is… Continue Reading →

491 – Customize VSCode to Work for You – Extensions - Your Website Engineer

Announcements WordPress 5.4.2 Security and Maintenance Release Build Forms via the Block Editor with Gutenberg Forms OpenJS World 2020 Conference Goes Virtual, Tickets Are Free: June 23–24 WordPress Bumps Minimum PHP Recommendation to 7.2 Is there a plugin for that?… Continue Reading →

448 – Plugin Review: OptinMonster - Your Website Engineer

More details coming soon! a Rafflecopter giveaway View on YourWebsiteEngineer.com

447 – June News Updates - Your Website Engineer

WordPress 5.2.2 Maintenance Release Jetpack 7.4: General Maintenance Update WP Engine to Acquire Flywheel Matt Mullenweg’s Summer Update at WordCamp Europe 2019: Gutenberg’s Progress and a Preview of Upcoming Features WordCamp Europe 2020 to be Held in Porto, June 4-6… Continue Reading →

446 – WordPress Membership Plugin Options - Your Website Engineer

WooCommerce Memberships Restrict Content Pro MemberPress S2Member aMember Pro View on YourWebsiteEngineer.com

445 – Stay in the Loop: Best WordPress News Sources - Your Website Engineer

WordPress.org Gutenberg Times Sucuri Ma.tt Search Engine Journal WordFence WPBeginner Liquid Web Kinsta WPTavern WPLift BobWP ManageWP World of WordPress WPShout View on YourWebsiteEngineer.com

444 – My Favorite Plugin: WP Migrate DB Pro - Your Website Engineer

Today we discuss the features of my favorite WordPress plugin, WP Migrate iDB Pro. I like that I can: Quickly clone my live site to my dev site, without any extra files downloaded on my computer Find and replace content… Continue Reading →

443 – May News Updates - Your Website Engineer

WordPress 5.2.1 Maintenance Release Jetpack 7.3 Happy Sweet 16 WordPress Automattic Acquires Prospress Take the 2019 WP&UP Mental Health and Well-Being Survey Elementor Launches Hello Theme on WordPress.org Loveland Public Library to Host Free Beginners WordPress Class Online Jetpack Opens… Continue Reading →

442 – Get Options Podcast - Your Website Engineer

This week, it was my privilege to be a host of the Get Options podcast, episode 95. I’ve added the audio as this week’s show so you can get a taste of another WordPress podcast. If you are looking for… Continue Reading →

441 – Plugin Review: SearchWP - Your Website Engineer

Plugin Review In today’s episode we look at the premium plugin SearchWP and how it can extend the lackluster default search in WordPress. By default, WordPress will only search titles and body content for post and pages. This doesn’t work… Continue Reading →

440 – Plugin Review: WooCommerce Bookings - Your Website Engineer

Announcements WordPress 5.2 “Jaco” Released WordPress Designers Explore Proposal to Simplify WP Admin Navigation WordCamp US 2019 Tickets Now on Sale Plugin Review: WooCommerce Bookings Bookings is a premium extension that adds the ability to have customers book time on… Continue Reading →

439 – Summer Learning - Your Website Engineer

Announcements Team meetup this week in Toronto Three month sabbatical starts next week Summer Learning What should we learn about over the next month? Any particular paid plugins? Page builders? Different CMS’s Different levels of hosting? Different code editors? Step-by-step… Continue Reading →

438 – WP Cron and Action Scheduler - Your Website Engineer

Announcements WooCommerce 3.6 shipped Dashicons in WordPress 5.2 Is there a plugin for that? With more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the… Continue Reading →

437 – Code Snippets and Your WordPress Site - Your Website Engineer

In today’s episode, we talk about the different ways to add both CSS and PHP snippets to your WordPress site. View on YourWebsiteEngineer.com

436 – Speed Up Your Site By Lazy Loading Images - Your Website Engineer

In today’s episode, we look at how to speed up our site by adding a lazy loading images plugin. View on YourWebsiteEngineer.com

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