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In this episode: Interview – Creating WordPress courses with Joe Casabona
Firstly, I have a confession to make! I got a new Mac. I know, that’s of no interest to you at all, but there is a point to this… I record the podcasts on my Mac and then file the recordings away so that I can edit the episodes together at the required time.
So I got this new Mac and copied over the files from the old Mac so that I was right back where I should be, except a few of the episodes somehow got lost upon the way. I have no idea how this happened, I used Apple’s Time Machine. Maybe I had it set up wrong, or maybe it just didn’t work as it should have. But, to cut a long story short, some of the interviews that I did got left behind, gathering digital dust.
Now, I’m the kind of guy that backs up my backups and a few weeks ago I needed to retrieve something that I knew had not been transferred over to the new Mac. I started poking about and I noticed that there were some podcast interview files that I knew I had not seen in a while.
Needless to say, I copied those over and so over the next few weeks I’m going to be putting those out.
Joe Casabona is such an episode. You might notice that we talk a little bit about the upcoming release of Gutenberg, and so you might be thinking – hang on, that came out ages ago… QED what I said above! None of it is stale, it’s just recorded a few months back, not a few weeks back! I can only say sorry to Joe and I’ll be more careful in the future!
So what’s this episode about? It’s about all the myriad things that Joe does in the WordPress space. Like many of us he cut his teeth on simple projects and began using WordPress when it was still wet behind the ears. His first paid gig was for his church and he knew that earning money making websites was just what he wanted to do.
Fast forward and he’s worked on just about every kind of WordPress website that you could imagine, and being part of the giant Crowd Favorite agency meant that Joe’s work was with WordPress was broad and deep.
After working there for many years, Joe decided that it was time to cut himself loose and create his own products and managing his own destiny. This was about 2 years ago and since then he’s been working tirelessly creating his own courses. You can find his courses over at the Creator Courses website.
I know quite a few people who create courses for the WordPress community, and although this is a large part of what Joe does, there’s an interesting twist to his work too. You see, Joe also makes courses for other people. So let’s say that you’re a plugin developer and you know that you need some training material so that your customers know what the product is all about… Joe can do that for you, which I think is a really great niche to be in!
He’s also big into podcasting, and his How I Built It podcast is going from strength.
In 2018 Joe partnered up with Zac Gordon to launch their Gutenberg courses at the same time and not overlap the content that they were offering. You can find Joe’s Gutenberg Course here and Zac’s Courses are here.
Joe’s Gutenberg course deals with how you can assist your clients who are trying to get to grips with the new interface; so that they don’t trip up and understand the unfamiliar interface. Zac deals with more developer related things like how to create new blocks.
Again, there are some caveats about the fact that this episode is way later than it should have been, I’m not too sure that the pricing that I mention in the podcast are what they are now, and if this is the case my sincerely apologise.
Now, to emphasise the fact that Joe has a growing load of content, he’s also done a course about using Beaver Builder as well as a course about using WordPress as a platform to create a podcast – which, as we all know, is the best use of WordPress!
You can actually get 30% off the podcasting course using the offer code “wpbuilds”. Use this link to do that.
Go check it out!
DEAL ALERT: Get 30% off the following courses with the offer code “WPBUILDS”:
Podcast Course
Gutenberg for Freelancers
Theming with Gutenberg
Mentioned in this episode:
creatorcourses.com
casabona.org
howibuilt.it
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