254 – Automatic content creation with Bertha.ai

Automatic content creation with Bertha.ai - WP Builds Podcast #254

So perhaps you’re really into writing. You live and breathe it. You wake up in the morning and can’t wait to get out the laptop and start bashing away. The ideas flow out of you all the time; never ending. You’re like a tap fully turned on. Mmm. This is not you though is it. It’s more likely that you need to write, have to write, are required to write, but sometimes the ideas just don’t come to you. You stare at the blank screen and your artistic juices don’t flow. You get stuck, frustrated and write less than you need to. You’re a rusty tap, dripping once in a while! What you need is some help. You need something to give you a little push; to set you on the road. Bertha.ai is a WordPress plugin which brings A.I. writing help into your website content creation process. Wherever you write text in your WordPress website, Bertha is there to give you a hand, to help you get started. Find out how it works and what it’s useful for. Check out the podcast…

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253 – ‘W’ is for Writing

'W' is for Writing - WP Builds Weekly WordPress Podcast #253

Writing is such a complex process. When we started to think about this topic, we thought that it would be really straightforward, but after some reflection, it turns out that there’s a lot to say. Are you writing for yourself, for prose, for business, for a third party? Your relationship with that writing will be dramatically altered by the ‘why’ of the writing. What about this interface? Do you like it plain and simple, or perhaps you like all the bells and whistles so that you can get in the weeds of sizing and fonts? Perhaps writing is becoming a dying art. With social platforms promoting short, disposable text, are we dumbing down on what we write, as well as destroying our attention spans for reading? And what about AI? Perhaps there’s going to be no need to write in the future; you’ll just suggest things to some SaaS app and the writing is done for you? As I say, there’s lots to discuss here and I hope that you enjoy the podcast…

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WP Builds Newsletter #61 – WordPress 5.2 RC2, WordCamp US and colour pictures

WordPress 5.2 RC2, WordCamp US and colour pictures - WP Builds Newsletter #61

This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 29th April 2019: WordPress Core WordPress 5.2 RC2 The Month in WordPress: April 2019 WPCampus’ Gutenberg Accessibility Audit Finds “Significant and Pervasive Accessibility Problems” Community WordCamp US 2019 Tickets Now on Sale Security Unauthenticated Media Deletion Vulnerability Patched In WooCommerce Checkout Manager Plugin Users Urged to…

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