Tag: sustainability

  • #177 – Charlotte Bax on Reducing Your Website’s Carbon Footprint

    #177 – Charlotte Bax on Reducing Your Website’s Carbon Footprint

    In this episode, Nathan Wrigley talks with Charlotte Bax at WordCamp Europe about making websites more environmentally sustainable. Charlotte shares her journey into sustainable web design, offers practical advice on reducing a website’s carbon footprint, like choosing green web hosting, optimising images, improving UX, applying caching, and managing visitor traffic, and introduces advanced concepts like…

  • #118 – Nahuai Badiola on Digital Sustainability Across the Whole WordPress Project

    #118 – Nahuai Badiola on Digital Sustainability Across the Whole WordPress Project

    On the podcast today we have Nahuai Badiola. Nahuai is a freelance WordPress developer, theme, and plugin creator. He also writes WordPress code tutorials and enjoys sharing everything he learns about web sustainability in his blog, podcast, and at WordPress events. Nahuai’s life took an unexpected turn one day when he attended a 10-minute lightning…

  • #82 – Louise Towler on How and Why You Can Make WordPress Sites Sustainable

    #82 – Louise Towler on How and Why You Can Make WordPress Sites Sustainable

    On the podcast today we have Louise Towler. She joined me at the recent WordCamp Europe in Athens to talk about websites and making them more sustainable. Louise is the founder of Indigo Tree, a UK based agency with deep expertise in WordPress websites. She gave a presentation at WordCamp Europe entitled, Digital sustainability: The…

  • #52 – Hannah Smith on Why We Need To Be Making Websites More Sustainable

    #52 – Hannah Smith on Why We Need To Be Making Websites More Sustainable

    On the podcast today, we have Hannah Smith. Hannah is the Operations and Training Manager for the Green Web Foundation and founder of the Let’s Green The Web campaign. It’s pretty easy to forget that the device that you’re reading this post on is consuming power. We plug things in or charge them up, and…

  • WPWeekly Episode 320 – Building a Sustainable Web

    WPWeekly Episode 320 – Building a Sustainable Web

    In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Jack Lenox, Software Engineer at Automattic, to discuss his new project, SustyWP. Lenox explains how he built the site so that it only has 7KB of data transfer, what sustainability on the web means to him, and the relationship between sustainability and optimization to…

  • WPWeekly Episode 319 – The Gutenberg Plugin Turns 30

    WPWeekly Episode 319 – The Gutenberg Plugin Turns 30

    In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Gary Pendergast, a WordPress core contributor, to discuss what’s new with Gutenberg. We find out what happened with WordPress 4.9.6, and discuss WordPress’ future. We also discuss Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub and when WordPress core development might transition to GitHub. Last but not least, we…

  • Sustainability + WordPress = SustyWP

    Sustainability + WordPress = SustyWP

    Jack Lenox, a Software Engineer at Automattic, has launched a new site called SustyWP that focuses on web sustainability using WordPress. By removing the parts of Underscores he didn’t need, using one inline SVG image, no sidebars, limited CSS, and no webfonts, Lenox was able to launch a WordPress site that only has 7 Kilobytes…