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Photo credit: Yanko Peyankov on Unsplash Workflow Wisdom In this episode, I am chatting with Nick Davis about his own workflow journey and why he started GenesisWP.guide. Nick Davis Nick's been building websites for fun and profit since 1997, doing everything from working as one of the first online journalists at the BBC; managing the website of one of the UK’s largest airports; to running a large team of web developers and designers for a publishing company in Dubai. Since going out on his own and discovering WordPress in 2010, he's worked as a WordPress developer and consultant helping business owners and agencies launch better websites for their businesses or clients, obsessing about making everything on their websites as easy to manage as possible. Listen to Episode 17 Where to find Nick: I Am Nick Davis @iamnickdavis on Twitter GenesisWP Guide Tools and Resources discussed: KnowtheCode.io Alain Schlesser - Reusable Code Series Transcript Jackie Hey everybody, this is Jackie D'Elia with episode 17 of Rethink.fm and I have my very special guest, Nick Davis. Hey, Nick. Nick Hey, how you doing? Jackie I'm doing well. Thanks for being on. Most of the folks that listen to this podcast that might be in the genesis community may know you from your GenesisWP.guide site and the newsletter you send out, but you've also been, you also have your hands in lots of other things. Can you give us an update on what it is that you do, where you live and what you're about? Nick Sure. Yeah. Too many things, I've been trying to slim it down but yeah probably people from Genesis, know me from GenesisWP.guide. Mainly I do the newsletter once a week, This Week in Genesis, a very creative title. I think a lot of people know me through that, we've got a few 100 subscribers from that so it's going pretty well. I'm a WordPress developer, I live in Italy. Before that I was in Dubai, before that was in UK. Done lots of different, I guess you could say maybe side businesses. I've been in WordPress development, I was co-founder of Lean Themes, we did a couple of I like to think really nice themes for Genesis. One of them got picked up by StudioPress Kickstart, which we're still getting inquiries and stuff about which is great. Did ThemeVale for a while which is setting up themes with people, doing that as like a business as well. Sort of trying lots of things, seeing what works. Really right now I'm super focused on my consulting and I just try to find a bit of time every week for the GenesisWP guide. Jackie Okay. GenesisWP guide, when did you start that? You recently just said you had a 100th newsletter that came out, the 100th edition. When did that start? Nick It was just over two years. I haven't quite managed every week, but yeah it's been, I think it was March 2 years ago so a little while. Jackie I think that's a really nice way of keeping the Genesis in touch with each other and seeing what's going on. I'm just curious, how do you curate all of that? I know you have something on your site where people can go and just contribute, put a link in, what it's about and why you think it would be useful. Do you use that was a way or do you have other methods of gathering information to put into your weekly newsletter? Nick Sure. I put a thing on the site and that definitely helps so if you haven't been there and you're in Genesis, this is my call to action for you now, go to GenesisPW.guide. You do have to register because I don't want anonymous contributions, but you don't even have to register for the newsletter, you can just post something. It goes literally straight up on the homepage, so don't post anything bad, you'll get banned. Stuff goes up on there and I really did it, yeah, to help me create a newsletter and also because it's long term and it's going to be super long term cause I've been thinking about it so, so, so long, I'd love to turn it more into ...