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Accessibility, Revenue, and the Mistakes Most Agencies Keep Making | Anne-Mieke Bovelett

Most organizations only consider accessibility when faced with a legal deadline or a complaint. Anne-Mieke Bovelett's approach begins much earlier, at the stage of product decisions, design systems, and CMS workflows that ensure a site is accessible for everyone before any code is written. With 27…

Truth About Malta’s State (BREAKING) | Prime Minister - Robert Abela

How does a shy kid who cleaned gym toilets at 16 end up in the loneliest job in Malta? Robert Abela is the Prime Minister of Malta, the 14th to hold the office, a lawyer by profession and the son of a former President of Malta. His father grew up in deep poverty, in a home where the family washed…

From Inquiry Form to Signed Client: An Agency's Real Qualification Process | Kyle Van Deusen

Do you quote a price after one 30-minute call? Kyle Van Deusen, owner of OGAL Web Design and founder of The Admin Bar community, stopped doing that years ago. Instead, a structured inquiry form, a no-cost "vibes check" call, and a paid discovery workshop come before any number gets attached to a pr…

Recurring Revenue Playbook: Selling and Scaling WordPress Maintenance Plans | Josh Hall

In Episode 57 of the Melapress Show, Josh Hall, founder of Web Designer Pro, joins Robert Abela to discuss how to turn one-off WordPress projects into recurring maintenance revenue. Selling a maintenance plan is one of the trickiest parts of running a web design business: sell too early, and you s…

Behind the WordPress.org Plugin Review Process | Francisco Torres (WordPress Plugins Team)

Most WordPress users never think twice about the plugins repository: search, install, done. But behind that simple flow sits a review pipeline that handles roughly 800 new submissions a week, run by fewer than 10 active volunteers, with help from automated tools and AI. Francisco walks through how …

Why Every Website Is a Target: WordPress Security for Small Businesses | Kathy Zant (Security consultant)

In episode 59 of The Melapress Show, Robert Abela speaks with security consultant Kathy Zant about the security challenges facing small businesses that use WordPress. Kathy explains why long login sessions create opportunities for session hijacking, how AI connector keys can increase the value of a…

Robert Abela on Malta, WordPress Security, Entrepreneurship, and Adapting to Change

Send us Fan Mail An unexpected conversation about resilience - across countries, careers, cultures, and whatever comes next.  Please follow Seriously, BUD? and don't forget to rate and review my show.  Robert Abela traces his journey from growing up on the small island of Malta to eventually settli…

Code is not documentation: How to document software properly | Milana Cap (XWP)

In this episode of The Melapress Show, Robert Abela speaks with Milana Cap, WordPress Documentation Team representative and WordPress Engineer at XWP, about the role documentation plays in building and maintaining software. The conversation explores why documentation is often neglected, why code re…

#237 – Robert Abela on WordPress Security and the Battle Against AI Threats

The conversation focused on insights from the 2026 WordPress Security Survey by Melapress, featuring guest Robert Abela. We talked about persistent concerns among WordPress users, with 78 percent of survey participants expressing security worries and nearly 68 percent having experienced at least on…

#237 – Robert Abela on WordPress Security and the Battle Against AI Threats

The conversation focused on insights from the 2026 WordPress Security Survey by Melapress, featuring guest Robert Abela. We talked about persistent concerns among WordPress users, with 78 percent of survey participants expressing security worries and nearly 68 percent having experienced at least on…