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Post Status Excerpt (No. 29) — Better Way To Support Customers
"If you're a founder of a company go through your own customer experience yourself — with your own eyes."
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory and David talk about their best and worst support experiences as customers. If you are a freelancer or small agency and your ability to deal with support issues from customers isn't working, then that's a sign of something broken in your workflow. Companies should try to be more proactive and helpful to customers even if they can't help them immediately or solve all their problems.
Also don't forget: We're also encouraging listeners to check out the "Week at WordPress.org" (get the feed here), and submit your Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals to us at Post Status.
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* SuperDuper!
* Profitable Project Plan | Business Training For Web Designers
* The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
* Share Black Friday / Cyber Monday Deals With Post Status
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: Yoast
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2 days ago
Membership and Courses With Sean McCabe
Cory Miller talks with Sean McCabe, CEO of Seanwes Media. While it’s likely never been easier to sell courses for an audience (especially if you are using a system like WordPress), what hasn’t changed — according to Sean — is the marketing and the validation of what you are marketing, how you are marketing it, and how you are pricing it. Sean shares his perspectives on these permanent problems, outlining what has and hasn’t worked for him. Sean also shares his thoughts on what comes first — the community, the courses, or both. This is a must-listen for anyone with a membership course or learning site, or anyone who is thinking of starting one.
🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* Seanwes.com on presale profits
* Sean McCabe (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: Pagely
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The Post Status Draft podcast is geared toward WordPress professionals, with interviews, news, and deep analysis. 📝
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Oct 15, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 28) — A WordPress Core Performance Team?
"If plugin authors were better educated maybe they would make some different choices."
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory and David talk about WordPress's reputation relative to its performance. This discussion unfolds in light of a new proposal for a Performance Team for WordPress core. What should happen to improve the WordPress experience (for both the user and for search engines) on the front-end and the admin experience as well? Education? Notifications to the user?
Also covered in this episode: We are formally announcing the existence of the new Post Status homepage, which is still a work in progress. We're also encouraging listeners to check out the "Week at WordPress.org" (get the feed here), and submit your Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals to us at Post Status.
Browse past episodes from all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe to them on your favorite players. Post Status' Draft, Comments, and Excerpt podcasts are on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, and Simplecast. (RSS) 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* Proposal for a Performance team
* The Legend of the Headless Website — Post Status Live with Brad Williams, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Greg Rickaby, and Amor Kumar
* This Week at WordPress.org (October 11, 2021)
* Share Black Friday / Cyber Monday Deals With Post Status
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: Wordfence
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Oct 7, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 27) — CaboPress and Owning Your Own Content (For Some)
"While WordPress _does_ democratize publishing there are people today that can't take advantage of that."
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory comes back freshly tanned from CaboPress to share his experiences and one big takeaway point that everyone can appreciate. David brings up how Facebook's outage this week made him start to give pause before quipping on Twitter about "owning your own content." He asks if or how WordPress and the open web can help the people for whom Facebook _is_ the internet.
Also covered in this episode: A shout out to WordCamp US 2021 which was held virtually for the first time on October 1st — a fine virtual event after only eight weeks of planning!
Browse past episodes from all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe to them on your favorite players. Post Status' Draft, Comments, and Excerpt podcasts are on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, and Simplecast. (RSS) 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* #CaboPress on Twitter
* CaboPress.com
* WordCamp US 2021 Summary (Post Status)
* Thinking First Before Saying "Own Your Own Content!"
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: iThemes
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Sep 23, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 26) — WordPress Acquisition Overload Syndrome (W.A.O.S)
"Remember to put people before software and community before code."
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David and Cory recover from an overwhelming week of acquisition news in the WordPress space. _Four _well-known WordPress companies announced acquisitions almost back-to-back. Next, Cory notes Michelle Frechette's article on Post Status about the challenging and difficult choices some employees of newly acquired companies may have to make.
Also covered in this episode: David shares what has (and hasn't) changed in the WordPress space in terms of business and opportunities. Then he considers the possible ways developers can look at acquisitions as a whole.
Browse past episodes from all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe to them on your favorite players. Post Status' Draft, Comments, and Excerpt podcasts are on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, and Simplecast. (RSS) 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* Post Status Draft Podcast: Chris Lema
* Post Status Draft Podcast: Pippin Williamson
* Liquid Web Acquires LearnDash
* Awesome Motive Has Acquired Sandhills Development
* ThemeIsle Acquires WP Landing Kit
* Keanan Koppenhaver Acquires Branch and WPPusher
* Your WordPress Company Has Been Acquired: Now What?
* Paul Lacey's Tweet
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: Bluehost
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Sep 22, 2021
Pippin Williamson on Awesome Motive Acquiring Sandhills Development
Awesome Motive Acquires Sandhills Development
Post Status CEO Cory Miller chats with Pippin Williamson, the Founder and Managing Director of Sandhills Development, about Awesome Motive's acquisition of his company.
Pippin announced today that Awesome Motive has acquired his company — their whole team and plugin portfolio: Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, Sugar Calendar, WP Simple Pay, and the Payouts Service. Syed Balkhi, Founder and CEO of Awesome Motive, outlines the commercial plugins and notes the deal includes several free plugins as well. From Sandhills, Chris Klosowski, Andrew Munro, and Phil Derksen will be joining Awesome Motive as partners, and Chris will continue to lead Easy Digital Downloads.
Pippin, however, intends to take a very long break from WordPress and software development.
Sitting down with Cory Miller for some reflection on the past and thoughts about the future in the WordPress space, Pippin offered advice to developers and product owners today. He also identified what he sees as the biggest threat emerging for WordPress today.Key Takeaway: "The Biggest Threat We Have Today" 🦈
As both an opportunity and "a major threat" to "WordPress the platform" that comes from its openness, Pippin warns:
"We are getting to a point where WordPress is so big and there is so much money involved in the WordPress ecosystem that it is now very much in large companies' interests to create their own version of WordPress."
Pippin Williamson
Because "the WordPress experience is not consistent" between major hosting platforms — due to their attempts to improve their customer experience — Pippin is concerned end users won't be able to tell what is WordPress and what is the host.
Might that kind of platform balkanization carry over into the WordPress community, dividing developers, product businesses, and end users?
Pippin also referenced Kinsta COO Jon Penland's conversation with Anchor Hosting founder Austin Ginder back in June on Kinsta's Reverse Engineered podcast:
"...something that I’ve been thinking about a lot over the last year, which is a move I see in the WordPress space in general, at the host level, and I’m not going to name any names because I don’t want to throw stones, but to pull in more and more tooling that’s not part of the Core. And, I just worry that we’re going to end up in a situation, a few years from now, where we have a whole lot of walled gardens, right? Where WordPress at host A is not the same thing as WordPress at host B and is not the same at WordPress at host C, because as you described, a WordPress provider might try to solve this problem as an on-ramp for their own customers."
Jon Penland
🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Pippin Williamson (Twitter)
* Pippin on the Sandhills Acquisition
* Syed Balkhi on Awesome Motive's Plans for Pippin's Plugins
* Acquisition Announcement at Easy Digital Downloads
* Jon Penland interviews Austin Ginder for Kinsta's Reverse Engineered podcast🙏 Sponsor: Sandhills Development
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Sep 21, 2021
Chris Lema on Liquid Web Acquiring LearnDash
Chris Lema talks about the latest WordPress acquisition: LearnDash is joining Liquid Web. Will it become the leading LMS turnkey solution?
Post Status CEO Cory Miller chats with Chris Lema, Vice President of Products at Liquid Web, about Liquid Web's acquisition of LearnDash. LearnDash will join Liquid Web's StellarWP brand, and Chris will step in as the General Manager of LearnDash.
It's been a boom time in recent years for edutech companies. As the online learning leader in the WordPress space with their Learning Management System (LMS) plugin for WordPress — which comes with a whole ecosystem of addons and integrations — it's no surprise LearnDash would be attractive as a platform for a hosting company to acquire. Get an inside look at the latest big deal in WordPress acquisitions with Chris Lema.
"Everyone knows LearnDash as the leader of online learning in the WordPress ecosystem. We are excited to welcome them to the Liquid Web family as we continue to build our strength in the digital commerce ecosystem. LearnDash takes us deeper into the digital commerce space by offering online educators the best tools to create online courses, quizzes, and dynamic content with built-in marketing and ecommerce features. We believe in their brand, and we know that with our backing, they will continue to deliver the online solutions educators need." — Chris Lema
🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Chris Lema (Twitter)
* LearnDash
* Liquid Web
* StellarWP🙏 Sponsor: GoDaddy Pro
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The Post Status Draft podcast is geared toward WordPress professionals, with interviews, news, and deep analysis. 📝
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Sep 16, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 25) — Doing "The Right Thing" & MailChimp Acquisition Thoughts
“When it comes to the entrepreneurial journey - the highest highs and the lowest lows are always people.”
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David and Cory first discuss how hard it is to do "the right thing" and potentially dealing with tough and negative feedback as a result. How does an entrepreneur prepare for "roller coaster" times — especially if the ride is heading down? What should you keep in mind? Cory shares an iThemes experience in response.
Also covered in this episode: Cory and David talk about the $12 billion acquisition of MailChimp by Intuit, and how that could potentially reshape the business landscape for WordPress users and entrepreneurs.
Note: David misspoke and said "Stripe" instead of "Square." Forgive him.
Browse past episodes from all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe to them on your favorite players. Post Status' Draft, Comments, and Excerpt podcasts are on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, and Simplecast. (RSS) 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
* Intuit confirms $12B deal to buy Mailchimp
* Syed Balkhi on Twitter: Accept payments in WordPress using Square and WPForms.
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: GoDaddy Pro
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Sep 9, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 24) — Entrepreneurial Resilience: Relying On Others
"A crisis can either build you or break you."
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David and Cory reflect on a tough question: What can help WordPress professionals weather the storm of being an entrepreneur in challenging times? Cory shares four types of people who can offer support in their own unique ways: spouses, counselors, coaches, and colleagues. It's important that you find the right combination of people and connections that works best for you.
Also covered in this episode: Cory and David thank their spouses and will later share the timestamps of the podcast with them as evidence.
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* WordCamp Sacramento 2017 - Cory Miller on "Entrepreneurial Resilience"
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: SpinupWP
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Sep 3, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 23) — Farewell To Andrea, But Not The Classic Editor
New hires to Post Status and an acqui-hire for Automattic.
In this episode, David and Cory talk about recent news from all corners of the WordPress community. First, they share how they will miss Andrea Middleton — who is taking a great new opportunity at Reddit after 10 years of full-time work on the WordPress open source project. Next, they talk about why keeping the Classic Editor plugin officially supported makes sense, and how the Frontity acquisition by Automattic can be viewed as an acquihire to advance Gutenberg's development.
Also covered in this episode: Cory and David welcome Jonathan Wold to the Post Status team.
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* Thanks for a great 10 years, WordPress!
* Jonathan Wold (Twitter)
* An Update on the Classic Editor Plugin
* Frontity to Join Automattic
* Frontity is joining Automattic
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: Gravity Forms
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Aug 27, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 22) — Dealing With Developer Overload: Organzation
We Can Be Organized In How We Multitask.
In this episode, David and Cory have a conversation about another way to prevent Developer Overload: organization. Cory shares how he benefited from a mentor, while David feels that documentation, commenting code, and following some best practices can help reduce anxiety overall — if you can convince yourself to adopt new habits. This show is worth a listen just for Cory's "going on a hike" metaphor.
Also covered in this episode: Cory encourages David to take the Kolbe A Index test.
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)
* kolbe.com
* strengthsfinder.com
* Get Hired🙏 Sponsor: Sandhills Development
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Aug 19, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 21) — Dealing With Developer Overload: Focus
Avoiding ego, reinventing the wheel, and shiny objects.
In this episode, David and Cory discuss Developer Overload, which David defines as what happens when "when you receive too much information and are unable to process it, resulting in negative responses and unhealthy effects." David shares tips on how developers can focus on what to pay serious attention to, how to avoid creating more work for themselves, how to increase focus, and what project managers can do to help.
Also covered in this episode: "As developers we often bite off more than we can chew... we also tend to take that bite from the wrong side of the sandwich."
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)
* Max Böck on Simplicity🙏 Sponsor: Yoast
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Aug 12, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 20) — Yoast Acquired, Businesses Need To Allow More Play
Allowing time to goof off or pursuing a passion improves team connections.
Professor Jane Dutton from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business suggests "four ways to build high-quality workplace connections" — respectful engagement, support, trust — and _play_. Play is what Cory and David focus on in this episode — why should companies set aside time to explore, goof off, or entertain each other with no particular outcome in mind?
Also covered in this episode: Only an hour before recording this, Yoast announced it is being acquired by Newfold Digital — formerly known at least in part as Endurance International Group (EIG). David and Cory share their initial thoughts with more analysis still to come.
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)
* Joost's Announcement In Post…
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Aug 6, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 19) — How Can New Developers Get Started In WordPress?
The first step to getting started might not be technical.
As new people come into Post Status looking for some guidance, there is a tendency among old hands to say things used to be much easier. Although it was a simpler time ten years ago, getting started in WordPress development presented challenges to new developers much as web development generally does today for seasoned developers. With a mature WordPress ecosystem now, new and experienced developers should set their expectations about business success carefully.
Also covered in this episode: David remembers that a decade ago, even though the web and WordPress were less complex, development in many ways wasn't any less challenging. Remember WordPress MU (Multisite)?
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)
* Ron & Andrea Rennick: WordPr…
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Jul 30, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 18) — Is Growth Of Active Plugin Installs On The Decline? 📉
Many plugins in the WordPress.org repository have shown a significant drop in active install growth this year.
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller focus on a blog post David published on July 23rd on Post Status entitled "Is The Growth Of Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining in 2021?" Since about May or early June, the overall trends for some of the most popular and well-known plugins’ “active install growth” (as reported by WordPress.org) are pointing generally downward — their growth is in decline.
Also covered in this episode: Cory shares what he observed at iThemes regarding sales trends and how it might be related to the trends reported by Post Status. David thanks Iain Poulson for backing his observations with some solid numbers.
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Tw…
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Jul 22, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 17) — Acquisition Tracker, WordPress 5.8, #ClickPublish
Acquisitions in the WordPress space, WordPress 5.8, WordFest Live, Elementor is 5, and #ClickPublish
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller chat about how the new Post Status Acquisition Tracker is a window into significant moments and trends in WordPress history. With WordPress 5.8 released this week, it will be interesting to see how theme developers react and adapt to it in the coming months and years. It seems some people aren't happy about a certain change to the Media Library.
Also covered in this episode: On the eve of WordFest 2021, David notes Elementor's fifth anniversary and how they might be installed on about 12% of all WordPress sites. Cory shares the #ClickPublish movement he's started on Post Status Slack.
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)…
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Jul 9, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 16) — Syed Balkhi on Acquiring SearchWP
"Understanding who you are and who you are not goes a long way."
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset talks with Syed Balkhi about the acquisition of SearchWP by Awesome Motive. We get a little behind-the-scenes information about how this deal came to be. Syed shares his thoughts on how SearchWP fits in with Awesome Motive's brand and vision of providing support to small businesses.
Also covered in this episode: Syed talks about "plugin developers and entrepreneurs being true" to their mission when it comes to growing and monetizing their products and plugins.
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)
* SearchWP is Joining the Awesome Motive Family
* I Sold SearchWP to Awesome Motive🙏 Sponsor: SpinupWP
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Jul 9, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 15) — Jon Christopher on Finding A New Home For SearchWP
"I realized that I wanted [SearchWP] to be long term and stable...it deserved a team behind it."
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset talks with Jon Christopher about his sale of SearchWP to Awesome Motive. The two talk about what motivated Jon — the sole developer (and marketer) of SearchWP — to part with his plugin. David also asks Jon about his view of search as it exists today in WordPress Core, what he might like to see in search going forward, and what his future plans are.
Also covered in this episode: Jon shares some advice for plugin developers who want to monetize their products and plugins, even if those plugins aren't well-known.
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)
* SearchWP is Joining the Awesome Motive Family
* I Sold SearchWP to Awesome Motive🙏 Sp…
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Jul 7, 2021
Craig Hewitt on Castos Latest Funding And Expansion Of Private Podcasting
Castos is a WordPress-powered podcast hosting provider with roots in the open-source community through their Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin for WordPress. They recently announced a $756K pre-seed funding round from a number of companies, including Automattic and Yoast SEO.
Cory Miller sat down with Castos CEO Craig Hewitt to talk about this move and how Castos is eager to expand its services in the private podcasting market.⚠️ CORRECTION:
In the audio recording, a $756 _Million_ figure was mistakenly given. Castos has raised $756 _thousand_ in investor funding.🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Craig Hewitt (Twitter)
* Castos (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: SpinupWP
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Jul 1, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 14) — Starting Your "Next Chapter" Project
Take 10% of your time, energy, and even money and start investing it systematically in a “Next Chapter” project.
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about how to build a "career raft" for yourself — something Cory wishes he did when he sold iThemes and went looking for new ventures. Cory explains how to identify what might be a good fit for your "next chapter" project and how to maintain your motivation, whether you are a developer, marketer, or entrepreneur.
Also covered in this episode: Cory and David congratulate James Laws and the entire team at Ninja Forms who are celebrating their 10th anniversary this week. They proved that there was room (and then some) for another form plugin in the WordPress space.
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)…
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Jun 17, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 13) — WordPress Economy Study, Trying Gutenberg Again
$635.5 billion by the end of 2021?
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller and David Bisset briefly touch on two more acquisitions this week — one involving Extendify and another by Automattic. Cory and David review some highlights from WP Engine's recent report on the WordPress economy. WP Engine estimates the WordPress market generated more than half a trillion dollars (USD) in 2020. They expect the market to grow to $635.5 billion by the end of 2021.
Also covered in this episode: A discussion of people who gave up on Gutenberg in its early phases release and how they might be convinced to give it another shot now. This topic came up thanks to an article written by Chris Lema and the conversation it provoked in Post Status Slack.
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡
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Jun 8, 2021
Brad Touesnard on the Acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields
Raising eyebrows in the WordPress community — especially among developers — Delicious Brains announced they have acquired Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). Elliot Condon is the creator and has been the sole developer for ACF for about a decade. While Elliot will be involved in the transition, he will not stay with the Delicious Brains team in the long term, according to his blog post.
In this episode of Post Status Draft, Cory Miller talks with Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains following the announcement that his company has acquired the Advanced Custom Fields plugin from Elliot Condon.🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Brad Touesnard (Twitter)
* Elliot Condon (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)
* Delicious Brains (Twitter)
* Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)🙏 Sponsor: Pagely
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Jun 2, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 12) — Takeaways From The ACF Acquisition
A Focus On Mental Health And Long-Term Stability
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller and David Bisset discuss the recently announced acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields plugin by Delicious Brains Inc. After having time to absorb community feedback and listen to a pre-recorded interview with those involved, David and Cory share why this move is a win for the WordPress community in the long run.
Also covered in this episode: For freelancers and solopreneurs with projects and products that grow close to an unmanageable size: where do you draw the line between owning your product and handing the reins of your creation to someone else? (Controlling your destiny is great, on the one hand, but having full responsibility and the stress that comes with it is tough to sustain, on the other hand.)
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡
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May 28, 2021
Post Status Comments (No. 1) — Monetization of WordPress Plugins
Monetization of WordPress Plugins
This episode features a conversation in Twitter Spaces that took place on May 28, 2021. Our topic is monetization of WordPress plugins. Speakers: Cory Miller, Joe Casabona, Joost de Valk, David Bisset (host) along with many others commenting live in Post Status Slack.
Post Status Comments provides a stage for WordPress professionals to exchange ideas and talk about recent topics and trends.
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)
* How I Built It - Is ProfilePress' Move Indicative Of A Bigger .Org Problem?🙏 Sponsor: iThemes
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May 21, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 11) — A New Era For Post Status
Change and a vision for the future at Post Status
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller and David Bisset discuss the future of Post Status and Cory's full acquisition of it from its founder, Brian Krogsgard. Brian launched Post Status eight years ago. Today, Brian shared his announcement publicly, and Cory also outlined his plans for the future of Post Status.
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Post Status (Twitter)
* Cory: Our Future Together
* Brian: A New Era for Post Status
* Introducting A New Chapter: An Interview With Cory Miller🙏 Sponsor: Bluehost
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May 14, 2021
Devin Walker and Matt Cromwell on GiveWP's Acquisition by Liquid Web
In a move many people have admitted they didn't see coming, Liquid Web announced this week their acquisition of GiveWP. WP Business Reviews is also part of the deal. (Both belong to the Impress.org brand.) GiveWP and WP Business Reviews will join under a new brand, StellarWP. Stellar will house all of Liquid Web’s software assets. 🤝
This acquisition follows Liquid Web acquiring iThemes in 2018 and The Events Calendar in December 2020.
In this episode of Post Status Draft, Brian Krogsgard talks with GiveWP's (former) CEO and COO, co-founders Devin Walker and Matt Cromwell following the announcement that their company, Impress.org, has been acquired by Liquid Web.🙏 Sponsor: iThemes
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May 13, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 10) — GiveWP + LiquidWeb, Acquisitions Good For WordPress?
Announcement of LiquidWeb acquiring GiveWP sparks discussion: are all acquisitions good for WordPress?
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller and David Bisset discuss the recent announcement of GiveWP and WP Business Reviews joining the Liquid Web Family of Brands. StellarWP will house all of Liquid Web’s software assets, including iThemes, The Events Calendar, Restrict Content Pro, and Kadence WP.
Also covered in this episode: David gets Cory's take on acquisitions in general for the WordPress space — what's the potential (good or bad), and how should the WordPress professional view the consolidation of their ecosystem under fewer, bigger companies?
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bis…
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May 6, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 9) — Recommended Reads, How We Update
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller recommends three books with great value to the WordPress community and people who make their living as professionals in it. From the business value of community itself to marketing fundamentals and how to avoid being a perfectionist, Cory explains why he thinks these books stand out. Cory also tells us how he reads "like a vampire." 🧛♂️ (No he does not sleep in a coffin.)
Also covered in this episode: David talks about a recent post on the Make WordPress site by Francesca Marano, "Updates on updating the updaters." David asks Cory how he handles WordPress core and plugin updates. Cory's answer may (or may not) surprise you! (Learning how to be an "Imperfectionist" might be useful when it comes to WordPress updates.)
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Apr 29, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 8) — Gravity Forms 2.5, CC Coming to WP
One of the oldest commercial WordPress Plugins gets a facelift.
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about the most recent update to Gravity Forms (version 2.5). Cory reflects on the early days of the WordPress ecosystem. David recounts how Gravity Forms was his first major plugin purchase as a freelancer. Find out what's in the new Gravity Forms and why it matters for WordPress professionals.
Also covered: David brings up this week's announcement from Matt Mullenweg about CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine: they are joining the WordPress project. Does this mean the WordPress Media Library might get some overdue attention?
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bi…
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Apr 26, 2021
Danielle Joseph on Client Relations
Danielle Joseph is the founder of Function Creative, a full-service brand and web design studio, and the author of _The Brand Planner: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Brand Clarity & Business Direction_. Her most recent project is Willowspace, a client management portal for freelancers and agencies that will be launching in the next few weeks.
In this episode of Post Status Draft, Danielle talks with Brian about her work with clients as a designer and how that has shaped the direction of her agency and Willowspace.
Freelance designers and any service-based businesses can benefit from a client management portal, but Willowspace goes a step further. it also has CRM style functions like lead capture forms to go with email integration, proposal generation, contracts, invoicing, and online payments. Leads become paying clients, and as they check in on their project status, you can offer them additional services. The client experience is very simple and can be managed through email with payment…
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Apr 23, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 7) - Frustrations With Admin Notices
Are you fed up with out of control Admin Notices in the WordPress dashboard? Us too.
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about Cory's recent negative experiences with admin notices in the WordPress dashboard. If the WordPress community cannot control and improve upon the location, frequency, language, and other aspects of notifications and notices inside the WordPress admin interface, the experience will continue to degrade for users, and Cory thinks WordPress.org will step in.
Also covered: David finds the animated GIFs (pronounced however David said it) starting to annoy him in the WordPress plugin repository.
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡
Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twit…
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Apr 20, 2021
Beth Livingston on WordPress Project Management
In this episode of Post Status Draft, Brian Krogsgard talks with Beth Livingston, M. Ed.
Today, Beth is an Online Course Creator and Educator at WP Roadmaps and Coaching. Previously, Beth worked in education and corporate IT management. When she joined the WordPress community, Beth saw a need that combined these two roles: project management education and training.WordPress Designers and Developers from Freelancers to Agencies Face the Same Problems
While attending WordCamps, WordPress Meetups, and engaging in WordPress Facebook groups, Beth kept hearing the same questions:
* How do I get the client to give me the content?
* How can I control scope creep without angering my client?
* What does it take for my client to understand how much is involved in building a website?
Beth learned how to solve these problems during her many years as an IT Business Analyst, Instructional Designer, and Project Manager. For that reason, it was a logical step for her to help WordPress profess…
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Apr 15, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 6) - Scope Creep and Full Site Editing
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about some upcoming Post Status webinars. One will feature Natasha Golinsky from On Purpose Projects. (You can RSVP here.) Natasha has a great take on scope creep and what she has done to obliterate it. WordPress freelancers and agencies live and die by setting their project estimates on target, so this is really valuable information in that line of work.
Also covered: David touches on the latest Full Site Editing news.
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡🔗 Mentioned in the show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Zoom RSVP: May 4th Webinar with Cory Miller and Natasha Golinsky
* Full Site Editing Scope for WP5.8 – Make WordPress Core
* Full Site Editing Go/No Go | April 14, 2021
* High-level feedback from the FSE Program (March 2021)
* FSE Program Testing Call…
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Apr 9, 2021
Anil Gupta on Multicollab — A New Collaboration Plugin for WordPress
Multidots recently released Multicollab, a Google Docs-style internal commenting tool to take suggestions from stakeholders and feedback from editors within your content inside a WordPress site. It's for use with the new visual editor (Gutenberg) and works with most blocks by allowing you to attach comments to them.
How Multicollab Works:
Key features for Multicollab are inline comments inside posts and pages, the ability to mention other admin users, reply to comments, and resolve comments. Email notifications about comment activity keep everyone engaged with a group site building, or content authoring and editing process.
🎧 Listen to the audio or watch the video at Post Status Draft. 📺🔗 Mentioned in the show
* Anil Gupta (@guptaanilg)
* Anil on building Multidots in a 2019 Draft interview.
* Multicollab👍 Sponsor: Yoast SEO
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Apr 8, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 5) - Acquisitions, FSE Live "Review", Underrepresented In Tech, Taylor Arndt
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about two acquisitions. One involves iThemes, and the other involves GravityView. Cory mentions his recent interview with Michelle Frechette about UnderrepresentedInTech.com, while David notes some news from Post Status Slack that might have missed broader notice.
Also covered: Cory wants 🎧. Sigh.
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡🔗 Mentioned in the Show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Kadence WP is Joining the iThemes Family!
* Gravity Forms Entries in Excel, Brought to You By GravityView!
* UnderrepresentedInTech.com
* Testing Full Site Editing in WordPress
* Taylor Arndt👍 Sponsor: Pagely
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Apr 2, 2021
Post Status Excerpt (No. 4) - Our Job Board, Post Status Gigs, and WordPress Settings Screens
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about some upcoming enhancements to the Post Status job board and Cory's experience with the current #gig channel in Post Status Slack.
Also covered: David talks about a Brian Krogsgard tweet rant on WordPress settings screens. David asks Cory if he thinks some old "wrinkles" in WordPress might eventually be harmful.
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news relevant to the Post Status community — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash.⚡🔗 Mentioned in the show
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* "Setting Screen" Conversation In Post Status Slack (Member Access Required)
* Brian Krogsgard tweet and one from David Bisset.
* Is the WordPress Comment System Still Relevant?Sponsor: Wordfence
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Mar 25, 2021
Excerpt: Episode 3 - The Future of the Solo WordPress Plugin Developer, Jobs, and Post Status Slack
In the third episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about what they think the future of the "single" or "solo" WordPress plugin developer might be. They also share some good points made by club members in Post Status Slack earlier in the week.
Also covered: Cory talks about being approached by a member of the WordPress community about finding employment opportunities to "break into" the WordPress space.
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news relevant to the Post Status community — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash.⚡🔗 Mentioned in the show
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* "Single Developer" Conversation In Post Status Slack (Member Access Required)
* Paul Jarvis
* Newsletter Glue👍 Sponsor: iThemes
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Mar 19, 2021
Excerpt: Episode 2 - WPEngine's Atlas, Headless Wordpress, and Learning JavaScript
Quick previews from this week's Post Status newsletter, WPEngine's Atlas, and Learning JavaScript 🆕
In the second episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller follow up on some positive developments in WordPress 5.7. Then they cover the highlights of this week's Post Status newsletter. David talks about WPEngine's release of "Atlas," which addresses a growing "headless WordPress" interest in the community.
Also covered: Cory checks in on "learning JavaScript deeply" with David. Is this still a priority for today's WordPress developer?
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news relevant to the Post Status community — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash.⚡🔗 Mentioned in the show
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Decode 2021 Conference
* Atlas
* Matt Mullenweg: "Learn JavaScript Deeply"
Sponsor: Bluehost
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Mar 17, 2021
Chris Hardie on WP Lookout and how information flows in the WordPress community
Chris Hardie has been a web developer since the late 1990s. In this episode of the Post Status Draft podcast, Chris talks with Brian Krogsgard about his career as a deep generalist. Chris has worked as a writer, journalist, political candidate, and consultant, as well as a technologist and web developer.
This conversation touches on the challenges of winding down an agency and handling clients. Chris also talks about his experiences with the Special Projects team at Automattic, running for local office, being a journalist, and now launching WP Lookout to help site owners and developers safely update WordPress websites.☝️ Safe WordPress Updates
Automatic updates are great, but what if you could get critical information about potentially breaking changes to WordPress core? What if you could get notified about changes to the plugins and themes you and your clients rely on?
WP Lookout is a new service that monitors WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates so you can apply them safe…
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Mar 11, 2021
Excerpt: Episode 1 - WordPress 5.7, Gutenberg, and PluginRank
With this episode of Post Status Excerpt — the first of many to come — David Bisset and Cory Miller kick off the new show with a quick chat about the latest WordPress release (5.7 “Esperanza”) — what it addresses, and maybe a pet peeve or two about the new editor.
Also covered: PluginRank.com and the way it might be useful for WordPress entrepreneurs. 🔌
Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news relevant to the Post Status community — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash.⚡🔗 Mentioned in the Show:
* David Bisset (Twitter)
* Cory Miller (Twitter)
* Some 5.7 release highlights
* WordPress 5.7 Field Guide
* WPBeginner Guide To WordPress 5.7
* PluginRank.com👍 Sponsor: GoDaddy Pro
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Mar 5, 2021
Angela Jin on WordCamp US 2020 Cancellation and the Future of WordPress Education
In this episode of Post Status Draft, David Bisset talks with Angela Jin. Angela joined Automattic in 2018 and is one of the community organizers for the WordPress open source project. She has been helping organize, start conversations, and setting policies for WordCamps over the last few years.
David recorded this interview around the time that WordCamp US 2020 would have normally taken place in St. Louis, Missouri. WordCamp US organizers decided to cancel the event months before it would have taken place due to COVID-19. There were questions about what led to that decision. Why didn't it become a virtual conference, like WordCamp Europe? What are organizers planning for future WordCamp US events and WordPress education in general?
David sat down with Angela to get a better understanding of the WordPress community and its needs during a pivotal time of change. Join us as we discuss what the future holds for the conferences, meetups, and other social gatherings we've enjoyed in the p…
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Oct 21, 2020
Joe Casabona on creating quality content and courses
David Bisset interviews Joe Casabona, an independent creator and teacher, and discusses what it's like to be a creator as his job, plus some news topics.Links
* W3C drops WordPress from consideration for its redesign
* W3c selects Craft and selection report
* Disabling full screen mode
* Creator Courses
* How I Built It recording notes
* CamoPartner: Sandhills Development
Sandhills Development crafts ingenuity, developed with care:
* Easy Digital Downloads – Sell digital products with WordPress
* AffiliateWP – A full-featured affiliate marketing solution
* Sugar Calendar – WordPress event management made simple
* WP Simple Pay – A lightweight Stripe payments plugin
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Oct 6, 2020
Joost de Valk on WordPress marketshare
David Bisset makes his podcast debut for Post Status, as he interviews Joost de Valk, of Yoast, and discusses all things WordPress marketshare related.
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Aug 4, 2020
Creating healthy virtual work environments
In this episode of the Draft podcast, Cory and Brian discuss creating and operating in healthy virtual environments: For work, conference, and personal use -- all in a world that prevents the familiar physical experiences.
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May 13, 2020
On static WordPress, with Miriam Schwab of Strattic
Miriam Schwab is co-founder and CEO of Strattic, a business making a big bet on the future of WordPress — and in particular for using it to create static websites.
They recently raised $6.5 million dollars in an oversubscribed round. Strattic aims to enable the power and flexibility of a dynamic WordPress website like we all know, with the security and speed of a completely static website.
In this interview, Cory Miller talks to Miriam about her journey to this moment, the Strattic product, raising money, and more.Partner: Yoast
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Apr 28, 2020
Professional WordPress Plugin Development: Interview with the authors
Professional WordPress Plugin Development was one of the most helpful books I've ever read. To see a new edition with two returning authors, nine years after the original, is very exciting.
This edition of the book will be sure to offer a great resource for developer education for years to come. Brad Williams, Justin Tadlock, and John James Jacoby are each extremely talented developers and communicators. The work they can accomplish together is even greater.
Cory talks to them about their histories, the book, the process, and much more. We hope you enjoy this episode of Post Status Draft.
You can pre-order Professional WordPress Plugin Development now on Amazon. It is slated to be released June 10th.
* Brad's announcement
* Justin's announcement
* John's announcementEpisode Partner: Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms is the easiest, most trusted tool to create advanced forms for your WordPress-powered website. I use Gravity Forms on every WordPress site I own, and I know I can alwa…
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Mar 18, 2020
Taking care of your mental health in uncertain times, with Dr. Sherry Walling
Dr. Sherry Walling is a psychologist and entrepreneur, adept at, “helping smart people do hard things.” She was gracious to talk in a Post Status Webinar with Cory Miller, about how to navigate life in uncertain times like we have now.Topics discussed
* Managing fear, worry, and anxiety
* The Coronavirus, and how to handle it
* Isolation, social distancing, remote work, and our mental health
* Q&A on work boundaries, stress, and moreLinks
* Zen Founder
* Dr. Sherry Walling's website
* @zenfounder — Dr. Walling's TwittrEpisode Parter: WordFence
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Mar 10, 2020
The benefits of Masterminds, with Ken Wallace
Ken Wallace runs Mastermind Jam, which according to the website, “gives you everything you need to join, create, and manage your mastermind group, all without having to waste time cobbling together a bunch of different software, forms, and shared documents, even if you don't have a large personal network.”
Some of the topics discussed about Masterminds
* Defining what a mastermind is
* The difference between a mastermind and other community channels
* Why masterminds are important to hold with peers outside of your company
* Learning to trust your mastermind
* The importance of consistency, and setting up a regular cadence
* How to structure conversations
* How to find people for a mastermindEpisode Parter: Sandhills Development
No matter what you're working on with your WordPress website, Sandhills Development probably has a tool that can help you.
* Easy Digital Downloads – Sell digital products with WordPress
* AffiliateWP – A full-featured affiliate ma…
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Feb 6, 2020
Syed Balkhi on the acquisition of All In One SEO
Syed Balkhi joins me to discuss the acquisition of AIO SEO.
Some of the questions he answers:
* So who is your target customer with All in One SEO?
* How is the model structured? You’re directing strategy… is there a Christoff or Atchison in this setup?
* How does your vision for AIOSEO compare to what you see in Yoast SEO?
* How do you envision the free/premium divide?
* What are the first three things you plan to do?
* How did the conversation w/ Michael start? You approach him? He approach you? Tell me a story.
* How far do you think you can scale this business model?
* What do you think about the consolidation we’re seeing in the plugin ecosystem — the consolidation you’re a major player in?
Links:
* Awesome Motive
* AIO SEO on WP.org
* Acquisition announcement
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Feb 3, 2020
Working on multiple things, and working with Partners
A lot of folks in the WordPress economy, whether employed with a side hustle or self-employed, manage multiple things. Also, many of us work with partners, or are interested in partnerships.
Cory has long worked with partners, and we're now running Post Status as partners. Also, we are both working on several projects.
In this episode of Draft, we talk about how to balance multiple things, how we try and structure our weeks, and some things to consider when working with partners.Show links
* Kolbe
* Strengthsfinder
* Wait But WhySponsor: Pagely
Pagely offers best-in-class managed WordPress hosting, powered by Amazon's Cloud, the Internet’s most reliable infrastructure. Pagely helps big brands scale WordPress. Their new platform NorthStack is a completely serverless solution for managed application hosting. Thank you to Pagely for being a Post Status partner!
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Jan 20, 2020
Introducing a new chapter, with Cory Miller as Post Status partner
I created Post Status in January 2013 and started the Club in January 2015. January 2020 marks another huge milestone for this community and business.
I’m very excited to share that Cory Miller is now an equal partner of Post Status. Cory purchased half the business and will be working with me in the day-to-day management, writing, community engagement, and everything else we do with Post Status.
Many should know Cory from his ten years running iThemes. After they sold the business to Liquid Web and he spent some time there, he decided to step away and continue his entrepreneurial journey. He’s working on a few projects, and Post Status is a significant part of where he’s dedicating his time and energy.
Cory is a long-time friend, and iThemes has been a Post Status sponsorship partner since 2015. Cory understands the community, the role Post Status plays in the space, and he brings so much to the table, from established community relationships to product and business experienc…
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Nov 16, 2019
Scott Bolinger on WordPress, JAMstack, and the future of the independent developer
In this episode, Scott and I dig into his world as an indie developer within the WordPress landscape.
Scott has long used JavaScript as a core technology with AppPresser. I think he's on the forefront of thinking about various technologies that are newer to WordPress but out in full force in other worlds.
Scott is really into JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, Markup). He's working on Static Fuse now, which helps connect WordPress to Gatsby -- which has a lot of attention in the web space right now.
We also dig pretty deeply into the challenges and opportunities facing independent developers, and the interest levels in WordPress from the indie dev crowd. It's an interesting episode and I learned a lot from Scott. I hope you enjoy.Other links from the show
* GraphQL and WPGraphQL
* Scott's website
* The Product Business podcast
* Zac Gordon's JavascriptforWP courses
Sponsor: Sandhills Development
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Sep 30, 2019
Fear and uncertainty for WordPress, with Matt Medeiros
Today I talk to Matt Medeiros, in a wide-ranging conversation about the WordPress ecosystem. It's informal and we cover a lot of different topics, but they all narrow down to various fears and uncertainties some in the WordPress community are experiencing in recent years.
What's the future of WordPress? How about the business community? Can smaller businesses make it? What threats exist: leadership, corporate, other platforms?
We cover a great deal here. It's not very structured, but I do think it's valuable to be able to capture a common line of sentiment in the WordPress community. I hope you enjoy it, and thanks to Matt for being so open with me in this episode.Links from the show
* Matt Report
* Matt on Twitter
* WP GovernancePartner: Jilt
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Aug 15, 2019
Chat with a WordPress skeptic
I talked with Kira Leigh, a full-stack creative entrepreneur and consultant. Skeptic may be too strong of a word, but she makes it clear that she thinks WordPress is too often used when it’s not necessary.
Kira handles every part of her projects, which typically stem with marketing and copywriting, but she takes on design, development, and whatever is required to get the job done. She is the type of person who WordPress should be able to serve quite ably. But more than not, she would rather steer clear.
In this episode of the Draft Podcast, I talk to her about her work, why she is pained by WordPress, and try to come to some conclusions from it all. I am not sure if I accomplish much, but I do feel like I am better able to see where she’s coming from.
This conversation stemmed from a friend linking me to a post Kira wrote that was (to my mind) a bit aggressive toward WordPress — and while perhaps not 100% accurate, it is 100% her perception of the reality that is working with…
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Aug 2, 2019
WooCommerce vs Shopify: A battle for ecommerce platform dominance
Ben Thompson recently wrote about Shopify and the Power of Platforms. He highlights the difference between an aggregator (e.g. Amazon’s Merchant Services) and a platform (Shopify) and makes a case for how Shopify can successfully compete against Amazon. If you’re new to Ben’s work, I highly recommend following the links he references in the opening paragraphs. Aggregators vs Platforms
As Ben explains, Amazon is an aggregator that owns the users (i.e. customers, Amazon Prime subscribers) and aggregates the suppliers (i.e. merchants, manufacturers). Amazon succeeds by providing a great user experience (e.g. one click checkout, same day delivery) and by treating products and their suppliers as commodities, all available to the customer in a single, aggregated shopping experience. While aggregation can provide high value for customers, it minimizes the opportunity for merchants to differentiate and can ultimately hurt customers as competition and innovation are stifled.
A competito…
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Jun 25, 2019
Matt Mullenweg on eCommerce, and what's new with Post Status
I talked to Matt Mullenweg for over an hour recently, and here I share about 8 minutes of our conversation, a part where we discuss eCommerce, and where WooCommerce currently fits into that world.
I also spend several minutes talking about big changes happening with Post Status. I hope you'll check it out, and join us for Post Status Publish, and subscribe to the now free newsletter.
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Feb 7, 2019
Building Multidots, with Anil Gupta
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode of Draft, I talk to Anil Gupta, the founder of Multidots. Multidots is a 100+ person company and Anil has established a very people-first environment. We discuss his journey and philosophies building the company.
I met Anil at CaboPress and we had a great chat, which we followed up with in this episode, recorded at WordCamp US. Anil has a great story and a lot of insight. I hope you enjoy. Sponsor: Jilt
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Dec 11, 2018
Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, I am joined by Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic.
Just after releasing WordPress 5.0, and on the heels of WordCamp US, Matt and I review the event, the release, and discuss how he thinks things went, what could have gone better, and what he sees ahead.
We also dig into WooCommerce, various plans around core development processes, Automattic, and more. I hope you enjoy. Full transcript is coming soon. Episode Links
* Matt's blog
* Automattic
* WordCamp US State of the Word
* Post Status's coverage of WCUS
* 5 Stages of Grief Sponsor: iThemes
iThemes makes great WordPress plugins, themes and training to help take the guesswork out of building, maintaining and securing WordPress websites. I talk to iThemes CEO Cory Miller during the break to h…
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Aug 3, 2018
Considerations for eCommerce merchants, with Andrew Youderian of eCommerce Fuel
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, I bring on Andrew Youderian. Andrew runs eCommerce Fuel -- a great website geared toward eCommerce store owners, specifically those making high six figures or seven figures in revenue per year.
Andrew keeps his ear low to the ground in the eCommerce landscape and carries no specific WordPress bias. If anything his experience is in other platforms -- making a discussion with him both on platforms and also just eCommerce in general particularly valuable to me. Episode Links
* eCommerce Fuel
* State of the merchant Sponsor: SiteGround
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Jul 20, 2018
Why the makers of Ninja Forms are getting into eCommerce
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, I bring on James Laws and Kevin Stover -- cofounders of Saturday Drive, the parent company of Ninja Forms -- to discuss why they are entering the world of eCommerce. I found this especially interesting given the market dominance of WooCommerce for general WordPress-based eCommerce needs.
Saturday Drive purchased Exchange, the plugin initially developed by iThemes and then handed off to A.J. Morris, with the intention of making a play for the eCommerce market, much like they did successfully once already for the somewhat-saturated forms market. Episode Links
* Ninja Shop plugin
* Ninja Shop website
* James Laws on Twitter
* Kevin Stover on Twitter Sponsor: Sandhills Development
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Jul 9, 2018
Working on your own website
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, the Brians discuss the challenges of working on your own business website, when your company offers services or makes products for websites. Agencies often disregard their own websites, as do product companies. We discuss our own histories of attempting in-house redesign projects, strategies to get them done, and how we approach things today owning our own tiny businesses. Links
* CodeInWP Transparency Report: Redesigning Your Business Website Sponsor: Pagely
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Jun 29, 2018
An Abundance of Acquisitions
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, the Brians have a chat about a number of different acquisitions that have occurred in the WordPress space over these past few weeks. Listen in as they unpack some of the news surrounding StudioPress, WPEngine, Automattic, WPNinjas, Prospress, and AutomateWoo. Check out our episode links for further stories about each of those businesses as well as the virtual JavaScript for WordPress conference taking place live on July 29.
* Links
* WPEngine acquired StudioPress
* Automattic acquired Atavist
* WPNinjas acquired ExchangeWP (formerly iThemes Exchange)
* Prospress acquires AutomateWoo
* Prospress announced Subscribe.me
* JSforWP Conf on Friday
* WCGR on Saturday
* WCEU Photos Sponsor: Jilt
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Jun 15, 2018
Productizing your service business, with Brian Casel
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, Brian is joined by guest-host Brian Casel. Brian runs Audience Ops, a productized service that offers all aspects of content creation for companies. Brian has been in the WordPress community for a long time, and for years has worked on creating processes around his business to enable him to get beyond a freelancer work life and into treating services like products.
Before Audience Ops, he ran Restuarant Engine -- a niche WordPress site provider, where he really honed many of the processes his company still uses today -- which he sold for six figures.
We dig in to why he decided to make a transformation with his businesses to be so process oriented, and how he turned that into the 30-person organization it is today, as well as the various courses and communit…
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May 25, 2018
The History of the Web, and WordPress's 15th Birthday
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, Brian is joined by guest-host Jay Hoffmann. Jay is the Lead Developer at Reaktiv Studios and the creator and curator of The History of the Web. It is a good time to discuss the history of the web with Jay, as WordPress is ready to celebrate its 15th birthday.
Be sure to subscribe to Jay's newsletter on the History of the Web website to receive new articles on such a fascinating project.
Brian and Jay discuss his work at Reaktiv, his prior work at Sesame Street Workshop and Random House, and the project he's worked on for two years now documenting the web's timeline and history. It was a fun discussion on all fronts. Links
* The History of the Web
* The history of Flash
* The story of WordPress
* The decade long path to web fonts Sponsor: WooCommerc…
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May 7, 2018
Making WordPress and WordSesh
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss the upcoming WordSesh schedule and go spelunking through make.wordpress.org to surface some recent gems making their way to WordPress.org – both the project and the website. Links
* WordSesh schedule and tickets
* REST API search endpoint
* Help for Gutenberg migration guide
* Theme review with trusted authors Sponsor: iThemes
This episode is sponsored by iThemes. The team at iThemes offers WordPress plugins, themes and training to help take the guesswork out of building, maintaining and securing WordPress websites. For more information, check out their website and thank you to iThemes for being a Post Status partner.
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Apr 27, 2018
The meta episode
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss meta data in WordPress, including the challenge of implementing data into new tools, such as the REST API and the Gutenberg editor.
With the endless options of data complexity that’s historically possible with meta fields, the way these features are implemented into new projects has to be well thought out. There is continued activity with both the REST API and Gutenberg to make sure meta is well supported. There are several things that are worth knowing, if you are a consultant or a product maker in regard to working with WordPress meta. Links
* Completing the implementation of meta data registration with the REST API
* Gutenberg, REST API, and You
* Fields Manager
* Advanced Custom Fields
* CMB2 Sponsor: Pippin's Plugins…
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Apr 16, 2018
All about you(r privacy)
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, the two Brian’s discuss the current conversations and controversy surrounding data collection and visitor privacy on the web. The duo dig in to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and what it means for you both as site visitors and site owners and, in particular, how WordPress core and plugin authors are (or should be) responding to the new regulation. It’s a pretty deep topic with many implications and ramifications. Be sure to follow the episode links, too, so that you can be best informed and prepared for when GDPR goes into effect on May 25, 2018.
Links
* CJR report on understanding the General Data Protection Regulation
* Core's roadmap for GDPR compliance
* Trac issues related to GDPR
* Pagely's GDPR guide
* Heather Burns' detai…
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Apr 9, 2018
Designing the news
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss a variety of news topics spanning design, development, and business. Tune in to learn about the history of WordPress and the web, the newest TechCrunch redesign, a WordCamp for WordCamp organizers, and more. Links
* Leaky Paywall
* 2018 Design in Tech report
* Gutenberg Development Course
* TechCrunch redesign
* WordPress turns 15, via History of the Web
* Proposal for a WordCamp for WordCamp organizers Sponsor: Gravity Forms
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Apr 2, 2018
Contextualized Learning in or around WordPress
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, the dynamic Brian duo discuss the highly-anticipated return of WordSesh, the different ways in which we all learn the same, and some of the problems we face in skill building. The guys also spend time finding and contacting the addressable market around WordPress, characterizing a business as WordPress-focused vs providing WordPress services in the context of a broader market, and some of the nuances of providing contextualized services (whether they be training, consulting, or otherwise). Links
* New human organ
* WordSesh.com
* WPSessions.com Sponsor: OptinMonster
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Mar 26, 2018
The Future of Content Distribution
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
This week the Brians put their brains together and discuss content distribution across various mediums and platforms as well as subscriptions for both digital and physical products. The conversation shifts between different tooling and platforms that exist for enabling content distribution as well as some of the societal shifts that have shaped how we share and consume both content and products.
This is a good episode for anyone who is developing sites and selling solutions around content distribution or subscriptions as well as anyone who is running (or looking to run) a business based around a subscriber model (paid or otherwise). Links
* WP Jargon Glossary
* Google News subscription initiative
* Brent's blog post
* Teams for WooCommerce Memberships
* Target acqu…
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Mar 10, 2018
Network effects and WordPress
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss the power of network effects and how they relate to WordPress’ increasing market share and maturity. WordPress has recently hit two major milestones, turning 15 years old and reaching 30% market share of the top 10 million websites, and we spend this episode reflecting on the innovations that brought us here and where innovations are likely to occur over the next 10 years.
We’ve come quite a long way in these 15 years. From the famous 5-minute install to being entirely pre-installed. From a supportive band of volunteers and vast ecosystem of free software to the commercially supported and highly-polished products that exist today. There is a lot about WordPress to be thankful for, and a lot of great things that will exist in the fu…
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Mar 2, 2018
Marketing and positioning WordPress products
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
This week BK and BR discuss a number of different aspects surrounding marketing and selling WordPress products and services. The conversation flows from selling benefits vs features, to social proof, to marketing and conversion funnels, to understanding and reacting to the problem space, to customer support, and many things in between. Whether you’re already selling products or services, about to sell something, or routinely buy things, there’s likely something for you in this episode. Links
* Krogs’ WCUS funnel talk: and slides
* Price Anchoring session on WPS
* Tips for marketing WordPress products
* SiteGround’s Publish presentation
* TED talk on decision fatigue and the paradox of choice (also good “Why we make bad decisions”)
* Stripe Atlas guide…
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Feb 25, 2018
Observations on a maturing ecosystem
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, the Brians chat about the steady change that has played out in the WordPress ecosystem throughout the past decade and speculate about what is still to come. One aspect they explore rather deeply is the future trajectory of a website’s purpose and the role WordPress has to play in this transition. Plus, don’t miss their conversation about the new WordPress.com president and Google’s move to hire WordPress talent. Links
* New WordPress.com President announcement
* Google's WordPress job opportunity
* micro.blog Sponsor: SearchWP
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Feb 16, 2018
How WebDevStudios is serving different market segments
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, Lisa Sabin-Wilson shares about the entangled history of WebDevStudios and eWebscapes and how she and team are targeting every level of the market. WebDevStudios focuses heavily on the upper and enterprise market segments, providing a high degree of attention and support to those clients.
Sometime in 2017 Lisa did the math on all the lower-end projects that they were referring away and realized that WDS had a prime opportunity to re-introduce her former web studio, eWebscapes, as a way to serve these smaller-scope projects. This rebirth, so to speak, has positioned them to better target local communities, provide staff with more variety of work, and bring simplified processes alongside those they use for larger projects. Key take-aways
* Lisa observed a mar…
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Feb 9, 2018
WordPress market opportunities: Upmarket edition
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, Brian and Brian continue their discussion on WordPress market opportunities with a focus on the upper-market and enterprise clients. They take a look at discovery projects, pitching WordPress against competing platforms, and considerations to make before pitching on these high-budget projects. There are plenty of positives and negatives when working on long-term projects that may have a dramatic impact on your company in many ways.
In addition to these market opportunities, the boys also discuss recent news including iThemes acquisition by Liquid Web, a welcome change to the WordPress.org plugin directory, and an unfortunate and far-reaching bug that shipped with the 4.9.3 release last week. Links
* Liquid Web acquires iThemes
* Plugin directory notice c…
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Jan 26, 2018
WordPress customer market segmentation
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss market segmentation across the WordPress ecosystem. The focus for this discussion focused entirely on the entry-level segment of site assemblers and their small-business clients as well as the mid-level market of contractors and agencies selling additional levels of service. The duo talked through a few different strategies employed in each segment, including service differentiation, regional focus, building a network of complementary contractors, systemizing processes, delivering quality customer support flow, and selling ongoing service.
In addition to this look at market segmentation, the Brians shared a few useful resources for both Gutenberg and WP-CLI. Links
* Mike McAlister's Gutenberg News
* Ahmed Awais's create-gutenberg-…
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Jan 26, 2018
WordPress Market Opportunities
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss market segmentation across the WordPress ecosystem. The focus for this discussion focused entirely on the entry-level segment of site assemblers and their small-business clients as well as the mid-level market of contractors and agencies selling additional levels of service. The duo talked through a few different strategies employed in each segment, including service differentiation, regional focus, building a network of complementary contractors, systemizing processes, delivering quality customer support flow, and selling ongoing service.
In addition to this look at market segmentation, the Brians shared a few useful resources for both Gutenberg and WP-CLI. Links
* Mike McAlister's Gutenberg News
* Ahmed Awais's create-gutenberg-…
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Jan 19, 2018
Hosted versus self-hosted eCommerce
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards.
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss self-hosted vs managed ecommerce and whether or not conferences have outlived their usefulness. Specifically, they look at WooCommerce vs other solutions and explore Shopify and Liquid Web’s Managed WooCommerce hosting as viable done-for-you strategies. On the conference front, they talk about the good and the bad of conferences and ponder how tech conferences of the future may need to change to attract more attendees. Links
* The End of the Conference Era
* Liquid Web introduces Managed WooCommerce
* Liquid Web's WooCommerce Order Tables Plugin
* Metorik
* eCommerceFuel Sponsor: Pippin's Plugins
This episode is sponsored by Pippin’s Plugins. Pippin’s Plugins creates a suite of plugins that work great alone, or togeth…
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Jan 16, 2018
Two Brians are better than one
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and his new co-host, Brian Richards.
Brian Richards, the creator of WPSessions.com, has been developing with WordPress since 2007 and training and leading development teams since 2011. In addition to investing his time into training, Brian has had the opportunity to work with many amazing WordPress agencies and experts over these last several years. This has allowed him to help develop sites for Microsoft, Disney, TIME, YMCA, and numerous others.
Brian has an affinity for self-directed learning and helping others to develop skills and workflows to better solve important and complicated problems. He can’t resist helping good people do great things! Links
* WPSessions.com
* Crowd Favorite
* WebDevStudios
* Ramblings from a nobody
* Brian Richards on Twitter
* WPSessions on Twitter Sponsor:…
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Nov 14, 2017
Interview with Matt Mullenweg
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, I am joined by Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic and the co-founder of WordPress. In this episode, we discuss a range of issues facing WordPress today, as well as the various arms of Automattic's business:
* WordPress 4.9 features around customization.
* Progress on the Gutenberg Editor
* Feature projects and a year of day-to-day project lead
* The React decision for WordPress, and what came of it
* WooCommerce, Jetpack and issues they are facing
* Site building versus blogging on WordPress.com, and their ad campaigns
* WordPress community, the WordPress website
* And more! This was a fun episode, and it's always a privilege to be able to talk to the leader of the WordPress project. I hope you enjoy it.
Photo by Brian Richards, for Post Status Sponsor: Gravity For…
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Aug 17, 2017
Building a healthy remote company, with Tom Willmot
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Brian is joined by Tom Willmot, the CEO of Human Made. Human Made recently released an employee handbook as an open source document for anyone to use, copy, or learn from. Tom and Brian discuss several elements of the handbook, and how they approach these things at Human Made:
* Employee onboarding
* Remote work processes
* Communication
* Employee feedback and mentorship
* HR policies
* And more! This was a fun episode. Human Made has some of the lowest turnover in our industry and it was educational to hear from Tom. Sponsor: OptinMonster
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Aug 8, 2017
Live from Publish: Challenges facing the WordPress Economy
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Brian and Joe are live at Post Status Publish and answer questions from the conference audience. They are asked about mistakes they think the WordPress product ecosystem is making, the challenges of working remotely, and many more existential questions.
Publish was a lot of fun, and we’ll have more audio, video, and pictures available over the coming weeks. Sponsor: Liquid Web
Liquid Web was the platinum sponsor of the Publish podcast, and therefore this episode of the podcast as well. If you haven’t tried Liquid Web’s Managed WordPress product, it’s time. They are doing awesome work in this space for mission critical sites.
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Jun 14, 2017
An entrepreneurial journey around eCommerce, with Patrick Rauland
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by the creator and editor of Post Status, Brian Krogsgard, and this week's guest host, Patrick Rauland.
In this episode, Brian and Patrick Rauland discuss the state of eCommerce today, both from a product perspective, and for store owners. They also discuss Patrick’s own journeys in the land of eCommerce, as a former product manager for WooCommerce, a course author for Lynda (now LinkedIn Learning), consulting, and putting on an online eCommerce conference. Links
* Patrick's programming blog
* Lift Off Summit
* Amazon FBA for WooCommerce
* ShipStation
* Stitch Labs
* Tropical MBA
* WooConf
* eCommerceFuel
* Post Status Publish Photo Credit Sponsor: Pagely
Pagely offers best in class managed WordPress hosting, powered by the Amazon Cloud, the Internet’s most reliable infrastructure. Post Status is p…
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Jun 7, 2017
Teaching what you learn with Joe Casabona
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by the creator and editor of Post Status, Brian Krogsgard, and this week's guest host, Joe Casabona.
Brian and Joe discuss the way they have learned WordPress over the years, and how they’ve gone about sharing and teaching what they’ve learned. They focus mostly on front-end parts of WordPress development. Links
* WP in one month
* Casabona.org
* How I Built It
* WesBos.com Sponsor: Yoast
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May 20, 2017
WordPress in higher education, with Rachel Cherry -- Draft Podcast
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard.
Brian is joined by guest-host Rachel Cherry -- a Senior Software Engineer at Disney, and the organizer of WP Campus, an event for WordPress in higher education. They discuss many of the things that folks working with WordPress in higher education encounter during this episode.
Prior to working for Disney, Rachel spent around a decade working on the web in higher ed, most recently at the University of Alabama. Links
* Rachel's website
* WP Campus, which will be held on July 13-14 in Buffalo, New York.
* The Events Calendar, by Modern Tribe
* University of Alabama Engineering
* Washington State University Github Sponsor: SiteGround
SiteGround is engineered for speed, built for security, and crafted for WordPress. They offer feature-rich managed WordPress hosting with premium support, and are…
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Apr 30, 2017
Maintaining Legacy WordPress Websites
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
Brian and Joe discuss many of the factors that are a part of maintaining a website for the long term. They discuss it both in the sense of when you own the site (like Brian with Post Status), and when you are doing long-term client work (like Human Made with retainers).
There are several things to consider, whether it’s in your own code, or the decisions you make on which third party developer’s tools to use. Links
* Semantic Versioning
* WooCommerce 3.0 and moving to SemVer Sponsor: SearchWP
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Apr 24, 2017
Breaking into and building community, with WordPress and beyond
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard.
Brian is joined by guest-host Matt Medeiros -- host of the Matt Report podcast, and many other ventures in the WordPress ecosystem. They discuss community building, their experiences building community in the WordPress world, and the challenges of getting involved in a new community. Links
* Crafted by Matt
* Matt Report
* Post Status WordPress Jobs
* This WordPress community is not for the taking Sponsor: Prospress
Prospress makes the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin, that enables you to turn your online business into a recurring revenue business. Whether you want to ship a box or setup digital subscriptions like I have on Post Status, Prospress has you covered. Check out Prospress.com for more, and thanks to Prospress for being a Post Status partner.
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Mar 12, 2017
JavaScript frameworks in a WordPress context
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
Live from the A Day of REST workshops, Brian, Joe, and Zac talk about the state of working with JavaScript -- including several popular JavaScript frameworks -- and WordPress. They go through the pros and cons of using each one, what to watch out for when working with them and WordPress, and ways they think the process can improve. Links
* JavaScript for WP
* React
* Vue
* Backbone
* Underscores
* Angular
* A Day of Rest Sponsor: WP Migrate DB Pro
Today’s show is sponsored by Delicious Brains. WP Migrate DB Pro makes moving and copying databases simple. They also have an exciting new project for merging databases, called Mergebot. Go to Mergebot.com for updates on that, and deliciousbrains.com for more information on WPMigrate DB Pro. Thanks t…
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Mar 6, 2017
Making a living without client work, with Carrie Dils
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and this episode's special guest, Carrie Dils.
Carrie Dils has been self-employed for a long time. After years of client work, she now makes her full-time living through multiple different channels, but is not currently doing client services. In this episode, Brian and Carrie talk about various methods for generating revenue, and some helpful tools to do so. Links
* Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
* ConvertKit
* Mailchimp
* Chimp Essentials Mailchimp course
* Paul Jarvis on Carrie's podcast
* Sunday Dispatches
* Nerd Marketing
* Amy Lynn Andrews
* Todoist
* Simplenote
* Getting Things Done
* 1Password
* Interview with Diane Kinney Links to Carrie's Work
* Experience as an Uber driver
* Office Hours
* Carrie’s blog
* WordPress courses
* Utility Pro theme
* Real…
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Feb 25, 2017
Running a successful regional agency, with Ben May
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher.
In this episode, Brian interviews Ben May to talk about running The Code Company, a semi-remote agency based in Queensland, Australia. The Code Company works primarily with long term clients and repeat work, and they’ve grown from just Ben to a team of 11 almost entirely by referrals for new customers. Links
* The Code Company Sponsor: WooCommerce
This episode of the Draft podcast is sponsored by WooCommerce. WooCommerce makes the most widely used eCommerce platform on the web, and has the power and flexibility you need to power your store. For more information on how to run your store with WordPress and WooCommerce, check out their website and thank you to WooCommerce for being a Post Status partner.
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Feb 10, 2017
Growing well: an interview with WP Engine founder, Jason Cohen
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. In this episode, I interview Jason Cohen, the founder of WP Engine and current CTO.
I talked to Jason about a whole lot of things, mostly to do with growing well. Whether you're growing revenue, company size, or personal development -- this is a conversation about growth, and how to do it well.
Unlike many entrepreneurs in the WordPress space, WP Engine isn't Jason's first business. He's done this before, and made plenty of mistakes. He talks about what he's done differently at WP Engine and how its made him a happier person.
This interview took place at LoopConf, and Jason was a keynote presenter. His LoopConf talk pairs well with our discussion.
Direct Download Links
* WP Engine
* LoopConf
* Jason's blog Sponsor: iThemes
This episode is sponsored by iThemes. The team at iThemes offers WordPress plugins, themes and training to help take…
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Feb 2, 2017
Editing and customization core focus areas
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about two of the three WordPress core focus areas -- the customizer and the editor. There has been some news lately with initial ideas and mockups for each project, and we discuss the importance of these features, as well as what's happening with these projects so far. Links
* Customizer opportunities
* Editor mockups
* Editor technical challenges
* Commerce Notebook Sponsor: Pippin's Plugins
This episode is sponsored by Pippin's Plugins. Pippin's Plugins creates a suite of plugins that work great alone, or together. Whether you need to restrict content, sell downloads, or start an affiliate program, they've got you covered. For more information, check out their website and thank you to Pippin's Plugins for being a…
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Dec 29, 2016
What we want from WordPress in 2017, live from Post Status Publish
After Post Status Publish's main talks concluded, Joe Hoyle and I recorded the podcast during the reception. It was a laid back format where we discuss the future of WordPress, including our own wishlist features, and then we spent the majority of the hour taking questions from the audience.
We recorded this prior to the announcement of the new development schedule and changes to major releases, but most of our conversation remains relevant, as many of our wishlist items are within the three release focus areas that have been chosen.
You can listen to just the audio, also on our podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher.
Or watch the video on YouTube. And don't forget to subscribe to my new channel on YouTube.
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Dec 10, 2016
Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the new WordPress release cycle and more
During contributor day of WordCamp US in Philadelphia, I was able to interview Matt Mullenweg to follow up on several items he announced in the State of the Word.
We mostly discussed the new WordPress development cycle and how it will work with the three focus areas. We also discussed how that will affect other non-major updates and WordPress features.
Matt also talked about the WordPress REST API, how he defines success for it, what he hopes to see out of it, and what he thinks would cause it to revert to a plugin only feature.
And as this was the second and final year of WordCamp US in Philadelphia, we reflected on the event, and talked about what there is to look forward to in Nashville for WordCamp US 2017 and 2018.
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Nov 7, 2016
Learning WordPress development and how employers should look at candidates
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about how they learned WordPress development, how employers should look at candidates for skill hiring, and various resources they find valuable for learning WordPress. Links
* Just Build Websites
* Lynda.com WordPress tutorials
* WP in One Month
* WordPress Development Stack Exchange
* How to Become a Respected WordPress Developer Sponsor: Gravity Forms
This episode is sponsored by Gravity Forms. Gravity Forms makes the best web forms on the planet. Over a million WordPress sites are already using Gravity Forms. Is yours? For more information, check out their website and thank you to Gravity Forms for being a Post Status partner.
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Oct 24, 2016
WordPress REST API in Core
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about the WordPress REST API and the core approval process Topics
* The API's journey
* How Core projects work
* What to know about the API know that it's in trunk
* What that means for the future of the API Links
* Build APIs you won't hate
* Legacy v1 API
* LEAN
* McMansion Hell: The devil is in the details Sponsor: OptinMonster
OptinMonster allows you to convert visitors into subscribers. You can easily create & A/B test beautiful lead capture forms without a developer. Check out OptinMonster today!
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Oct 12, 2016
Ask Post Status: Innovation in WordPress
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and Brian answer listener questions. You can go to poststatus.com/ask to ask questions for a future episode. We spent the second half of the show talking about innovation in WordPress and what makes big innovation difficult. Topics and Links
* What is Publish going to be about?
* Post Status Publish
* What is A Day of Rest?
* A Day of Rest Boston 2017
* Managing sites between local, development, staging, and live
* Mergebot
* VersionPress
* Theme review process
* Theme handbook
* WP Test
* Donations for free plugins
* The patronage model for free software freelancers
* Using Kickstarter to fund open source
* How can the WordPress project innovate? Sponsor: Pagely
Pagely helps the world’s biggest brands s…
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Sep 24, 2016
The art of being a self-employed web consultant
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and this week's special guest host, Diane Kinney.
Diane is a web professional and solo practitioner based in Florida. She’s writing a book with Carrie Dils called Real World Freelancing, and I thought it’d be fun to chat with her about freelancing. Links and Topics
* Real World Freelancing
* The Versatility Group, Diane's primary business
* How much should a website cost?
* DianeKinney.com, a blog in development. It will focus on business topics, WordPress, and beyond Sponsor: Yoast
Yoast SEO Premium gives you 24/7 support from a dedicated support team and extra features such as a redirect manager, tutorial videos and integration with Google Webmaster Tools! Go to yoast.com for more information, and thanks to Yoast for being a Post Status partner
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Sep 19, 2016
What is a WordPress theme anyway?
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and Brian discuss WordPress themes, the functionality people put into them, and the challenges that face the WordPress ecosystem with the current state of theming. They also discuss various theme frameworks and how they are setup, common post types and how they can better be supported, and the popularity of page builders. Topics
* What should a theme do?
* Theme vs. Plugin functionality -- and mobility potential between themes
* Canonical post types
* Difference between commercial themes and .org distributed free themes
* Restrictions
* All-in-one solution "promises"
* Page builders and their role in theming
* Other theme options via the REST API Links
* On WordPress themes and frameworks
* Underscores
* CSS Zen Ga…
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Sep 6, 2016
Rejuvenating old software products, with Pippin Williamson
In this episode of Post Status Draft, I talk to Pippin Williamson, and we discuss the renewed effort he and his team have made to rejuvenate Restrict Content Pro.
Restrict Content Pro was initially sold without even a dedicated landing page, was successful on Code Canyon for a time, then he let it sputter as he and his team concentrated on Easy Digital Downloads and AffiliateWP.
But Pippin knew that Restrict Content Pro still had more life in it, and he wanted to see it become the kind of product he knew it had the potential to be. So when John Parris -- at the time primarily working with Easy Digital Downloads -- said he was interested in helping make RCP a proper membership plugin, Pippin jumped on the opportunity.
They have had a good bit of success early on in the attempt to rejuvenate this product: Our goal was to double or triple the monthly revenue within six months. In March, 2016, RCP brought in $7,700. Last month, July 2016, it brought in $11,400. August, 2016, is estimate…
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Aug 30, 2016
Mobile Apps that Work with WordPress
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about various third party publishing apps available and how they work with WordPress. They dig into apps that currently exist, how the connect to WordPress, how the future of WordPress could improve the third party ecosystem, and many of the challenges that must be tackled when interacting with WordPress as a third party application. Apps We Discussed
* WordPress mobile apps
* Ulysses
* Desk
* Byword
* MarsEdit
* Windows Life Writer
* Evernote to WordPress Zapier
* iA Writer
* OneNote to WordPress Zapier Editor Interfaces
* TinyMCE (web editor)
* QuillJS (web editor)
* DraftJS (web editor)
* WordPress iOS editor (native editor) Other Links
* WordPress REST API
* Vienna Sponsor: Delicious Bra…
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Aug 17, 2016
WordPress 4.6, "Pepper"
WordPress 4.6, “Pepper”, has been released. It’s named, as always, after a famous jazz musician, and this release is named after Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III, a baritone saxophonist and jazz composer.
The Release Lead for WordPress 4.6 was Dominik Schilling, known often as Ocean90, and the Deputy Release Lead was Garth Mortensen. There were 272 total contributors to this release. According to Aaron Jorbin, 85 of these contributors were first timers, so congratulations to all new WordPress contributors!
For this release, we did a special episode of the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle — the CTO of Human Made — and me, Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and I discuss WordPress 4.6 and deep dive on a few of its features. About WordPress 4.6
Overall, this was a planned iterative release from the beginning, with a goal to fix as many longsta…
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Aug 6, 2016
Choosing plugins, libraries, and frameworks
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and me, Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and I discuss how we choose plugins, code libraries, and frameworks for our projects.
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* How we pick plugins
* Analyzing a plugin on WordPress.org
* Using GitHub
* Picking libraries or drop-in frameworks
* Dealing with updates
* Differentiating between picking tools for our personal or internal projects, versus doing so for clients Sponsor: WooCommerce
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Jul 29, 2016
Scaling WordPress
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk scaling WordPress, and what to do when you think you might’ve reached WordPress’s limits. From meta data, to users, to traffic management, they break down some of the most common scaling issues. Topics
* Posts
* Meta
* Search
* Database
* Users
* Traffic (types of caching) Links
* Elasticsearch
* ElasticPress
* More Like This Query
* Elasticsearch WP_Query
* Memcached
* Redis
* Rarst Fragment Cache Plugin
* Human Made Fragment Cache drop-in Sponsor: iThemes
iThemes has a full suite of excellent products to help you level up your WordPress website. From iThemes Security, to BackupBuddy’s new live backups, to Exchange for your next membership site, iThemes has you covered. Thanks to the tea…
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Jul 8, 2016
Medium and WordPress
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about Medium & WordPress and whether Medium and similar platforms are a significant threat to WordPress. They also discuss the benefits and challenges of open source platforms versus proprietary ones, and WordPress’s potential as a lower level item in the site stack. Links
* Interview with Matt
* Joe's REST API talk
* Vienna WordPress app concept
* Billionaire's Typewriter
* What to Consider When the Platforms Show up With Money
* Medium.com
* WordPress.com Calypso
* Medium compared to LiveJournal Sponsor
This episode is sponsored by Pippin's Plugins. If you want to sell downloads, setup content restriction, or start an affiliate program, Pippin’s Plugins have you covered. If you need all three, even bet…
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Jun 15, 2016
How WordPress news happens
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. This episode of Post Status Draft is hosted by Sarah Gooding -- another WordPress journalist -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Sarah and Brian discuss how they do WordPress news, manage working remotely, and handle family life. Links
* WP Tavern opinion Sponsor
This episode is sponsored by Valet. Valet helps keep your clients happy & coming back. They offer expert services and keep the websites they manage functioning flawlessly. They offer preventative care that provides peace of mind around the clock. For more information, check out their website and thank you to Valet for being a Post Status partner. * *
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May 27, 2016
WordPress.org
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and Brian discuss the structure and function of the WordPress.org website, which is the hub of the WordPress project. From the actual software distribution, to discussions about the project, to support, and buying swag: it all happens from WordPress.org. We break down what’s what and what we think you should know. Notes
Who owns WordPress.org? Who works on WordPress.org How WordPress.org distributes software updates Different Sections of WordPress.org Navigation
* Showcase
* WordPress theme directory -- and reviews -- and commercial themes
* WordPress plugin directory -- and reviews
* Mobile -- Redirects to .com
* Support Forums / Codex "documentation"
* Make WordPress (Get Involved)
* About (many sub pages and also project…
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May 18, 2016
WordPress as a Headless CMS
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
Joe and Brian discuss WordPress as a Headless CMS. They talk about what a Headless CMS is, WordPress’s strengths and weaknesses as a Headless CMS, popular frameworks to utilize, and offer up example websites to check out. Examples
* The Guggenheim
* A Day of Rest Boston
* ustwo
* Skaled
* Modern Tribe Links
* Angular
* React
* React vs Angular 2
* Lean, an Agular for WordPress framework
* Decoupled CMS
* What is a Headless CMS?
* We Need to Talk about the REST API
* Introducing the REST API Authentication Broker
* Human Made's REST API White Paper Sponsor
Today’s show is sponsored by OptinMonster. OptinMonster allows you to convert visitors into subscribers. You can easily create & A/B test beautiful lead capture forms without a developer…
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May 8, 2016
WordPress Security -- Draft podcast
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
Security -- in WordPress core, distributed plugins and themes, and in our custom code -- is a constant battle. It’s important to be vigilant with our security practices, from the perspective of managing our websites and when writing code. In this episode, Joe and Brian discuss the nature of WordPress security, best practices for writing secure code, and dig into various situations WordPress developers and site owners may run into. Links
* Hardening WordPress
* About WordPress Security
* A Guide to Writing Secure Themes
* Writing Secure Plugins & Themes by Ben Lobaugh
* $wpdb
* WP Scan
* Understanding Vulnerabilities Sponsor: Pagely
Pagely offers best in class managed WordPress hosting, powered by the Amazon Cloud, the Internet’s most reliable infrastruct…
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Apr 23, 2016
WordPress Development Tools
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
Everybody creates workflows to accomplish their development work. And sometimes you come upon a new tool that completely changes how you do things, and helps you improve your productivity.
In this episode, Joe and Brian aim to share their tools in the hopes that it will help others review and refine their own processes. And Joe and Brian approach things quite differently themselves, so they compare and contrast their own workflows. Have something to add to the conversation, be sure to comment! Tools
* Gitify, lice-cap
* Captured (straight to S3), Gifhub, Screenflow, Cloudup
* Authy
* F.lux
* TunnelBear
* Alfred
* Slack Coding Tools & Debugging
* PHPStorm, Sublime, Atom, VIM, Coda
* Xdebug, var_dump, XHProf
* httpie
* Atom Packages: php-autocomplete,…
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Apr 16, 2016
WordPress 4.5
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
WordPress 4.5 was just released, and comes backed with a lot of great new features. Some of our favorites have to do with the editing experience, but we go over all the new user facing features as well as under the hood bits of WordPress 4.5. We also dig into the earliest stages of WordPress 4.6, which is already underway.
If you’ve been enjoying Post Status Draft, would you considering rating us in iTunes? We’ve never asked for it, but it would help tremendously! You can do so by going to iTunes, click “Ratings and Reviews” and leave a quick review. Thanks!
Links
* Brian's WordPress 4.5 Post
* WordPress 4.6 wishlist
* A Day of Rest is going to Boston! Sponsor
This podcast is sponsored by WP101. The WP101 Plugin delivers a set of WordPress video tutorials…
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Apr 1, 2016
WordPress Questions & Answers
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
Today, we answer questions from Post Status community members, who asked us all sorts of stuff on the Post Status Ask page. If you'd like to ask a question, be sure to go there and we'll see if we can answer it on a future show. Questions & Links
We answered the following questions:
Why WordPress?
In a survey I did before my PressNomics talk, the top answer for what's important to people in regards to the WordPress world was the quality of the community. WordPress' ubiquity -- powering 26% of the web -- helps too.
What is the biggest mistake you made learning WordPress? (Or, what would you do differently?)
Joe and I each shared what we tend to do wrong when learning new things. We are fully on opposite ends of the spectrum. Recommended link: Just Build Websites. Also, m…
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Mar 26, 2016
WordPress and SaaS
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
Software as a service (SaaS) is often viewed as a holy grail for successful online business. The ability to generate recurring revenue that doesn’t require hours-for-dollars is attractive to most entrepreneurs.
WordPress can be a helpful tool to get a lot of SaaS functionality out of the box. In today’s episode, we discuss WordPress and SaaS in two contexts: one, using WordPress as a technology basis for a SaaS in another industry, and two, creating a SaaS catered to the WordPress world. Links
We mentioned the following SaaS products, and probably some others too.
* Happy Tables
* Restaurant Engine
* Event Smart
* Faithmade
* Varsity News Network
* Rainmaker
* WordPress.com
* OptinMonster
* iThemes Sync
* WP Remote
* Akismet
* VaultPress Toda…
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Mar 18, 2016
WordPress Hosting
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
WordPress hosting is always a hot topic of conversation, due to the difficult task of differentiating one host from another. There is also a lot of money and marketing involved in the industry -- an industry that includes some of the largest companies in the WordPress ecosystem.
In this episode, Joe and I attempt to break down what different types of hosting are available, how they are applicable to WordPress, and even dig in to some of the drama and politics that surround the hosting world.
The techical part of the conversation is the first 50 minutes or so, and around that mark, we get into the politics and non-technical issues around WordPress hosting, as well as tell some stories of how companies have successfully marketed themselves by getting embedded in the WordPres…
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Feb 20, 2016
All things HTTP/2 and HTTPS
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
HTTPS and HTTP/2 are somewhat intertwined, and a lot has been going on lately in this realm. Google has made a big push to encourage the use of SSL for websites -- including making it a search ranking factor -- and LetsEncrypt and other services are offering new ways to deliver free SSL certificates, securely. And HTTPS is required for HTTP/2, which is making a big splash as well, quickly outpacing SPDY. Today, we’ll talk about what these terms are, and what it means for the web and for WordPress. Links
* Let's Encrypt
* The Future Stack: Running WordPress with Tomorrow's Technologies
* OAuth
* HTTP/2 FAQs
* WordPress and HTTP/2
* Software and services supporting HTTP/2
* Transitioning from SPDY to HTTP/2
* HTTP/2 and You
* Introducing HTTP/2
* You're…
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Feb 13, 2016
WordPress in the Enterprise
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
Today, Joe and Brian discuss WordPress in the “enterprise," starting with a discussion on what the enterprise even is. We discuss WordPress’s value to the enterprise, and what enterprise level companies are looking for in their technology solutions.
The conversation turns into conspiracy theories and joking around by the 50 minute mark, so don’t be intimidated by the hour and fifteen minute timestamp. Links
* Quartz is an API
* What is Code?
* Make WordPress Marketing
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Feb 5, 2016
WordPress REST API Round-table
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
Joe and Brian were joined by Ryan McCue, the Lead Developer of the REST API, Daniel Bachhuber, a contributing developer to the REST API, and K.Adam White, Aaron Jorbin, and Jack Lenox — each with unique experiences using the REST API. They discussed the talks from A Day of REST, but also about the impact of the new API more broadly as well.
If you’re at all interested in the REST API, this is an excellent round table to listen to. Links
* A Day of Rest
* Post Status summary of the conference and links to slides Photo credit: Aaron Jorbin
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Jan 8, 2016
Challenges managing a WordPress consulting business and doing client work
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week, they talk working in an agency and doing client work.
Joe and Brian discussed a variety of facets to agency and client work, including:
* Hourly billing, daily billing, and project billing
* Tracking time for internal or external purposes
* Pricing websites
* Taking on large versus small projects in both large and small agencies, and how risk changes in each scenario
* Making payroll and managing cashflow
* Being selective with clients
* Retainers and monthly maintenance plans, and how it can fit in
* Team structures for projects
* And more!
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Dec 18, 2015
Recap of WordPress in 2015, and what to look forward to in 2016
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss the biggest stories of 2015 and look forward to predict where the WordPress world will go in 2016.
Topics and Links Stories of 2015
* Changes in lead developers
* A move to active installs
* Forced plugin updates become a thing
* Comments / The Trojan Emoji
* Hunting vulnerabilities in WordPress core
* WordPress zero day vulnerability patched
* Acquisition(s)
* #wpdrama, Thesis edition
* Rest API everywhere
* JavaScript What to expect in 2016
* REST API put to the test / endpoints to core
* Remkus de Vries's "Learning JavaScript In WordPress, Deeply"
* JavaScript for WP
* A Day of Rest
* More companies growing up (getting bigger, acquisitions)
* More hosted service
* MOAR JAVASCRIPT
* The…
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Dec 9, 2015
Interview with Scott Taylor, WordPress 4.4 release lead
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and myself.
In this episode, Joe and I interview Scott Taylor, who works at The New York Times, is a WordPress Core Committer, and has lead the release of WordPress 4.4. We discuss dig into many WordPress 4.4 features, the thinking behind them, what it's like to lead a release, and core development in general.
We also talked about WordCamp US, where we recorded the podcast from, including Scott's experience speaking during the State of the Word. After the interview with Scott, Joe and I dig more into the State of the Word and WordCamp US in general.
The interview with Scott is first and Joe and I switch to WCUS and the State of the Word around 37 minutes in. Helpful links
* Scott's website
* WordPress 4.4 field guide (reference for new features)
* WordCamp US website
* State of the Wo…
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Nov 25, 2015
Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more
I had the opportunity to interview Matt Mullenweg about an ambitious project that included more than a year and a half of development to create an all new WordPress.com interface, both for the web and a desktop app. The project was codenamed Calypso, and we talked about many aspects fo Calypso, as well as a variety of subjects that relate to it. Why did you make such a big bet on Calypso?
Matt has talked for a while now about his vision that WordPress can become an "app platform", and this is an example of what that meant to him.
He also notes how he's always looking for things that will "move the needle" for greater WordPress adoption. We were both thinking about the same statistic: that roughly 96% of WordPress.com users (and probably a high number of WordPress.org users too) essentially abandon their websites after a short tenure. So anything that can increase that number, to say 8% or 15% of folks that stick with it long term, can make a huge difference. How do you think about in…
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Nov 11, 2015
How to design a commercial WordPress theme
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher.
Joe is away this week, so Brian goes solo. Brian highlights WordCamp US and A Day of REST and describes why you should attend these events. He also tells the story of his first ever WordCamp San Francisco (the precursor to WCUS). Then, he interviews Mike McAlister, of Array Themes, and they talk about the process of building a commercial WordPress theme from the ground up.
The interview with Mike starts around 14 minutes in.
Topics & Links Event Links
* WordCamp US
* A Day of REST
* Brian's post on A Day of REST
* Brian's first WordCamp SF
* Post Status and Pagely party
* Join the Post Status Club
* Podcast on the REST API Interview with Mike
* Array Themes
* Previous interview with Mike
* Typecast for testing typefaces
* Typewolf for type inspiration and resources
* Playing with type
* Brian's 2010 article on the profit ceiling in…
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Nov 4, 2015
Understanding WP-CLI, and a discussion on micro plugin businesses
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.
In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss micro plugin businesses and playback a recent interview with Barry Kooij. They also tackle WP-CLI, what it is, why it’s useful, and ways they use it the most.
The interview with Barry starts around 3:00 in and ends 20:00 in, for members that would like to skip it, if they already heard it in the main newsletter. WP-CLI discussion starts around 44:00.
Topics & Links Niche Plugin Businesses
* Never5
* Shop Plugins
* WP101
* SearchWP
* FacetWP
* SeedProd
* GravityView
* GravityPlus
* Event Organiser
* Theme of the Crop WP-CLI
* WP-CLI
* WP-CLI Built-in commands
* Community commands
* S3 Uploads by Human Made (has built-in CLI integrations, instead of a UI)
* A mo…
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Oct 27, 2015
Using WordPress as an application framework
In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss a popular site’s redesign, and how the developers viewed WordPress’s shortcomings. They also talk about WordPress’s chops generally for complex sites and applications.
Topics: An outside look at WordPress
* WordPress shortcomings, from developers that prefer other software
* Redesigning The Toast
* Timber, Twig templating for WordPress
* WordPress MTV
* Advanced Custom Fields
* CMB2 WordPress as an application framework
* Building a database abstraction layer
* Nomad Base
* ElasticPress, by 10up
* SearchPress, by Alley
* Elasticsearch on WordPress.com
* Scaling WP queries with Elasticsearch
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Oct 16, 2015
Work life balance
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.
In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss work life balance. We discuss working long hours, managing and preventing burnout, moonlighting and its challenges, side projects, embracing hobbies, and creating exercise routines.
Links
* Overcoming burnout
* People without phones in phone poses
* Epic procrastination series
* Don't moonlight long-term
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Oct 9, 2015
Responsive images for WordPress and mobile pages with AMP
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.
In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss Google’s AMP project for Accelerated Mobile Page loading, and what it means for WordPress. They also go in-depth on WordPress’s upcoming core support for handling responsive images. Topics & Links
Google's AMP
* AMP
* How AMP works
* WordPress AMP plugin
* AMP on Neiman Lab: What publishers need to know Responsive Images (starts at 35 minutes in)
* Responsive images merge
* Merge Proposal
* Plugin version
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Oct 3, 2015
How WordPress core development happens
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his guest co-host, Brad Williams discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.
This week Brian and Brad talk about how to get involved in WordPress core, what to expect when you do, how to navigate the waters of core development. They also discuss term meta, its use cases, how it works, and why it’s a great feature for WordPress 4.4.
Brad is guest hosting this week, as Joe is out. He’s the co-founder of WebDevStudios, a co-organizer for WordCamp US, and wrote Professional WordPress Design & Development (my go-to book on WordPress development). You can follow Brad on Twitter @williamsba. Topics
WordPress core development process:
* WordPress core components
* Features as plugins
* WordPress Trac
* The WordPress core team
* How to get on WordPress Slack discussions Term meta:
* Term Meta posts/notes on Post Status (some members onl…
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Sep 24, 2015
All about the WordPress REST API and its current state
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.
This week, Joe and Brian go into depth discussing all aspects of the WordPress REST API, and the state of the API today.
With the recent merge proposal, there is a good chance it will be included in WordPress core via a two stage process in the WordPress 4.4 and 4.5 releases. The first release would be the core infrastructure and the second release would include the endpoints. This is our longest podcast, but we go in depth on one of WordPress's most anticipated features in years. Topics:
* Brief overview: what is the REST API?
* Why is the REST API important, and why are people excited about it?
* REST API proposal
* Reviews from the core team
* New REST API core component
* Trac Ticket
* Comparison's to Drupal's REST API
*…
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Sep 19, 2015
Local WordPress development strategies and transparency in business
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today's hottest, current WordPress news Links and stories discussed:
Working locally
* Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV)
* Chassis
* Salty WordPress
* Get DesktopServer
* MAMP and MAMP Pro
* Docker Hub
* Installing LAMP stacks with Homebrew
* How to Dockerise and deploy multiple WordPress applications on Ubuntu
* Docker Machine
* VIP Quickstart
* WP-CLI Underscore.js
* Underscore.js
* Intro to Underscore.js templates in WordPress
* Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress Transparency
* WPLift's Public income reports roundup
* Buffer+Transparency
* Is there a downside to transparency reports? Nomadbase.io launch
* Nomadbase.io
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Sep 11, 2015
Justifying conferences, improving WordPress comments, and WordPress’s PHP version support
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news. Links and Stories Discussed
Events links
* A Day of REST and the Post Status post on it
* WordCamp US
* WordCamp Tampa
* WordCamp NYC
* PressNomics
* WordCamp Europe
* Are conferences worth it? Comments links
* Brian’s recommendations for comments
* Performance for comments, part of Mark Jaquith's Cache Buddy
* Featuring comments by Pippin Williamson
* Comments Redux
* Comment Trac tickets PHP links
* WordPress PHP stats
* PHP releases
* New in PHP7
* PHP benchmarks
* PHP7 on WordPress Segments
* We start the show with events and discuss justification for them.
* 25 minutes in or so, we switch to comment discussion.
* 47 minutes in we switch to PHP.
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Sep 5, 2015
Using React with WordPress
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today's hottest, current WordPress news.
Stories discussed:
* Language packs background and details (members only)
* Plugin translation details
* WordPress.org sub-site for translations of WordPress, plugins, and themes
* Trac gardening
* ReactJS
* React Europe talks
* Redux framework
* Web Pack
* USTwo site in React with a WordPress backend
* Loopconf talk on React and Flux
* Nomadbase React app
* React and the WP API for a native app
* A Day of Rest: a WordPress REST API conference
* Details for A Day of REST
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Aug 28, 2015
Our WordPress 4.4 wishlist -- Draft podcast
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes. My co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, and I discuss some of today's hottest, current WordPress news.
Stories discussed:
* WordPress 4.3 "Billie" released
* What is on your wishlist for WordPress 4.4?
* Don't add WP API to Core in 4.4?
* Mel Choyce's biggest issues with WordPress
* Who is using WP REST API and why?
* REST API Documentation
* A not-so-brief summary of the REST API
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Apr 17, 2015
The Excerpt Episode 4 — WordPress news with Daniel Espinoza
Welcome to The Excerpt Episode 4, part of the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes. With The Excerpt, we cover a few of our favorite stories from the Post Status Club over the last week or two. The primary goal is to keep it short and informational: we keep the podcast to around 15 minutes.
In Episode 3, I'm joined by Daniel Espinoza, who is a WordPress developer with a focus on eCommerce, and he also owns ShopPlugins, an eCommerce plugin marketplace for EDD and WooCommerce.
Stories discussed:
* Automattic versus WordPress
* WordPress 4.2, RC 1
* Clever use cases for the WordPress REST API.
* Taxes! (members only)
* Big marketing for hosted website solutions. Also in Notes (members only).
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Apr 3, 2015
The Excerpt Episode 3 — WordPress news with Beka Rice
Welcome to The Excerpt Episode 3, part of the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes. Draft consists of two formats: long form interviews like I’ve done for a long time, and The Excerpt for a summary of news around the WordPress ecosystem.
With The Excerpt, we cover a few of our favorite stories from the Post Status Club over the last week or two. The primary goal is to keep it short and informational: we keep the podcast to around 15 minutes.
In Episode 3, I'm joined by Beka Rice, who writes the excellent eCommerce blog SellWithWP and is a partner at eCommerce company SkyVerge.
Stories discussed:
* Mesh by Automattic, an in-progress app I discovered by accident.
* Release leads for WordPress 4.3, and 4.4 were announced.
* April Fools' roundup (Club only, but we talk about them individually), including my own about Jetpack bundling WordPress.
* A theme shop's year in review. I also covered this in the Club.
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Mar 31, 2015
How StoryCorps uses WordPress to enable storytelling everywhere
StoryCorp is an organization that aims "to provide people of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share and preserve the stories of our lives." Featured stories are broadcast nationally on NPR.
StoryCorp has published more than 50,000 interviews with almost 100,000 participants since they launched in 2003. A small to mid-size non-profit organization, StoryCorp's interviews are logged in the Library of Congress, and over the years they have created new and ingenious ways to enable story telling.
There are recording booths in a number of cities throughout the country where anyone can go and record and interview or story. The first was in Grand Central Station, though it's since shut down due to budget issues. However, booths are open in Atlanta, San Francisco, and Chicago where anyone can make a reservation to record.
They also have an Airstream trailer that travels the country and records interviews all over the place. Creating ways for people to share stories…
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Mar 27, 2015
The Excerpt Episode 2 -- WordPress news with Julie Kuehl
Welcome to The Excerpt, part of the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can also find on iTunes. Draft consists of two formats: long form interviews like I’ve done for a long time, and The Excerpt for a summary of news around the WordPress ecosystem.
With The Excerpt, we cover a few of our favorite stories from the Post Status Club over the last week or two. The primary goal is to keep it short and informational: we keep the podcast to 15 minutes.
Content covered in The Excerpt will largely be samples from the members only content, but may also cover free articles and resources. You don’t have to be a member to enjoy The Excerpt, but it is a nice way to preview what members get every day.
Here’s Episode 2, which Julie Kuehl hosted with me:
* Shiny Installs removed from 4.2, in Beta 3 release, (Beta release and Aaron's post).
* Pagely and WP Engine are growing.
* Finding your place, by Rarst on HeroPress
* 1.2 of the REST API (Original release post).
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Mar 23, 2015
The Excerpt episode 1 -- WordPress news with Brian Richards
Welcome to The Excerpt, part of the Post Status Draft podcast, which was submitted to iTunes recently. Draft will consist of two formats: long form interviews like I've done for a long time, and The Excerpt for a summary of news around the WordPress ecosystem.
With The Excerpt, we'll cover a few of our favorite stories from the Post Status Club over the last week or two. The primary goal is to keep it short and informational: we set a hard stop at 15 minutes.
Content covered in The Excerpt will largely be samples from the members only content, but may also cover free articles and resources. You don't have to be a member to enjoy The Excerpt, but it is a nice way to preview what members get every day.
Here's Episode 1, which Brian Richards hosted with me:
Stories discussed:
* WordPress Beta 1 & Beta 2 — April 22nd live date
* Recommendationss to improve the WordPress editor by Mark Root-Wiley.
* Yoast, WooCommerce, AffiliateWP, and others’ security updates.
* Growth fro…
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Mar 12, 2015
Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson
Jonathan Williamson is the co-founder and COO of CGCookie, a membership website that provides as an educational resource for computer graphics and modeling. CGCookie has been around since 2008, and today is a network of five websites, has thousands of paying members, a team of six full time employees plus a number of contractors.
CGCookie is built completely on WordPress and has a built in membership component. Some astute readers may recognize both the site and Jonathan's name; Jonathan is Pippin Williamson's identical twin brother, and Pippin has worked with Jonathan on CGCookie many times. So, in this interview, you're not listening to me talk to Pippin -- though it sounds like it -- but I'm talking to Jonathan Williamson.
Jonathan is as passionate about CG, modeling, 3D printing, and the software that surrounds these disciplines as Pippin is about WordPress and programming. It was a pleasure to talk to Jonathan about what it's like to run a membership site that runs on WordPress.…
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Aug 8, 2014
How has WordPress changed your life?
Last week, I was in New York City for WordCamp and some client meetings. The event was a huge success, with four full tracks of expert designers, developers, and WordPress professionals sharing what they’ve learned.
I had a great time with everyone there. I saw old friends, and met new friends.
I had my recording equipment with me, and I asked a question to some folks there: how has WordPress changed your life?
Here are their answers:
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And here are just a few of the pictures I took, from WordCamp and some just from around the city. I’m not much of a photographer, but feel free to use any of these however you wish:
I’d like to thank the organizers for their efforts, the sponsors for their investment in the WordPress community, the speakers for their wisdom, and the attendees for their hunger to learn and connect with like-minded individuals.
If you’ve never attended a W…
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Aug 5, 2014
Interview with Chris Lema: a journey to working full time with WordPress
On May 28th, 2012, I was virtually introduced to Chris Lema. He had 653 Twitter followers at the time. I know so, because that’s how we were introduced — through an email from Twitter telling me he was now following me. At the time, he’d not even started daily writing on his personal blog; he didn’t start that until September of that year.
It’s hard to imagine a time where I didn’t know who Chris Lema was, or a time where I wasn’t learning from him. Today, Chris is a significant voice in the WordPress world. He was just announced, deservedly so, in the first batch of speakers for WordCamp San Francisco.
He’s been blogging nearly every day for two years. I’ve met him at a number of events. We’ve shared meals together. We’ve had phone calls where Chris gave me advice for my career and life. We even spent a week in Cape Town, South Africa traveling together for a WordCamp that I won’t forget.
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Jul 14, 2014
Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web
Chris Coyier is not a stranger to most of us web workers. He’s a designer at CodePen, a writer at CSS-Tricks, and a podcaster at ShopTalk.
He uses WordPress on all three of his primary projects. For years, Chris has been a consistent advocate for the platform. He develops his own websites with WordPress, but his day-to-day interactions are as a user.
Chris brings a unique perspective, I believe. He did some client work early in his career, but he’s been more involved in SaaS projects and membership websites; his current membership websites are on WordPress (CSS-Tricks) and Ruby on Rails (CodePen).
I asked Chris about his projects, his perspective on various aspects of WordPress, and the community around it. I enjoyed learning from him, and I hope you do too:
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It’s just a good dang business idea.
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Jun 19, 2014
Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use
Finally, finally someone has done it. They’ve combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com.
Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with “the most important functionality built in.”
There aren’t loads of tiny upsells like other hosted services (I’m looking at you, WordPress.com), and there are only two plans. It is not free. You can pay $50 per month, or $75 per month, and each plan comes with a 10x setup fee.
But the result is exactly what you’d hope for: a very powerful, functional, easy-to-use website.
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If I had to give Evermore a competitor, I’d say it’s much closer to Squarespace than WordPress.com. But it’s built on WordPress, meaning you can leave Evermore any time and take your install with you.
In fact, they sell the ability to leave Evermore as a feature. Because they should.
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Jun 10, 2014
WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.
WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you’ll find. That it’s an eCommerce plugin — built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible — is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin is. It’s been under development for eight years, and is nearing 3 million downloads on WordPress.org.
Today, WP eCommerce is working to shed layers of duplicate functionality that can now be replaced by WordPress core. It’s a wicked thing for a product to be ahead of its time. An eCommerce plugin built on WordPress is clearly — we know today — a viable thing. But for years, as WP eCommerce chugged along, many were skeptical that eCommerce and WordPress could — or even should — be harmonious.
That WP eCommerce is so old is its blessing and its curse. The blessing is that it was the only major player for a long time, allowing it to achieve great success, relative to other commercial plugins of the time. Its curse is that it gained a reputation for…
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Apr 22, 2014
From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business
Mike McAlister has been an active member of the commercial WordPress theme space since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011. And at the end of March of this year, Mike transitioned yet again to Array.
While these transitions may seem like arbitrary branding, to me they represent broader shifts both in Mike’s style and the direction of the commercial WordPress space in general. He’s never really attempted to fit anyone else’s mold, but I believe he’s done quite well at predicting the market and staying ahead of the pack; and that’s why I love following his work.
Mike consistently challenges himself to succeed in a saturated space by attacking the market in a different way than the rest of the crowd.
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Apr 17, 2014
WordPress 3.9 roundtable with core contributors
I was privileged to be joined by six core contributors to WordPress 3.9 for a Google Hangout where we talked about the new release, contributing to WordPress, and more.
To learn more about WordPress 3.9, check out our summary.
You can watch the full video right here:
I was joined by an all-star cast. Of course, keep in mind, these six people are amazing, but a whopping 267 people made WordPress 3.9 happen. That said, here was our panel: Andrew Nacin
Lead Developer, 3.9 Lead ( Twitter | WP Profile)
* Favorite feature of WordPress 3.9: No more “Paste from Word” in TinyMCE
* Least favorite feature of WordPress: Settings screens and Mulitsite Mike Schroder
3.9 Co-lead ( Twitter | WP Profile)
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* Favorite feature of WordPress 3.9: WP Views / Customizer enhancements
* Least favorite feature of WordPress: The plugin editor Gregory Cornelius
Contributing Developer ( Twitter | WP Profile)
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* Favorite feature of WordPress 3.9: Widget Customizer…
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Mar 25, 2014
Pantheon for WordPress: a website hosting and management platform
Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren’t just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting.
I heard about Pantheon for the first time last year, when it was a Drupal-only platform. When Pantheon announced last week that their platform would now support WordPress, I knew I had to check it out.
I spoke with Josh Koenig, one of the co-founders of Pantheon, and the Head of Developer Experience for the company. You can listen to our entire half hour conversation here:
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Pantheon markets itself differently than most hosts. For one, they target developers. They think about developers all the way down to the way to pay for services; they have a feature for developers to invite a client to pay for a service they’re managing, versus a client…
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Mar 17, 2014
The evolution of 10up
The ecosystem of businesses that have been built around WordPress is huge, but shallow. Few companies are both large (relatively speaking) and central to a broad WordPress community. With 60+ employees, some of which are very well-known WordPress developers, 10up has quickly become a central figure in the WordPress world. Big WordPress companies with significant community influence
Until recently, Automattic has always been the primary example cited as a mature company in the WordPress space. But it’s hardly the only company using WordPress as a primary tool. Envato is similarly sized (just over 200 employees, and 50+ more this year), but Envato’s business spans well beyond WordPress themes and plugins on ThemeForest and CodeCanyon.
A 60+ person team doing web consulting is not particularly unique either. There are loads of more traditional design agencies, ad agencies, and regional web firms that do a good bit of their business using WordPress. But there aren’t very many compa…
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Feb 26, 2014
Interview with Drew Strojny, Founder of The Theme Foundry
I had the pleasure to interview Drew Strojny, founder of The Theme Foundry, about their work at The Theme Foundry, their philosophies about themes, and their latest theme release, Oxford.
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Drew is a former Duke football player that spent a few years in the NFL before he started a small business doing general marketing. Over time, his clients started asking for websites, so he discovered WordPress. His work with web projects led him to start designing WordPress themes, and he ended up being an early player in the commercial theme market in 2008. Competition with themes over time
In 2008, there weren’t many people selling themes. Chris Pearson was selling Thesis, Brian Gardner was selling Revolution, pre-Genesis. WooThemes was just underway. But the demand was enormous.
Well, I thought we’d just throw our hat into the ring and try a design and see how it goes, and we…
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