Interviews, News, and Analysis for WordPress Professionals. This podcast includes interviews, conversations, opinions, and analysis from Post Status for the WordPress and web community.
“These [PHP] depreciation notices are warnings to project managers and developers… do we have enough time for core but especially the community to fix the codebases?” — Tonya Mork Anyone seriously invested in WordPress, from developers to agency owners, has a big stake in the primary language WordPress is built with: PHP. WordPress professionals have…
“These [PHP] depreciation notices are warnings to project managers and developers… do we have enough time for core but especially the community to fix the codebases?” — Tonya Mork Anyone seriously invested in WordPress, from developers to agency owners, has a big stake in the primary language WordPress is built with: PHP. WordPress professionals have…
“When it comes to contributing…. time is a true privilege” – Amy June There are a lot of people in the WordPress community who also work (or previously worked) with Drupal, Joomla, and other open-source software projects. Amy June Hineline is the Community Ambassador and QA Engineer for Kanopi Studios. She is also a member…
“When it comes to contributing…. time is a true privilege” – Amy June There are a lot of people in the WordPress community who also work (or previously worked) with Drupal, Joomla, and other open-source software projects. Amy June Hineline is Community Manager at Opensource.com. She is also a member of both the WordPress and…
“Culture is King. Content is the town crier.” – Lance Robbins In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Lance Robbins (Global Recruitment Lead at XWP) talks to David Bisset about WordPress companies struggling to find talent in the current job market. Lance believes employers need to think about how they market themselves to prospective employees….
“Site owners shouldn’t be doing performance for the sake of performance but for their own success on the web.” —Thierry Muller In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David decides it’s a good time to check in on the newly formed WordPress Performance Team with Felix Arntz and Thierry Muller. They talk about the things…
“There is always some space [in the WordPress ecosystem] left for developers.” – Dave Rodenbaugh In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David has a conversation with Dave Rodenbaugh, founder of Recapture.io. Dave has been involved with the business of WordPress plugins since 2009 with products like Business Directory Plugin and Another Classified WordPress Plugin….
“The only folks able to do a free plugin are ones that are supported by a big corporation…” — Matt Cromwell “They suck” might be one way to describe the state of WordPress admin notices as a whole, but that doesn’t help us very much, does it? David Bisset is joined by Matt Cromwell, Jon…
“It is now time for the community to weigh in and decide whether WordPress should stop and refuel in this new port.” —Leonardo Losoviz In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with Leonardo Losoviz about The Block Protocol and why it might benefit WordPress to adopt it and allow more of the web…
“It is now time for the community to weigh in and decide whether WordPress should stop and refuel in this new port.” —Leonardo Losoviz In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with Leonardo Losoviz about The Block Protocol and why it might benefit WordPress to adopt it and allow more of the web…
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David continues a conversation with Lesley Sim to pick her brain about some ideas she has for rewarding core contributors to WordPress. Last month on Twitter and Post Status Slack Lesley floated the idea of special contributor badges on WordPress.org. These badges would give developers who earned them…
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with Lesley Sim about Joel Spolsky on the Block Protocol, Matt Mullenweg for taking over for the exiting CEO of Tumblr, and a blog post by Dan Devine entitled “The Complicated Futility of WordPress.” Why This Is Important: It’s good to examine the views of influencers…
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with Collins Agbonghama, the Founder of ProfilePress and the author of a few other WordPress plugins. Collins shares what he called a “small” win in Post Status Slack early in January 2022: he acquired a plugin (now LoginWP) for “5 figures” and was able to break…
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with Collins Agbonghama, the Founder of ProfilePress and the author of a few other WordPress plugins. Collins shares what he called a “small” win in Post Status Slack early in January 2022: he acquired a plugin (now LoginWP) for “5 figures” and was able to break…
“When it comes to accessibility lawsuits, we as developers should be proactive to ensure a site is as accessible as possible.” — Amber Hinds In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David chats with Amber Hinds about the things WordPress professionals should be paying attention to. Their conversation covers recent trends and news in the…
