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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…