Welcome to the Melapress Show, where we explore everything WordPress, security, and website management. Tune in as we chat with industry experts about the latest trends, tips, and strategies for securing and optimizing your WordPress site. Brought to you by Melapress.com, the creators of powerful plugins for compliance, management, and security.
In Episode 51 of the Melapress Show, Jonathan Bossenger, Developer Advocate at Automattic, joins Robert Abela to break down how WordPress is being rebuilt from the ground up to work with AI and what that means for the people who build and manage WordPress sites. The conversation covers the four Core AI building blocks that…
In this 50th episode of the Melapress Show, Vova Feldman, Founder & CEO of Freemius, joins Robert Abela to explore how AI is transforming the way WordPress products are built, maintained, and supported. While AI is making development faster than ever, many plugin vendors are discovering that speed alone doesn’t solve the harder problems: technical…
In Episode 49 of the Melapress Show, Matthew Rollings, application security professional and bug bounty hunter, joins Robert Abela to break down RegexXSS: a vulnerability class hiding in the regex code of WordPress plugins. Mat explains how post-sanitization regex manipulation can reintroduce cross-site scripting even after WordPress has done its job, and demonstrates how an…
WordPress powers nearly half the web, but the people doing the actual core work are often underfunded, under-supported, and contributing on their own time. Chris Reynolds has seen this firsthand as a long-time contributor, hosting team lead, and now as president of the WP Community Collective, an organization building a new model for independent, community-funded…
In Episode 47 of the Melapress Show, Dan Knauss, Solutions Architect (worked with Multidots and Solid Security), joins Robert Abela to break down the gap between how enterprises perceive WordPress security and what’s actually driving risk in real production environments. Enterprise teams often enter WordPress security conversations shaped by headlines, vendor narratives, and secondhand assumptions…
In Episode 46 of the Melapress Show, Matt Cromwell, co-founder of GiveWP (acquired by StellarWP) and founder of Roots & Fruit, joins Bram Vergouwen to talk through what the GiveWP journey really looked like from the inside. A lot of WordPress product founders focus on building but underinvest in understanding their market, and that gap…
In Episode 45 of the Melapress Show, Daniele Besana, CEO & Founder of WP-OK, joins Robert Abela to break down what really happens when WordPress sites fail in production and what it takes to keep them running reliably. WordPress is often described as easy, but that reputation doesn’t hold up to first contact with a…
In Episode 44 of the Melapress Show, Raffaele Riconosciuto joins Robert Abela to break down how compliance actually works in real-world WordPress teams, and where it goes wrong. Compliance is often treated as a legal checkbox, but in practice, it’s shaped by everyday decisions, small changes, and unclear ownership. This discussion focuses on how compliance…
In Episode 42 of the Melapress Show, Rodolfo Melogli, WooCommerce expert and founder of Business Bloomer, joins Robert Abela to examine one of the most debated platforms in e-commerce and the misconceptions that continue to surround it. In this conversation, Rodolfo shares practical insights from more than a decade working with WooCommerce, discussing performance myths,…
In Episode 41 of the Melapress Show, Kevin Beaver, Founder & Principal Consultant at Principle Logic, joins Robert Abela to unpack the human side of cybersecurity and why most security failures aren’t purely technical problems. Instead of focusing on tools and exploits, they explore the behavioral patterns, decisions, and pressures that quietly shape risk long…
In Episode 40 of the Melapress Show, Francesco Carlucci returns to join Robert Abela to unpack what it really means when a hacked WordPress site is declared “clean.” Moving beyond surface-level fixes, they explore the reality of post-hack remediation, the limits of automated malware removal, and why true recovery requires far more than deleting a…
In Episode 39 of the Melapress Show, Maciej Pilarski, WordPress Credits Admin and Mentor, joins Robert Abela to explore how students can gain real-world experience and earn academic credit by contributing to WordPress. They unpack how the WordPress Credits program works in practice and why it plays an important role in both education and the…
In Episode 38 of the Melapress Show, Tim Nash joins Robert Abela to unpack why passwords remain one of the weakest links in WordPress security and where passkeys truly fit into a modern security strategy. Cutting through hype and confusion, they take a practical, vendor-neutral look at how passkeys work, what they solve, and where…
In Episode 37 of the Melapress Show, Topher DeRosia joins Robert Abela to explore why learning WordPress often becomes difficult once users move beyond the basics. While WordPress is known for being “easy to use,” they unpack where users get stuck, why features are abandoned or misconfigured, and how poor onboarding and documentation contribute to…
In Episode 36 of the Melapress Show, Rahul Bansal, Founder & CEO of rtCamp, joins Robert Abela to explore what really changes when WordPress becomes business-critical at enterprise level. Moving past traffic and scale debates, they focus on the real challenges enterprises face, from governance and decision-making to people, process, and long-term maintainability. Key topics…
