We talk with people interested in WordPress publishing. You’ll hears interview with publishers who happen to be using WordPress, and also people in the WordPress space.
We have a lot of guests on the PublishPress podcast who are building paywalls for publishers. Chris Ward from the Publisher Desk believes we should take a different direction. He argues that paywalls only make sense when you combine them with a strong commitment to advertising. Some users will just never pay for content, but…
Brian Coords is a Developer Advocate for WooCommerce. I invited Brian on the podcast after seeing that AI is now listed as an official contributor to WooCommerce. We talk about what comes next for WooCommerce and other open source projects? Is AI going to be building new plugin features? Writing the documentation? Fixing long-standing bugs…
Malcolm Peralty has been writing with WordPress since before version 1.0! In this episode we discuss how writing has powered his career, even now in the AI area. Malcolm thinks that storytelling is an essential skill, even for people in technical roles. We talk about how AI can be an excellent writing companion. Malcolm has…
Google Analytics 4 is not a good platform. It’s hard to use. It’s not privacy-friendly. You can do better. Derek Ashauer runs Conversion Bridge which can connect your WordPress site to over 20 different platforms including Plausible, Fathom, User Maven, Pirsch, Microsoft Clarity and others. In this episode, we consider many of these alternatives to…
In this episode of the PublishPress podcast we welcome Birgit Pauli-Haack, a developer advocate for Automattic. She also publishes the Gutenberg Times which is the best place to keep up with everything that’s happening with the block editor. We discuss the recent release of WordPress 6.9, its new features, and the future of WordPress development…
Alex Denning has been in the WordPress and SEO communities for years. But for the last few years, he’s been seeing those topics through on AI lens. Alex now runs the Ellipsis agency and helps his clients to get recommended by AI chats. Alex’s life was changed when GPT-3 launched, because it radically changed the…
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Rodolfo Melogli shares his journey from the early days of WooCommerce to the creation of his new Checkout Summit conference. This new WooCommerce conference will be in Sicily in April 2026. If you work with WooCommerce, you should be there. This is a conference we’ve been missing in…
Akshat Choudhary is the founder of WP Remote, which is an awesome and successful backup service for WordPress sites. But you won’t hear him boasting about that. Akshat doesn’t talk much. He’s a self-professed shy guy. He’s not someone you’ll always be hearing from on YouTube, social media, podcasts. Instead, Akshat is an engineer who…
Our guest is Karim Marucchi from the Crowd Favorite agency and the FAIR project. With Karim’s help, we’re going to try and tell two stories in this episode. The first story is Karim’s life working with some of the biggest agencies in the world, and selling projects to some of the largest companies in the…
Evan Prodromou is often called “The father of the Fediverse”. It’s amazing how much overlap there is between the aims of WordPress and Fediverse. These two communities should work together more! The Fediverse consists of independent social networking platforms including Mastodon (micro-blogging), PeerTube (videos), Pixelfed (images) and more. Just like WordPress, most of the Fediverse…
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Raquel joins Dan and Steve to chat about bringing PressConf to life. PressConf is the spiritual successor to Pressnomics, a business-focused WordPress conference. Raquel tells the PressConf story and shares her lessons for other event organizers, including Dan who was part of the WordCamp Canada team. Raquel talks…
In this episode, I talk with Than Taintor from the Human Made agency and Zeshan Ahmed from Green Street News. Together they’ve been part of the project to revamp the Green Street News website. Green Street News is a major real estate publisher. They’re based out of the UK, but have recently been expanding to…
Kimberly Lipari is CEO of Valet, a WordPress agency. She had made the very intentional choice to remain a small agency. We talk about how Kimberly balances work and family life, plus the importance of human touch in agency work. Kimberly introduces me to the tools that Valet relies on. She does a great job…
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Steve Burge chats with Jamie Marsland. Jamie is known for his YouTube work on the PootlePress channel and now the official WordPress channel. A few years back, he had a regular job in publishing, but a career change unlocked a whole new wave of creativity. First, they talk…
Simea is part of a digital agency called Morntag, based in Switzerland. Her agency helps people navigate between different worlds. Many of Simea’s customer are traditional print publishers and they need her help to navigate the online world including WordPress, AI and YouTube. Also the customers often need to work in different linguistic worlds including…
