The WP Minute

The WP Minute brings you WordPress news in under 5 minutes — every week! Follow The WP Minute for the WordPress headlines before you get lost in the headlines. Hosted by Matt Medeiros, host of The Matt Report podcast.

    Leveling up entry-level WordPress developers

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  In today’s episode of WP Product Talk, we’ll explore the methods organizations go through to level up entry-level WordPress developers on their team. This is a fantastic discussion with your weekly hosts Kim Colemen & Matt Cromwell. Today’s guest is Courtney Robertson, Web…

    Is WordPress.org good for freemium plugins?

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Discussion rolls on within the WordPress community regarding the removal of active install growth data from the WordPress.org plugin repository – but still no firm resolution is in sight. As we reported last week, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg said that adding some form…

    How to sunset your WordPress product

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Have you started a WordPress theme or plugin that didn’t quite succeed like you had hoped it would? It might be time to sunset your WordPress product. There’s 2 major things to consider: your mental health & your existing customers/users. When I spun…

    What Should Plugin Developers Expect from WordPress?

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  The recent pushback regarding WordPress.org’s removal of active install growth data shouldn’t be too surprising. It’s not the first time that a decision made by WordPress leadership has ruffled some feathers. But perhaps the people most directly impacted by the move – plugin…

    How open source is WordPress?

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  The conversation regarding the removal of WordPress plugin active install growth data has continued this week. The data chart was officially removed from the WordPress.org plugin repository back on September 29, 2022. Even as plugin authors and other community members have asked for…

    Planning your WordPress product roadmap

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  WP Product talk is back with co-hosts Matt Cromwell and Kim Coleman sitting down to discuss outlining a WordPress product roadmap. Nathalie Lussier joins the crew to chat about how she and her team plan the AccessAlly course software development. Follow Matt &…

    Never gonna get it

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  The WordPress plugin ecosystem has been a big topic of discussion recently. WP Mayor’s Mark Zahra started things off with an in-depth article regarding deceptive marketing practices. Zahra provides specific examples of questionable tactics used by WordPress plugin developers. He also calls on…

    Should you build a new WordPress product?

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Matt Cromwell and Kim Coleman are back with their second episode of WP Product Talk! They’re joined by Lesley Sim, of Newsletter Glue, to discuss the decision-making around building a new product. You could be at the crossroads of launching a new major…

    Next contestant in website building

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  There is a new demo to try out on make.wordpress.org where you can run WordPress directly in the browser without a PHP server. Although it is not fully stable yet, it is a major breakthrough that could transform learning, contributing, and using WordPress….

    Monetizing free WordPress products

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Today’s episode is a recording of Kim Coleman’s and Matt Cromwell’s WP Product Talk Twitter Space. The duo share their professional WordPress updates and talk WordPress product pricing. The good, the bad, of offering free WordPress products. Make sure to give them a…

    What is WP.cloud?

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  If you missed Matt Mullenweg’s address at WordCamp US 2022, he snuck in a mention of the new hosting infrastructure without much context around it. Could Automattic be building out the next WordPress hosting company behind the scenes? What if you wanted to…

    Fall into WordPress

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Adobe set to acquire Figma If you’re a designer or UI specialist in the WordPress world, chances are you already know about the Adobe/Figma deal. A $20 Billion dollar deal in cash and stock – 40 times Figma revenue – shocked us and…

    Matt Mullenweg’s WordCamp US Q&A session

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Today’s episode is a recording from the official WCUS 2022 livestream found in this video. We’ve extracted the Matt Mullenweg session which includes some of his outlook on WordPress 6.1, community, and a Q&A session from the audience. If you had a chance…

    The Hangover

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Our episode is recorded this week by Michelle Frechette. News  Sarah Gooding over at the WP Tavern posted an article asking Gutenberg Contributors to test block-based templates in WordPress Classic Themes. During Matt Mullenweg’s Q&A session at WordCamp last week, there was a…

    The San Diego Boogie

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Editor’s note: How I imagine the background music to WordCamp US 2022 News The new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Three, will be a stripped-down base theme with many style variations built by the WordPress design community. This theme is being released to make theme…