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.

    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…

    Who WordPress is For

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Dave Rodenbaugh, founder of Recapture.io, shares a fascinating anecdote with Angela Bowman, WordPress Meetup organizer and podcaster (Women in WP), about a relatively new WordPress user (Dave’s daughter) who had built a WordPress site with Dave’s help last year but struggled to get…

    Client & agency collaboration tool Atarim raises angel round

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  You’d be hard pressed to find a business, both online and brick-and-mortar, that didn’t invest in their website over the last three years. With WordPress marketshare showing only a sliver of marketshare decline since pandemic heights, it’s still a force to be reckoned…

    Where is WordPress headed?

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  News  WordPress continues to work on core template changes to refine the creation experience. Many more options will be released with WordPress 6.1 that will continue to improve website building. You can explore the enhancements now in the Gutenberg plugin.  Sarah Gooding over…

    Cloudways with a chance of Digital Ocean

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  News  WordPress 6.0.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing. Testing is so important with this release so please go over to make.wordpress.org to help. There are also a lot of exciting things happening with the block editor. Birgit Pauli-Haack shared that…

    Speed it up please

    Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  News  A new WordPress homepage and download page is live but was it done quickly enough? Mullenweg’s perception of how long a layout should take started a lot of discussion about the timing of the release, the number of volunteers on the project…to…