The WP Minute

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Daniel Schutzsmith and Matt Medeiros return for a new WP Minute Rewind! Daniel and Matt will choose 3 of their favorite WordPress news headlines from the previous month to share and expand upon. Join us as they go deeper in this longer format…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Guest host, Amber Hinds is sharing with us her POV on Equalize Digital’s first “exit.” “This post tells the story of how WP Conference Schedule came to be and why we ultimately ended up selling it before even launching the paid version of…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Leading off this week is Joost de Valk’s semi-annual CMS market share analysis. WordPress maintains a 43% share, the equivalent of AT&T’s wireless market share, within the CMS space. Shopify, WordPress’ closest competitor on the chart chimes in at 4.2% Shopify also shocked…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  WordPress support company Sitecare acquires Maintainn, excluding the team, from WebDevStudios. Hear from the founders in today’s interview to learn how the deal went down, what to look for in good acquisitions, and what the future of WordPress support companies look like. The…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Where is the concentration on performance and other goodies in new releases of WordPress? Sarah Gooding over at the WPTavern covered how WordPress contributors have been discussing adding SVG support for more than nine years. The SVG module is currently one of the…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Five for the Future is back on the radar, surfacing more clarification and criticism. Here’s snack pack of links from around the community addressing various opinions on the subject:  Five for the Future’s True Intentions by Josepha Haden Chomphosy Sarah Gooding summarizes the…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Guest host Andrew Palmer is back to address the topic of collaboration. His company Bertha recently collaborated with Yoast to forge a powerful combination of AI + SEO for WordPress. If you’ve been on the fence about collaborating with others, there’s no better…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  You’d have to be living under a rock to miss the recent WP drama unfold on Twitter.  In some quickly deleted fever-induced tweets, Mullenweg likened GoDaddy to a “parasitic company” that is an “existential threat” to WordPress. Explore more of the debate in…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Whoever thought that Apache web server would be de-throned in it’s prime? Hello NGINX. We see you Cloudflare. Red Hat and Fedora linux showed up, but then the world went faster together with Ubuntu. Intel dominated the chip space forever. Still does, technically,…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  We have switched over to Slack from Discord. News There has been a lot of feedback for full site editing in the latest release of WordPress. The team over on make.wordpress.org is looking for people to sign up for usability testing by June…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  In this episode, Andrew Palmer of Bertha.ai reflects on his time at WordCamp Europe. If you were stuck at home to watch from afar like me, your FOMO was probably running at 110%. Unlike Andrew, I missed out on the awesome talks, after…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Strattic was acquired by Elementor. Miriam Schwab, co-founder of Strattic writes:  “Life is interesting – sometimes outcomes are obvious, and sometimes what ends up happening kind of blows our minds. When we set out to build Strattic, we expected to follow the usual…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Spencer Forman from WPLaunchify has a creative way to find new WordPress customers that may just surprise you! Find an existing community of non technical people that have websites (like bookkeepers or copywriters) Then look at any of these three things… 1. Above…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  News Big acquisition news happened last week when Delicious Brains, owned by Brad Touesnard, sold five of its plugins to WPEngine. You may use one or all of these plugins starting with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, WP Offload…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  If you haven’t heard, Brad Touesnard has sold his suite of Delicious Brains plugins to WP Engine. In this interview, I ask him the following question: 1. The million-dollar question: Why sell a suite of WordPress popular, profitable and beloved plugins — of…