2023 The Year of Block Themes
In today’s episode we are going to dive into why 2023 is going to be the year of block themes.
Support Inclusion in Tech with Winstina Hughes — Post Status Draft 136
Winstina Hughes is a long-term community member and organizer within WordPress. She joins Cory Miller to discuss Support Inclusion in Tech, an effort to increase representation of minority and underrepresented speakers at WordCamp by providing needed financial support. This offers everyone in the WordPress community the chance to share their expertise and to contribute resources,…
On The Fediverse, WordPress, And Activity Pub With Matthias Pfefferle — Post Status Draft 135
In this episode, Cory Miller talks with Matthias Pfefferle, creator of Activity Pub, about the growing potential for decentralization through innovation within WordPress. Current social networks have stripped creators of agency and power. The threat has been more acutely felt with the recent transitions within Twitter. Recognizing what is at stake and moving towards innovation…
State of the Word 2022 Recap
In today’s episode we spend time reviewing the annual State of the Word address given by Matt Mullenweg about the past and future of WordPress.
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Interview With Product Lead Jessica Frick At Pressable — Post Status Draft 133
In this episode, Jess Frick, Pressable’s Director of Operations, discusses what differentiates the hosting performance and support Pressable offers WordPress users. They are a “small but mighty” hosting provider from the Automattic family powered by the agility to continuously evolve to better serve customers with diverse needs. Her enthusiasm, generosity, and honesty inspire us to…
Interview with Product Lead Robert Jacobi at Cloudways Managed WordPress Hosting— Post Status Draft 131
Robert Jacobi shares his work as the Director of WordPress at Cloudways, or to put it simply-strategy, partnerships, and product marketing. After working for years as an agency owner, Robert joined the WordPress community. His experience enables him to foster the relationship between business and open-source projects and vice-versa. Robert shares how the products and…
The WP Agency Journey with D’nelle Dowis of Berry Interesting Productions — Post Status Draft 132
In this episode of Post Status Draft, Cory is joined by D’nelle Dowis, CEO of Berry Interesting Productions. She and her husband have worked in WordPress for over a decade and run a small, consultative agency. D’nelle shares truly helpful insights about centering relationships in work and life. From being invested in clients for the long haul to…
Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress — Post Status Draft 130
Tom Willmot has been a WordPress pioneer and leader in the agency space since co-founding Human Made in 2010. Just in the past year, Human Made has more than doubled its size with a team of 100. Tom is also CEO and co-founder of Altis DXP, Human Made’s enterprise WordPress digital experience platform. I caught…
WordPress in the Long View with James Farmer — Post Status Draft 129
In this episode of Post Status Draft, Cory is joined by James Farmer, CEO of Incsub, WPMU DEV, CampusPress, and Edublogs. James’ WordPress story goes all the way back to his launch of the first hosted WordPress multisite blogging platform — just a few days ahead of WordPress.com. Edublogs currently hosts millions of students’ and…
InstaWP: A Conversation and Tour with Founder Vikas Singhal — Post Status Draft 128
About a year ago, Vikas Singhal launched InstaWP, a serverless platform for spinning up WordPress sites instantly for demos and sandboxes, development and testing, or training and education. Along with WordPress, any combination of plugins and themes can be included. There’s GitHub integration, and InstaWP has the ability to push sites to a large number…
To Heck with Black Friday, I’m Raising My Prices! — Post Status Draft 127
Transcript ↓ This week in Post Status Slack, Lesley Sim, the founder of Newsletter Glue, dropped this announcement: “While everybody is offering discounts for Black Friday, we’re planning to significantly raise prices. We’ll be narrowing our target audience and focusing mainly on medium-large publishers and online businesses; working with them more closely and providing a…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 72) — Can We Get to "Yes" on Better UX?
Can We Get to “Yes” on Better UX? What does WordPress need to do to appeal more to do-it-yourself website builders and creators who are trying to take a business, hobby, or side project online? This week in an article he shared in Post Status Slack, Eric Karkovack suggested some ways to improve the WordPress…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org
This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to talk about the three top WordPress stories on the top of our minds. Independently, we made nearly the same selections! It seems the temporary loss of active install stats at WP.org has created an opportunity to rethink long-held assumptions and find new ways forward. Our…
Till Krüss on Object Cache Pro, WordPress, plugins, testing, and performance — Post Status Draft 126
Back in August, I had a long conversation with Till Krüss (edited down to