520 – Back at It and Some WordPress News
In today’s episode we recap the last six months of WordPress news.
Back at It and Some WordPress News
In today’s episode we recap the last six months of WordPress news.
Post Status Excerpt — Pay Transparency, Mutual Respect, and the Community We Need
People don’t realize how long ago “long ago” wasn’t. We’re not talking about two, three, four hundred years ago. My family always stressed working somewhere your employer respects you, because it wasn’t that long ago they didn’t have a choice. Nyasha Green We’re rebooting Post Status Excerpt as a weekly chat between Nyasha Green and…
Post Status Excerpt (64) — LearnDash's Adoption of Gutenberg, Full Site Editing, and How to Protect Your Course Content from Theft
Jack Kitterhing joins David to talk about adopting (and adapting) Gutenberg — and Full Site Editing — at LearnDash for their LMS product. The conversation touches on the problem of people in the WordPress community having their course content stolen and resold. What can you do to protect and brand your learning product to deter…
Post Status Excerpt — LearnDash's Adoption of Gutenberg, Full Site Editing, and How to Protect Your Course Content from Theft
Jack Kitterhing joins David to talk about adopting (and adapting) Gutenberg — and Full Site Editing — at LearnDash for their LMS product. The conversation touches on the problem of people in the WordPress community having their course content stolen and resold. What can you do to protect and brand your learning product to deter…
Post Status Excerpt (63) — Pay Transparency, Mutual Respect, and the Community We Need
People don’t realize how long ago “long ago” wasn’t. We’re not talking about two, three, four hundred years ago. My family always stressed working somewhere your employer respects you, because it wasn’t that long ago they didn’t have a choice. Nyasha Green We’re rebooting Post Status Excerpt as a weekly chat between Nyasha Green and…
Building and Sustaining the WordPress Community Through Mentorship — Post Status Draft 123
Mentor someone. Today! Don’t wait. Start today! Talk to people. Connect with them. Go on Twitter. Just 15 minutes a day. Tell them why this community is great. Make them want to join! Nyasha Green For Nyasha Green, a healthy tech community prioritizes mentoring. She credits her mentors with helping her find her place in…
Laura Nelson on Email Marketing and WordPress
Laura is the Marketing Manager at MailPoet — a popular email marketing plugin for WordPress. She’s been working in the WordPress space for the past eight years, with experience in both agency and in-house marketing teams. Sponsor: Gravity Forms Gravity Forms is a powerful form builder for WordPress and the #1 choice for businesses and…
“We're not a small village anymore." A Conversation with Kim Lipari
Kim Lipari is my guest today on Post Status Draft. Kim started building a career in WordPress over ten years ago, and her agency, Valet, is almost that old. WordPress isn’t a small village community anymore, says Kim, but we still talk about it as if it is. That tightly knit community is still there…
Strattic, WordCamps, and Growing through Relationships
Miriam Schwab is CEO and co-founder of Strattic, the first WordPress hosting company to allow customers to quickly spin up fast static and headless WordPress sites. Strattic was recently acquired by Elementor. In this episode of Post Status Draft, Miriam talks with Post Status Editor Dan Knauss about her WordPress journey as a WordCamp organizer,…
Maddy Osman on Writing for Humans and Robots
In this episode of Post Draft, Post Status Editor Dan Knauss is joined by Maddy Osman. Maddy is the founder of The Blogsmith, a well-known brand in the WordPress space for quality writing that appeals to your target audience and search engines. Maddy has a new book out that can teach you some of her…
The Open Web Universe
David and Olivia Bisset sat down for a chat with Matt Mullenweg about open source, Tumblr, and how Matt deals with negativity. Matt has three roles today: CEO of Tumblr, CEO of Automattic, and project lead for the next release of WordPress. He shares what went wrong with post formats and what he would love…
Post Status Comments (No. 12) — WordPress Lite?
What if there was a “lite” version of WordPress that was still WordPress — still customizable under the hood but tuned up for a great user experience for particular use cases? For example — could a lite version be used to allow an admin to literally build an online store in minutes from a mobile…
Post Status Excerpt: BlackPress Leaders on Empathy, Understanding, and Being an Ally
“Coming with the way you can help versus asking someone how you can help them can be very helpful.” — Neisha Sweet In this conversation for Post Status Excerpt, David is joined by Destiny Fox, Niesha Sweet, and Allie Nimmons. Previously they spoke about BlackPress, and now they explain why it’s sometimes difficult to help…
Post Status Comments (No. 11) — WordPress 19th Anniversary Meetup Celebration
On May 25th, 2022 we celebrated WordPress’s 19th anniversary. With the help of wp19.day — and partners Envira Gallery, Post Status, and GoDaddy Pro — two live events were held that day. Each had a group of guests that have been deeply involved in the WordPress community for some time. This episode of Comments records…