“My best advice is to get to know as many people as you can — network.” In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with special guest Michelle Frechette about the current landscape of the WordPress job market. What trends should a WordPress professional pay attention to right now? What should newcomers to the…
In today’s episode, we talk through a checklist of items that need to be done this fall to make your website secure.
It’s a haunting but educational tale with Brad Williams, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Greg Rickaby, and Amor Kumar. Topics: What is a Headless WordPress Website? Considerations when deciding if Headless is a good approach for you. Learn how a Headless approach can be faster, more secure, and more scalable. Supporting advanced functionality like contact forms and user…
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a person while they live.” — Albert Schweitzer In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory and David discuss some recent conversations in the WordPress community: Is the WordPress writing experience bad for “serious writers?” Does WordPress have to excel in this area, or is it fine…
In today’s podcast, we talk about different plugins that will add additional blocks to your WordPress site.
“If you’re a founder of a company go through your own customer experience yourself — with your own eyes.” In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory and David talk about their best and worst support experiences as customers. If you are a freelancer or small agency and your ability to deal with support issues…
Cory Miller talks with Sean McCabe, CEO of Seanwes Media. While it’s likely never been easier to sell courses for an audience (especially if you are using a system like WordPress), what hasn’t changed — according to Sean — is the marketing and the validation of what you are marketing, how you are marketing it,…
In today’s episode we talk about the default core WordPress blocks and how they can be used to build the perfect layout for your post or page.
“If plugin authors were better educated maybe they would make some different choices.” In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory and David talk about WordPress’s reputation relative to its performance. This discussion unfolds in light of a new proposal for a Performance Team for WordPress core. What should happen to improve the WordPress experience…
In today’s episode we talk about using WP CLI to manage your WordPress site.
“While WordPress does democratize publishing there are people today that can’t take advantage of that.” In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory comes back freshly tanned from CaboPress to share his experiences and one big takeaway point that everyone can appreciate. David brings up how Facebook’s outage this week made him start to give…
Awesome Motive Acquires Sandhills Development Post Status CEO Cory Miller chats with Pippin Williamson, the Founder and Managing Director of Sandhills Development, about Awesome Motive‘s acquisition of his company. Pippin announced today that Awesome Motive has acquired his company — their whole team and plugin portfolio: Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, Sugar Calendar, WP Simple Pay,…
Chris Lema talks about the latest WordPress acquisition: LearnDash is joining Liquid Web. Will it become the leading LMS turnkey solution? Post Status CEO Cory Miller chats with Chris Lema, Vice President of Products at Liquid Web, about Liquid Web’s acquisition of LearnDash. LearnDash will join Liquid Web’s StellarWP brand, and Chris will step in…
“When it comes to the entrepreneurial journey – the highest highs and the lowest lows are always people.” In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David and Cory first discuss how hard it is to do “the right thing” and potentially dealing with tough and negative feedback as a result. How does an entrepreneur prepare…
