Post Status Podcasts

Learn from Corey Maass , a master of WordPress plugins and apps, and Cory Miller , a marketing, business, and WordPress experience guru. The two discuss the intimacies of partnering on a product and how solopreneurs can benefit from support.   Top Takeaways: The Value of Partnerships . Starting a business can be a lonely experience. Having someone to bounce ideas off, talk through tough subjects w...

The talented team from Modern Tribe joined Cory Miller for this critical discussion about accessibility in WordPress. They highlight accessibility as a non-negotiable aspect of web development and provide guidance for leaders, developers, and designers to ensure your websites are accessible to all people. Top Takeaways: Why Value Accessibility? Accessibility ensures all people have access to the t...

As the development of Crop. Express continues, Cory Miller and Corey Maass continue to gain clarity on what is needed for their product to succeed. They discuss features and integration, free vs. paid versions, ensuring compatibility, and more, as they fold in their experience, expertise, and gathered feedback into the future strategy of their product business. Top Takeaways: Cultivating empathy i...

In this episode, Corey Maass and Cory Miller focus on preparing Crop. Express for launch. They discuss building launch assets, utilizing a freemium model as a path toward a premium product, and future possibilities. Top Takeaways: Value of a Soft Launch . This is a great way to test the waters and get initial feedback. If you utilize a soft launch, you need to be willing to make changes and improv...

Brandon Dove , co-founder of Pixel Jar , joins Cory Miller to discuss his WordPress plugin, AdSanity Plugin . They dive into the nuance of advertising, evaluate the benefits of free and paid plugins, and talk through the challenges and opportunities available to agencies who invest in product development while providing other services.   Top Takeaways: Recurring Product Revenue. While it can be ch...

Brian Gardner initially found WordPress as a blogger. His journey led him to found Studio Press which eventually became part of WPEngine . Brian and Cory flashback into what was and lean into the potential future of WordPress. Top Takeaways: Workflow Education. Getting adoption for workflows can be challenging. Agencies may resist changes to their workflow even if the change may bring significant...

In this episode, Corey Maass and Cory Miller share the results of submitting their WordPress plugin, Crop. Express to the repo. As they continue to build their product live, they develop branding, messaging, and strategy to validate their business and cultivate an audience. Top Takeaways: Expanding Outwards. Repo offers inherent discoverability for WordPress products, but cultivating broader aware...

In this episode, Corey Maass and Cory Miller share their initial version or MVP of the product they are building, Crop. Express .  Together they work through enhancing UX, selecting the right business model, crafting marketing messages, and more. Top Takeaways: Work Out the Workflow. You will teach people how to use your product with demos or tutorials. While you want to make adjustments to improv...

Learn from Mark Westguard , founder of WS Form , a powerful, next-generation WordPress form plugin. Mark and Cory discuss how AI is starting to integrate into the world of WordPress and how the WP Form software is leveraging its power.  Top Takeaways: Harnessing the Power of Open AI. The possibilities are endless with the revolution of AI as an open-source tool. Making the most of its capabilities...

In this episode, Cory Miller and Arnas Donauskas, Web Hosting Product Owner at  Hostinger , talk about what it means to truly value customer obsession. This core value has shaped Arnas’ career path, from his roots in customer service to creating products to provide simple website restoration and security for principal vulnerabilities. Top Takeaways: Customer Obsession. Users are facing daily chall...

Learn from the owner of Freemius , Vova Feldman , as he talks with  Cory Miller about the opportunities for indie developers, how to best bring products into the industry, the importance of community, and more. Top Takeaways: Living in an Open Source Ecosystem. Developers don’t need to reinvent the wheel. With such a large ecosystem of products, finding a secret niche spot to develop your product...

In 2001 Bradford Campeau-Laurion began his career in publishing technology at Forbes Magazine, which evolved into utilizing WordPress in the enterprise market. Today he leads Alley Interactive , an agency focused on publishers, non-profits, museums, and brands. Brad shares his extensive experience in publishing technology and his view of the strengths and challenges within the enterprise market of...

Mario Peshev had an interest in technology from childhood. After working as a software developer, he transitioned into WordPress and founded his own agency, DevriX . They coined the term “WordPress retainer.” It is the mantra fueling their operations and one they hope other agencies will adopt. He joins Cory Miller to dive deep into the how and why of WordPress retainers, sharing his experience an...

In this episode, Corey Maass and Cory Miller discuss the origin of the WordPress product they are creating. Together they explore the benefits of partnership, the challenges of being a creator, and what it takes to build viable solutions. This is only the beginning of their process and partnership, but it’s loaded with experience and insight from the journeys they have had within WordPress that br...

Tiffany Bridge has been working in WordPress almost since the beginning of WordPress. She is the Product Manager for WordPress eCommerce at Nexcess and talks with Cory Miller about their hosting services and products, specifically highlighting the benefits and capabilities of Store Builder. They dive into optimizing UX in WordPress, the benefits of open source, and more. Top Takeaways: WooCommerce...

In this episode, Jannis Thuemmig, serial entrepreneur and founder of WP Webhooks , dives into the world of automation and Open AI with Cory Miller. Together they look at what is currently possible within the world of integration and automation within WordPress. Then they lean into what is unfolding as Open AI finds its way into the mainstream and discuss what this might mean for the WordPress comm...

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, so everyone ha...

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 could not only cre...

Cory Miller is joined by North UX founder, Krissie VandeNoord to discuss her journey of agency ownership. Their work contributes to the businesses they serve, winning big and experiencing new levels of growth from the unique solutions they bring. From hearing about her background as a natural problem solver to her experiences engaging client needs with creative solutions, you will be inspired to b...

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 use the power o...

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 services offered by Cloudways...

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 being intentionally curious about knowing othe...

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 up with Tom this week to find out what he's thinking about the challenges and opportuni...

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 educators’ blogs. James talks about successes and failures, his view...

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 of hosts or pull them to a local developmen...