Post Status Podcasts

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 high level of customi...

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 user experience , especially for DIY users setting up a website for the first time. We al...

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 news picks are all related to this in one way or another. So there's a single...

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Trust can be betrayed in so many ways or failed even with the best of intentions. Dan Knauss In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Dan and Ny take on three issues in the WordPress community that can threaten or impair trust while also revealing how foundational trust is, especially in open source. First, they talk about Ny's article at MasterWP, " Enough with this woke stuff: and other racist sp...

Katie and Andy Keith started out as a WordPress agency almost a decade ago and then tried to break into WordPress products, first with themes and then plugins. Challenges arose with reliable project management on the agency side while they tried to establish a foothold in the WordPress plugin market. The WooCommerce Extensions Store is where their business took off. With niche extensions that had...

If [an employer] can't afford not to operate without suspicion and distrust, what does that tell you? Dan Knauss Dan and Ny talk about their WordCamp US experiences both good and bad. Their conversation focuses on accessibility and disability. Ny had an experience with Uber at WCUS that made her agree with Dan's preference for traditional and preferably unionized taxi companies or public transit....

There's always new people coming in, being embraced and accepted, [and being] shown the way Cory Miller In this episode, Cory and Michelle talk about their takeaways from WordCamp US . The Post Status Huddle ahead of the conference was a great experience for them and many Post Status members. Michelle explains her experience with some accessibility challenges. Cory stresses the need for empathy an...

"So it's hard for people in the community to kind of branch out and communicate online. So imagine how hard it is for people who are new" —Nyasha Green Dan and Ny are looking forward to attending WordCamp US this week, which is a first for them both. In a slightly more casual conversation touching their usual topics — the business of WordPress, careers, and community — they share the things they'r...

"We're not afraid to let our human side show." —Eric Karkovack In this episode of Post Status Draft, Eric Karkovack joins Dan Knauss to discuss their top picks for important topics and news stories in WordPress this week. Then they take up the topic of "professionalism." What is it — what does it mean for us in the WordPress community, and how does it relate to a healthy open source project and bu...

And I would say you're contributing by learning. Like if you're, if you're learning in community, that's a step - Dan Knauss   How do we give back? We all want a community of creativity, cooperation, and contribution — how do we get there? In this episode Dan and Ny talk about WordPress and giving back. Giving, making, creating... Looking at the search results for "Make WordPress" and "the firehos...

What's it like to enter this WordPress community media space, especially as the editor of a publication with many voices, personalities, and perspectives? My friend and dialogue partner, Nyasha Green, is six months into her role as Editorial Director at MasterWP, so today we're talking about what that's been like for Ny, what she's learned, and how we look at the WordPress media space we both work...

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 theft? Why This Matters: You'll gain insight into Learndash as a WordP...

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 Dan Knauss (and guests—please join us!) about a few of the active...

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 WordPress. How well does your part of the WordPress ecosystem support mentorsh...

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 web professionals across the globe. Its vast array of featur...

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 because — not in spite of — incredible growth. But what does the fact of growth mean for a small vi...

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, agency owner, and web host founder. In this convers...

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 finely-honed skills. It's called Writing for Humans and Robots: The New Rules of Content Style. Wri...

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 to acquire next if he could. The answer may (or may not) surprise you!  This interview was r...

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 device? How about just a note-taking app with cool open web features? What if, what if, what if...!!! D...

“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 people in an underrepresented group. Why This Matters: It’s important t...

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 the second event. It happened later in the day as a celebration. Several differe...

Richard Midson is a podcaster, techie, public relations officer, as well as a journalism and communications veteran now working at Automattic . Richard sat down with Post Status Publisher Cory Miller during WordCamp Europe 2022 to talk about the future of podcasting and the opportunities for WordPress as a podcasting platform. 🙏 Sponsor: Pagely Top-Tier Managed WordPress hosting solutions for Ent...

On May 25th, 2022 we celebrated WordPress's 19th anniversary. With the help of wp19.day (which partnered with Envira Gallery, Post Status , and GoDaddy Pro ) two live events were held that day — each with a group of guests that have been and currently are deeply involved in the WordPress community: Mary Job , Nathan Wrigley , Naoko Takano , Olivia Bisset , Yvette Sonneveld , Taco Verdo , and Nyash...