Post Status Podcasts

"This story reminded me that big company big money doesn't mean just more profit but can also mean big contributions." - Aurooba Ahmed It's the first-ever Post Status WordPress News Draft! The initial group of news "avengers" in this episode are Aurooba Ahmed, Jason Cosper , Daniel Schutzsmith , Robert Jacobi , and Lesley Sim — with David Bisset hosting. In three rounds of draft picks, this group...

"Too many things were interrelated and we didn’t have enough people who were looking across…" — Anne McCarthy In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David has an informative chat with Anne McCarthy . Anne is a Developer Relations Wrangler for Automattic and (among other things) has been responsible for many of the recent videos showcasing the features of Full Site Editing and WordPress 5.9 . Davi...

Cory leads the first Post Status Year-End Member Huddle — on Zoom. It’s a mix of news about the year ahead for Post Status members, discussion, a year-end exercise for you, and some laughs over the best ugly sweater contest. 🙏 Sponsor: Pagely You need durable Managed WordPress Hosting for all your mission-critical sites. Pagely offers managed DevOps and a flexible stack with the same enterprise-l...

"I believe our community can make significant contributions to Gutenberg and the Block Editor." —Cory Miller In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory shares his experience among the 30+ individuals who attended the State of the Word in New York in person. David and Cory talk about how Matt presented himself, his views on the necessary ratio of community contributions to open source projects, F...

"You shouldn't be the one to always take, you want to be the one to always give." —Mary Job In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David chats with special guest Mary Job . Mary is a remote, "nomad" worker in Africa who travels from city to city. She is an engineer with Paid Memberships Pro but also spends a large amount of time growing and stimulating the African WordPress community. Mary has he...

Matt on Acquisitions and Work in WordPress — An interview with Michelle Frechette Following the 2021 State of the Word, Michelle Frechette spoke with Matt Mullenweg about the wave of mergers and acquisitions in the WordPress space this year and their implications for employment and the product ecosystem. You can read Michelle's and the rest of the Post Status team's takes on this year's SOTW . We'...

Members of the WordPress Community on Their Takeaways from SOTW This episode of Post Status Comments features a live conversation in Twitter Spaces that was recorded right after Matt Mullenweg 's State of the Word 2021 broadcast on December 14th. Bet Hannon , Eric Karkovack , Maciek Palmowski , and Rae Morey joined David to share their reactions. Others from the audience join in, including Jeff Ch...

"The best documentation is written by people who are using it." —Milana Cap In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Milana Cap tells David about the stark reality of the near-overwhelming workload facing the WordPress Documentation Team . Currently, about four sponsored volunteers and fewer than 10 volunteers in total make up the Docs team — a team that is assigned to manage documentation for soft...

"We are trying to bring our community to the world." —Eric Chuang In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David chats with two organizers of the upcoming WordCamp Taiwan 2021 — Eric Chuang 莊桓亦 and Hend Chen 陳瀚宇. Learn what the WordPress community is like in Taiwan and how they've dealt with the pandemic and restrictions on in-person events. Crafting a smart “hybrid” approach, they share how...

WordPress news commentators on the nature of their work, their views on the community, and the future of the project. In this episode of Post Status Comments, David and Dan host a conversation with several members of the WordPress news community: Matt Medeiros (Matt Report Media), Joe Howard (WPMRR), Birgit Pauli-Haack (Gutenberg Times), and Sarah Gooding (WP Tavern). Find out how these WordPress...

 WordPress news commentators on the nature of their work, their views on the community, and the future of the project. In this episode of Post Status Comments, David and Dan host a conversation with several members of the WordPress news community: Matt Medeiros (Matt Report Media), Joe Howard (WPMRR), Birgit Pauli-Haack (Gutenberg Times), and Sarah Gooding (WP Tavern). Find out how these WordPress...

"I prioritized my mental health over my physical health until I realized it was all the same thing." In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David chats with Cory about taking care of your physical and mental health and how these factor into "Developer Overload." Far too often (especially younger) professionals do not prioritize their health so they can work or do more in a day — until it comes ba...

"I expect the hallway track to be pretty busy during this event." - Nathan Ingram In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with special guests Nathan Ingram and Ryan Marks about WordCamp Birmingham 2022 — one of the first in-person WordCamps after almost two years of no live events anywhere in the world. With 200+ people expected to attend, Nathan and Ryan talk about the safeguards that...

"Focus on the skills people bring, what projects they've done that have been really great." — Jill Binder In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with special guest Jill Binder about diversity and inclusion — how can people in underrepresented groups leverage resources in the WordPress community to increase their confidence, exposure, and potential hiring value? Learn how organizers ca...

Nellie Akalp joined Cory Miller to discuss trademarks and DBAs for small businesses. Nellie has dedicated her career to helping other entrepreneurs and business professionals succeed at business ownership. Nellie previously discussed expanding your business to another state . Business owners and freelancers will benefit from these live presentations and discussions where audience participation is...

"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 WordPress ecosystem do to stand out and be trusted by companies, especially for...

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 input. Recommended tools, hosting provid...

"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 to have third-party writing tools that feed into WordPress? Automattic acqu...

"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 from customers isn't working, then that's a sign of something broken in your workflow. C...

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, and how you are pricing it. Sean shares his perspectives on these permanent problems,...

"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 (for both the user and for search engines) on...

"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 pause before quipping on Twitter about "owning your own c...

"Remember to put people before software and community before code." In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David and Cory recover from an overwhelming week of acquisition news in the WordPress space. Four well-known WordPress companies announced acquisitions almost back-to-back. Next, Cory notes Michelle Frechette 's article on Post Status about the challenging and difficult choices some employee...

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 as the General Manager of LearnDash. It's been...