Press This WordPress Community Podcast

In this episode we interview WordPress pillars Dejan Markovic and Tina Tordovic of Social Web Suite as they discuss their journey to create their product Social Web Suite. SaaS based products for WordPress are growing in popularity. Developers can earn more revenue, build better products, and support their creations in more meaningful ways, but what about the impact to the community and it's o...

In this episode we interview WordPress pillars Dejan Markovic and Tina Tordovic of Social Web Suite as they discuss their journey to create their product Social Web Suite. SaaS based products for WordPress are growing in popularity. Developers can earn more revenue, build better products, and support their creations in more meaningful ways, but what about the impact to the community and it's o...

In December of 2015 PHP had a major version release with the super fast and more secure PHP 7; however, millions of WordPress sites are still running on older versions of PHP. Listen to this podcast as hosts David Vogelpohl and Steven Word discuss the impact of PHP 7, how to check to see if your site is ready for PHP7, how to move your site to a PHP 7 environment, and why PHP 7 is so important for...

In December of 2015 PHP had a major version release with the super fast and more secure PHP 7; however, millions of WordPress sites are still running on older versions of PHP. Listen to this podcast as hosts David Vogelpohl and Steven Word discuss the impact of PHP 7, how to check to see if your site is ready for PHP7, how to move your site to a PHP 7 environment, and why PHP 7 is so important for...

Do you want to learn how to make WordPress more stable, secure, and capable of delighting your visitors? Listen in as show host David Voglepohl explores the tools and techniques you can use to help manage your WordPress properties more effecifly. If you don't have a management plan in place for your websites, this episode will give you valuable tips you can use to help make sure your WordPress...

Do you want to learn how to make WordPress more stable, secure, and capable of delighting your visitors? Listen in as show host David Voglepohl explores the tools and techniques you can use to help manage your WordPress properties more effecifly. If you don't have a management plan in place for your websites, this episode will give you valuable tips you can use to help make sure your WordPress...

The REST API opens up a world of possibilities… but what does this actual mean? In this episode, WordPress Expert Roy Sivan will answer this question and dive into why (and how) the REST API will super-charge your WordPress development. Learn how people are using the REST API today to integrate with and manage digital experiences across websites, applications, and devices. Advertising Inquiries: h...

The REST API opens up a world of possibilities… but what does this actual mean? In this episode, WordPress Expert Roy Sivan will answer this question and dive into why (and how) the REST API will super-charge your WordPress development. Learn how people are using the REST API today to integrate with and manage digital experiences across websites, applications, and devices. Advertising Inquiries: h...

Have you ever updated WordPress and had it break your site? Learn about the new Platform-Level unit testing in WordPress core with special guest Jason Stallings. Jason is leading an initiative to make sure new versions of WordPress work well on hosts all around the world. Learn how this exciting project will affect the future of WordPress and help make WordPress updates more stable for everyone! A...

Have you ever updated WordPress and had it break your site? Learn about the new Platform-Level unit testing in WordPress core with special guest Jason Stallings. Jason is leading an initiative to make sure new versions of WordPress work well on hosts all around the world. Learn how this exciting project will affect the future of WordPress and help make WordPress updates more stable for everyone! A...

In this episode, we interview form optimization expert and popular WordPress community fixture Josh Pollock of Caldera Forms. Josh will be sharing his tips for maximizing form engagement by using visitor-delighting usability techniques, lead-boosting CRO, best practices for data management, and critical email deliverability tips. If you're a developer building sites for others, or if you'r...

In this episode, we interview form optimization expert and popular WordPress community fixture Josh Pollock of Caldera Forms. Josh will be sharing his tips for maximizing form engagement by using visitor-delighting usability techniques, lead-boosting CRO, best practices for data management, and critical email deliverability tips. If you're a developer building sites for others, or if you'r...

Join us as WordPress core contributor and super-popular WordCamp speaker Steven Word shares how the WordPress ecosystem works. If you've used WordPress in your business and just never bothered to learn about the community or if you're a seasoned WordPress pro, you'll learn valuable information you can use to stay on top of your WordPress game. If you want to build amazing things with W...

Join us as WordPress core contributor and super-popular WordCamp speaker Steven Word shares how the WordPress ecosystem works. If you've used WordPress in your business and just never bothered to learn about the community or if you're a seasoned WordPress pro, you'll learn valuable information you can use to stay on top of your WordPress game. If you want to build amazing things with W...

So, you want to be a professional blogger? But what exactly do you need to do to make money from this? This week we take a deeper look at how to start generating revenue from your blog. Whether you have a fledgling WordPress blog or are a well seasoned blogger with an entire community built up, there are a number of avenues you can go down. But which is best? And how do you actually make it all ha...

We are kicking things off this year with Christina Warren, a writer, podcaster, blogger, twitterer (@film_girl) and all round gadget-junkie. Christina is a full time writer for mashable.com and you can find her blog at www.christinawarren.com . She also co-hosts ‘Briefly Awesome’ on 5by5.tv We start this week’s show off with Christina as she fills us in on what she is up to at the moment, includin...

WordPress core developer and consultant Andrew Nacin speaks about how he got into the WordPress family. He also discusses what changes he would like to have made, like domain mapping into the core and more multi-site flexibility. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Toni Schneider is the CEO of Automattic, the core team behind the WordPress project. Since leaving Switzerland for Silicon Valley, he has been working with and successfully exiting startups. Before leaving Yahoo! to join Automattic, Tony was a WordPress user and part of the community. On today's show we touch on: The huge Windows Live Spaces migration to WordPress.com Who is Toni and why he ch...

At the very beginning of this episode there's a short interview with Toni Schneider, the CEO of Automattic, and Dharmesh Mehta, Director of Product Search. Only an hour before we recorded this interview they were on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to announce that all the Microsoft Live / MSN Spaces users would be moved over to WordPress.com. We talked about what this meant for future work between...

Liz Strauss gave a masterclass tonight; at least, that's how it felt to both Frederick and myself. We talked about communicating with your audience, and Liz shared some experiences about open comment nights. We discussed positioning yourself and your blog, and how important personal branding can be. She told us about feedback loops, and how to use them to listen to your users / clients / audie...

Matt Cutts is a Software Engineer who heads the web spam team at Google. Matt has been using WordPress for years and feels WordPress makes search engine optimization easier and easier with each update. On today’s show he highlights the fundamental principles of success for blogging with WordPress. And addresses questions like: How do I get started? What tools do I need? Why choose WordPress? Which...

Let me give you some advice first: listen to this podcast with your Google Analytics account open and in front of you. Justin Cutroni, this weeks guest, is an asbolute expert on Google Analytics, and he shows by explaining in a very easy way the most fascinating new functions that Google Analytics has to offer and which reports you as a blogger can use to improve your blogging. The show discusses...

Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of one of the world's most popular blogs - Mashable.com, which happens to be powered by WordPress! Since 2005 Mashable has been a leader in social media and technology news coverage in addition to hosting events like the recent media summit and social media day. In tip-packed show, Pete shares with us: Why he selected and continues to use WordPress, The secret...

Today Joost is joined by Chris Coyier, one of the authors of Digging into Wordpress and the founder of CSS Tricks. Chris and Joost talk about a lot of different subjects, ranging from their individual history with CSS sites to what Chris dubbed "the big three" updates in WordPress 3.0 (custom post types, menus, multi site) and how Chris designs a site. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcir...

Alex King is among the original contributors to the WordPress project (which has almost reached version 3.0) and a prolific plugin developer. As you might expect, over the years he and his team at Crowd Favorite have created numerous freely available products and tools for WordPress. A few of them include: Tagaroo: Suggests possible tags and flickr images for people, places, events etc. BackupMoxi...