Press This WordPress Community Podcast

If you're spending all your time building highly-functional WordPress sites for agency clients or stakeholders within your company, you might be thinking "Wait. What if I built a SaaS product business just for me?!". In this episode of PressThis, we interview Corey Maass of Gel form about his thoughts on why WordPress developers have skills they can use today to build their own SaaS bu...

In the fast-paced world of WordPress, many of us often wonder if we've done all we can to lockdown our WordPress builds to help keep them safe and secure. There's nothing worse than getting "that call", but what can you do to help make sure you've crossed your T's and dotted your I's? In this episode we interview Rob Cairns of Stunning Digital Marketing about his views...

WooCommerce has long been an enabler for store owners and freelancers & agencies who help them build and optimize their eCommerce experiences. With Full Site Editing and the block editor in full swing in WordPress core, you might be wondering how you will leverage Gutenberg in the WooCommerce experiences you're building. In this episode, we interview Jamie Marsland of Pootlepress about his...

We've all been there. We launched a beautiful, intricately functional, and elegant WordPress site only to have the burden of the technical debt we created in the build dragging down our team in the future, killing our time, and disrupting our future roadmaps. In this episode of PressThis we interview Jon Martin of Hallam about his thoughts on the impact of tech debt to WordPress development te...

WooCommerce is a powerful open-source platform enabling both DIY site builders and advanced developers to create unique and custom eCommerce experiences quickly; however, people building WooCommerce stores often ask what parts of Woo should they keep or replace with something else in order to improve functionality, speed, and security. In this episode of PressThis, we interview James Rowland of Pe...

In this episode of PressThis, we interview Atul Jinall of LoudGrowth.com about his journey optimizing an enterprise WordPress site for blazing fast speed, delightful search, and an optimized approach with Varnish. If you're looking for ideas for your next enterprise project or just want to learn some new approaches for WordPress optimization, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen no...

Many of us in the WordPress world will often throw caution to the wind and indulge a little wild west coding as we push changes to production without automated tests to make sure our changes don't introduce errors. We do this because it's faster and easier, but when things go wrong all those time savings can be evaporated instantly when the wrong breaking change ruins your day, week, or mo...

Lorem Ipsum is the rallying cry of WordPress builders all around the world when quickly filling out content areas of a new website, but content generation for mockups doesn't have to be random Latin gibberish, and content generation, in general, could be a whole lot faster. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Vito Peleg of Bertha.ai about a new WordPress-centric solution he's built...

The WordPress community is a global force creating and maintaining more WordPress sites on the web than ANY other kind of site. But who exactly is the WordPress community, what's important to them, and what is the story they want to tell? In this episode of PressThis, we explore these topics by interviewing Topher DeRosia of HeroPress about his experience running HeroPress and the things he&#3...

Headless WordPress has been growing quickly in popularity thanks to the tremendous speed and security benefits, but barriers to entry remain high even for advanced developers used to working quickly within the traditional WordPress development stack. Many of those barriers to entry are quickly eroding though thanks to improvements in supporting tools like themes, plugins, and frameworks specifical...

If you're building WooCommerce stores for agency clients or just for yourself, you may be wondering about the best strategies for building dropshipping-based WooCommerce stores. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Jared Goetz of Zendrop about his thoughts on the strategies when building a successful dropshipping-based Woo store. Jared discusses key considerations when building your stor...

WordPress is a great framework for marrying the ease of content creation with the flexibility of custom-designed and engineered experiences for creating and displaying content, but how should development teams think about investing in the usability and scalability of the experiences they create? In this episode of PressThis, we interview Nuna Freitas and Elad Hefetz of Airfleet about their thought...

If you've built websites for any length of time, you likely know that strategies and technical debt build-up within a website over time can make your job as a builder harder, your sites slower, and vastly slow down your ability to drive digital growth. Thinking outside the box and questioning past strategies is critical to keeping your WordPress sites performing over time, but how do you jetti...

Does your site or do your clients' sites have way too many plugins that are slowing your site down? What if we told you, you could have your cake and eat it too when it comes to using the plugins you love AND keeping your site FAST? In this episode of PressThis, we interview Craig Allen of Plugin Optimizer about his thoughts on the role of plugins in making WordPress sites successful, how plug...

In this special Thanksgiving episode of PressThis, show host David Vogelpohl interviews himself about all the things, people, and experiences he's thankful for in the WordPress ecosystem. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

WooCommerce dominates the eCommerce landscape with more stores than any other platform or framework, but what does the future of eCommerce hold for WordPress and Woo? In this episode of PressThis, we interview Gyles Seward of Elementary Digital about his thoughts on where WooCommerce wins over closed source platforms like Shopify, the cost of ownership of open vs. closed platforms, and why WooComm...

Listen to this episode of PressThis to hear news from around the WordPress community including updates on WordPress 5.9, exciting news about in-person WordCamps, a live conversation with a WordPress AI content bot, and much more. Don't miss out on what's happening in WordPress. Listen to this episode of PressThis now! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: h...

In this episode of PressThis, we’re thrilled to interview Brian Gardner of Genesis fame and now leading WordPress developer relations at WP Engine to talk about his journey following the StudioPress acquisition in 2018 through today, what he has planned for the future, and his thoughts on the future of WordPress in general. Brian has always been a huge influencer over how WordPress has evolved so...

"Are you thinking of starting a premium plugin & theme business, but don't know where to start for billing, licensing & digital rights management (DRM), analytics, and marketing tools? In this episode of PressThis, we interview Vova Feldman of the popular Plugin and Theme business platform Freemius. Vova shares his thoughts on the common business models plugin & theme businesse...

If you’re building and managing WordPress sites the thought of managing over a million of them might sound a bit daunting, but imagine what you could learn from folks who do! In this episode of PressThis, we interview Liz Ketcham and Cliff Aultman of WP Engine about how they and their teams help keep over 1 million WordPress sites happy and healthy. Liz and Cliff share their experiences managing m...

Headless architecture has taken the development world by storm and a swarm of new technology offerings is emerging that specifically support headless WordPress builds. But how? In this episode of PressThis, we interview Kellen Mace and Alex Moon of WP Engine as they discuss the new headless WordPress platform Atlas including Atlas Content Modeler and Faust.js. Alex and Kellen explain their views o...

Do you remember your first experience building websites with WordPress? Do you remember who helped you learn, overcome the challenges you faced and was there for you to show you the way? Maybe it was easy for you to find that help and the opportunity to learn, but of course, that's not true for everyone. Sometimes it's really hard to find that help based on your geography, distance from a...

Are you tired of pounding out brochure websites and rarely get to express your true creative muscles? It may be time to take a creative break and express yourself by creating Internet art with the same kinds of skills you use to build with WordPress! In this episode of PressThis, we interview Rachel Winchester of DigitalCube about her thoughts around what Internet art is (you'll be pleasantly...

"Spending time with your family is the one of if not the most fulfilling thing you can do in life, but if you're wondering how you can put food on the table AND spend time with your family, then a WordPress career may be right for you. If you already have a WordPress career (likely if you're listening to this podcast), then you also might be wondering how you can fulfill your family an...

Are you working on digital media strategies for your site or on behalf of agency clients? Building a successful digital media website with WordPress is way more than just picking a place to drop images and videos. The digital media landscape we all operate within is changing at a rapid pace and your decisions on how you embrace media within your site could be the difference between an engaged audi...