In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Brian Hogg, who builds and sells WordPress plugins and writes openly about what works. We talk about launching new plugins and building a sustainable business around them. People in this…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Mike Demo of BoldGrid and Aleksander Kuczek of Perfect Dashboard about whether Wix, Squarespace and Weebly are a real threat to open source, and whether WordPress and its peers should…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Mendel Kurland, a familiar face at WordCamps who has helped change GoDaddy’s reputation in the WordPress community. He shares his path from an Iowa startup to GoDaddy, and his new…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Aleksander Kuczek of Perfect Dashboard and Brad Morrison of GoWP, who maintain thousands of WordPress sites. They discuss which plugins break the most often and how to run updates at…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Andy Miller, who went from ExxonMobil’s first webmaster to founding RocketTheme and helping start Joomla. Now he’s building Grav, a flat-file CMS, and he explains the thinking behind it. People…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Alan Hartless, who spent years as a nurse before becoming a developer. Now he’s lead engineer at Mautic, the open source marketing automation platform, and he tells me how he…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with former OSTraining writer Tessa Mero, now a developer advocate at Cisco, a conference organizer and a meetup leader. We talk about constant self-improvement and getting open source taught in schools.…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Chris Wiegman, who went from airline pilot in Hawaii to developer of iThemes Security, one of the most popular WordPress plugins. We talk about security, teaching, and reinventing your career…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Olivier Karfis, who runs FrenchToday.com, which teaches French using WooCommerce for digital downloads and, increasingly, apps built on the WordPress API. We discuss e-commerce, teaching and travel. People in this…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Justin Sternberg, who went from painting houses to leading development of CMB2, the custom fields framework behind hundreds of WordPress plugins. We talk about his career and why CMB2 is…