I appeared on episode 331 of This Week in WordPress with Nathan Wrigley and the WP Builds crew, titled “Woof.” We discussed WordPress 6.8 — the only major release planned for 2025 — along with speculative loading for better page performance and the upcoming Page Builder Summit.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Jen Kramer, who has taught web design everywhere from Harvard to LinkedIn and Frontend Masters, and now at Annie Cannons, a boot camp for trafficking survivors. She reflects on how teaching has changed and what good teaching requires.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Kyle Van Deusen, who grew The Admin Bar to more than 12,000 WordPress agency owners and freelancers. Because he still runs an agency himself, he shares his members’ problems, and he explains why that authenticity matters.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Colin Devroe, who has blogged since the 1990s and now runs Hubbub, a social sharing plugin for WordPress. He explains why owning your audience matters more than ever as social networks change direction.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Brad Williams, CEO of WebDevStudios, who led projects like moving Microsoft’s blog networks to WordPress, a milestone for enterprise adoption. He shares how his team builds large publishing sites.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Tyler Channell, who runs PaywallProject, a WordPress stack for news publishers. Inspired by a college professor’s challenge, he has made it his mission to make newspapers sustainable, and he argues every paper should have a paywall.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with WordPress journalist and podcaster Matt Medeiros, who believes real community beats big follower counts. He talks about how curiosity has carried him from project to project.
I joined Mark Westguard on the Open Makers podcast (Open Channels FM) to talk about building a suite of WordPress plugins under the PublishPress umbrella. We covered the challenges of maintaining multiple plugins, the business decisions behind acquiring and growing products, and the wins that come from serving a dedicated community of WordPress publishers. If you’re interested in the behind-the-scenes of running a WordPress plugin business, this is a good listen.
Listen to the full episode at Open Channels FM.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with media veteran Brian Morrissey, formerly of Digiday and Adweek, who argues that smaller is better for publishers and that relationships beat reach. He has plenty of sharp opinions, including some uncomfortable ones for WordPress.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Rae Morey, who launched The Repository in 2019, a weekly newsletter that regularly breaks WordPress news. She talks about her path through tech and journalism, and what it took to reach 250 issues.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with former Automattic engineer Chris Hardie, who earned a journalism master’s degree, then bought Western Wayne News in Indiana. He shares what it’s like to run a small-town paper on WordPress.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Dan Knauss and I talk with Andy Dehnart, who has run Reality Blurred, covering reality and true crime TV, for 25 years. We talk about independent reviewing, and how small publishers can still thrive.