In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Andrew Wilder of NerdPress, who supports high-traffic food and travel blogs. He explains why his team does some things differently, like updating plugins by hand, and why WordPress suits independent publishers so well.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Ben May, who runs The Code Company, one of Australia’s leading WordPress agencies. He discusses scaling WordPress for big publishers, building comment and community systems, and how the platform has evolved.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Matt Hoy, Chief Revenue Officer at Revcontent, about earning ad revenue as Google search shifts and AI rises. His key point: trust matters most as advertising moves away from low-quality placements.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Pete Ericson, founder of Leaky Paywall, about why publishers are warming to paywalls. He shows how newsletters build the engagement that turns readers into paying subscribers.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Jacob Donnelly, who grew A Media Operator from a newsletter into a full media business, moving from Substack to WordPress to own his platform. He shares his view of the big shifts in publishing and what operators should do next.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Carol Cavaleiro, who co-founded the Brazilian fact-checking agency Aos Fatos and is now product director at Indiegraf. We talk about misinformation, and supporting independent journalists across the Americas with WordPress.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Luke Fretwell, who has spent 25 years using technology to make government better, including the GovPress theme and ProudCity. He shares how WordPress and open source can improve public services.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Simea Merki from Morntag, a digital agency in Switzerland. Many of Simea’s clients are traditional print publishers who need help moving into the online world of WordPress, AI and YouTube, often across several languages including English, French, Italian and multiple versions of German. We talk about the challenges of going from print to digital, why multilingual WordPress sites need extra work, why readers prefer responsive web pages over PDF flipbooks, and how AI is worrying publishers.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Jamie Marsland, known for PootlePress and now the official WordPress YouTube channel, who left a regular publishing job and found a creative burst. He explains how YouTube and AI have powered that creativity.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Kimberly Lipari, CEO of Valet, about why she deliberately keeps her agency small. We talk about balancing work and family, the human side of agency work, and the tools Valet relies on, including a strong pitch for Bricks.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Than Taintor of Human Made and Zeshan Ahmed of Green Street News about rebuilding the site of a major UK real estate publisher. They cover how WordPress supports its expansion into Europe, Australia and North America.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Raquel Manriquez about the story behind PressConf, the business-focused successor to Pressnomics. She shares hard-won lessons for event organizers, comparing notes with co-host Dan, who helped run WordCamp Canada.