Justifying conferences, improving WordPress comments, and WordPress’s PHP version support

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.

Links and Stories Discussed

Events links

• A Day of REST  and the Post Status post on it
• WordCamp US
• WordCamp Tampa
• WordCamp NYC
• PressNomics
• WordCamp Europe
• Are conferences worth it?

Comments links

• Brian’s recommendations for comments
• Performance for comments, part of Mark Jaquith's Cache Buddy
• Featuring comments by Pippin Williamson
• Comments Redux
• Comment Trac tickets

PHP links

• WordPress PHP stats
• PHP releases
• New in PHP7
• PHP benchmarks
• PHP7 on WordPress

Segments

• We start the show with events and discuss justification for them.
• 25 minutes in or so, we switch to comment discussion.
• 47 minutes in we switch to PHP.