In this episode of Press This, WP Engine Developer Advocate Fran Agulto dives into all things headless WordPress including the pros and cons it entails for rapid development and the way WordPress builders can expect to see headless intersect with Full Site Editing.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Gather around the campfire as we tell you spooky stories about plugins gone wrong and other WordPress horror stories. Chris Weigman starts us off with the tale of the time he accidentally crashed 20,000 websites, then Derek Ashauer shares a tale involving custom ticket software and Blink182.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Black Friday is coming, are you ready? In this episode, we’re sitting down with Josh Dailey from WP Engine to talk about last-minute tips and tricks to make sure your eCommerce site is ready for the biggest sales of the year.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you are one of the millions of users of Advanced Custom fields, you are going to want to listen to this episode of Press This. We talked with Iain Poulson about some of the new features coming to ACF 6.0.Find out why the team refers to this as ACF Blocks version 2, and what features Iain is most excited about.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As a WordPress agency you may offer hosting services directly to your clients and also recommend other clients buy their own hosting, but what is the right recommendation and what factors should you be considering?In this episode of PressThis, we interview Jeff Mankini of UpClick Digital about his thoughts on what both reselling and referring hosting is helpful for clients, the factors he uses to determine what to recommend, and why he thinks his approach is a win-win for the clients UpClick Digital serves.If you're an agency thinking through this puzzle, or a brand wondering what the right choice is for you on how to handle your hosting approach, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For over 260 episodes PressThis host David Vogelpohl has interviewed countless guests from around the WordPress community about the latest advancements in WordPress, interesting projects people in the community are working on, and a countless list of optimizations, hacks, and techniques to make WordPress sites better.To honor David's years as host, in this episode we turn the tables and interview David Vogelpohl about his thoughts about a new CMO role he will be taking on after he departs WP Engine, what connections his new gig has to the WordPress community, what he'll miss most about WP Engine, his favorite experiences hosting PressThis all these years, and what he's excited about for the future of PressThis.If you've enjoyed listening to PressThis, know David and are curious about what's next, or are simply wondering what the next for PressThis, don't miss this episode. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you a hard-core PHP developer who hasn’t quite “learned Javascript deeply” yet? Building headless WordPress sites can be a challenge to those new to the craft, but your bread and butter WordPress developer skills actually put you on better footing than you’d think.In this episode of PressThis, we interview Fran Agulto of WP Engine’s dev rel team about his thoughts on the best way to actually get started building headless WordPress sites using your baseline WordPress developer skills as a fantastic starting point! Fran shares his thoughts on how to choose the best front-end frameworks, how to approach the API layers that will make sense to your WordPress brain and a quick start approach for your first project.If you’re wanting to start on your own headless WordPress builds, but don’t know where to get started, don’t miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

One of the primary benefits lauded with decoupled architecture (e.g. headless WordPress) is the improvement to the developer experience, but is the developer experience coming at the expense of the content creator experience? How can we have our cake and eat it too by providing our dev teams environments where they love to innovate and provide content creators the freedom to create?In this episode of PressThis, we interview Tayo Onabule of Drewl about his thoughts on the different types of approaches folks take on content creator UX with headless WordPress builds, insights into the challenges & opportunities, and his favorite techniques and tools for delivering a fantastic headless WordPress experience for content creators and marketers.If you're looking for ways for your headless WordPress builds to delight content creators and your development team, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The buzzword of the year is the metaverse and rightfully so considering the drastic digital life changing innovations poised to permeate our lives with AR and VR, but what role will WordPress have if any in this strange and exciting new world?In this episode of PressThis we interview Anthony Burchell of WP Engine who is on the bleeding edge of connecting WordPress to the metaverse. Anthony’s accolades in this area include using WordPress to power experiences in VR based WordCamps during the pandemic to more recent experiments leveraging 3DWeb components in a WordPress context.Anthony shares his thoughts on what the metaverse is, what the web looks like / could look like with 3DWeb, and his thoughts on WordPress’ strengths for being a powerful tool as part of your metaverse toolkit.If you’re getting a bit bored building 2D websites and are curious about our 3D future, don’t miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Formidable Forms plugin has always been a surprisingly useful tool for teams wanting to build everything from simple forms to full-on web applications with WordPress. This more-than-meets-the-eye nature of Formidable may leave you wondering, what else could I be building with Formidable?In this episode of PressThis, we interview Victor Font of Formidable Masterminds about his thoughts on why he believes Strategy 11 is spearheading a golden age of WordPress application development with Formidable Forms, how Formidable could be the go-to codeless WordPress application development platform, and why he says he has never seen a product as capable for building application.If you're looking to add meaningful functionality to the web funnels you build without code or you're looking for a faster path for your web application development even if you already know how to code, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy