Post Status Podcasts

“There is always some space [in the WordPress ecosystem] left for developers.” – Dave RodenbaughIn this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David has a conversation with Dave Rodenbaugh, founder of Recapture.io. Dave has been involved with the business of WordPress plugins since 2009 with products like Business Directory Plugin and Another Classified WordPress Plugin.Why This Matters: Dave shares what he's learned while running a business in the WordPress space. Others in this space or looking to enter it will learn when (and what) they should outsource to SaaS and open source.Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡You can listen to past episodes of The Excerpt, browse all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, Simplecast, or by RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:Dave Rodenbaugh (Twitter)David Bisset (Twitter)Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: BluehostEverything your website needs — from start-up to success story — is at Bluehost. Whether you're looking to create a website, blog, or online store, Bluehost will get you started with an all-in-one website platform tailored to your specific needs. Get a free domain name in your first year, free 24/7 lifetime support, and total design freedom with WordPress at Bluehost. 

“The only folks able to do a free plugin are ones that are supported by a big corporation...” — Matt Cromwell"They suck" might be one way to describe the state of WordPress admin notices as a whole, but that doesn't help us very much, does it? David Bisset is joined by Matt Cromwell, Jon Bossenger, Aurooba Ahmed, and several guests to discuss the current pain points and possible technical solutions. Why do developers overdo admin notices in the first place? Learn about WP Notify, how it approaches the problem, and how the WordPress community can help make this the core solution.Post Status Comments 💬 is a stage for WordPress professionals to exchange ideas and talk about recent topics and trends.Browse past episodes and subscribe to our podcasts on  Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, Simplecast, or get them by RSS. 🎙️🔗 Mentioned in the show:WP Notify - A Notification Center for WordPress (Feature Project)WP Notify Status UpdateEncourage Donations to your Free Plugins with a Delayed Admin NoticeClarity Ad Blocker for WordPress Announced, Receives Mixed ReactionsFollow Our Panelists (and Post Status) on Twitter:David BissetAurooba AhmedJon BossengerMatt CromwellPost Status🙏 Sponsor: StellarWPWe are a collective of WordPress innovators, empowering business owners and creators with plugins and tools to help them thrive. We build great plugins, but we don’t stop there; we continually challenge ourselves to keep innovating and improving.Our solutions include the most trusted names in WordPress, with more than 2.5 Million installs. Since 2021, we’ve grown to encompass seven brands and dozens of plugins.StellarWP is part of the Liquid Web family of brands.

"It is now time for the community to weigh in and decide whether WordPress should stop and refuel in this new port." —Leonardo LosovizIn this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with Leonardo Losoviz about The Block Protocol and why it might benefit WordPress to adopt it and allow more of the web to share and reuse blocks. Matt Mullenweg has expressed interest in taking this path.Why This Is Important: Gutenberg, according to Matt, is "bigger than WordPress,", especially in the context of the Open Web. The Block Protocol is a way to create and share content across WordPress, half-WordPress, and non-WordPress sites, which supports the project's mission to democratize publishing.Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡You can listen to past episodes of The Excerpt, browse all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, Simplecast, or by RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:Implications Of WordPress Joining The Block ProtocolMaking The Web Better With BlocksThe Block ProtocolMatt Mullenweg on TwitterLeonardo Losoviz (Twitter)David Bisset (Twitter)Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: RocketgeniusGravity Forms is a powerful form builder for WordPress and the #1 choice for businesses and web professionals across the globe. Its vast array of features, intuitive drag-and-drop form editor, and extensive ecosystem of add-ons, ensure customers can design beautiful, intelligent, and accessible forms for any project requirement.

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David continues a conversation with Lesley Sim to pick her brain about some ideas she has for rewarding core contributors to WordPress. Last month on Twitter and Post Status Slack Lesley floated the idea of special contributor badges on WordPress.org. These badges would give developers who earned them a boost to their plugin and theme rankings. The goal would be to encourage new contributors to enter the WordPress ecosystem and recognize those in the community who are doing typically unpaid work that carries the project forward.Why This Is Important: Improving the contributor onboarding experience will help WordPress gain more core contributors. Some ideas going around the WordPress community involve additional sponsorships, new sources of funding, and public recognition. Some ideas will never make it off the ground but might lead to better ideas that do take off. We should never stop thinking about how to make the human factor in contribution to the project better for everyone. Maintaining a commons, like WordPress as an open source project, is a constant challenge for the WordPress community, as Lesley recently wrote for Post Status.Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡You can listen to past episodes of The Excerpt, browse all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, Simplecast, or by RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:Lesley Sim (Twitter)David Bisset (Twitter)Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: GoDaddy ProManage your clients, websites, and tasks from a single dashboard with GoDaddy Pro. Perform security scans, backups, and remote updates to many sites on any host. Check up on site performance, monitor uptime and analytics, and then send reports to your clients. GoDaddy Pro is free — and designed to make your life better.

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with Lesley Sim about Joel Spolsky on the Block Protocol, Matt Mullenweg for taking over for the exiting CEO of Tumblr, and a blog post by Dan Devine entitled "The Complicated Futility of WordPress."Why This Is Important: It's good to examine the views of influencers inside and outside the WordPress community about managing content (especially with blocks) and how complex content management systems (like WordPress) have become. Tumblr is a potential wildcard — social network, gateway to more advanced publishing, both, or neither?Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡You can listen to past episodes of The Excerpt, browse all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, Simplecast, or by RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:Making the Web Better With BlocksTwitter announcement: Matt "running Tumblr personally for a while"The Complicated Futility of WordPressTwitter conversation: Coderjerk / Matt & OthersLesley Sim (Twitter)David Bisset (Twitter)Post Status (Twitter) 🙏 Sponsor: WordfenceWho can afford downtime, a black mark on their brand’s reputation, or the SEO impact of getting hacked? That’s why so many WordPress sites rely on the real-time protection provided by Wordfence Premium. Now, Wordfence Central offers Premium subscribers a powerful and efficient dashboard to manage security for all their sites from one central location. Try Wordfence today!

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with Collins Agbonghama, the Founder of ProfilePress and the author of a few other WordPress plugins. Collins shares what he called a “small” win in Post Status Slack early in January 2022: he acquired a plugin (now LoginWP) for “5 figures” and was able to break even on a revamped, commercial “Pro” version after only four months. David and Collins talk about this accomplishment and consider how similar opportunities may exist for other WordPress entrepreneurs.Why This Is Important: Often you hear about large product acquisitions between relatively large companies in the WordPress space, but not so much the smaller ones — even though they can be just as impactful on people's livelihoods, especially for independent developers and freelancers.Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡You can listen to past episodes of The Excerpt, browse all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, Simplecast, or by RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:People of WordPress: Collins AgbonghamaWordPress Saved my LifeInterview with Collins Agbonghama of ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar)Collins AgbonghamaDavid Bisset (Twitter)Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: WordfenceWho can afford downtime, a black mark on their brand’s reputation, or the SEO impact of getting hacked? That’s why so many WordPress sites rely on the real-time protection provided by Wordfence Premium. Now, Wordfence Central offers Premium subscribers a powerful and efficient dashboard to manage security for all their sites from one central location. Try Wordfence today!

"When it comes to accessibility lawsuits, we as developers should be proactive to ensure a site is as accessible as possible." — Amber HindsIn this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David chats with Amber Hinds about the things WordPress professionals should be paying attention to. Their conversation covers recent trends and news in the accessibility space: meetups, lawsuits, overlays, and design trends.Why This Is Important: Accessibility is important to everyone, so it is critical for WordPress developers and designers to keep accessibility in mind. David and Amber only scratch the surface of this topic. Amber encourages developers to read this call from the Accessibility team to share their ideas, take part in the discussion, and suggest what to prioritize for WordPress in the near future.Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡ You can listen to past episodes of The Excerpt, browse all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, Simplecast, or by RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:2021 Year End Report - App & Web Accessibility Lawsuits Break RecordsWordPress Accessibility MeetupAccessibility Checker2021 lawsuit report-trends-and findingsDigital LawsuitsOverview of the European Accessibility ActA Guide to the Integrated Accessibility Standards RegulationThe ADA Lawsuit Selement Involving an Accessibility Overlay (Murphy v. Eyebobs)Overlay Fact SheetOverlay False ClaimsWP Accessibility PluginAccessibility and 2022: 13 Design Trends From a Usability PerspectiveAccessibility Team’s goals for WordPress 6.0 and beyondDavid Bisset (Twitter)Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: iThemesTake the guesswork out of building, maintaining, and securing WordPress websites. Professional plugins and training from iThemes help you create and manage your sites. Secure, back up, and manage them quickly and easily. Master leading-edge WordPress skills to grow your business and make more money. Learn and grow with the experts at iThemes.

"They don't talk about being at the summit until you're at the top, so [getting ahead] is a process." — Michelle FrechetteIn this episode of Post Status Draft, David sits down with Michelle Frechette to talk about what Post Status is planning for its community and the WordPress crowd as a whole in the first half of 2022. They cover three new events: the Weekly WordPress Job Chat on Twitter Spaces, WP Career Summit, and the first-ever Post Status Twitter Conference. (The conference theme is “Give. Grow. Together.”)Why This Is Important: Post Status is listening to members and watching what discussions are happening in the WordPress community. Michelle points out why each of these events is important to certain sections of the community — each event will touch the lives of many WordPress professionals in some way.Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡You can listen to past episodes of The Excerpt, browse all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, Simplecast, or by RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:WP Career Summit — Save the Date!Post Status Twitter ConferencePost Status EventsDavid Bisset (Twitter)Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: BluehostEverything your website needs — from start-up to success story — is at Bluehost. Whether you're looking to create a website, blog, or online store, Bluehost will get you started with an all-in-one website platform tailored to your specific needs. Get a free domain name in your first year, free 24/7 lifetime support, and total design freedom with WordPress at Bluehost.

“I totally rely on [the community] now… it’s like an extended family… it means a lot to me and I’m glad that everybody’s hanging on in there with me.” —Nathan WrigleyAfter the first Post Status WordPress News Draft went so well, we decided to do a more European timezone-friendly version. The group of news “avengers” that assembled in this episode are Winstina Hughes, Tammie Lister, Nathan Wrigley, Amber Hinds, Yvette Sonneveld, and Malcom Peralty — with David Bisset hosting. In three rounds of draft picks, this group assembled new and interesting picks of the most noteworthy or influential WordPress news stories of 2021.Also: Video recordings of some of our members' single biggest news picks were included in this episode.Post Status Comments 💬 is a stage for WordPress professionals to exchange ideas and talk about recent topics and trends.Browse past episodes and subscribe to our podcasts on  Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, Simplecast, or get them by RSS. 🎙️🔗 Mentioned in the show:Amber HindsWP Tavern: ACF Solicits Lifetime License Holders for Contributions, Urging Them to Purchase Annual Subscriptions.Sheri Byrne-Haber's Blog: The ADA Lawsuit Settlement Involving an Accessibility Overlay. (Murphy v. Eyebobs)WP Tavern: WordPress Classic Editor Support Extended for at Least Another Year.WP Tavern: Wix Takes a Jab at WordPress with Bewildering New marketing Campaign and Wix’s Negative Advertising Campaign Falls Flat with WordPress Developers and Professionals.Yvette SonneveldWP Tavern: WordPress Community Team Proposes Using a Decision Checklist to Restart Local Events.Joost.blog: WordPress Market Share Growth Slows Down.Rian Rietveld: Accessibility Overlays: Common Sense and Nonsense.WIRED: An Open Source License that Requires Users to Do No Harm.The Guardian: Online Forums Provide Safe Haven for People Who Suffer from Mental Health Challenges During COVID.Tammie ListerMake.WordPress.org: Pattern directory update.Matias Ventura: Theme.json horizon.Kjellr.com: Experimenting .Aino: Theme Update Guide.Winstina HughesPost Status Podcast 37 - David and Mary Job.Nathan WrigleyWordPress.org: Openverse.Wordfest.com: Community.Malcolm PeraltyWP Tavern: Gravity Forms 2.5 Launches With an Overhauled UI and Focus on Accessibility.WP Tavern: ElasticPress.io Service Considers Next Move after Elasticsearch Abandons Open Source Licensing.WP Tavern: Elastic Hits Back at OpenSearch, Making Client Libraries Incompatible with Amazon-led Open Source Fork.Wordfence: GoDaddy Breached – Plaintext Passwords – 1.2M Affected.WP Tavern: Delicious Brains Acquires Advanced Custom Fields Plugin.WP Tavern: ACF 5.10 Introduces Block API v2 Support, Block Preloading, and Security Improvements.WP Mainline: Why Can’t I Transform Two Paragraph Blocks and an Ordered List Block Into A Quote Block?Additional Contributions via ZipMesssage:ZipMessage: Biggest News Story of 2021Follow Our Panelists (and Post Status) on Twitter:Yvette SonneveldTammie ListerWinstina HughesNathan WrigleyMalcom PeraltyPost Status

"The Hippy Times are going to end at some point." —Bob DunnIn this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David has an honest and deep dive with Bob Dunn into the "versions" of the WordPress community — something Bob covered in a recent blog post that has gotten some attention recently. They discuss what each "version" was like, how money can make a community act differently, and how people position themselves, for better or worse, in reaction to changes in the community.Also: David asks Bob if certain changes are unavoidable once a community gets to a certain size and asks what is missing from the WordPress community today that existed in the early days.Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡You can listen to past episodes of The Excerpt, browse all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, Simplecast, or by RSS. 🎧🔗 Mentioned in the show:Are We in WordPress Community Version 3.0?Twitter Poll About WordPress Version/GenerationsConversation At Post StatusDavid Bisset (Twitter)Post Status (Twitter)🙏 Sponsor: GoDaddy ProManage your clients, websites, and tasks from a single dashboard with GoDaddy Pro. Perform security scans, backups, and remote updates to many sites on any host. Check up on site performance, monitor uptime and analytics, and then send reports to your clients. GoDaddy Pro is free — and designed to make your life better