
Post Status Podcasts
Post Status Draft, Excerpt, Comments, and Live provide the interviews, news digests, community discussions, and live shows that matter — for WordPress professionals.
Latest episodes

Aug 18, 2017 • 1h 3min
Building a healthy remote company, with Tom Willmot
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Brian is joined by Tom Willmot, the CEO of Human Made. Human Made recently released an employee handbook as an open source document for anyone to use, copy, or learn from. Tom and Brian discuss several elements of the handbook, and how they approach these things at Human Made:
Employee onboarding
Remote work processes
Communication
Employee feedback and mentorship
HR policies
And more!
This was a fun episode. Human Made has some of the lowest turnover in our industry and it was educational to hear from Tom.
Sponsor: OptinMonster
OptinMonster allows you to convert visitors into subscribers. You can easily create & A/B test beautiful lead capture forms without a developer. Be sure to check out their new Inactivity Sensor technology.

Aug 9, 2017 • 49min
Live from Publish: Challenges facing the WordPress Economy
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Brian and Joe are live at Post Status Publish and answer questions from the conference audience. They are asked about mistakes they think the WordPress product ecosystem is making, the challenges of working remotely, and many more existential questions.
Publish was a lot of fun, and we’ll have more audio, video, and pictures available over the coming weeks.
Sponsor: Liquid Web
Liquid Web was the platinum sponsor of the Publish podcast, and therefore this episode of the podcast as well. If you haven’t tried Liquid Web’s Managed WordPress product, it’s time. They are doing awesome work in this space for mission critical sites.

Jun 15, 2017 • 50min
An entrepreneurial journey around eCommerce, with Patrick Rauland
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by the creator and editor of Post Status, Brian Krogsgard, and this week's guest host, Patrick Rauland.
In this episode, Brian and Patrick Rauland discuss the state of eCommerce today, both from a product perspective, and for store owners. They also discuss Patrick’s own journeys in the land of eCommerce, as a former product manager for WooCommerce, a course author for Lynda (now LinkedIn Learning), consulting, and putting on an online eCommerce conference.
Links
Patrick's programming blog
Lift Off Summit
Amazon FBA for WooCommerce
ShipStation
Stitch Labs
Tropical MBA
WooConf
eCommerceFuel
Post Status Publish
Photo Credit
Sponsor: Pagely
Pagely offers best in class managed WordPress hosting, powered by the Amazon Cloud, the Internet’s most reliable infrastructure. Post Status is proudly hosted by Pagely. Thank you to Pagely for being a Post Status partner.

Jun 7, 2017 • 58min
Teaching what you learn with Joe Casabona
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by the creator and editor of Post Status, Brian Krogsgard, and this week's guest host, Joe Casabona.
Brian and Joe discuss the way they have learned WordPress over the years, and how they’ve gone about sharing and teaching what they’ve learned. They focus mostly on front-end parts of WordPress development.
Links
WP in one month
Casabona.org
How I Built It
WesBos.com
Sponsor: Yoast
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May 20, 2017 • 1h 8min
WordPress in higher education, with Rachel Cherry -- Draft Podcast
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard.
Brian is joined by guest-host Rachel Cherry -- a Senior Software Engineer at Disney, and the organizer of WP Campus, an event for WordPress in higher education. They discuss many of the things that folks working with WordPress in higher education encounter during this episode.
Prior to working for Disney, Rachel spent around a decade working on the web in higher ed, most recently at the University of Alabama.
Links
Rachel's website
WP Campus, which will be held on July 13-14 in Buffalo, New York.
The Events Calendar, by Modern Tribe
University of Alabama Engineering
Washington State University Github
Sponsor: SiteGround
SiteGround is engineered for speed, built for security, and crafted for WordPress. They offer feature-rich managed WordPress hosting with premium support, and are officially recommended by WordPress.org. Check out SiteGround's website for a special deal for Post Status listeners, and thanks to SiteGround for being a Post Status partner.
Photo by Found Art Photography

Apr 30, 2017 • 1h 14min
Maintaining Legacy WordPress Websites
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
Brian and Joe discuss many of the factors that are a part of maintaining a website for the long term. They discuss it both in the sense of when you own the site (like Brian with Post Status), and when you are doing long-term client work (like Human Made with retainers).
There are several things to consider, whether it’s in your own code, or the decisions you make on which third party developer’s tools to use.
Links
Semantic Versioning
WooCommerce 3.0 and moving to SemVer
Sponsor: SearchWP
SearchWP makes WordPress search better. Instantly improve your site search without writing a line of code! SearchWP enables custom algorithms, searching custom fields, product data, and much more. Improve your site’s search today with our newest partner, SearchWP.

Apr 24, 2017 • 57min
Breaking into and building community, with WordPress and beyond
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard.
Brian is joined by guest-host Matt Medeiros -- host of the Matt Report podcast, and many other ventures in the WordPress ecosystem. They discuss community building, their experiences building community in the WordPress world, and the challenges of getting involved in a new community.
Links
Crafted by Matt
Matt Report
Post Status WordPress Jobs
This WordPress community is not for the taking
Sponsor: Prospress
Prospress makes the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin, that enables you to turn your online business into a recurring revenue business. Whether you want to ship a box or setup digital subscriptions like I have on Post Status, Prospress has you covered. Check out Prospress.com for more, and thanks to Prospress for being a Post Status partner.

Mar 13, 2017 • 56min
JavaScript frameworks in a WordPress context
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard.
Live from the A Day of REST workshops, Brian, Joe, and Zac talk about the state of working with JavaScript -- including several popular JavaScript frameworks -- and WordPress. They go through the pros and cons of using each one, what to watch out for when working with them and WordPress, and ways they think the process can improve.
Links
JavaScript for WP
React
Vue
Backbone
Underscores
Angular
A Day of Rest
Sponsor: WP Migrate DB Pro
Today’s show is sponsored by Delicious Brains. WP Migrate DB Pro makes moving and copying databases simple. They also have an exciting new project for merging databases, called Mergebot. Go to Mergebot.com for updates on that, and deliciousbrains.com for more information on WPMigrate DB Pro. Thanks to the team at Delicious Brains for being a Post Status partner.
Special Thanks: Bocoup
Special thanks to Bocoup for allowing us to record this podcast episode in their office. Bocoup was a partner and workshop host for A Day of REST, and were incredibly hospitable. Checkout Bocoup to learn more about how they embrace open source as a consulting agency.

Mar 6, 2017 • 57min
Making a living without client work, with Carrie Dils
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and this episode's special guest, Carrie Dils.
Carrie Dils has been self-employed for a long time. After years of client work, she now makes her full-time living through multiple different channels, but is not currently doing client services. In this episode, Brian and Carrie talk about various methods for generating revenue, and some helpful tools to do so.
Links
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
ConvertKit
Mailchimp
Chimp Essentials Mailchimp course
Paul Jarvis on Carrie's podcast
Sunday Dispatches
Nerd Marketing
Amy Lynn Andrews
Todoist
Simplenote
Getting Things Done
1Password
Interview with Diane Kinney
Links to Carrie's Work
Experience as an Uber driver
Office Hours
Carrie’s blog
WordPress courses
Utility Pro theme
Real World Freelancing book
Sponsor: Prospress
Prospress makes the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin, that enables you to turn your online business into a recurring revenue business. Whether you want to ship a box or setup digital subscriptions like I have on Post Status, Prospress has you covered. Check out Prospress.com for more, and thanks to Prospress for being a Post Status partner.

Feb 25, 2017 • 35min
Running a successful regional agency, with Ben May
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher.
In this episode, Brian interviews Ben May to talk about running The Code Company, a semi-remote agency based in Queensland, Australia. The Code Company works primarily with long term clients and repeat work, and they’ve grown from just Ben to a team of 11 almost entirely by referrals for new customers.
Links
The Code Company
Sponsor: WooCommerce
This episode of the Draft podcast is sponsored by WooCommerce. WooCommerce makes the most widely used eCommerce platform on the web, and has the power and flexibility you need to power your store. For more information on how to run your store with WordPress and WooCommerce, check out their website and thank you to WooCommerce for being a Post Status partner.