Post Status Podcasts

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.

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 Yoast SEO Premium gives you 24/7 support from a great support team and extra features such as a redirect manager, recommended internal links, tutorial videos and integration with Google Webmaster Tools! Check out Yoast SEO Premium.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, I interview Jason Cohen, the founder of WP Engine and current CTO. I talked to Jason about a whole lot of things, mostly to do with growing well. Whether you're growing revenue, company size, or personal development -- this is a conversation about growth, and how to do it well. Unlike many entrepreneurs in the WordPress space, WP Engine isn't Jason's first business. He's done this before, and made plenty of mistakes. He talks about what he's done differently at WP Engine and how its made him a happier person. This interview took place at LoopConf, and Jason was a keynote presenter. His LoopConf talk pairs well with our discussion. Direct Download Links WP Engine LoopConf Jason's blog Sponsor: iThemes This episode is sponsored by iThemes. The team at iThemes offers WordPress plugins, themes and training to help take the guesswork out of building, maintaining and securing WordPress websites. For more information, check out their website and thank you to iThemes for being a Post Status partner.

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, Joe and Brian talk about two of the three WordPress core focus areas -- the customizer and the editor. There has been some news lately with initial ideas and mockups for each project, and we discuss the importance of these features, as well as what's happening with these projects so far. Links Customizer opportunities Editor mockups Editor technical challenges Commerce Notebook Sponsor: Pippin's Plugins This episode is sponsored by Pippin's Plugins. Pippin's Plugins creates a suite of plugins that work great alone, or together. Whether you need to restrict content, sell downloads, or start an affiliate program, they've got you covered. For more information, check out their website and thank you to Pippin's Plugins for being a Post Status partner.