Post Status Podcasts

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. In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss micro plugin businesses and playback a recent interview with Barry Kooij. They also tackle WP-CLI, what it is, why it’s useful, and ways they use it the most. The interview with Barry starts around 3:00 in and ends 20:00 in, for members that would like to skip it, if they already heard it in the main newsletter. WP-CLI discussion starts around 44:00. Topics & Links Niche Plugin Businesses Never5 Shop Plugins WP101 SearchWP FacetWP SeedProd GravityView GravityPlus Event Organiser Theme of the Crop WP-CLI WP-CLI WP-CLI Built-in commands Community commands S3 Uploads by Human Made (has built-in CLI integrations, instead of a UI) A more RESTful CLI

In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss a popular site’s redesign, and how the developers viewed WordPress’s shortcomings. They also talk about WordPress’s chops generally for complex sites and applications. Topics: An outside look at WordPress WordPress shortcomings, from developers that prefer other software Redesigning The Toast Timber, Twig templating for WordPress WordPress MTV Advanced Custom Fields  CMB2 WordPress as an application framework Building a database abstraction layer Nomad Base ElasticPress, by 10up SearchPress, by Alley Elasticsearch on WordPress.com Scaling WP queries with Elasticsearch

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. In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss work life balance. We discuss working long hours, managing and preventing burnout, moonlighting and its challenges, side projects, embracing hobbies, and creating exercise routines. Links Overcoming burnout People without phones in phone poses Epic procrastination series Don't moonlight long-term

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. In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss Google’s AMP project for Accelerated Mobile Page loading, and what it means for WordPress. They also go in-depth on WordPress’s upcoming core support for handling responsive images. Topics & Links Google's AMP AMP How AMP works WordPress AMP plugin AMP on Neiman Lab: What publishers need to know Responsive Images (starts at 35 minutes in) Responsive images merge Merge Proposal Plugin version

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his guest co-host, Brad Williams discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news. This week Brian and Brad talk about how to get involved in WordPress core, what to expect when you do, how to navigate the waters of core development. They also discuss term meta, its use cases, how it works, and why it’s a great feature for WordPress 4.4. Brad is guest hosting this week, as Joe is out. He’s the co-founder of WebDevStudios, a co-organizer for WordCamp US, and wrote Professional WordPress Design & Development  (my go-to book on WordPress development). You can follow Brad on Twitter @williamsba. Topics WordPress core development process: WordPress core components Features as plugins WordPress Trac  The WordPress core team How to get on WordPress Slack discussions Term meta: Term Meta posts/notes on Post Status (some members only content) The case for term meta (members only) Term meta lands in core Term Meta posts on Make Core WordPress Fields API project

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. This week, Joe and Brian go into depth discussing all aspects of the WordPress REST API, and the state of the API today. With the recent merge proposal, there is a good chance it will be included in WordPress core via a two stage process in the WordPress 4.4 and 4.5 releases. The first release would be the core infrastructure and the second release would include the endpoints. This is our longest podcast, but we go in depth on one of WordPress's most anticipated features in years. Topics: Brief overview: what is the REST API? Why is the REST API important, and why are people excited about it? REST API proposal Reviews from the core team New REST API core component Trac Ticket Comparison's to Drupal's REST API Customizer roadmap in regards to the API Authentication and future REST API projects Links: REST API Version 2 site and docs REST API merge proposal Committer review requests for the REST API Introduction to the WordPres REST API How StoryCorp uses the REST API for mobile audio uploads WordPress on OpenHub The core ticket for merging the REST API infrastructure (Stage 1) Lessons for WordPress from Drupalcon (members only) Matt Mullenweg's excitement for the API on a Product Hunt AMA Ryan McCue's "A Future API" post on possibilities, including centralized auth Possible roadmap for the Customizer (including REST API integrations, perhaps) The new REST API core Trac component OAuth1 for the WordPress REST API The API on Github A Day of REST conference all about the API

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: Working locally Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) Chassis Salty WordPress Get DesktopServer MAMP and MAMP Pro Docker Hub Installing LAMP stacks with Homebrew How to Dockerise and deploy multiple WordPress applications on Ubuntu Docker Machine VIP Quickstart WP-CLI Underscore.js Underscore.js  Intro to Underscore.js templates in WordPress Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress Transparency WPLift's Public income reports roundup Buffer+Transparency Is there a downside to transparency reports? Nomadbase.io launch Nomadbase.io

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.

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. Stories discussed: Language packs background and details (members only) Plugin translation details WordPress.org sub-site for translations of WordPress, plugins, and themes Trac gardening ReactJS React Europe talks Redux framework Web Pack USTwo site in React with a WordPress backend Loopconf talk on React and Flux Nomadbase React app React and the WP API for a native app A Day of Rest: a WordPress REST API conference Details for A Day of REST

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes. My co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, and I discuss some of today's hottest, current WordPress news. Stories discussed: WordPress 4.3 "Billie" released What is on your wishlist for WordPress 4.4? Don't add WP API to Core in 4.4? Mel Choyce's biggest issues with WordPress Who is using WP REST API and why? REST API Documentation A not-so-brief summary of the REST API