WordPress News with Brian Richards
Brian Krogsgard
Brian Richards and I cover the week in WordPress news with a new short format (15 minute) podcast. The Excerpt is part of the Draft podcast, and will be balanced by long form interviews.
Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson
Brian Krogsgard
This interview is with Jonathan Williamson, co-founder of CGCookie. He’s going to talk to us about running a real world membership website on WordPress. Jonathan is Pippin Williamson's twin brother, and he has years of experience running membership websites. There is much that we can learn from him.
How has WordPress changed your life?
Brian Krogsgard
Last week, I was in New York City for WordCamp and some client meetings. The event was a huge success, with four full tracks of expert designers, developers, and WordPress professionals sharing what they've learned. I had a great time…
Interview with Chris Lema: a journey to working full time with WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
On May 28th, 2012, I was virtually introduced to Chris Lema. He had 653 Twitter followers at the time. I know so, because that's how we were introduced — through an email from Twitter telling me he was now following…
Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web
Brian Krogsgard
Chris Coyier is not a stranger to most of us web workers. He's a designer at CodePen, a writer at CSS-Tricks, and a podcaster at ShopTalk. He uses WordPress on all three of his primary projects. For years, Chris has been…
Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use
Brian Krogsgard
Finally, finally someone has done it. They've combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com. Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with "the most important functionality built in." There aren't loads of tiny upsells like…
WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.
Brian Krogsgard
WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you'll find. That it's an eCommerce plugin -- built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible -- is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin…
From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business
Brian Krogsgard
Mike McAlister has been an active member of the commercial WordPress theme space since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011. And at the end of March of this year, Mike…
WordPress 3.9 roundtable with core contributors
Brian Krogsgard
I was privileged to be joined by six core contributors to WordPress 3.9 for a Google Hangout where we talked about the new release, contributing to WordPress, and more. To learn more about WordPress 3.9, check out our summary. You…
Pantheon for WordPress: a website hosting and management platform
Brian Krogsgard
Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren't just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting. I heard about…
The evolution of 10up
Brian Krogsgard
The ecosystem of businesses that have been built around WordPress is huge, but shallow. Few companies are both large (relatively speaking) and central to a broad WordPress community. With 60+ employees, some of which are very well-known WordPress developers, 10up…
Interview with Drew Strojny, Founder of The Theme Foundry
Brian Krogsgard
I had the pleasure to interview Drew Strojny, founder of The Theme Foundry, about their work at The Theme Foundry, their philosophies about themes, and their latest theme release, Oxford. [audio src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/PostStatus/DraftPodcast/Post-Status-Draft-3-Drew-Strojny-ThemeFoundry.mp3"] Direct Download Drew is a former Duke football…
Meet Joshua Benton, Director of Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab
Brian Krogsgard
Joshua Benton runs a small newsroom of four full time staff. They publish around fifteen items a week on Nieman Lab, their WordPress based website. Their newsroom is different than most newsrooms though, because they mostly publish about other newsrooms.…
Cory Miller, Founder & CEO of iThemes
Brian Krogsgard
I had the opportunity recently to talk to Cory Miller, the founder of iThemes. Cory started iThemes in January 2008, so they are currently celebrating their 6th anniversary. Cory is a really thoughtful businessman and leader, and I really enjoyed…
Interview with Mark Forrester, co-founder of WooThemes
Brian Krogsgard
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting WooThemes HQ in Cape Town, South Africa. Throughout the week I had the opportunity to interact with WooThemes' co-founders Mark Forrester and Magnus Jepson, as well as the rest of the Cape…
Interview the interviewer: Matt Medeiros of Matt Report
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Medeiros is a WordPress entrepreneur and podcaster from a town between Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts. Matt is also a co-founder of Slocum Studios, a web consultancy. One of Matt's podcasts is the Matt Report, where he interviews…
