Justifying conferences, improving WordPress comments, and WordPress’s PHP version support — Draft podcast

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.

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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.