WordPress News

Beka Rice and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (~15 minute) podcast. This week we talk about Mesh (an upcoming app by Automattic), 4.3 and 4.4 release leads, April Fools', and Array's year in review.

How StoryCorps uses WordPress to enable storytelling everywhere

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2015

DesignDraft

StoryCorps.me enables anyone to create and share powerful stories. Just launched as an iOS and Android app, the website that provides the app infrastructure is built on WordPress, utilizing the WordPress REST API. Here's how StoryCorps.me came to be.

WordPress News with Julie Kuehl

Brian Krogsgard

March 27, 2015

Julie Kuehl and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (15 minute) podcast. The Excerpt is part of the Draft podcast, and will be balanced by long form interviews. This week we talk about Shiny Installs, host growth, finding your place, and the REST API.

WordPress News with Brian Richards

Brian Krogsgard

March 23, 2015

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

March 13, 2015

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

August 8, 2014

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

August 5, 2014

CareersDraft

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

July 14, 2014

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

June 19, 2014

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

June 10, 2014

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

April 22, 2014

DraftPost Status Podcasts

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

April 17, 2014

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

March 26, 2014

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

March 17, 2014

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

February 26, 2014