Interviews

WordPress communities around the world

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2015

I love to see features of some of the global WordPress communities. Tom Zsomborgi highlights 17 countries on the Kinsta blog, with short interviews with folks from each country. It's by no mean's an exhaustive list of countries with vibrant…

Interviews to read / listen to / watch this week

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2015

I want to take a moment to link up a few interviews you might be interested in this week. AMA with Tom McFarlin In the second WP Chat Ask Me Anything, Tom McFarlin takes the stage. Tom is a great…

Matt Mullenweg talks to Tim Ferriss

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2015

Matt Mullenweg talked to Tim Ferriss on Tim's podcast for over two hours. It's got a lot of good information, and I listened to it all for you. Why should you care? Well, Tim Ferriss is a WordPress advocate, member…

The 99% of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2015

Mario Peshev knows a lot about the long tail of the WordPress "community". He notes that they really aren't part of a community at all. Highlighting the thousands upon thousands that offer WordPress services on freelance websites like oDesk, he…

From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

Brian Krogsgard

April 22, 2014

BusinessDesign

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…

Life on trial at Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

April 14, 2014

Careers

Recently, Dave Clements finished a trial at Automattic. In this summary, he describes the experience in detail, from his initial interview and test to his four week trial. There were a few things in the post I didn't already know…

How a high school student became a professional WordPress developer

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

WordPress News

I've followed Sunny Ratilal since his earliest days contributing to Easy Digital Downloads. I remember Pippin Williamson raving about how good he was at contributing to EDD code and supporting EDD customers. Then I found out he was in high…

Meet Joshua Benton, Director of Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab

Brian Krogsgard

February 13, 2014

BusinessDraft

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.…

Automattic trial data and employee retention

Brian Krogsgard

December 16, 2013

Business

Matt Mullenweg does a lot of interviews, and much of this one at the Lean Startup Conference is similar to many others, highlighting how WordPress got started, the culture of open source and how Automattic works. But at the end he mentioned…

Interview with Mark Forrester, co-founder of WooThemes

Brian Krogsgard

November 12, 2013

BusinessDraft

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…

Why did Automattic gobble up an iCloud alternative?

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

Business

You should remember from earlier this year that Automattic acquired Simperium, maker of Simplenote. Simplenote is a great app by the way. John Paul Titlow, of FastCompany, interviews Matt Mullenweg and writes about the technology behind Simperium and how their…

Interview the interviewer: Matt Medeiros of Matt Report

Brian Krogsgard

October 22, 2013

BusinessDraft

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…

OptinMonster aims to be the dominant WordPress conversion plugin

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2013

DesignWordPress News

WordPress lead generation or conversion plugins are not typically my type of thing. In fact, I've hated every instance I've ever seen of them. But Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin have created OptinMonster, their take on a WordPress conversion plugin…

The collision of journalism and digital technology

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2013

WordPress News

Riptide is "an oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, from 1980 to the present." It is a collaborative project of interviews and an essay between Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Nieman…