Post Status Podcast Picks 🎙️ Shop Talk Show: Andrew Walpole and Alex Riviere from Traina talk about their WordPress experience but also how they want to go further with more tools. Matt Report: A nice chat with Yaw Owusu-Ansah with a reminder of how big the WordPress space is. Changelog: If you are an RSS…
Should you build or capture an audience? JR Farr notes the pros and cons for each. On the Matt Report, Marc Benzakein shares a retrospective on ServerPress. Allie Nimmons and Teron Bullock discuss how to deal with negative criticism online in Press The Issue. Do we need a WordPress debate club? Bob Dunn has tips for first-time WordCampers, and Working Code looks at reducing the complexity of shipping code.
It’s the 500th issue of Post Status Notes and the Post Status newsletter coinciding with WordPress’s 6.0 release and its 19th anniversary! 🎂
Gutenberg 4.5 was released a few days ago, and it “matches the first 5.0 RC feature set.” Some notable additions include: (1) a minimal multi-selection block panel; (2) the “Disable Visual Editor” option can be set on a per-user basis; (3) drafts are saved on preview; (4) a different default editor font may be specified per…
In this episode, Brian is joined by Matt Medeiros, a veteran of building communities in the WordPress Space. They talk about the challenges and rewards of diving into a new community.
PluginTut has just been launched by Matt Medeiros. It’s the companion tutorials site for his new PluggedIn Radio podcast. Also catch three good Matt Report episodes out: Brad Williams of WDS, Chris Lema on life after Crowd Favorite, and Daan Tol on his $205,000 acquisition of WPLift. I just recorded an episode with Matt that should also be out next week.
The latest episode of the Apply Filters podcast has a nice interview with Devin Walker, and they discuss the Github announcement on pricing. Speaking of podcasts, it’s a new season of the Matt Report and Matt has a great chat with Mike McAlister about how to start (or maybe why you shouldn’t start) a WordPress theme business….
This isn’t WordPress-specific, but Andrew Youderian wrote an outstanding case study of his company’s $50,000 redesign. The redesign is for an eCommerce company and includes more than just the website design — it’s branding, migration from Magento to Shopify, and custom development for Shopify. You don’t see case studies this detailed that often. Andrew was…
ChurchThemes was started by Frankie Jarrett in 2011. Frankie is now the Head of WordPress Product at X-Team, makers of Stream — a product I reviewed a few months ago. Frankie also talked about Stream and ChurchThemes on the Matt Report recently. Today, Lift is announcing the acquisition of ChurchThemes. Lift is a consultancy and also owner of UpThemes,…
I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I’d share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered around development — mostly theme development. I was introduced to WordPress in 2008 and by…
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 WordPress professionals and digs deep into their stories, their businesses, their successes and their struggles….
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 that I don’t hate. That’s a strong compliment for this kind of plugin from me….
The WordPress podcast landscape seems to be exploding. I’ve been keeping my queue filled for a while now with the shows available. Let’s talk about a few. The DradCast The DradCast is a carryover from WP Late Night, hosted by Sucuri CEO Dre Armeda and WebDevStudios co-founder Brad Williams. They are ridiculously experienced and well respected in…
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