An Interview with the MLA’s Humanities Commons Team
Dan Knauss
The MLA's Humanities Commons team maintains several WordPress projects to support Digital Humanities at colleges and universities.
Productizing your service business, with Brian Casel
Brian Krogsgard
In this episode, I interview Brian Casel, the owner of Audience Ops, a productized content service he's built to employ 30 people. He also runs a podcast and course on helping others productize their services.
Peter Wilson, a front-end developer from…
Brian Krogsgard
Peter Wilson, a front-end developer from Human Made, talks about some modifications to WordPress for an enterprise client, Fairfax Media. The WordPress edit screen was rebuilt to improve the default editing experience, and standard metaboxes were replaced with custom-built CMB2 metaboxes, mainly…
An interview with Zach Tirrell, Director of Product at Modern Tribe
Dan Knauss
Modern Tribe takes event calendars into the cloud with Loxi, their first SaaS offering. Learn all about it from Zach Tirrell, their director of product.
An interview with Review Signal founder Kevin Ohashi
Dan Knauss
Kevin Ohashi is the founder of Review Signal. Kevin also produces an annual report on WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks.
JavaScript frameworks and bus factors
Brian Krogsgard
Iain Poulson from Delicious Brains explains the risks of relying on third party libraries and codebases that are maintained by a single person. In the current discussion about JavaScript frameworks for WordPress Core, this is a timely question to ask. Iain mentions Vue.js as an example. Vue.js…
Siobhan McKeown shares some numbers, the…
Dan Knauss
Siobhan McKeown shares some numbers, the budget, and insights from the last Day of REST event in Boston. Her advice for other WordPress event planners: start small and scale up, differentiate yourself from WordCamps, and don’t skimp on attendee experience.
Rainmaker goes service only, sells partial stake to Nimble Worldwide
Brian Krogsgard
Rainmaker launched in April of 2014, and now it's moving from a SaaS product model to a service-only model, which includes a partial buyout to a new stakeholder -- Nimble Worldwide. I was excited about the launch of the hosted…
Reliance on third party code
Brian Krogsgard
One of the most challenging components to making decisions in web development is determining when and how strongly to rely on code written by other people. Most of the code we rely on for a website was written by someone…
Scott Taylor writes an extremely in-depth…
Brian Krogsgard
Scott Taylor writes an extremely in-depth piece on what you need to know about caching if you are using WordPress. Scott covers why network requests are slow, the importance of batching HTTP requests, and a nice lengthy bit on how…
The importance of tech in government, from Obama’s chief of staff
Brian Krogsgard
Denis McDonough -- President Obama's chief of staff -- spoke to Ezra Klein about how to run the White House. In it, he described a process where President Obama would meet with cabinet secretaries on a quarterly basis, and the…
What you should know about the Sucuri acquisition deal by GoDaddy
Brian Krogsgard
In fewer than six years, Sucuri went from a team trying to decide when the founders should go full time, to a team of more than one hundred people, and an acquisition deal in their hands from one of the…
Tom J Nowell talks about abusing…
Brian Krogsgard
Tom J Nowell talks about abusing post meta in a recent blog post. Querying by meta data is pretty much always a bad idea, and Tom explains why you should look at using taxonomies instead. Joe and I talked about indexing meta (you can…
Coen Jacobs shares his thoughts on…
Dan Knauss
Coen Jacobs shares his thoughts on his personal blog about leaving the Listings project. If you recall, Listings was born out of some frustrations with WP Job Manager being seemingly abandoned after the Automattic acquisition (although it's getting some attention…
Joyent and 10up have introduced what…
Brian Krogsgard
Joyent and 10up have introduced what they call an “Autopilot Pattern WordPress” implementation who’s goal is to make building WordPress sites at scale easier. It’s a fully Dockerized implementation of WordPress that includes MySQL, Memcached, Nginx, NFS, and Consul. There’s…
Ask Post Status: Innovation in WordPress — Draft podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Joe and Brian answer listener questions. Questions range from development database syncing strategies, to the theme review process, and a long chat about innovation in WordPress.
