Welcome to The Excerpt, part of the Post Status Draft podcast, which was submitted to iTunes recently. Draft will consist of two formats: long form interviews like I’ve done for a long time, and The Excerpt for a summary of news around the WordPress ecosystem.
With The Excerpt, we’ll cover a few of our favorite stories from the Post Status Club over the last week or two. The primary goal is to keep it short and informational: we set a hard stop at 15 minutes.
Content covered in The Excerpt will largely be samples from the members only content, but may also cover free articles and resources. You don’t have to be a member to enjoy The Excerpt, but it is a nice way to preview what members get every day.
Here’s Episode 1, which Brian Richards hosted with me:
Stories discussed:
- WordPress Beta 1 & Beta 2 β April 22nd live date
- Yoast, WooCommerce, AffiliateWP, and othersβ security updates.
- Growth from free themes.
I will try and have guest hosts as much as possible. They may rotate or it might just be a few people that are relatively consistent. We’ll see how it goes, and your feedback will always be welcome. Let me know what you think about the new show.
Nice first podcast, looking forward to where this goes. 15 minutes is a perfect fit for the daily commute.
Just one thing I’d like to add to the auto-update story: At 8:15 you’re saying “This was all well documented” which unfortunately isn’t really true. The Codex was actually wrong on this as it until that day said:
“By default, only minor releases β such as for maintenance and security purposes β and translation file updates are enabled on most sites.”
and
“Automatic plugin and theme updates are disabled by default.”
Fortunately this has been fixed by now, but still it hasn’t been that obvious until recently what kind of updates are enabled by default.
I’ve written about this and the importance of accurate documentation in more detail on a separate post in case anyone cares: http://kraftner.com/en/blog/expectations-and-reality-the-importance-of-documentation/