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Professional WordPress Plugin Development was one of the most helpful books I've ever read. To see a new edition with two returning authors, nine years after the original, is very exciting.This edition of the book will be sure to offer a great resource for developer education for years to come. Brad Williams, Justin Tadlock, and John James Jacoby are each extremely talented developers and communicators. The work they can accomplish together is even greater.Cory talks to them about their histories, the book, the process, and much more. We hope you enjoy this episode of Post Status Draft.You can pre-order Professional WordPress Plugin Development now on Amazon. It is slated to be released June 10th.Brad's announcementJustin's announcementJohn's announcementEpisode Partner: Gravity FormsGravity Forms is the easiest, most trusted tool to create advanced forms for your WordPress-powered website. I use Gravity Forms on every WordPress site I own, and I know I can always rely on its power, flexibility, and reliabili

Dr. Sherry Walling is a psychologist and entrepreneur, adept at, “helping smart people do hard things.” She was gracious to talk in a Post Status Webinar with Cory Miller, about how to navigate life in uncertain times like we have now.Topics discussedManaging fear, worry, and anxietyThe Coronavirus, and how to handle itIsolation, social distancing, remote work, and our mental healthQ&A on work boundaries, stress, and moreLinksZen FounderDr. Sherry Walling's website@zenfounder — Dr. Walling's TwittrEpisode Parter: WordFenceIf your website is mission-critical you can't afford the downtime, reputation challenges or SEO impact of getting hacked. That's why so many sites rely on the real-time protection provided by Wordfence Premium.Wordfence protects your websites with the best WordPress security available, and offers a powerful and efficient way to manage security for multiple sites in one place with Wordfence Central.

Ken Wallace runs Mastermind Jam, which according to the website, “gives you everything you need to join, create, and manage your mastermind group, all without having to waste time cobbling together a bunch of different software, forms, and shared documents, even if you don't have a large personal network.”Some of the topics discussed about MastermindsDefining what a mastermind isThe difference between a mastermind and other community channelsWhy masterminds are important to hold with peers outside of your companyLearning to trust your mastermindThe importance of consistency, and setting up a regular cadenceHow to structure conversationsHow to find people for a mastermindEpisode Parter: Sandhills DevelopmentNo matter what you're working on with your WordPress website, Sandhills Development probably has a tool that can help you.Easy Digital Downloads – Sell digital products with WordPressAffiliateWP – A full-featured affiliate marketing solutionRestrict Content Pro – A powerful membership plugin for WordPressSu

Syed Balkhi joins me to discuss the acquisition of AIO SEO.Some of the questions he answers:So who is your target customer with All in One SEO?How is the model structured? You’re directing strategy… is there a Christoff or Atchison in this setup?How does your vision for AIOSEO compare to what you see in Yoast SEO?How do you envision the free/premium divide?What are the first three things you plan to do?How did the conversation w/ Michael start? You approach him? He approach you? Tell me a story.How far do you think you can scale this business model?What do you think about the consolidation we’re seeing in the plugin ecosystem — the consolidation you’re a major player in?Links:Awesome MotiveAIO SEO on WP.orgAcquisition announcement

A lot of folks in the WordPress economy, whether employed with a side hustle or self-employed, manage multiple things. Also, many of us work with partners, or are interested in partnerships.Cory has long worked with partners, and we're now running Post Status as partners. Also, we are both working on several projects.In this episode of Draft, we talk about how to balance multiple things, how we try and structure our weeks, and some things to consider when working with partners.Show linksKolbeStrengthsfinderWait But WhySponsor: PagelyPagely offers best-in-class managed WordPress hosting, powered by Amazon's Cloud, the Internet’s most reliable infrastructure. Pagely helps big brands scale WordPress. Their new platform NorthStack is a completely serverless solution for managed application hosting. Thank you to Pagely for being a Post Status partner!

I created Post Status in January 2013 and started the Club in January 2015. January 2020 marks another huge milestone for this community and business.I’m very excited to share that Cory Miller is now an equal partner of Post Status. Cory purchased half the business and will be working with me in the day-to-day management, writing, community engagement, and everything else we do with Post Status.Many should know Cory from his ten years running iThemes. After they sold the business to Liquid Web and he spent some time there, he decided to step away and continue his entrepreneurial journey. He’s working on a few projects, and Post Status is a significant part of where he’s dedicating his time and energy.Cory is a long-time friend, and iThemes has been a Post Status sponsorship partner since 2015. Cory understands the community, the role Post Status plays in the space, and he brings so much to the table, from established community relationships to product and business experience.We’ve known one another going back

In this episode, Scott and I dig into his world as an indie developer within the WordPress landscape.Scott has long used JavaScript as a core technology with AppPresser. I think he's on the forefront of thinking about various technologies that are newer to WordPress but out in full force in other worlds.Scott is really into JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, Markup). He's working on Static Fuse now, which helps connect WordPress to Gatsby -- which has a lot of attention in the web space right now.We also dig pretty deeply into the challenges and opportunities facing independent developers, and the interest levels in WordPress from the indie dev crowd. It's an interesting episode and I learned a lot from Scott. I hope you enjoy.Other links from the showGraphQL and WPGraphQLScott's websiteThe Product Business podcastZac Gordon's JavascriptforWP courses Sponsor: Sandhills DevelopmentSandhills Development makes a suite of excellent plugins to power your WordPress website. Whether you need to sell digital downloads, rest

Today I talk to Matt Medeiros, in a wide-ranging conversation about the WordPress ecosystem. It's informal and we cover a lot of different topics, but they all narrow down to various fears and uncertainties some in the WordPress community are experiencing in recent years.What's the future of WordPress? How about the business community? Can smaller businesses make it? What threats exist: leadership, corporate, other platforms?We cover a great deal here. It's not very structured, but I do think it's valuable to be able to capture a common line of sentiment in the WordPress community. I hope you enjoy it, and thanks to Matt for being so open with me in this episode.Links from the showMatt ReportMatt on TwitterWP GovernancePartner: JiltJilt offers powerful email marketing built for eCommerce. From newsletters to highly segmented automations, Jilt is your one-stop show for eCommerce email. Join thousands of stores that have already earned tens of millions of dollars in extra sales using Jilt. Try Jilt for free

I talked with Kira Leigh, a full-stack creative entrepreneur and consultant. Skeptic may be too strong of a word, but she makes it clear that she thinks WordPress is too often used when it’s not necessary. Kira handles every part of her projects, which typically stem with marketing and copywriting, but she takes on design, development, and whatever is required to get the job done. She is the type of person who WordPress should be able to serve quite ably. But more than not, she would rather steer clear. In this episode of the Draft Podcast, I talk to her about her work, why she is pained by WordPress, and try to come to some conclusions from it all. I am not sure if I accomplish much, but I do feel like I am better able to see where she’s coming from. This conversation stemmed from a friend linking me to a post Kira wrote that was (to my mind) a bit aggressive toward WordPress — and while perhaps not 100% accurate, it is 100% her perception of the reality that is working with WordPress. Links from the show Th

Ben Thompson recently wrote about Shopify and the Power of Platforms. He highlights the difference between an aggregator (e.g. Amazon’s Merchant Services) and a platform (Shopify) and makes a case for how Shopify can successfully compete against Amazon. If you’re new to Ben’s work, I highly recommend following the links he references in the opening paragraphs. Aggregators vs Platforms As Ben explains, Amazon is an aggregator that owns the users (i.e. customers, Amazon Prime subscribers) and aggregates the suppliers (i.e. merchants, manufacturers). Amazon succeeds by providing a great user experience (e.g. one click checkout, same day delivery) and by treating products and their suppliers as commodities, all available to the customer in a single, aggregated shopping experience. While aggregation can provide high value for customers, it minimizes the opportunity for merchants to differentiate and can ultimately hurt customers as competition and innovation are stifled.  A competitor to Amazon might try becoming

I talked to Matt Mullenweg for over an hour recently, and here I share about 8 minutes of our conversation, a part where we discuss eCommerce, and where WooCommerce currently fits into that world. I also spend several minutes talking about big changes happening with Post Status. I hope you'll check it out, and join us for Post Status Publish, and subscribe to the now free newsletter.

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard. In this episode of Draft, I talk to Anil Gupta, the founder of Multidots. Multidots is a 100+ person company and Anil has established a very people-first environment. We discuss his journey and philosophies building the company. I met Anil at CaboPress and we had a great chat, which we followed up with in this episode, recorded at WordCamp US. Anil has a great story and a lot of insight. I hope you enjoy. Sponsor: Jilt Jilt offers powerful email marketing built for eCommerce. Join thousands of stores that have already earned tens of millions of dollars extra sales using Jilt. Try Jilt for free

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, I am joined by Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic. Just after releasing WordPress 5.0, and on the heels of WordCamp US, Matt and I review the event, the release, and discuss how he thinks things went, what could have gone better, and what he sees ahead. We also dig into WooCommerce, various plans around core development processes, Automattic, and more. I hope you enjoy. Full transcript is coming soon. Episode Links Matt's blog Automattic WordCamp US State of the Word Post Status's coverage of WCUS 5 Stages of Grief Sponsor: iThemes iThemes makes great WordPress plugins, themes and training to help take the guesswork out of building, maintaining and securing WordPress websites. I talk to iThemes CEO Cory Miller during the break to hear about what they are working on, an

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards. In this episode, I bring on Andrew Youderian. Andrew runs eCommerce Fuel -- a great website geared toward eCommerce store owners, specifically those making high six figures or seven figures in revenue per year. Andrew keeps his ear low to the ground in the eCommerce landscape and carries no specific WordPress bias. If anything his experience is in other platforms -- making a discussion with him both on platforms and also just eCommerce in general particularly valuable to me. Episode Links eCommerce Fuel State of the merchant Sponsor: SiteGround Engineered for speed, built for security, crafted for WordPress. SiteGround offers feature-rich managed WordPress hosting with premium support, and is officially recommended by WordPress.org. Thanks to SiteGround for being a Post Status partner.

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards. In this episode, I bring on James Laws and Kevin Stover -- cofounders of Saturday Drive, the parent company of Ninja Forms -- to discuss why they are entering the world of eCommerce. I found this especially interesting given the market dominance of WooCommerce for general WordPress-based eCommerce needs. Saturday Drive purchased Exchange, the plugin initially developed by iThemes and then handed off to A.J. Morris, with the intention of making a play for the eCommerce market, much like they did successfully once already for the somewhat-saturated forms market. Episode Links Ninja Shop plugin Ninja Shop website James Laws on Twitter Kevin Stover on Twitter Sponsor: Sandhills Development Sandhills Development makes a suite of excellent plugins to power your WordPress website. Whether you need

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards. In this episode, the Brians discuss the challenges of working on your own business website, when your company offers services or makes products for websites. Agencies often disregard their own websites, as do product companies. We discuss our own histories of attempting in-house redesign projects, strategies to get them done, and how we approach things today owning our own tiny businesses. Links CodeInWP Transparency Report: Redesigning Your Business Website Sponsor: Pagely Pagely offers best in class managed WordPress hosting, powered by the Amazon Cloud, the Internet’s most reliable infrastructure. Post Status is proudly hosted by Pagely. Thank you to Pagely for being a Post Status partner

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards. In this episode, the Brians have a chat about a number of different acquisitions that have occurred in the WordPress space over these past few weeks. Listen in as they unpack some of the news surrounding StudioPress, WPEngine, Automattic, WPNinjas, Prospress, and AutomateWoo. Check out our episode links for further stories about each of those businesses as well as the virtual JavaScript for WordPress conference taking place live on July 29. Links WPEngine acquired StudioPress Automattic acquired Atavist WPNinjas acquired ExchangeWP (formerly iThemes Exchange) Prospress acquires AutomateWoo Prospress announced Subscribe.me JSforWP Conf on Friday WCGR on Saturday WCEU Photos Sponsor: Jilt Jilt offers powerful email marketing built for eCommerce. Join thousands of stores that have

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards. In this episode, Brian is joined by guest-host Brian Casel. Brian runs Audience Ops, a productized service that offers all aspects of content creation for companies. Brian has been in the WordPress community for a long time, and for years has worked on creating processes around his business to enable him to get beyond a freelancer work life and into treating services like products. Before Audience Ops, he ran Restuarant Engine -- a niche WordPress site provider, where he really honed many of the processes his company still uses today -- which he sold for six figures. We dig in to why he decided to make a transformation with his businesses to be so process oriented, and how he turned that into the 30-person organization it is today, as well as the various courses and communities around Productize and S

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards. In this episode, Brian is joined by guest-host Jay Hoffmann. Jay is the Lead Developer at Reaktiv Studios and the creator and curator of The History of the Web. It is a good time to discuss the history of the web with Jay, as WordPress is ready to celebrate its 15th birthday. Be sure to subscribe to Jay's newsletter on the History of the Web website to receive new articles on such a fascinating project. Brian and Jay discuss his work at Reaktiv, his prior work at Sesame Street Workshop and Random House, and the project he's worked on for two years now documenting the web's timeline and history. It was a fun discussion on all fronts. Links The History of the Web The history of Flash The story of WordPress The decade long path to web fonts Sponsor: WooCommerce WooCommerce makes the most custom

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and co-host Brian Richards. In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss the upcoming WordSesh schedule and go spelunking through make.wordpress.org to surface some recent gems making their way to WordPress.org – both the project and the website. Links WordSesh schedule and tickets REST API search endpoint Help for Gutenberg migration guide Theme review with trusted authors Sponsor: iThemes This episode is sponsored by iThemes. The team at iThemes offers WordPress plugins, themes and training to help take the guesswork out of building, maintaining and securing WordPress websites. For more information, check out their website and thank you to iThemes for being a Post Status partner.