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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 meta data in WordPress, including the challenge of implementing data into new tools, such as the REST API and the Gutenberg editor. With the endless options of data complexity that’s historically possible with meta fields, the way these features are implemented into new projects has to be well thought out. There is continued activity with both the REST API and Gutenberg to make sure meta is well supported. There are several things that are worth knowing, if you are a consultant or a product maker in regard to working with WordPress meta. Links Completing the implementation of meta data registration with the REST API Gutenberg, REST API, and You Fields Manager Advanced Custom Fields CMB2 Sponsor: Pippin's Plugins This episode is sponsored by Pippin’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, the two Brian’s discuss the current conversations and controversy surrounding data collection and visitor privacy on the web. The duo dig in to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and what it means for you both as site visitors and site owners and, in particular, how WordPress core and plugin authors are (or should be) responding to the new regulation. It’s a pretty deep topic with many implications and ramifications. Be sure to follow the episode links, too, so that you can be best informed and prepared for when GDPR goes into effect on May 25, 2018. Links CJR report on understanding the General Data Protection Regulation Core's roadmap for GDPR compliance Trac issues related to GDPR Pagely's GDPR guide Heather Burns' detailed GDPR analysis in Smashing Magazine

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 a variety of news topics spanning design, development, and business. Tune in to learn about the history of WordPress and the web, the newest TechCrunch redesign, a WordCamp for WordCamp organizers, and more. Links Leaky Paywall 2018 Design in Tech report Gutenberg Development Course TechCrunch redesign WordPress turns 15, via History of the Web Proposal for a WordCamp for WordCamp organizers  Sponsor: Gravity Forms Gravity Forms makes the best web forms on the planet. Over a million WordPress sites are already using Gravity Forms. Is yours? Thanks to Gravity Forms 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 dynamic Brian duo discuss the highly-anticipated return of WordSesh, the different ways in which we all learn the same, and some of the problems we face in skill building. The guys also spend time finding and contacting the addressable market around WordPress, characterizing a business as WordPress-focused vs providing WordPress services in the context of a broader market, and some of the nuances of providing contextualized services (whether they be training, consulting, or otherwise). Links New human organ WordSesh.com WPSessions.com Sponsor: OptinMonster OptinMonster allows you to convert visitors into subscribers. You can easily create & A/B test beautiful lead capture forms without a developer. Be sure to check out their new Inactivity Sensor technology.

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. This week the Brians put their brains together and discuss content distribution across various mediums and platforms as well as subscriptions for both digital and physical products. The conversation shifts between different tooling and platforms that exist for enabling content distribution as well as some of the societal shifts that have shaped how we share and consume both content and products. This is a good episode for anyone who is developing sites and selling solutions around content distribution or subscriptions as well as anyone who is running (or looking to run) a business based around a subscriber model (paid or otherwise). Links WP Jargon Glossary Google News subscription initiative Brent's blog post Teams for WooCommerce Memberships Target acquires Shipt Sponsor: Pagely Pagely

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 power of network effects and how they relate to WordPress’ increasing market share and maturity. WordPress has recently hit two major milestones, turning 15 years old and reaching 30% market share of the top 10 million websites, and we spend this episode reflecting on the innovations that brought us here and where innovations are likely to occur over the next 10 years. We’ve come quite a long way in these 15 years. From the famous 5-minute install to being entirely pre-installed. From a supportive band of volunteers and vast ecosystem of free software to the commercially supported and highly-polished products that exist today. There is a lot about WordPress to be thankful for, and a lot of great things that will exist in the future because of it. And you ca

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. This week BK and BR discuss a number of different aspects surrounding marketing and selling WordPress products and services. The conversation flows from selling benefits vs features, to social proof, to marketing and conversion funnels, to understanding and reacting to the problem space, to customer support, and many things in between. Whether you’re already selling products or services, about to sell something, or routinely buy things, there’s likely something for you in this episode. Links Krogs’ WCUS funnel talk: and slides Price Anchoring session on WPS Tips for marketing WordPress products SiteGround’s Publish presentation TED talk on decision fatigue and the paradox of choice (also good “Why we make bad decisions”) Stripe Atlas guide to SaaS pricing Sponsor: SiteGround SiteGround i

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 chat about the steady change that has played out in the WordPress ecosystem throughout the past decade and speculate about what is still to come. One aspect they explore rather deeply is the future trajectory of a website’s purpose and the role WordPress has to play in this transition. Plus, don’t miss their conversation about the new WordPress.com president and Google’s move to hire WordPress talent. Links New WordPress.com President announcement Google's WordPress job opportunity micro.blog Sponsor: SearchWP SearchWP makes WordPress search better. Instantly improve your site search without writing a line of code! SearchWP enables custom algorithms, searching custom fields, product data, and much more. Improve your site’s search today with our partner, SearchWP.

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, Lisa Sabin-Wilson shares about the entangled history of WebDevStudios and eWebscapes and how she and team are targeting every level of the market. WebDevStudios focuses heavily on the upper and enterprise market segments, providing a high degree of attention and support to those clients. Sometime in 2017 Lisa did the math on all the lower-end projects that they were referring away and realized that WDS had a prime opportunity to re-introduce her former web studio, eWebscapes, as a way to serve these smaller-scope projects. This rebirth, so to speak, has positioned them to better target local communities, provide staff with more variety of work, and bring simplified processes alongside those they use for larger projects. Key take-aways Lisa observed a market opportunity and did the

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 continue their discussion on WordPress market opportunities with a focus on the upper-market and enterprise clients. They take a look at discovery projects, pitching WordPress against competing platforms, and considerations to make before pitching on these high-budget projects. There are plenty of positives and negatives when working on long-term projects that may have a dramatic impact on your company in many ways. In addition to these market opportunities, the boys also discuss recent news including iThemes acquisition by Liquid Web, a welcome change to the WordPress.org plugin directory, and an unfortunate and far-reaching bug that shipped with the 4.9.3 release last week. Links Liquid Web acquires iThemes Plugin directory notice changes 4.9.4 technical detai

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 market segmentation across the WordPress ecosystem. The focus for this discussion focused entirely on the entry-level segment of site assemblers and their small-business clients as well as the mid-level market of contractors and agencies selling additional levels of service. The duo talked through a few different strategies employed in each segment, including service differentiation, regional focus, building a network of complementary contractors, systemizing processes, delivering quality customer support flow, and selling ongoing service. In addition to this look at market segmentation, the Brians shared a few useful resources for both Gutenberg and WP-CLI. Links Mike McAlister's Gutenberg News Ahmed Awais's create-gutenberg-block Delicious Brain's WP-

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 market segmentation across the WordPress ecosystem. The focus for this discussion focused entirely on the entry-level segment of site assemblers and their small-business clients as well as the mid-level market of contractors and agencies selling additional levels of service. The duo talked through a few different strategies employed in each segment, including service differentiation, regional focus, building a network of complementary contractors, systemizing processes, delivering quality customer support flow, and selling ongoing service. In addition to this look at market segmentation, the Brians shared a few useful resources for both Gutenberg and WP-CLI. Links Mike McAlister's Gutenberg News Ahmed Awais's create-gutenberg-block Delicious Brain's WP-

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 self-hosted vs managed ecommerce and whether or not conferences have outlived their usefulness. Specifically, they look at WooCommerce vs other solutions and explore Shopify and Liquid Web’s Managed WooCommerce hosting as viable done-for-you strategies. On the conference front, they talk about the good and the bad of conferences and ponder how tech conferences of the future may need to change to attract more attendees. Links The End of the Conference Era Liquid Web introduces Managed WooCommerce Liquid Web's WooCommerce Order Tables Plugin Metorik eCommerceFuel Sponsor: Pippin's Plugins This episode is sponsored by Pippin’s Plugins. Pippin’s Plugins creates a suite of plugins that work great alone, or together. Whether you need to restrict content,

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 his new co-host, Brian Richards. Brian Richards, the creator of WPSessions.com, has been developing with WordPress since 2007 and training and leading development teams since 2011. In addition to investing his time into training, Brian has had the opportunity to work with many amazing WordPress agencies and experts over these last several years. This has allowed him to help develop sites for Microsoft, Disney, TIME, YMCA, and numerous others. Brian has an affinity for self-directed learning and helping others to develop skills and workflows to better solve important and complicated problems. He can’t resist helping good people do great things! Links WPSessions.com Crowd Favorite WebDevStudios Ramblings from a nobody Brian Richards on Twitter WPSessions on Twitter Sponsor: Valet This episode is sponsored by Vale

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 CEO of Automattic and the co-founder of WordPress. In this episode, we discuss a range of issues facing WordPress today, as well as the various arms of Automattic's business: WordPress 4.9 features around customization. Progress on the Gutenberg Editor Feature projects and a year of day-to-day project lead The React decision for WordPress, and what came of it WooCommerce, Jetpack and issues they are facing Site building versus blogging on WordPress.com, and their ad campaigns WordPress community, the WordPress website And more! This was a fun episode, and it's always a privilege to be able to talk to the leader of the WordPress project. I hope you enjoy it. Photo by Brian Richards, for Post Status Sponsor: Gravity Forms Gravity Forms makes the best web forms

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, Brian is joined by Tom Willmot, the CEO of Human Made. Human Made recently released an employee handbook as an open source document for anyone to use, copy, or learn from. Tom and Brian discuss several elements of the handbook, and how they approach these things at Human Made: Employee onboarding Remote work processes Communication Employee feedback and mentorship HR policies And more! This was a fun episode. Human Made has some of the lowest turnover in our industry and it was educational to hear from Tom. Sponsor: OptinMonster OptinMonster allows you to convert visitors into subscribers. You can easily create & A/B test beautiful lead capture forms without a developer. Be sure to check out their new Inactivity Sensor technology.

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 Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, Brian and Joe are live at Post Status Publish and answer questions from the conference audience. They are asked about mistakes they think the WordPress product ecosystem is making, the challenges of working remotely, and many more existential questions. Publish was a lot of fun, and we’ll have more audio, video, and pictures available over the coming weeks. Sponsor: Liquid Web Liquid Web was the platinum sponsor of the Publish podcast, and therefore this episode of the podcast as well. If you haven’t tried Liquid Web’s Managed WordPress product, it’s time. They are doing awesome work in this space for mission critical sites.

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 the creator and editor of Post Status, Brian Krogsgard, and this week's guest host, Patrick Rauland. In this episode, Brian and Patrick Rauland discuss the state of eCommerce today, both from a product perspective, and for store owners. They also discuss Patrick’s own journeys in the land of eCommerce, as a former product manager for WooCommerce, a course author for Lynda (now LinkedIn Learning), consulting, and putting on an online eCommerce conference. Links Patrick's programming blog Lift Off Summit Amazon FBA for WooCommerce ShipStation Stitch Labs Tropical MBA WooConf eCommerceFuel Post Status Publish Photo Credit 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

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 the creator and editor of Post Status, Brian Krogsgard, and this week's guest host, Joe Casabona. Brian and Joe discuss the way they have learned WordPress over the years, and how they’ve gone about sharing and teaching what they’ve learned. They focus mostly on front-end parts of WordPress development. Links WP in one month Casabona.org How I Built It WesBos.com Sponsor: Yoast Yoast SEO Premium gives you 24/7 support from a great support team and extra features such as a redirect manager, recommended internal links, tutorial videos and integration with Google Webmaster Tools! Check out Yoast SEO Premium.

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. Brian is joined by guest-host Rachel Cherry -- a Senior Software Engineer at Disney, and the organizer of WP Campus, an event for WordPress in higher education. They discuss many of the things that folks working with WordPress in higher education encounter during this episode. Prior to working for Disney, Rachel spent around a decade working on the web in higher ed, most recently at the University of Alabama. Links Rachel's website WP Campus, which will be held on July 13-14 in Buffalo, New York. The Events Calendar, by Modern Tribe University of Alabama Engineering Washington State University Github Sponsor: SiteGround SiteGround is engineered for speed, built for security, and crafted for WordPress. They offer feature-rich managed WordPress hosting with premium support, and are officially recommended by WordPress.