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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. This episode of Post Status Draft is hosted by Sarah Gooding -- another WordPress journalist -- and Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, Sarah and Brian discuss how they do WordPress news, manage working remotely, and handle family life. Links WP Tavern opinion Sponsor This episode is sponsored by Valet. Valet helps keep your clients happy & coming back. They offer expert services and keep the websites they manage functioning flawlessly. They offer preventative care that provides peace of mind around the clock. For more information, check out their website and thank you to Valet 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 Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, Joe and Brian discuss the structure and function of the WordPress.org website, which is the hub of the WordPress project. From the actual software distribution, to discussions about the project, to support, and buying swag: it all happens from WordPress.org. We break down what’s what and what we think you should know. Notes Who owns WordPress.org? Who works on WordPress.org How WordPress.org distributes software updates Different Sections of WordPress.org Navigation Showcase WordPress theme directory -- and reviews -- and commercial themes WordPress plugin directory -- and reviews Mobile -- Redirects to .com Support Forums / Codex "documentation" Make WordPress (Get Involved) About (many sub pages and also project structure) Blog Hosting Download (b

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Joe and Brian discuss WordPress as a Headless CMS. They talk about what a Headless CMS is, WordPress’s strengths and weaknesses as a Headless CMS, popular frameworks to utilize, and offer up example websites to check out. Examples The Guggenheim A Day of Rest Boston ustwo Skaled Modern Tribe Links Angular React React vs Angular 2 Lean, an Agular for WordPress framework Decoupled CMS What is a Headless CMS? We Need to Talk about the REST API Introducing the REST API Authentication Broker Human Made's REST API White Paper Sponsor Today’s show is sponsored by OptinMonster. OptinMonster allows you to convert visitors into subscribers. You can easily create & A/B test beautiful lead capture forms without a developer. They recently released OptinMonster 3.0, with an all

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Security -- in WordPress core, distributed plugins and themes, and in our custom code -- is a constant battle. It’s important to be vigilant with our security practices, from the perspective of managing our websites and when writing code. In this episode, Joe and Brian discuss the nature of WordPress security, best practices for writing secure code, and dig into various situations WordPress developers and site owners may run into. Links Hardening WordPress About WordPress Security A Guide to Writing Secure Themes Writing Secure Plugins & Themes by Ben Lobaugh $wpdb WP Scan Understanding Vulnerabilities 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 Pa

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Everybody creates workflows to accomplish their development work. And sometimes you come upon a new tool that completely changes how you do things, and helps you improve your productivity. In this episode, Joe and Brian aim to share their tools in the hopes that it will help others review and refine their own processes. And Joe and Brian approach things quite differently themselves, so they compare and contrast their own workflows. Have something to add to the conversation, be sure to comment! Tools Gitify, lice-cap Captured (straight to S3), Gifhub, Screenflow, Cloudup Authy F.lux TunnelBear Alfred Slack Coding Tools & Debugging PHPStorm, Sublime, Atom, VIM, Coda Xdebug, var_dump, XHProf httpie Atom Packages: php-autocomplete, WPCS, php-linter React-console Query Monitor Sequel

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. WordPress 4.5 was just released, and comes backed with a lot of great new features. Some of our favorites have to do with the editing experience, but we go over all the new user facing features as well as under the hood bits of WordPress 4.5. We also dig into the earliest stages of WordPress 4.6, which is already underway. If you’ve been enjoying Post Status Draft, would you considering rating us in iTunes? We’ve never asked for it, but it would help tremendously! You can do so by going to iTunes, click “Ratings and Reviews” and leave a quick review. Thanks!   Links Brian's WordPress 4.5 Post WordPress 4.6 wishlist A Day of Rest is going to Boston! Sponsor This podcast is sponsored by WP101. The WP101 Plugin delivers a set of WordPress video tutorials right in your clients’ dashboard, freeing y

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Today, we answer questions from Post Status community members, who asked us all sorts of stuff on the Post Status Ask page. If you'd like to ask a question, be sure to go there and we'll see if we can answer it on a future show. Questions & Links We answered the following questions: Why WordPress? In a survey I did before my PressNomics talk, the top answer for what's important to people in regards to the WordPress world was the quality of the community. WordPress' ubiquity -- powering 26% of the web -- helps too. What is the biggest mistake you made learning WordPress? (Or, what would you do differently?) Joe and I each shared what we tend to do wrong when learning new things. We are fully on opposite ends of the spectrum. Recommended link: Just Build Websites. Also, my post on learning WordPre

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Software as a service (SaaS) is often viewed as a holy grail for successful online business. The ability to generate recurring revenue that doesn’t require hours-for-dollars is attractive to most entrepreneurs. WordPress can be a helpful tool to get a lot of SaaS functionality out of the box. In today’s episode, we discuss WordPress and SaaS in two contexts: one, using WordPress as a technology basis for a SaaS in another industry, and two, creating a SaaS catered to the WordPress world. Links We mentioned the following SaaS products, and probably some others too. Happy Tables  Restaurant Engine  Event Smart  Faithmade  Varsity News Network  Rainmaker  WordPress.com  OptinMonster  iThemes Sync  WP Remote  Akismet VaultPress  Today’s podcast is sponsored by WP Migrate DB Pro by Delicio

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. WordPress hosting is always a hot topic of conversation, due to the difficult task of differentiating one host from another. There is also a lot of money and marketing involved in the industry -- an industry that includes some of the largest companies in the WordPress ecosystem. In this episode, Joe and I attempt to break down what different types of hosting are available, how they are applicable to WordPress, and even dig in to some of the drama and politics that surround the hosting world. The techical part of the conversation is the first 50 minutes or so, and around that mark, we get into the politics and non-technical issues around WordPress hosting, as well as tell some stories of how companies have successfully marketed themselves by getting embedded in the WordPress community. Links Review

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. HTTPS and HTTP/2 are somewhat intertwined, and a lot has been going on lately in this realm. Google has made a big push to encourage the use of SSL for websites -- including making it a search ranking factor -- and LetsEncrypt and other services are offering new ways to deliver free SSL certificates, securely. And HTTPS is required for HTTP/2, which is making a big splash as well, quickly outpacing SPDY. Today, we’ll talk about what these terms are, and what it means for the web and for WordPress. Links Let's Encrypt The Future Stack: Running WordPress with Tomorrow's Technologies OAuth HTTP/2 FAQs WordPress and HTTP/2 Software and services supporting HTTP/2 Transitioning from SPDY to HTTP/2 HTTP/2 and You Introducing HTTP/2 You're Listening to Delilah

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Today, Joe and Brian discuss WordPress in the “enterprise," starting with a discussion on what the enterprise even is. We discuss WordPress’s value to the enterprise, and what enterprise level companies are looking for in their technology solutions. The conversation turns into conspiracy theories and joking around by the 50 minute mark, so don’t be intimidated by the hour and fifteen minute timestamp. Links Quartz is an API What is Code? Make WordPress Marketing

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Joe and Brian were joined by Ryan McCue, the Lead Developer of the REST API, Daniel Bachhuber, a contributing developer to the REST API, and K.Adam White, Aaron Jorbin, and Jack Lenox — each with unique experiences using the REST API. They discussed the talks from A Day of REST, but also about the impact of the new API more broadly as well. If you’re at all interested in the REST API, this is an excellent round table to listen to. Links A Day of Rest Post Status summary of the conference and links to slides Photo credit: Aaron Jorbin

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week, they talk working in an agency and doing client work. Joe and Brian discussed a variety of facets to agency and client work, including: Hourly billing, daily billing, and project billing Tracking time for internal or external purposes Pricing websites Taking on large versus small projects in both large and small agencies, and how risk changes in each scenario Making payroll and managing cashflow Being selective with clients Retainers and monthly maintenance plans, and how it can fit in Team structures for projects And more!  

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, 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 of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss the biggest stories of 2015 and look forward to predict where the WordPress world will go in 2016. Topics and Links Stories of 2015 Changes in lead developers A move to active installs Forced plugin updates become a thing Comments / The Trojan Emoji Hunting vulnerabilities in WordPress core WordPress zero day vulnerability patched Acquisition(s) #wpdrama, Thesis edition Rest API everywhere JavaScript What to expect in 2016 REST API put to the test / endpoints to core Remkus de Vries's "Learning JavaScript In WordPress, Deeply" JavaScript for WP A Day of Rest More companies growing up (getting bigger, acquisitions) More hosted service MOAR JAVASCRIPT Theming will change Auto updates become more prevalent

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and myself. In this episode, Joe and I interview Scott Taylor, who works at The New York Times, is a WordPress Core Committer, and has lead the release of WordPress 4.4. We discuss dig into many WordPress 4.4 features, the thinking behind them, what it's like to lead a release, and core development in general. We also talked about WordCamp US, where we recorded the podcast from, including Scott's experience speaking during the State of the Word. After the interview with Scott, Joe and I dig more into the State of the Word and WordCamp US in general. The interview with Scott is first and Joe and I switch to WCUS and the State of the Word around 37 minutes in. Helpful links Scott's website WordPress 4.4 field guide (reference for new features) WordCamp US website State of the Word summary and video

I had the opportunity to interview Matt Mullenweg about an   ambitious project that included more than a year and a half of development to create an all new WordPress.com interface, both for the web and a desktop app. The project was codenamed Calypso, and we talked about many aspects fo Calypso, as well  as a   variety of subjects that relate to it. Why  did you make such a big bet on Calypso? Matt has talked for a while now about his vision that WordPress can become an "app platform", and this is an example of what that meant to him. He also notes how he's always  looking for things that will "move the needle" for greater WordPress adoption. We were both thinking about the same statistic: that roughly 96% of WordPress.com users (and probably a high number of WordPress.org users too) essentially abandon their websites after a short tenure. So anything that can increase that number, to say 8% or 15% of folks that stick with it long term, can make a huge difference. How do you think about investing i

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Joe is away this week, so Brian goes solo. Brian highlights WordCamp US and A Day of REST and describes why you should attend these events. He also tells the story of his first ever WordCamp San Francisco (the precursor to WCUS). Then, he interviews Mike McAlister, of Array Themes, and they talk about the process of building a commercial WordPress theme from the ground up. The interview with Mike starts around 14 minutes in. Topics & Links Event Links WordCamp US A Day of REST Brian's post on A Day of REST Brian's first WordCamp SF Post Status and Pagely party Join the Post Status Club Podcast on the REST API Interview with Mike Array Themes Previous interview with Mike Typecast for testing typefaces Typewolf for type inspiration and resources Playing with type Brian's 2010 article on the profit ceiling in the theme market

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news. In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss micro plugin businesses and playback a recent interview with Barry Kooij. They also tackle WP-CLI, what it is, why it’s useful, and ways they use it the most. The interview with Barry starts around 3:00 in and ends 20:00 in, for members that would like to skip it, if they already heard it in the main newsletter. WP-CLI discussion starts around 44:00. Topics & Links Niche Plugin Businesses Never5 Shop Plugins WP101 SearchWP FacetWP SeedProd GravityView GravityPlus Event Organiser Theme of the Crop WP-CLI WP-CLI WP-CLI Built-in commands Community commands S3 Uploads by Human Made (has built-in CLI integrations, instead of a UI) A more RESTful CLI

In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss a popular site’s redesign, and how the developers viewed WordPress’s shortcomings. They also talk about WordPress’s chops generally for complex sites and applications. Topics: An outside look at WordPress WordPress shortcomings, from developers that prefer other software Redesigning The Toast Timber, Twig templating for WordPress WordPress MTV Advanced Custom Fields  CMB2 WordPress as an application framework Building a database abstraction layer Nomad Base ElasticPress, by 10up SearchPress, by Alley Elasticsearch on WordPress.com Scaling WP queries with Elasticsearch

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news. In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss work life balance. We discuss working long hours, managing and preventing burnout, moonlighting and its challenges, side projects, embracing hobbies, and creating exercise routines. Links Overcoming burnout People without phones in phone poses Epic procrastination series Don't moonlight long-term