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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 Google’s AMP project for Accelerated Mobile Page loading, and what it means for WordPress. They also go in-depth on WordPress’s upcoming core support for handling responsive images. Topics & Links Google's AMP AMP How AMP works WordPress AMP plugin AMP on Neiman Lab: What publishers need to know Responsive Images (starts at 35 minutes in) Responsive images merge Merge Proposal Plugin version

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his guest co-host, Brad Williams discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news. This week Brian and Brad talk about how to get involved in WordPress core, what to expect when you do, how to navigate the waters of core development. They also discuss term meta, its use cases, how it works, and why it’s a great feature for WordPress 4.4. Brad is guest hosting this week, as Joe is out. He’s the co-founder of WebDevStudios, a co-organizer for WordCamp US, and wrote Professional WordPress Design & Development  (my go-to book on WordPress development). You can follow Brad on Twitter @williamsba. Topics WordPress core development process: WordPress core components Features as plugins WordPress Trac  The WordPress core team How to get on WordPress Slack discussions Term meta: Term Meta posts/notes on Post Status (some members only content) The case for term meta (members on

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. This week, Joe and Brian go into depth discussing all aspects of the WordPress REST API, and the state of the API today. With the recent merge proposal, there is a good chance it will be included in WordPress core via a two stage process in the WordPress 4.4 and 4.5 releases. The first release would be the core infrastructure and the second release would include the endpoints. This is our longest podcast, but we go in depth on one of WordPress's most anticipated features in years. Topics: Brief overview: what is the REST API? Why is the REST API important, and why are people excited about it? REST API proposal Reviews from the core team New REST API core component Trac Ticket Comparison's to Drupal's REST API Customizer roadmap in regards to the API Authentica

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 Links and stories discussed: Working locally Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) Chassis Salty WordPress Get DesktopServer MAMP and MAMP Pro Docker Hub Installing LAMP stacks with Homebrew How to Dockerise and deploy multiple WordPress applications on Ubuntu Docker Machine VIP Quickstart WP-CLI Underscore.js Underscore.js  Intro to Underscore.js templates in WordPress Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress Transparency WPLift's Public income reports roundup Buffer+Transparency Is there a downside to transparency reports? Nomadbase.io launch Nomadbase.io

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. Links and Stories Discussed Events links A Day of REST  and the Post Status post on it WordCamp US WordCamp Tampa WordCamp NYC PressNomics WordCamp Europe Are conferences worth it? Comments links Brian’s recommendations for comments Performance for comments, part of Mark Jaquith's Cache Buddy Featuring comments by Pippin Williamson Comments Redux Comment Trac tickets PHP links WordPress PHP stats PHP releases New in PHP7 PHP benchmarks PHP7 on WordPress Segments We start the show with events and discuss justification for them. 25 minutes in or so, we switch to comment discussion. 47 minutes in we switch to PHP.

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. Stories discussed: Language packs background and details (members only) Plugin translation details WordPress.org sub-site for translations of WordPress, plugins, and themes Trac gardening ReactJS React Europe talks Redux framework Web Pack USTwo site in React with a WordPress backend Loopconf talk on React and Flux Nomadbase React app React and the WP API for a native app A Day of Rest: a WordPress REST API conference Details for A Day of REST  

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes. My co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, and I discuss some of today's hottest, current WordPress news. Stories discussed: WordPress 4.3 "Billie" released What is on your wishlist for WordPress 4.4? Don't add WP API to Core in 4.4? Mel Choyce's biggest issues with WordPress Who is using WP REST API and why? REST API Documentation A not-so-brief summary of the REST API

Welcome to The Excerpt Episode 4, part of the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes. With The Excerpt, we 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 keep the podcast to around 15 minutes. In Episode 3, I'm joined by Daniel Espinoza, who is a WordPress developer with a focus on eCommerce, and he also owns ShopPlugins, an eCommerce plugin marketplace for EDD and WooCommerce. Stories discussed: Automattic versus WordPress WordPress 4.2, RC 1 Clever use cases for the WordPress REST API. Taxes! (members only) Big marketing for hosted website solutions. Also in Notes (members only).

Welcome to The Excerpt Episode 3, part of the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes. Draft consists 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 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 keep the podcast to around 15 minutes. In Episode 3, I'm joined by Beka Rice, who writes the excellent eCommerce blog SellWithWP and is a partner at eCommerce company SkyVerge. Stories discussed: Mesh by Automattic, an in-progress app I discovered by accident. Release leads for WordPress 4.3, and 4.4 were announced. April Fools' roundup (Club only, but we talk about them individually), including my own about Jetpack bundling WordPress. A theme shop's year in review. I also covered this in the Club.

StoryCorp is an organization that aims "to provide people of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share and preserve the stories of our lives." Featured stories are broadcast nationally on NPR. StoryCorp has published more than 50,000 interviews with almost 100,000 participants since they launched in 2003. A small to mid-size non-profit organization, StoryCorp's interviews are logged in the Library of Congress, and over the years they have created new and ingenious ways to enable story telling. There are recording booths in a number of cities throughout the country where anyone can go and record and interview or story. The first was in Grand Central Station, though it's since shut down due to budget issues. However, booths are open in Atlanta, San Francisco, and Chicago where anyone can make a reservation to record. They also have an Airstream trailer that travels the country and records interviews all over the place. Creating ways for people to share stories is the heart of S

Welcome to The Excerpt, part of the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can also find on iTunes. Draft consists 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 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 keep the podcast to 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 2, which Julie Kuehl hosted with me: Shiny Installs removed from 4.2, in Beta 3 release, (Beta release and Aaron's post). Pagely and WP Engine are growing. Finding your place, by Rarst on HeroPress 1.2 of the REST API (Original release post).

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 — April 22nd live date Recommendationss to improve the WordPress editor by Mark Root-Wiley. Yoast, WooCommerce, AffiliateWP, and others’ security updates. Growth from free themes. I will try and have gu

Jonathan Williamson is the co-founder and COO of CGCookie, a membership website that provides as an educational resource for computer graphics and modeling. CGCookie has been around since 2008, and today is a network of five websites, has thousands of paying members, a team of six full time employees plus a number of contractors. CGCookie is built completely on WordPress and has a built in membership component. Some astute readers may recognize both the site and Jonathan's name; Jonathan is Pippin Williamson's identical twin brother, and Pippin has worked with Jonathan on CGCookie many times. So, in this interview, you're not listening to me talk to Pippin -- though it sounds like it -- but I'm talking to Jonathan Williamson. Jonathan is as passionate about CG, modeling, 3D printing, and the software that surrounds these disciplines as Pippin is about WordPress and programming. It was a pleasure to talk to Jonathan about what it's like to run a membership site that runs on WordPress. I think this interview wi

Last week, I was in New York City for WordCamp and some client meetings. The event was a huge success, with four full tracks of expert designers, developers, and WordPress professionals sharing what they’ve learned. I had a great time with everyone there. I saw old friends, and met new friends. I had my recording equipment with me, and I asked a question to some folks there: how has WordPress changed your life? Here are their answers: http://s3.amazonaws.com/PostStatus/DraftPodcast/how-has-wordpress-changed-your-life.mp3 Direct Download And here are just a few of the pictures I took, from WordCamp and some just from around the city. I’m not much of a photographer, but feel free to use any of these however you wish: I’d like to thank the organizers for their efforts, the sponsors for their investment in the WordPress community, the speakers for their wisdom, and the attendees for their hunger to learn and connect with like-minded individuals. If you’ve never attended a WordCamp — especially one

On May 28th, 2012, I was virtually introduced to Chris Lema. He had 653 Twitter followers at the time. I know so, because that’s how we were introduced — through an email from Twitter telling me he was now following me. At the time, he’d not even started daily writing on his personal blog; he didn’t start that until September of that year. It’s hard to imagine a time where I didn’t know who Chris Lema was, or a time where I wasn’t learning from him. Today, Chris is a significant voice in the WordPress world. He was just announced, deservedly so, in the first batch of speakers for WordCamp San Francisco. He’s been blogging nearly every day for two years. I’ve met him at a number of events. We’ve shared meals together. We’ve had phone calls where Chris gave me advice for my career and life. We even spent a week in Cape Town, South Africa traveling together for a WordCamp that I won’t forget. Chris Lema is my friend, and a mentor. I owe him a tremendous amount for his advice, his continuous generosity, and his

Chris Coyier is not a stranger to most of us web workers. He’s a designer at CodePen, a writer at CSS-Tricks, and a podcaster at ShopTalk. He uses WordPress on all three of his primary projects. For years, Chris has been a consistent advocate for the platform. He develops his own websites with WordPress, but his day-to-day interactions are as a user. Chris brings a unique perspective, I believe. He did some client work early in his career, but he’s been more involved in SaaS projects and membership websites; his current membership websites are on WordPress (CSS-Tricks) and Ruby on Rails (CodePen). I asked Chris about his projects, his perspective on various aspects of WordPress, and the community around it. I enjoyed learning from him, and I hope you do too: http://s3.amazonaws.com/PostStatus/DraftPodcast/chris-coyier-post-status-draft.mp3 Direct Download What have you learned from working on membership websites?  It’s just a good dang business idea. Chris was sold on the idea of membership websites from hi

Finally, finally someone has done it. They’ve combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com. Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with “the most important functionality built in.” There aren’t loads of tiny upsells like other hosted services (I’m looking at you, WordPress.com), and there are only two plans. It is not free. You can pay $50 per month, or $75 per month, and each plan comes with a 10x setup fee. But the result is exactly what you’d hope for: a very powerful, functional, easy-to-use website. http://s3.amazonaws.com/PostStatus/DraftPodcast/evermore-cliff-seal-draft-podcast-poststatus.mp3 Direct Download If I had to give Evermore a competitor, I’d say it’s much closer to Squarespace than WordPress.com. But it’s built on WordPress, meaning you can leave Evermore any time and take your install with you. In fact, they sell the ability to leave Evermore as a feature. Because they should. Evermore offers you true portability and freedom: as your needs outgrow

WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you’ll find. That it’s an eCommerce plugin — built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible — is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin is. It’s been under development for eight years, and is nearing 3 million downloads on WordPress.org. Today, WP eCommerce is working to shed layers of duplicate functionality that can now be replaced by WordPress core. It’s a wicked thing for a product to be ahead of its time. An eCommerce plugin built on WordPress is clearly — we know today — a viable thing. But for years, as WP eCommerce chugged along, many were skeptical that eCommerce and WordPress could — or even should — be harmonious. That WP eCommerce is so old is its blessing and its curse. The blessing is that it was the only major player for a long time, allowing it to achieve great success, relative to other commercial plugins of the time. Its curse is that it gained a reputation for bugginess and as a product that was trying to

Mike McAlister has been an active member of the commercial WordPress theme space since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011. And at the end of March of this year, Mike transitioned yet again to Array. While these transitions may seem like arbitrary branding, to me they represent broader shifts both in Mike’s style and the direction of the commercial WordPress space in general. He’s never really attempted to fit anyone else’s mold, but I believe he’s done quite well at predicting the market and staying ahead of the pack; and that’s why I love following his work. Mike consistently challenges himself to succeed in a saturated space by attacking the market in a different way than the rest of the crowd. http://s3.amazonaws.com/PostStatus/DraftPodcast/mike-mcalister-post-status-draft.mp3 Direct Download Selling WordPress themes on ThemeForest In 2009, Mike discovered WordPress and saw the opportunities of the commercial WordPress space. He

I was privileged to be joined by six core contributors to WordPress 3.9 for a Google Hangout where we talked about the new release, contributing to WordPress, and more. To learn more about WordPress 3.9, check out our summary. You can watch the full video right here: I was joined by an all-star cast. Of course, keep in mind, these six people are amazing, but a whopping 267 people made WordPress 3.9 happen. That said, here was our panel: Andrew Nacin Lead Developer, 3.9 Lead ( Twitter |  WP Profile) Favorite feature of WordPress 3.9: No more “Paste from Word” in TinyMCE Least favorite feature of WordPress: Settings screens and Mulitsite Mike Schroder 3.9 Co-lead ( Twitter |  WP Profile) Photo Credit Favorite feature of WordPress 3.9: WP Views / Customizer enhancements Least favorite feature of WordPress: The plugin editor Gregory Cornelius Contributing Developer ( Twitter |  WP Profile) Photo credit Favorite feature of WordPress 3.9: Widget Customizer Least favorite feature of WordPress: Managing pag