Post Status Podcasts

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 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 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.org. Check out SiteGround's website for a special deal for Post Status listeners, and thanks to SiteGround for being a Post Status partner. Photo by Found Art Photography

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. Brian and Joe discuss many of the factors that are a part of maintaining a website for the long term. They discuss it both in the sense of when you own the site (like Brian with Post Status), and when you are doing long-term client work (like Human Made with retainers). There are several things to consider, whether it’s in your own code, or the decisions you make on which third party developer’s tools to use. Links Semantic Versioning WooCommerce 3.0 and moving to SemVer 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 newest 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. Brian is joined by guest-host Matt Medeiros -- host of the Matt Report podcast, and many other ventures in the WordPress ecosystem. They discuss community building, their experiences building community in the WordPress world, and the challenges of getting involved in a new community. Links Crafted by Matt Matt Report Post Status WordPress Jobs This WordPress community is not for the taking Sponsor: Prospress Prospress makes the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin, that enables you to turn your online business into a recurring revenue business. Whether you want to ship a box or setup digital subscriptions like I have on Post Status, Prospress has you covered. Check out Prospress.com for more, and thanks to Prospress 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. Live from the A Day of REST workshops, Brian, Joe, and Zac talk about the state of working with JavaScript -- including several popular JavaScript frameworks -- and WordPress. They go through the pros and cons of using each one, what to watch out for when working with them and WordPress, and ways they think the process can improve. Links JavaScript for WP React Vue Backbone Underscores Angular A Day of Rest Sponsor: WP Migrate DB Pro Today’s show is sponsored by Delicious Brains. WP Migrate DB Pro makes moving and copying databases simple. They also have an exciting new project for merging databases, called Mergebot. Go to Mergebot.com for updates on that, and deliciousbrains.com for more information on WPMigrate DB Pro. Thanks to the team at Delicious Brains for being a Post Status partner. Special Thanks: Bocoup Special thanks to Bocoup for allowing us to record this podcast episode in their office. Bocoup was a partner and workshop host for A Day of REST, and were incredibly hospitable. Checkout Bocoup to learn more about how they embrace open source as a consulting agency.

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 this episode's special guest, Carrie Dils. Carrie Dils has been self-employed for a long time. After years of client work, she now makes her full-time living through multiple different channels, but is not currently doing client services. In this episode, Brian and Carrie talk about various methods for generating revenue, and some helpful tools to do so. Links Why Procrastinators Procrastinate ConvertKit Mailchimp Chimp Essentials Mailchimp course Paul Jarvis on Carrie's podcast Sunday Dispatches Nerd Marketing Amy Lynn Andrews Todoist Simplenote Getting Things Done 1Password Interview with Diane Kinney Links to Carrie's Work Experience as an Uber driver Office Hours Carrie’s blog WordPress courses Utility Pro theme Real World Freelancing book Sponsor: Prospress Prospress makes the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin, that enables you to turn your online business into a recurring revenue business. Whether you want to ship a box or setup digital subscriptions like I have on Post Status, Prospress has you covered. Check out Prospress.com for more, and thanks to Prospress 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. In this episode, Brian interviews Ben May to talk about running The Code Company, a semi-remote agency based in Queensland, Australia. The Code Company works primarily with long term clients and repeat work, and they’ve grown from just Ben to a team of 11 almost entirely by referrals for new customers. Links The Code Company Sponsor: WooCommerce This episode of the Draft podcast is sponsored by WooCommerce. WooCommerce makes the most widely used eCommerce platform on the web, and has the power and flexibility you need to power your store. For more information on how to run your store with WordPress and WooCommerce, check out their website and thank you to WooCommerce 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. In this episode, I interview Jason Cohen, the founder of WP Engine and current CTO. I talked to Jason about a whole lot of things, mostly to do with growing well. Whether you're growing revenue, company size, or personal development -- this is a conversation about growth, and how to do it well. Unlike many entrepreneurs in the WordPress space, WP Engine isn't Jason's first business. He's done this before, and made plenty of mistakes. He talks about what he's done differently at WP Engine and how its made him a happier person. This interview took place at LoopConf, and Jason was a keynote presenter. His LoopConf talk pairs well with our discussion. Direct Download Links WP Engine LoopConf Jason's blog 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.

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 talk about two of the three WordPress core focus areas -- the customizer and the editor. There has been some news lately with initial ideas and mockups for each project, and we discuss the importance of these features, as well as what's happening with these projects so far. Links Customizer opportunities Editor mockups Editor technical challenges Commerce Notebook 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, sell downloads, or start an affiliate program, they've got you covered. For more information, check out their website and thank you to Pippin's Plugins for being a Post Status partner.

After Post Status Publish's main talks concluded, Joe Hoyle and I recorded the podcast during the reception. It was a laid back format where we discuss the future of WordPress, including our own wishlist features, and then we spent the majority of the hour taking questions from the audience. We recorded this prior to the announcement of the new development schedule and changes to major releases, but most of our conversation remains relevant, as many of our wishlist items are within the three release focus areas that have been chosen. You can listen to just the audio, also on our podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Or watch the video on YouTube. And don't forget to subscribe to my new channel on YouTube.

During contributor day of WordCamp US in Philadelphia, I was able to interview Matt Mullenweg to follow up on several items he announced in the State of the Word. We mostly discussed the new WordPress development cycle and how it will work with the three focus areas. We also discussed how that will affect other non-major updates and WordPress features. Matt also talked about the WordPress REST API, how he defines success for it, what he hopes to see out of it, and what he thinks would cause it to revert to a plugin only feature. And as this was the second and final year of WordCamp US in Philadelphia, we reflected on the event, and talked about what there is to look forward to in Nashville for WordCamp US 2017 and 2018.

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 talk about how they learned WordPress development, how employers should look at candidates for skill hiring, and various resources they find valuable for learning WordPress. Links Just Build Websites Lynda.com WordPress tutorials WP in One Month WordPress Development Stack Exchange How to Become a Respected WordPress Developer Sponsor: Gravity Forms This episode is sponsored by Gravity Forms. Gravity Forms makes the best web forms on the planet. Over a million WordPress sites are already using Gravity Forms. Is yours? For more information, check out their website and thank you 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 Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about the WordPress REST API and the core approval process Topics The API's journey How Core projects work What to know about the API know that it's in trunk What that means for the future of the API Links Build APIs you won't hate Legacy v1 API LEAN McMansion Hell: The devil is in the details Sponsor: OptinMonster OptinMonster allows you to convert visitors into subscribers. You can easily create & A/B test beautiful lead capture forms without a developer. Check out OptinMonster today!

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 answer listener questions. You can go to poststatus.com/ask to ask questions for a future episode. We spent the second half of the show talking about innovation in WordPress and what makes big innovation difficult. Topics and Links What is Publish going to be about? Post Status Publish What is A Day of Rest? A Day of Rest Boston 2017 Managing sites between local, development, staging, and live Mergebot VersionPress Theme review process Theme handbook WP Test Donations for free plugins The patronage model for free software freelancers Using Kickstarter to fund open source How can the WordPress project innovate? Sponsor: Pagely Pagely helps the world’s biggest brands scale and secure WordPress. They are the original managed host, and have been at it for seven years now. Check out Pagely today, and thanks 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 this week's special guest host, Diane Kinney. Diane is a web professional and solo practitioner based in Florida. She’s writing a book with Carrie Dils called Real World Freelancing, and I thought it’d be fun to chat with her about freelancing. Links and Topics Real World Freelancing The Versatility Group, Diane's primary business How much should a website cost? DianeKinney.com, a blog in development. It will focus on business topics, WordPress, and beyond Sponsor: Yoast Yoast SEO Premium gives you 24/7 support from a dedicated support team and extra features such as a redirect manager, tutorial videos and integration with Google Webmaster Tools! Go to yoast.com for more information, and thanks to Yoast 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 WordPress themes, the functionality people put into them, and the challenges that face the WordPress ecosystem with the current state of theming. They also discuss various theme frameworks and how they are setup, common post types and how they can better be supported, and the popularity of page builders. Topics What should a theme do? Theme vs. Plugin functionality -- and mobility potential between themes Canonical post types Difference between commercial themes and .org distributed free themes Restrictions All-in-one solution "promises" Page builders and their role in theming Other theme options via the REST API Links On WordPress themes and frameworks Underscores CSS Zen Garden Hybrid Core Genesis WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way to standardizing CPTs Sponsor: WP101 The WP101 Plugin frees your time, enabling you to focus on what you do best, while providing our popular WordPress 101 tutorial videos directly in your client's dashboard. You can even add your own videos! Go to wp101plugin.com for more information, and thanks to WP101 for being a Post Status partner.

In this episode of Post Status Draft, I talk to Pippin Williamson, and we discuss the renewed effort he and his team have made to rejuvenate Restrict Content Pro. Restrict Content Pro was initially sold without even a dedicated landing page, was successful on Code Canyon for a time, then he let it sputter as he and his team concentrated on Easy Digital Downloads and AffiliateWP. But Pippin knew that Restrict Content Pro still had more life in it, and he wanted to see it become the kind of product he knew it had the potential to be. So when John Parris -- at the time primarily working with Easy Digital Downloads -- said he was interested in helping make RCP a proper membership plugin, Pippin jumped on the opportunity. They have had a good bit of success early on in the attempt to rejuvenate this product: Our goal was to double or triple the monthly revenue within six months. In March, 2016, RCP brought in $7,700. Last month, July 2016, it brought in $11,400. August, 2016, is estimated to bring in a little over $12,000. We’re at the five month mark and have increased monthly revenue by about 1.5. That’s not double yet, but it’s getting close. Within another few months, I expect we’ve surpass $15,000 in monthly sales. Even with just an increase of 1.5, we’re still looking at more than $100,000 in annual revenue, and the monthly revenue is higher than it ever was in the past, so we’re succeeding. Our conversation picked up where the blog post left off. We talked about the pain points they encountered during this effort, some of the additional rewards they've had, and how he structures the business more generally to have the same team work on multiple products. If you are a business owner, or aspire to be one -- or if you are curious about managing multiple lines of business at once -- then I think you'll really enjoy this episode. And, if you're a Post Status Club member, Pippin and I recorded a bonus segment, where we discuss hosted WordPress eCommerce, and Pippin shares his opinions on the concept, and whether or not it's something they are considering for Restrict Content Pro and/or Easy Digital Downloads. Sponsor: Design Palette Pro makes customizing Genesis websites simple. The Design Palette Pro team has integrated with every Genesis child theme, and it’s the perfect place to send folks who need custom design, without a custom budget. Go to GenesisDesignPro.com for more information, and thanks to Design Palette Pro for being a Post Status partner. Original photo credit: Marc Benzakein at WCSD

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 talk about various third party publishing apps available and how they work with WordPress. They dig into apps that currently exist, how the connect to WordPress, how the future of WordPress could improve the third party ecosystem, and many of the challenges that must be tackled when interacting with WordPress as a third party application. Apps We Discussed WordPress mobile apps Ulysses Desk Byword MarsEdit Windows Life Writer Evernote to WordPress Zapier iA Writer OneNote to WordPress Zapier Editor Interfaces TinyMCE (web editor) QuillJS (web editor) DraftJS (web editor) WordPress iOS editor (native editor) Other Links WordPress REST API Vienna Sponsor: Delicious Brains Today’s show is sponsored by Delicious Brains. WP Migrate DB Pro makes moving and copying databases simple. They are also working on an exciting new project right now for merging databases, called Mergebot. Go to Mergebot.com for updates on that, and deliciousbrains.com for more information on WPMigrate DB Pro, and thanks to the team at Delicious Brains for being a Post Status partner.

WordPress 4.6, “Pepper”, has been released. It’s named, as always, after a famous jazz musician, and this release is named after Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III, a baritone saxophonist and jazz composer. The Release Lead for WordPress 4.6 was Dominik Schilling, known often as Ocean90, and the Deputy Release Lead was Garth Mortensen. There were 272 total contributors to this release. According to Aaron Jorbin, 85 of these contributors were first timers, so congratulations to all new WordPress contributors! For this release, we did a special episode of 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 me, Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, Joe and I discuss WordPress 4.6 and deep dive on a few of its features. About WordPress 4.6 Overall, this was a planned iterative release from the beginning, with a goal to fix as many longstanding bugs as possible, and to refine existing features, rather than to focus on a lot of brand new features. Folks have been clamoring for a release like this for a long time, and in most respects 4.6 delivered. According to Trac, 489 tickets were closed, across 53 components, during the 4.6 milestone. Also, it shipped exactly on time. User facing features WordPress 4.6 has a few user facing features that aren't huge functional changes, but nice interface enhancements. Shiny updates No more bleak screen of sadness, as the team working on this termed it. The plugin installation, updates, and delete process is much smoother than it used to be. There's a nice video of this from the initial proposal: This was the second release where "shiny updates" features were a focus. To see some under the hood considerations for developers, there's more information on that from Pascal Birchler. Native fonts WordPress is leaving Open Sans. You may have seen GitHub’s change to native fonts. Or if you’re running 4.6 in development, you’ve seen native fonts replace Open Sans in the admin too. Matt Miklic explains the switch from Open Sans to native system fonts in the WordPress admin. By the way, the declaration of fonts has a good bit of science behind it, and may be useful for those of you who wish to do something similar for your site body copy. Marcin Wichary has a really interesting post describing Medium's process for the switch. And if you're curious, the new declaration is this: font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; Inline link checker WordPress will now automatically detect improperly formatted links, as you write. While this doesn't check the validity of any properly written URL, it will ensure the URL you add in an href is properly formatted. So, it will catch if you accidentally type something like htp://w.org or http:/w.org and outline it in read for you to fix. If you copy and past a URL into the link editor, but don't include http:// at all (I do this a bunch), it auto detects and inserts it for you. Browser content caching Yet more efforts have been made to always ensure that you do not lose your content as you write. I followed the steps in the Trac ticket to see exactly what happens here. So I typed the first sentence below, saved a draft, then typed the second paragraph: What if I start typing and save a draft? Then start typing some more, because that's what bloggers do. And I chill here for a few seconds, then stupidly just reload this page? Then I reloaded the page without saving again, and got a notice that there is a more up to date version available. And just like that, the content is back, because it was saved in the browser's local storage. Pretty cool. Developer features There are several important developer centric features that you should know about. Enhanced meta data registration This is a significant aid to the (pending) REST API meta handling, but also improves other meta data functionality. The register_meta() function allows developers to tell WordPress more about what specific meta data is designed to do. In WordPress 4.6, the arguments for this function have changed, enabling more information to be communicated in the third parameter, which is now an array. The show_in_rest key, an experimental key (until the API endpoint goes in), finally solves the issue for the REST API for knowing when to include meta data in the API's default responses. It's one step of a few that need to be made to better support meta for the API, but it's a good step forward. For plugin developers not using register_meta(), be sure to learn more about it and the advantages, as there are quite a few. Jeremy Felt describes how to use register_meta on Make Core. Translation priorities and changes WordPress will now default to the translations from Translate.WordPress.org community translations, then pull from theme or plugin translation file

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 me, Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, Joe and I discuss how we choose plugins, code libraries, and frameworks for our projects. Direct Download Topics & Links How we pick plugins Analyzing a plugin on WordPress.org Using GitHub Picking libraries or drop-in frameworks Dealing with updates Differentiating between picking tools for our personal or internal projects, versus doing so for clients Sponsor: WooCommerce WooCommerce makes the most customizable eCommerce software on the planet, and it’s the most popular too. You can build just about anything with WooCommerce. Try it today, and thanks to the team at WooCommerce 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 talk scaling WordPress, and what to do when you think you might’ve reached WordPress’s limits. From meta data, to users, to traffic management, they break down some of the most common scaling issues. Topics Posts Meta Search Database Users Traffic (types of caching) Links Elasticsearch ElasticPress More Like This Query Elasticsearch WP_Query Memcached Redis Rarst Fragment Cache Plugin Human Made Fragment Cache drop-in Sponsor: iThemes iThemes has a full suite of excellent products to help you level up your WordPress website. From iThemes Security, to BackupBuddy’s new live backups, to Exchange for your next membership site, iThemes has you covered. Thanks to the team at iThemes 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 talk about Medium & WordPress and whether Medium and similar platforms are a significant threat to WordPress. They also discuss the benefits and challenges of open source platforms versus proprietary ones, and WordPress’s potential as a lower level item in the site stack. Links Interview with Matt Joe's REST API talk Vienna WordPress app concept Billionaire's Typewriter What to Consider When the Platforms Show up With Money Medium.com WordPress.com Calypso Medium compared to LiveJournal Sponsor This episode is sponsored by Pippin's Plugins. If you want to sell downloads, setup content restriction, or start an affiliate program, Pippin’s Plugins have you covered. If you need all three, even better. Pippin’s Plugins is well known for making some of the best coded and most reliable plugins in the market. Check out PippinsPlugins.com for more information.

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 (button -- in future to be Get WordPress) Other Sections core.trac.wordpress.org developer.wordpress.org mercantile.wordpress.org jobs.wordpress.net learn.wordpress.org Ideas Other Linked Sites WordCamp WordPress.tv BuddyPress bbPress WordPress.com ma.tt Active Projects for Improving Helphub Handbooks (theme), plugin published Plugin directory Links Blog for WordPress.org projects Sponsor This episode is sponsored by Gravity Forms. Gravity Forms makes the best web forms on the planet. Over a million WordPress sites are already using Gravity Forms. Is yours? For more information, check out their website and thank you to Gravity Forms for being a Post Status partner.

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 new builder interface and other great features.

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 Pagely. Thank you to Pagely for being a Post Status partner.

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 Pro, mysql command line iTerm2 wp-cli!!! Build Tools Grunt Gulp Make ImageOptim Grunt-sass vs. grunt-contrib-sass Version Control / Review Tools / Deployment Tig, Tower Hub Github Araxis Merge DeployBot / Beanstalk Transmit (S3/SFTP) Frontend Tools / Extensions Chrome Inspector / Console Postman Chrome JS Debugger IP & Domain Info extension Web Developer Wappalyzer CodePen Sponsor This podcast is sponsored by Yoast. Yoast SEO is the best WordPress SEO plugin available, with a premium version to provide expert support and additional features. Thank you to Yoast for being a Post Status partner. Related Podcasts Understanding WP-CLI Local WordPress Development Strategies

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 your time to do what you do best! They also just released a great 22 part course on WooCommerce that you should definitely check out. Thank you to WP101 for being a Post Status partner.

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 WordPress holds up pretty well, considering I wrote it in 2014. Why did a lot of web and WordPress people get upset about the Mandrill pricing changes, when we want people to value the work we're doing ourselves? We discuss what made Mandrill's pricing changes controversial, and why we think some level of "outcry" is understandable here. Basically, Mandrill isn't differentiated enough to warrant the new pricing, in our opinions. However, it's obviously their right to change their pricing and structure, and the questioner has a valid point in how we value other services versus our own. Why isn't the WordPress importer being worked on more intensively? Good question! We talk about the state of the importer, some other options like WP Migrate DB Pro, WP All Import, and WP CLI. We also discuss how to get involved with open source development. Should taxonomies have the same feature capabilities as posts in the future? There's been a lot of interesting work on taxonomies in the last several releases, and you can read more about some of that and find links going back from my release post for WordPress 4.4. However, we think taxonomies and posts should be different. With the introduction of term meta, it is more important to consider architectural choices well in advance. Finally, the Fields API will be interesting in how it affects customizing term edit screens. How should I use my own domains with Multisite? This turned interesting! Fortunately, Multisite component maintainer Jeremy Felt came through while we were on the show to point us to tickets that were merged in WordPress 3.9 for enabling simpler domain mapping, and in 4.3, when a better UI was introduced. So, today, it's much easier to use a custom domain in a network -- within the existing WordPress Multisite options interface -- versus using a tool like Mercator. In addition to these questions, we also banter on about some other things and answer a few less serious questions we go from funny listeners. And at the end, I make a pretty big announcement... Today’s podcast is sponsored by Design Palette Pro. Design Palette Pro makes it easy to customize pretty much any Genesis theme, without touching code. It’s perfect for when you’re helping a friend with a website, but they don’t have a full service budget and you don’t have time to custom code every element. Get a great website in no time, with Design Palette Pro. Go to GenesisDesignPro.com for more information. Thank you to the team at Reaktiv Studios, who builds Design Palette Pro, for being a Post Status partner.

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 Delicious Brains, the tool that makes syncing your databases effortless. Check out WP Migrate DB Pro and all their other great products on their website.

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 Signal is a great resource for comparing hosting. The 2015 Review Signal WordPress hosting review is a nice guide. WordPress recommended hosting page is a source of a number of questions. We talk about a lot of different hosting companies during this episode. Just Google them. This episode is sponsored by one of our great partners, Prospress. Check out Prospress's Post Status profile, as well as their website. They are the makers of the excellent WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin, amongst other helpful products.

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 in feature development for WordPress.com, and how it affects WordPress as well? When Matt considers what he wants to invest Automattic developer and designer time in, he says he thinks of WordPress as a whole first, before considering specifics for WordPress.com. He'd rather see WordPress.com as a gateway to a self-hosted install. And whether they stay on .com or move to a self-hosted install, he wants to help ensure that their problems are solved. WordPresses I guess it's new to me, because Matt says he's been saying it for years, but he calls WordPress websites "WordPresses", after a long time debate internally about whether to call WordPress.com sites sites or blogs. WordPress.com as a network versus a platform The new homepage for logged in users, or users in the WordPress.com app, default to the Reader view of the WordPress.com interface, versus the writing view. This intrigued me, as I don't personally think of WordPress.com as a read-first ecosystem, but rather a place to write. I think more of Tumblr or Medium when I think of a destination for reading, where I may write. Matt and I talked about the merits of WordPress as a network versus a platform. He thinks it can be both. And I think this touches on one of the big goals for Calypso that we haven't discussed yet: to make WordPress a better network. To me, WordPress.com is a platform, but WordPress (both .com and Jetpack enabled sites) are ripe to be a hugely successful network, through the huge number of websites and independent publishers that are interconnected via WordPress.com. There is more evidence that this is a goal for them too, with the launch of Discover WordPress along with the release of the new interface. Discover WordPress is a project by the editorial team to surface the best writing across WordPress.com and Jetpack enabled websites. Furthermore, beyond the human curated content, much could be done in the future algorithmically. We didn't get as much into this stuff as I would've liked, but I think it's an enormous growth area for Automattic. Open Sourcing Calypso The Calypso project code is fully open source, and is a top trending project on Github right now. There are few requirements to run the code locally, so you can pretty quickly get a working web view. There are a slew of fancy React components that could be pretty easily lifted from Calypso and used independently, as well as a guide to getting started with the full codebase. How can the community anticipate the future, with more abstracted implementations of WordPress? As WordPress projects continue to use REST APIs to create fully custom frontends, backends, and inbetweens, I was curious what Matt thinks the community can do to anticipate and educate users on how to deal with these scenarios, that may fragment WordPress and be confusing for people who expect WordPress plugins and code to interract well with one another. He doesn't think it's too much of a problem, but says it's important that we experiment and learn from our experiments; he was hesitant to call the potential for confusion fragmentation as much as experimentation. Either way, I do think education and documentation will be important as other folks continue to use parts of WordPress to make impressive things, without supporting every specific thing that can also run on WordPress. An example of this is the WordPress.com app itself. You can manage Jetpack enabled sites through it, but that doesn't mean you get everything in the editor you'd get with a WordPress.org site, like custom fields and other plugin functionality that the desktop app doesn't support. What is Automattic's differentiating factor? I wanted to know what Automattic's differentiating factor is, in Matt's mind. He defaulted, I guess unsurprisingly, to "everything", but as I pushed him a little further, he dug a bit more into some of the things that make Automattic interesting. From a WordPress.org perspective, WordPress.com integrated tools like S

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

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 only) Term meta lands in core Term Meta posts on Make Core WordPress Fields API project

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 Authentication and future REST API projects Links: REST API Version 2 site and docs REST API merge proposal Committer review requests for the REST API Introduction to the WordPres REST API How StoryCorp uses the REST API for mobile audio uploads WordPress on OpenHub The core ticket for merging the REST API infrastructure (Stage 1) Lessons for WordPress from Drupalcon (members only) Matt Mullenweg's excitement for the API on a Product Hunt AMA Ryan McCue's "A Future API" post on possibilities, including centralized auth Possible roadmap for the Customizer (including REST API integrations, perhaps) The new REST API core Trac component OAuth1 for the WordPress REST API The API on Github A Day of REST conference all about the API

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