Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe The talk around the WordPress open source and the free rider problem has been discussed by the community since May with strong opinions on both sides of the contributing fence. Josepha Haden Chomphosy wrote an article over on make.wordpress.org about the issue with Open Source (the Tragedy of the Commons) and the Free Riders. Could it be that we are concentrating on multiple things to disc...
Aug 03, 2022•7 min•Ep. 107
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Daniel Schutzsmith and Matt Medeiros return for a new WP Minute Rewind! Daniel and Matt will choose 3 of their favorite WordPress news headlines from the previous month to share and expand upon. Join us as they go deeper in this longer format show. If you love WordPress news, like _really_ love WordPress news, this episode is for you! Please share this on social media and tell others to tu...
Aug 01, 2022•46 min•Ep. 106
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Guest host, Amber Hinds is sharing with us her POV on Equalize Digital's first "exit." "This post tells the story of how WP Conference Schedule came to be and why we ultimately ended up selling it before even launching the paid version of the plugin." Amber Hinds Links Amber Hinds Equalize Digital Sells WP Conference Schedule Amber Hinds Blog ★ Support this podcast ★...
Jul 28, 2022•8 min•Ep. 105
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Leading off this week is Joost de Valk’s semi-annual CMS market share analysis . WordPress maintains a 43% share, the equivalent of AT&T’s wireless market share , within the CMS space. Shopify, WordPress’ closest competitor on the chart chimes in at 4.2% Shopify also shocked the industry by laying off 1,000 employees via email, penned by the companies CEO, Tobias Lütke. Juxtaposed to t...
Jul 27, 2022•8 min•Ep. 104
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe WordPress support company Sitecare acquires Maintainn, excluding the team, from WebDevStudios. Hear from the founders in today’s interview to learn how the deal went down, what to look for in good acquisitions, and what the future of WordPress support companies look like. The landscape of monthly WordPress support companies has certainly changed since these two OG’s launched in 2012-2013. ...
Jul 25, 2022•18 min•Ep. 103
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Where is the concentration on performance and other goodies in new releases of WordPress? Sarah Gooding over at the WPTavern covered how WordPress contributors have been discussing adding SVG support for more than nine years. The SVG module is currently one of the items that the Performance team contributors have identified for WordPress 6.2 as a goal for proposing the module for core. Any...
Jul 20, 2022•7 min•Ep. 102
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Five for the Future is back on the radar, surfacing more clarification and criticism. Here’s snack pack of links from around the community addressing various opinions on the subject: Five for the Future’s True Intentions by Josepha Haden Chomphosy Sarah Gooding summarizes the link above Joe Casabona compares 5FTF to the Creator Economy Rob Howard warns of “toxic scorekeeping.” Gettin’ Gute...
Jul 13, 2022•6 min•Ep. 101
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Guest host Andrew Palmer is back to address the topic of collaboration. His company Bertha recently collaborated with Yoast to forge a powerful combination of AI + SEO for WordPress. If you've been on the fence about collaborating with others, there's no better time than now to start! Enjoy Andrew's -- or it is Bertha's? -- take on collaborating in WordPress! ★ Support this podcast ★...
Jul 12, 2022•5 min•Ep. 100
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe You’d have to be living under a rock to miss the recent WP drama unfold on Twitter. In some quickly deleted fever-induced tweets, Mullenweg likened GoDaddy to a “parasitic company” that is an “existential threat” to WordPress. Explore more of the debate in the following articles: Matt Medeiros’ take on What would GoDaddy’s WordPress look like? WP Tavern recaps the Mullenweg twitter thread....
Jun 29, 2022•6 min•Ep. 99
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Whoever thought that Apache web server would be de-throned in it’s prime? Hello NGINX. We see you Cloudflare. Red Hat and Fedora linux showed up, but then the world went faster together with Ubuntu. Intel dominated the chip space forever. Still does, technically, but AMD and Apple are going after their lunch including the paper bag it’s packed in. Sprinkle in the open source coding languag...
Jun 24, 2022•10 min•Ep. 98
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe We have switched over to Slack from Discord. News There has been a lot of feedback for full site editing in the latest release of WordPress. The team over on make.wordpress.org is looking for people to sign up for usability testing by June 24th. This outreach program is going to try something new and pair up members of the program with community designers. Once paired, they will then find ...
Jun 22, 2022•7 min•Ep. 97
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe In this episode, Andrew Palmer of Bertha.ai reflects on his time at WordCamp Europe . If you were stuck at home to watch from afar like me, your FOMO was probably running at 110%. Unlike Andrew, I missed out on the awesome talks, after parties, and the ever important hallway track. Missing friends and colleagues in one of the most beautiful places in the world! I'm happy to see it was a su...
Jun 21, 2022•5 min•Ep. 96
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Strattic was acquired by Elementor. Miriam Schwab, co-founder of Strattic writes: “Life is interesting – sometimes outcomes are obvious, and sometimes what ends up happening kind of blows our minds. When we set out to build Strattic, we expected to follow the usual path: raise Pre-Seed, Seed, A rounds etc. An exit was always on the table, but who knows when that would be or how that would ...
Jun 15, 2022•5 min•Ep. 95
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Spencer Forman from WPLaunchify has a creative way to find new WordPress customers that may just surprise you! Find an existing community of non technical people that have websites (like bookkeepers or copywriters) Then look at any of these three things... 1. Above the Fold: Do they have the three things any site needs when visitors first arrive? (hint: What's the Pain? | How do they Solve...
Jun 09, 2022•3 min•Ep. 94
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe News Big acquisition news happened last week when Delicious Brains , owned by Brad Touesnard, sold five of its plugins to WPEngine. You may use one or all of these plugins starting with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, WP Offload SES, and Better Search Replace. Some of the product teams will be moving to WPEngine and the other support teams and developers will co...
Jun 07, 2022•7 min•Ep. 93
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe If you haven't heard, Brad Touesnard has sold his suite of Delicious Brains plugins to WP Engine. In this interview, I ask him the following question: 1. The million-dollar question: Why sell a suite of WordPress popular, profitable and beloved plugins -- of which was ACF which you only acquired merely a year ago? 2. The multi-million-dollar question: How much did WPE acquire the set of so...
Jun 03, 2022•14 min•Ep. 92
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe News WordPress turned 19 this year on May 27th. Sarah Gooding over at WPTavern wrote an article covering the beginning when Matt Mullenweg partnered with Mike Little and released the first version of WordPress based on the b2/cafelog software. The highlight of this year’s anniversary celebration was on the wp19.day website which has video blogs from people all over the WordPress community ...
Jun 01, 2022•6 min•Ep. 91
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe If you've been using InstaWP to launch sandbox WordPress websites, things are about to heat up for the platform lead by Vikas Singhal . In an exclusive interview with Daniel Schutzsmith , Vikas shared how he landed a seed funding round from Automattic and how he plans to use the funding in the company. If you like today's interview, please share it on social media and consider supporting t...
May 31, 2022•10 min•Ep. 90
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe After some spotty patches announcing new pricing, WordPress.com released a new $5/month Starter plan. I had the chance to send some questions to Dave Martin , CEO of Automattic, about the announcement, plus, some other areas of .com that I was interested in knowing more about. The questions are posted below. I'd love to hear your feedback on Twitter . Questions (This audio interview was do...
May 27, 2022•9 min•Ep. 89
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe News WordPress 6.0 "Arturo" was released. This release was named for the Latin jazz musician and director Arturo O'Farrill. With nearly 1,000 enhancements and bug fixes, the second major release of 2022 is here. You can watch the official release over on YouTube . It is a minute and a half of great jazz and cool features. There were some interesting numbers on Gutenstats.blog of what block...
May 25, 2022•6 min•Ep. 88
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe How much thread could a Twitter thread thread if a Twitter thread could thread thread Carolina Nymark shares some of the trends she’s seeing with Full Site Editing themes in the repo. Data like, common block styles include button, post-title, and site-title. Check the Twitter thread for more. Allie Nimmons has a new role at MasterWP as their Digital Producer. Devin Walker , founder of Give...
May 19, 2022•5 min•Ep. 87
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe News Want to find the latest with Gutenberg? You can quickly find the updates on the Gutenberg Hub . where can check out the latest resources or tutorials. Maciek Palmowski tweeted this resource where you can create a Gutenberg page quickly by using the builder . Not WooCommerce related by very interesting Bloomberg Technology reported that Shopify Inc. shares plunged below their pre-pande...
May 11, 2022•9 min•Ep. 86
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe News With the release of WordPress 6.0 RC1, it is time to explore the 97+ enhancements that have been made. Milana Cap over at make.wordpress.org has shared the field guide where developers can read about the high-level changes in WordPress 6.0. The field guide also covers changes in accessibility, blocks, UI, and more for the non-developers out there. Birgit Pauli-Haack has done a great r...
May 04, 2022•5 min•Ep. 85
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe News WordPress 6.0 Beta 3 is now available for testing. These releases are moving along and testers are needed for the most recent release. If you would like to check out the release schedule you can go over to make.wordpress.org . It was just announced that Matt Mullenweg will be speaking at WordCamp Europe in Porto, Portugal June 2-4 2022. If you plan on attending this event you may want...
Apr 27, 2022•5 min•Ep. 84
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Recently on the WPMinute, I was able to have another interview with Eric Karkovack a producer at the WPMinute about his view of the Freelancer in WordPress. Eric has been a freelancer since 1999 and knows how the changes and ups and downs can impact your business. Eric started organically in the WordPress world by coding and writing on his own blog. He had the opportunity to blog for Speck...
Apr 26, 2022•33 min•Ep. 83
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe WordPress 6.0 Beta 2 is now available for testing. The call continues to be made for testers and if you would like to contribute to this cycle jump over to make.wordpress.org . The WordPress Performance Group has a stable release of their plugin. The Performance Lab plugin is a collection of modules focused on enhancing performance of your site. This plugin allows you to enable and test th...
Apr 21, 2022•8 min•Ep. 82
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Daniel and Matt are back to discuss the week in WordPress news. They'll cover some of the important stories that came across The WP Minute news desk like: TinyPress WordPress.com Makes Major Unannounced Pricing Changes, Slashes Free Storage Limits Matt's Twitter survey Jetpack vs .com pricing Daniel's theory on WP as a better no-code tool ★ Support this podcast ★...
Apr 15, 2022•33 min•Ep. 81
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe News There is a call for WordPress users to help with the upcoming release of WordPress 6.0 . This release is scheduled for May 24, 2022. There have been over 400 updates and 500 bug fixes since the last release and they could really use everybody’s help to test. Jump over to make.wordpress.org to join the core slack channel and get involved. WooCommerce The WooCommerce blocks roadmap has ...
Apr 13, 2022•7 min•Ep. 80
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe One Click Checkout provider Fast , headed by Domm Holland , shut down unexpectedly this week after attempting to secure a down round of funding to deal with their financial obligations. What obligations you might ask? Well, according to their pitch deck, their monthly burn rate was over $10M dollars for their 500 plus employees. And to top it off, their company was making about 50,000 doll...
Apr 12, 2022•6 min•Ep. 79
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Spencer Forman from WPLaunchify has some important reasons why we should consider HOW we are moving forward with Full Site Editing, Blocks and Themes. We are all facing a fork in the road for WordPress, where we can remedy the mistakes of the past and finally create a unified framework to be used by any designers, plugins authors or service providers offering free or paid solutions. Look t...
Apr 08, 2022•6 min•Ep. 78
