Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe I wanted to take today off, to have a bit of a reset from the weekly grind (often chaos) of WordPress stuff. Instead, I’m hoping I can reset expectations with you, my valued reader/listener/viewer of the WP Minute. We’re going into our 4th year of publishing content for the WordPress Professional. I quietly stopped publishing content at the Matt Report, my first “big” WordPress media brand...
Jan 19, 2024•7 min•Ep. 199
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Jan 11, 2024•10 min•Ep. 198
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Jan 05, 2024•8 min•Ep. 197
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Dec 14, 2023•7 min•Ep. 196
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Dec 11, 2023•41 min•Ep. 194
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Dec 08, 2023•9 min•Ep. 193
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Dec 01, 2023•7 min•Ep. 192
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe WP Minute+ News Round Table Episode 1. This will be a monthly series on WP Minute+ Podcast. Make sure you're following the podcast! Follow WP Minute+ Read the full shown notes: https://thewpminute.com/?p=12987 Get the weekly newsletter: https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Support the show! https://thewpminute.com/support ★ Support this podcast ★...
Nov 22, 2023•54 min•Ep. 191
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe I’ve been learning the Twenty Twenty-Four theme deeply over the last few weeks, as I feel this is one of the most important default themes ever released. A theme that has a good set of patterns at launch, a less opinionated design than previous default themes, and with the site editing and block experience at an acceptable level for customizations. TT4 provides a solid starting point for m...
Nov 17, 2023•7 min•Ep. 190
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Today’s update is a brief one. If you hadn’t heard the news, WordPress 6.4 was released on November 7th. Things didn’t go as smoothly has we all hoped, with the core teams rushing to release 6.4.1 to catch a nasty bug in older versions of the curl package. The good news is, everything was patched and buttoned up for users. I’ve been spending a lot of time using, reviewing, and recording vi...
Nov 10, 2023•4 min•Ep. 189
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe WooCommerce is now Woo, kinda. Here’s a quote from their announcement Say hello to Woo.com - WooCommerce post: You can call us Woo, WooCommerce, Their Supreme Wooness — whatever you’d like. But if you want to be specific: Woo is how we refer to the brand/company. WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress — Woo’s core product. So WooCommerce is now tucked away into the...
Nov 02, 2023•7 min•Ep. 188
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe On the latest WP Minute, we delve into the release of WordPress 6.4 RC 2, potential implications for the WordPress professional community, and a spotlight on the upcoming Twenty Twenty-Four theme. Is it set to revolutionize the market? The episode also touches upon the challenges in the WordPress arena – from declining sponsorship dollars for media to the broader perception of WordPress am...
Oct 26, 2023•7 min•Ep. 187
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe WordPress 6.4 is coming packed full of 100+ performance updates, along with some minor iterative changes to the overall UI. In a recent YouTube video, I took a look at RC1 available now to demo. Now’s your chance to dive in ahead of time and see what changes are coming, for either you or your clients. The biggest impact will be the new Twenty Twenty Four theme, which I’ve also previewed on...
Oct 19, 2023•8 min•Ep. 186
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe WordPress.org briefly introduced 1-click plugin previews this week. If you found yourself looking at the plugin page on the world’s largest directory this week you could enter the official WordPress playground to explore what the plugin had to offer. The first problem? Well, it didn’t work. This sent authors scrambling to understand why their plugins weren’t working or more generally makin...
Oct 13, 2023•7 min•Ep. 185
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe The dust is settling on the Ollie theme’s onboarding experience, which was set to be included in the theme’s core functionality when author, Mike McCalister, submitted it to the theme repo. The onboarding experience bucked the trend of traditional themes and included additional functionality like an onboarding wizard, building pages with the click of a button, and embedding helpful content...
Oct 04, 2023•9 min•Ep. 184
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe I recently had the opportunity to chat with WP Minute Editor, Eric Karkovack, about some new services we are launching to better help WordPress product owners. Eric has been creating content for WordPress developers and designers for over a decade. But with recent shifts in the publishing landscape, he wanted to find new ways to serve WordPress brands by simplifying their complex products....
Oct 03, 2023•15 min•Ep. 183
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Hey it’s Matt from the WP Minute. Did you know there’s a professional group of WordPress’ers excited to meet you? If you’re looking for a more casual WP Slack membership to join, chat about the news, and share your own content with our audience — consider joining the WP Minute membership for $79/year. Get access to our group of merry WordPress bandits and help support our show. Head to the...
Sep 29, 2023•6 min•Ep. 182
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe At the time of this publication, thirty-thousand plus eyeballs have landed on John Blackbourn’s tweet that has sparked an event that goes well-beyond #WPDrama this week. It seems WordPress.com has publicly replicated the .org plugin pages. My peers at WP Tavern and The Repository have covered the many aspects of this debacle. I’m out of energy this week for anything more in-depth, so I’ll ...
Sep 15, 2023•9 min•Ep. 181
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe If you missed out on WordCamp US 2023 , today’s episode will share some of the highlights from the talks of Matt Mullenweg and Josepha Haden Chomphosy. I urge you to watch the entirety of their presentations, but to also tweet at us to share your thoughts on the future of WordPress. Clips include Mullenweg’s outlook to WordPress 6.4 and Twenty Twenty Four theme . What does WordPress and Co...
Sep 08, 2023•23 min•Ep. 180
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe There’s a solid batch of headlines this week that I think you’ll find interesting before you head out to WordCamp US next week. Speaking of, if you’re headed to WordCamp next week, be sure to say hi! I’d love to hear more about your experiences with the WP Minute and any feedback you might have. The entire WP Minute squad will be there like Me, Eric, and Raquel. Equalize Digital is blastin...
Aug 18, 2023•9 min•Ep. 179
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe We have a packed episode today chock full of WordPress news goodness, including some audio clips from Courtney Robertson, Jeff Chandler, and Rich Tabor sharing what they love about WordPress 6.3. First up, Aurooba Ahmed shared her new project wphelpers.dev which gives you a snazzy UI for all core WordPress blocks and their functionality. You can expand each block and peel back the JS-y goo...
Aug 11, 2023•8 min•Ep. 178
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe In this episode of the WP Minute podcast, host Matt discusses various WordPress news and topics. He starts by highlighting a WordPress.com initiative to encourage people to transfer their domain registration from Google Domains to WordPress.com. Matt also talks about a joint effort by open source projects, including WordPress, to raise concerns about the proposed Cyber Resilience Act in th...
Aug 03, 2023•12 min•Ep. 177
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe If you're sick and tired of the WordPress dashboard, maybe you want to give Eric's post, The WordPress Dashboard Needs Some Love , a read. Also in today's episode, I'm reminding you about our other podcast feed The WP MInute+ , a free podcast that covers the long form WordPress discussions like my old podcast, The Matt Report. The conversation I just published featuring CliftonWP highlight...
Jul 27, 2023•8 min•Ep. 176
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe There are a lot of exciting features coming to WordPress 6.3 which will set the tone for the next few years of our favorite CMS. We’ll explore the upcoming state of this new release and provide some thoughts on which demographic of WordPress user it’s shaping to serve. As always, please share this on social and be sure to join the newsletter. The Not-So-Nice Side of the WordPress Community...
Jul 21, 2023•10 min•Ep. 175
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Matt explores some of the more challenging aspects of the WordPress project, in today's episode. With so many parts of the project being planned or already underway, the challenge to keep up with the software's evolution might become rather difficult. Pointing to a WordCamp talk from Courtney Robertson "We are they" Matt provides a bit of a public service announcement to dealing with the u...
Jul 13, 2023•13 min•Ep. 174
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe In this WP Minute podcast episode, Matt discusses changes in WordPress. He focuses on a feature called the Command Palette. This used to be known as the Wayfinder. Matt talks about how this is similar to things you can find in Apple's Spotlight and Descript Notion. He also looks at the competition between WordPress and new platforms like Wix and Squarespace. Then, Matt talks about what it'...
Jun 29, 2023•11 min•Ep. 173
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Apple Journals & Day One | Matt Mullenweg Important Takeaways: Apple announced its own Journal app at WWDC, which competes with Automattic’s product, Day One. Day One has a few advantages over Apple’s Journal app. One of them is the upcoming feature of Shared Journals, which allows fully end-to-end encrypted shared private journals with friends and family. Another advantage of Day One ...
Jun 15, 2023•8 min•Ep. 171
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe We’re slapping the beta label on it! For the summer, we’re experimenting with a new format to the podcast and the newsletter. In the past, I’ve talked about the cost of curating and commenting on the weekly cycle of WordPress news. The cost is starting to catch up, sponsors want more, and the audience is falling out of interest. We’re experimenting with delivering your the links our team a...
Jun 07, 2023•14 min•Ep. 170
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe We have to start this week’s news with coverage of WordPress’ 20th birthday. Our beloved CMS officially reached the milestone on Saturday, May 27. Dozens of celebratory events were held around the world. You can even sign an online birthday card as part of the #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks campaign. Meanwhile, there is some special content worth checking out. First, WordPress co-founders Matt...
May 31, 2023•7 min•Ep. 169
Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe The hot topic this week was diversity. More specifically, how it relates to the upcoming WordCamp Europe speaker lineup. After the event announced its fifth round of speakers, StellarWP’s Michelle Frechette took to Twitter with the following observation : “So far only 25% of the speakers announced for #WCEU are women (by name/photo), and only three appear to be non-white. Hoping to see som...
May 17, 2023•7 min•Ep. 168
