These are video interviews with people from the world’s of WordPress and web technology.
Matt Medeiros is a foundational member of WordPress community, as a journalist and a podcaster. He believes that community is far more valuable than large number of newsletter and social media followers. Matt believes deeply in community, and also curiosity. It’s fascinating to hear about his journey and how his curiosity as led him from…
The Institute for Nonprofit News has just published interviews with 3 WordPress-based sites that cover LGBTQ issues. Click here to read the interviews. Here’s a list the three sites. They’re all non-profits, and a couple of these launched very recently. Yes Magazine: This is the most established publisher of the three. Their focus Explanatory journalism…
PublishPress Series has a new update this week: version 2.7.1. The PublishPress Series plugin allows you to collect WordPress content together into a series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic. There are a lot of small fixes in this release,…
Earlier this year, we adopted the “Organize Series” plugin. This is a plugin that allows you to group content together into a series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic. We renamed the plugin “PublishPress Series” and have been working on…
There is a small, but growing, number of WordPress developers who are interested in environmental issues. WordPress now runs an incredible 40% of all websites. The work that we do has an impact. If WordPress sites consume large amounts of energy, then that has knock-on effects for the whole web. I’ve searched for some of…
Johannes is the Managing Director of Raidboxes, a fast-growing WordPress hosting company based in Germany. He’s also one of the most interesting people I’ve met in WordPress. I first heard of Raidboxes when they were giving out trees to Wordcamp attendees! Johannes and his team think differently. Raidboxes is growing fast, doubling every year and…
Phew! 2020 is over. That was intense. 2020 was a difficult personal year for many of our team, with family members passing away, losing jobs, and enduring hard times. Fortunately, the PublishPress business was a bright spot this year. Our team (Anderson, Kevin, Valentin, and myself) rallied together. And our customers were great – I…
Yanir Seroussi is a data scientist for Automattic and lives in Brisbane, Australia. It can be hard to remember with all the craziness of 2020, but the year started with epic bushfires in Australia. It was the worst fire season on record with more than 15,000 different fires and nearly three billion animals killed or…
Phil Sturgeon is a renowned API and PHP developer. He’s now starting a charity called Protect Earth to plant trees across the UK. In this interview, I talk with Phil about his environmental work, and cycling around the world to fundraise for the project. How does he manage to launch a hugely ambitious new project…
When I asked around in the WordPress community about environmental issues, everyone had the same response: “You should talk with Tim Frick.” Tim is based in Chicago and runs the Mightybytes agency. He is passionate about helping organizations create a more positive impact on the world. We recently posted a collection of environmental talks and…