Robbie Adair has run her agency for over 20 years and has navigated many technology shifts. In this episode, Robbie says that we’re in the middle of a major shift in the WordPress business. AI means that products are less valuable, but services are more valuable than ever. Customers need experts to help them navigate…
Amber Hinds from Equalize Digital has spent years helping publishers to make their websites more accessible and user-friendly for everyone, including those with disabilities. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I ask Amber accessibility questions I’ve heard from publishers. For example, is it helpful to have an audio version of my articles? Should we…
We have a lot of guests on the PublishPress podcast who are building paywalls for publishers. Chris Ward from The Publisher Desk believes we should take a different direction. He argues that paywalls only make sense when you combine them with a strong commitment to advertising. Some users will just never pay for content, but…
Brian Coords is a Developer Advocate for WooCommerce. I invited Brian on the PublishPress podcast after seeing that AI is now listed as an official contributor to WooCommerce. We talk about what comes next for WooCommerce and other open source projects? Is AI going to be building new plugin features? Writing the documentation? Fixing long-standing…
Malcolm Peralty has been writing with WordPress since before version 1.0! That’s over 20 years of blogging! In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast we discuss how writing has powered Malcolm’s career, even now in the AI area. Malcolm thinks that storytelling is an essential skill, even for people in technical roles. We talk about…
In this episode of the PublishPress podcast we welcome Derek Ashauer who runs Conversion Bridge. Google Analytics 4 is not a good platform. It’s hard to use. It’s not privacy-friendly. You can do better. Conversion Bridge can connect your WordPress site to over 20 different platforms including Plausible, Fathom, User Maven, Pirsch, Microsoft Clarity and…
In this episode of the PublishPress podcast we welcome Birgit Pauli-Haack, a developer advocate for Automattic. She also publishes the Gutenberg Times which is the best place to keep up with everything that’s happening with the block editor. We discuss the recent release of WordPress 6.9, its new features, and the future of WordPress development…
Alex Denning has been in the WordPress and SEO communities for years. But for the last few years, he’s been seeing those topics through on AI lens. Alex now runs the Ellipsis agency and helps his clients to get recommended by AI chats. Alex’s life was changed when GPT-3 launched, because it radically changed the…
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Rodolfo Melogli shares his journey from the early days of WooCommerce to the creation of his new Checkout Summit conference. This new WooCommerce conference will be in Sicily in April 2026. If you work with WooCommerce, you should be there. This is a conference we’ve been missing in…
Akshat Choudhary is the founder of WP Remote, which is an awesome and successful backup service for WordPress sites. But you won’t hear him boasting about that. Akshat doesn’t talk much. He’s a self-professed shy guy. He’s not someone you’ll always be hearing from on YouTube, social media, podcasts. Instead, Akshat is an engineer who…