Evan Prodromou is often called “The father of the Fediverse”. It’s amazing how much overlap there is between the aims of WordPress and Fediverse. These two communities should work together more! The Fediverse consists of independent social networking platforms including Mastodon (micro-blogging), PeerTube (videos), Pixelfed (images) and more. Just like WordPress, most of the Fediverse…
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Than Taintor from the Human Made agency and Zeshan Ahmed from Green Street News. Together they’ve been part of the project to revamp the Green Street News website. Green Street News is a major real estate publisher. They’re based out of the UK, but have…
Carol Cavaleiro lives in Brazil and supports journalists across North and South America through her work at Indiegraf. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Carol discusses her journey from co-founding the fact-checking agency AusFatos in Brazil to becoming a product director at Indiegraf, a Canadian publishing platform. We talk about misinformation, and the importance…
Indiegraf is a 3-year old company that is having a positive impact for many WordPress publishers. They’re a WordPress hosting platform for publishers, in a similar space to Newspack, PaywallProject, Lede, and others.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, we interview Pete Ericson, the founder of Leaky Paywall. He has many years of experience building paywalls for publishers. Pete says that publishers are still nervous about paywalls, but increasingly see how valuable they can be. We talk a lot about the importance of newsletters in building audience…
Matt Hoy is the Chief Revenue Officer of Revcontent which provides native advertising for publishers. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Matt talks about how publishers can drive revenue despite the challenges posed by changes in Google search and the rise of AI. Matt believes the key to success is trust. The advertising landscape…
Colin Devroe has been a blogger since the 1990’s. He currently runs Hubbub, a social sharing and website growth plugin for WordPress. He is passionate about helping bloggers succeed. And in 2025, that means owning your audience. On this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Colin shares his vast experience in the blogging industry. He talks…
Brian Morrissey is a veteran of the media industry after long stints at DigiDay, Adweek, and Silicon Alley. He is full of interesting opinions about where the industry is going. Brian thinks that smaller is better for publishers. He believes that relationships are often far more valuable than a large number of newsletter and social…
Poynter has a very good write-up of the challenges facing three new publishers. All three of the publishers are on WordPress. That wasn’t on purpose – it’s just that almost all new publishers use WordPress. Here are three publishers featured in the Poynter story:
Last month, I wrote about the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress sites. ActivityPub could form the basis for a new social network with your WordPress site as your profile. The time is right to explore alternatives because social media is abandoning publishers. As you’ve probably heard, the Twitter is now called X, and it’s not very…