In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, we talk with Andrew Wilder from NerdPress. Andrew’s team specializes in WordPress support and maintenance for independent publishers, particularly in the food and travel blogging niches. Because he works with very high-traffic websites, Andrew and his team do things differently. For example, their plugin updates are always done…
Kyle Van Deusen runs the popular The Admin Bar community, a platform for WordPress agency owners and freelancers. He’s been able to grow the community to over 12,000 people because he’s still an agency owner and is constantly dealing with the same problems as his members. On this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Kyle talks…
Brad Williams is the CEO and Co-Founder of WebDevStudios, a leading WordPress agency. He’s been involved in some ground-breaking projects, such as moving Microsoft’s blog networks from closed-source code to WordPress. Microsoft’s adoption of WordPress really helped validate the platform for enterprises.
This is a really interesting article on the free press in Venezuela: “Collaboration helps keep independent journalism alive in Venezuela“. Almost all the independent news outlets trying to report on the government use WordPress including El Pitazo, Efecto Cocuyo, Runrun.es, Cazadores de Fake News, and TalCual. These websites covered the recent Venezuelan elections despite a fierce…
“The logical solution was for newspapers to form groups and cooperate, establishing networks of reporters whose dispatches would be telegraphed back to a central office and then made available to all member newspapers.” I came across that quote from Tom Standage in his book “The Victorian Internet“. He was talking about the 1840s when news agencies like the…
Over the last several years, the WordPress community has focused on the “Gutenberg” project. The aim is to modernize how WordPress works. Phase 1 introduced a new block editor for writing posts. Phase 2 allowed you to use those blocks for building a website. And Phase 3 is about to begin! I think Phase 3…