WordPress Weekly

  • WPWeekly Episode 131 – Talking Wordsesh With Chris Cochran

    This weeks episode features Chris Cochran, co-organizer of Wordsesh. In this episode, we discussed the inspiration behind the event, Wordsesh 2, what may be coming with Wordsesh 3, and much more. We also talked about the release of WordPress 3.8, covered all of the new features and gave our thoughts on the new default theme,…

  • This Week On WPWeekly: Scott Basgaard

    Scott Basgaard will be our live guest on Friday, December 13th at 3PM Eastern time. Scott is currently employed by WooThemes and is one of the pioneers behind WordSesh. We’ll be talking to Scott about WordSesh 2 which recently took place this past weekend. We’ll also find out what he’s up to these days as…

  • WPWeekly Episode 130 – Catching Up With Matt Mullenweg

    In this edition of WordPress Weekly, our special guest was Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress. After catching up with the headlines, we covered a wide range of topics with Matt such as: Automattic Fighting Back Against DMCA Takedown Abuse Giving The Keynote Speech At The Joomla World Conference Day Matt’s Thoughts On The WordPress Backend…

  • This Week On WPWeekly: Matt Mullenweg

    WordPress Weekly returns this Friday with special guest Matt Mullenweg. The last time Matt appeared on WordPress Weekly was July 16th, 2010. Needless to say, we’ll have a lot of catching up to do. Among some of the topics I plan on discussing with Matt are: The plugins as features development model WordPress being used…

  • WPWeekly Episode 129 – Interview With Tom McFarlin

    In this episode, we did something a little different. Instead of reviewing the headlines by ourselves, Tom McFarlin chimed in sharing his opinions on the headlines of the week. After going through the news, we spent some time getting to know Tom while finding out what happened at 8bit, what he’s doing with Pressware, updates…

  • WPWeekly Episode 128 – Catching Up With Lorelle VanFossen

    In this edition of WordPress Weekly, we covered the headlines of the week such as what features will be in WordPress 3.8, the default BuddyPress theme being retired in 1.9, and when to expect 3.8 to be released. During the second half of the show, we were joined by Lorelle VanFossen. We found out what…

  • WPWeekly Episode 127 – Roundtable With Brad Williams Who Eats API’s For Breakfast

    In this weeks episode, we were joined by Brad Williams of Webdevstudios and Dradcast to discuss the headlines of the week. We covered a large assortment of news items and received some updates on projects Webdevstudios is working on such as the latest release of BadgeOS. Brad is a long time participant of the WordPress…

  • This Week On WPWeekly: Cory Miller

    This week on WordPress Weekly, our special guest will be Cory Miller of iThemes.com. I first met Cory back in 2008 at WordCamp Dallas which was my first WordCamp event that I attended. At that time, iThemes was a brand new company looking to innovate the commercial WordPress theme space. They made a lot of…

  • WPWeekly Episode 125 – Alex Denning And The Future Of WPShout

    On this weeks edition of the show, Alex Denning was my special guest along with the new owners of WPShout.com, Fred and David of PressUp Inc. In the show, Alex and I talk about the last four years of publishing content on WPShout.com, what types of opportunities it’s opened up for him, and what it…

  • WPWeekly Episode 124 – The Three WordPressteers

    For the first time since returning to the airwaves, we had all three contributing authors to WordPress Tavern on the show at once. While we originally scheduled Alex Denning for this episode, we needed to reschedule him for October 25th. So in this episode, we each took turns discussing this weeks headlines. As a bonus,…

  • WPWeekly Episode 123 – Scott Berkun And The Year Without Pants

    This week, interviewed book author Scott Berkun. Scott Berkun, a former Microsoft manager during the 1994- 2003 time frame where he worked on the Internet Explorer team is the author of the book, The Year Without Pants. In this book, Scott reports on his challenging year working at Automattic on WordPress.com as the leader of…

  • This Week On WordPress Weekly – Book Author Scott Berkun

    This Friday at 3P.M. Eastern on WordPress Weekly, book author Scott Berkun will be our special guest to talk about his experience working at Automattic on WordPress.com in his brand new book, The Year Without Pants. I recently finished the book and it was a great read. I learned a bunch of things that I…

  • WPWeekly Episode 122 – Code Revisions And Core

    No guests this week which provided Sarah and I a oppurtunity to go in-depth on some topics such as the new password meter for WordPress 3.7. We also had a great discussion surrounding the question of whether code revisions should be added to the core or not. After the discussion, Sarah and I are both…

  • WPWeekly Episode 121 – All About The bb’s With John James Jacoby

    There were no spooky ghosts or constant howling noises in this episode but we did manage to go in-depth with John James Jacoby to discuss bbPress and BuddyPress. During the show, we find out why he left Automattic for 10UP, what is was like to jump into the project lead position for bbPress after so…