Archives: Podcast

  • #37 – Jonathan Wold on How Partnerships Might Help Your WordPress Business

    #37 – Jonathan Wold on How Partnerships Might Help Your WordPress Business

    On the podcast today we have Jonathan Wold. Jonathan joined the WordPress community seventeen years ago, and he’s been here ever since. He likes to think about WordPress as an operating system for creating on the open web, and invests his time and energy into growing the WordPress ecosystem. With that in mind he gave…

  • #36 – Sean Blakeley on Transitioning a Large Agency Over to Gutenberg

    #36 – Sean Blakeley on Transitioning a Large Agency Over to Gutenberg

    On the podcast today we have Sean Blakeley. Sean works for a large agency called American Eagle, a platform agnostic organisation working with enterprise clients on a wide variety of projects. After years of experiments with different approaches and collaborations between designers and developers, their team has begun to rely heavily on block patterns, and…

  • #35 – Akshat Choudhary on the State of WordPress Security

    #35 – Akshat Choudhary on the State of WordPress Security

    On the podcast today we have Akshat Choudhary. Akshat is the Founder and CEO of BlogVault, MalCare, WP Remote and Airlift. These WordPress plugins allow their customers to build, manage and maintain their WordPress websites. He’s based in Bangalore, India and we begin the podcast talking about the state of the WordPress community there. We…

  • #34 – Felix Arntz on WordPress and Performance

    #34 – Felix Arntz on WordPress and Performance

    On the podcast today we have Felix Arntz. Felix is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google and a WordPress core committer. He is the lead engineer for the Site Kit plugin for WordPress and has been a regular contributor to WordPress for several years. He’s also been involved in the newly created WordPress performance team…

  • #33 – David Lockie on Why Web3 and WordPress Might Work Together

    #33 – David Lockie on Why Web3 and WordPress Might Work Together

    On the podcast today we have David Lockie. David is the Web3 Lead at Automattic, which is a new role. He’s trying to understand what Web3 is and how it’s going to alter the course of the internet in the future. Web3 can be confusing. It’s new and has many different meanings depending upon which…

  • #32 – Daisy Olsen on Why You Should Try Out Block Themes

    #32 – Daisy Olsen on Why You Should Try Out Block Themes

    On the podcast today we have Daisy Olsen. Daisy works for Automattic as a Developer Relations contributor on the WordPress Project, and she’s on the podcast today to talk about Block Themes. These new themes bring additional possibilities for WordPress users in what they’re able to build in the Block Editor. Now, non-technical can start…

  • #31 – Milan Ivanovic on the Importance of Real World Versus Online

    #31 – Milan Ivanovic on the Importance of Real World Versus Online

    On the podcast today we have Milan Ivanovic. Milan is a WordPress Developer at Valet.io, and is a WordCamp volunteer, speaker, and organizer. He’s the WordPress.org global translation editor, WordPress Serbia lead, and is now part of the WordCamp Europe alumni. As if that weren’t enough, Milan is one of the lecturers of the WordPress…

  • #30 – Matt Mullenweg on the Future of Technology and Where WordPress Fits In

    #30 – Matt Mullenweg on the Future of Technology and Where WordPress Fits In

    On the podcast today we have Matt Mullenweg. Matt is the co-founder of WordPress, and as a result, he has been a user for as long as anyone. We recorded this podcast whilst at WordCamp Europe in Portugal a couple of weeks ago. It’s a wide-ranging discussion, covering a lot of ground. First, we cover the…

  • #29 – Remkus de Vries on How WordCamp Europe Got Started

    #29 – Remkus de Vries on How WordCamp Europe Got Started

    On the podcast today we have Remkus de Vries, and he’s kicking off what might be described as a  mini series on the Jukebox podcast. Last week almost 3,000 WordPressers from all over the world gathered together in Porto, Portugal for the first in-person WordCamp Europe since 2019. Expectations were high, and the event did…

  • #28 – Mark Root-Wiley on Creating Standards for CSS in WordPress

    #28 – Mark Root-Wiley on Creating Standards for CSS in WordPress

    On the podcast today we have Mark Root-Wiley. He’s on the show to talk about why he thinks that it would be useful for WordPress to adopt some CSS standards. Mark thinks that it’s time for WordPress to lay out some simple standards which are easy to understand, and if they became universal, would save…

  • #27 – Ana Segota and Kelly Choyce-Dwan on How To Use the New Pattern Creator

    #27 – Ana Segota and Kelly Choyce-Dwan on How To Use the New Pattern Creator

    The Pattern Creator is a online tool which allows you to create block patterns for inclusion into the WordPress Patterns Directory, a place where you can access freely available patterns for your websites. On the podcast today we have Ana Segota and Kelly Choyce-Dwan, who share two different perspectives. Ana is a themer and Kelly…

  • #26 – Courtney Robertson on How the Learn Project Is Educating People About WordPress

    #26 – Courtney Robertson on How the Learn Project Is Educating People About WordPress

    On the podcast today we have Courtney Robertson. Courtney is a Developer Advocate at GoDaddy Pro who has a passion for teaching and learning, specifically about how to use WordPress. Her work involves outreach to developers but it also includes time to help contribute to WordPress as well. Courtney uses this time to assist with…

  • #25 – Joe Casabona on Why WordPress Is a Great Choice for Your Podcast

    #25 – Joe Casabona on Why WordPress Is a Great Choice for Your Podcast

    So on the podcast today we have Joe Casabona. Joe is a podcaster and educator, which makes him perfect for the discussion today, ‘Why WordPress Is a Great Choice for Your Podcast’. We talk about a broad range of podcasting topics including why WordPress and podcasting are such a great fit, what equipment do you…

  • #24 – Aki Hamano on Building Useful Blocks for Fun

    #24 – Aki Hamano on Building Useful Blocks for Fun

    On the podcast today we have Aki Hamano. He’s a fan of creating WordPress blocks and currently has five available in the repository. We talk about the WordPress community in his home country of Japan and then give deeply into what all of this blocks do, and why he’s been creating them. It’s an interesting…

  • #23 – Cate DeRosia Talks About Rethinking In-Person Events

    #23 – Cate DeRosia Talks About Rethinking In-Person Events

    On the podcast today we have Cate DeRosia. Cate is a familiar face in the WordPress community. Along with her husband, Topher, they run the HeroPress Network. She describes herself as a ‘serial volunteer in the community’. In early 2022 Cate was hired by Automattic to be a sponsored member of the Community Team, and…

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