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  • #45 – Alex Ball on Customizing Core Blocks for Clients

    #45 – Alex Ball on Customizing Core Blocks for Clients

    On the podcast today we have Alex Ball. Alex is a Lead Software Engineer at Mindgrub, a digital agency in Baltimore, Maryland. His website leadership experience continues to inform his decision-making today, especially for training clients and making the block editor as easy to use as possible, and that, in essence, is the subject of…

  • #44 – Joe Dolson on How To Fix the Six Most Common Accessibility Errors on Your Websites

    #44 – Joe Dolson on How To Fix the Six Most Common Accessibility Errors on Your Websites

    On the podcast today we have Joe Dolson. Joe is a WordPress plugin developer, a core committer, and a web accessibility consultant. He’s part of the Make WordPress Accessible team, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the WordPress ecosystem. His recent presentation at WordCamp US entitled ‘Finding and Fixing the Six Most Common WCAG…

  • #43 – Nick Ahmann on Testing Plugins With TasteWP

    #43 – Nick Ahmann on Testing Plugins With TasteWP

    On the podcast today we have Nick Ahmann. Nick works for Inisev, a company which provides SaaS services for WordPress and other platforms. They have a range of products, but today we focus on TasteWP. TasteWP is a service which allows you to spin up a disposable WordPress install in a matter of seconds. From…

  • #42 – Marcel Schmitz on Finding Work With Codeable and Working With WooCommerce

    #42 – Marcel Schmitz on Finding Work With Codeable and Working With WooCommerce

    On the podcast today we have Marcel Schmitz. Marcel is a freelancer at Codeable for Pluginslab, a small agency based in Porto, Portugal. He builds solutions for WooCommerce, often connecting them with native mobile applications. We talk on the podcast today about the opportunities Codeable has offered him and how it fits in with his…

  • #41 – Laura Nelson on How To Create a Profitable Newsletter

    #41 – Laura Nelson on How To Create a Profitable Newsletter

    On the podcast today we have Laura Nelson. Laura is a Content Marketer at WooCommerce where she’s responsible for creating and planning engaging content for their users. Prior to WooCommerce she worked at MailPoet, an email marketing plugin for WordPress, and it’s this experience that she is bringing to the show. Her pitch is that…

  • #40 – Andrew Palmer on Using AI To Help Your Website Workflow

    #40 – Andrew Palmer on Using AI To Help Your Website Workflow

    On the podcast today we have Andrew Palmer. Andrew has been in the WordPress space for many years as a product owner and open source advocate. He founded and later sold Elegant Marketplace, and more recently is the co-founder of Bertha.ai, which is a WordPress plugin which assists you in creating text content directly in…

  • #39 – Marieke Van De Rakt & Taco Verdonschot on Yoast, the Past, Present and Future

    #39 – Marieke Van De Rakt & Taco Verdonschot on Yoast, the Past, Present and Future

    On the podcast today we have Marieke Van De Rakt & Taco Verdonschot, and they’re both from Yoast SEO. I sat down with them both at WordCamp Europe and we talked about some of the recent changes that have taken place within the company. Having worked hard to build and maintain their company’s reputation, they…

  • #38 – Paul Bearne on How Working With WordPress Allows for Different Lifestyles

    #38 – Paul Bearne on How Working With WordPress Allows for Different Lifestyles

    On the podcast today we have Paul Bearne. Paul is a WordPress enthusiast who loves to come up with ways to make WordPress do things it doesn’t normally do. Having engaged with WordPress almost from the start, he specialises in the creation of highly performant, scalable, accessible and SEO friendly code. In the podcast today…

  • #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…

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