In this episode, Megan and Cory chat with Ebonie Butler, Lauren Pittenger, and Ryan Welcher, who work at web agencies of varying sizes. We talk about using WordPress in an agency setting, including common challenges, favorite projects, and career advice.

If you have questions about WordPress website development, contributing, or anything else web-related, send an email to [email protected]. You can also find us on Twitter @InTheLoop_WP.

## Links

Ebonie Butler of YIKES Inc.

In this episode, the devs at Blackbird get back together to talk about block widgets, themes, patterns, directories, and other WordPress 5.8 goodies, Advanced Custom Fields anxieties, and part 2 of the highly-anticipated Gutenberg Shuffle series: The Last Custom Field.

If you have questions about WordPress website development, contributing,  or anything else web-related that you’d like to hear us discuss, go to blackbird.digital/podcast or send an email to [email protected]. You can also find us on Twitter as @InTheLoop_WP.

## Links

Conex Firefox Add-On

WordPress 5.8 Release Timeline

Block Pattern Directory

Clove: A Showcase of Block Patterns by Anariel Design

The User is My Mom

ACF Acquired by Delicious Brains

## Upcoming WP Events

WordCamp Santa Clarita – July 17-18, 2021

WordFest Live – July 23, 2021

## Music To Code To

Call Me If You Get Lost by Tyler, The Creator

Videoclub on Spotify

Wizardry by Fragnum Opus

Chip SongBook Vol 11 by Yoann Turpin

## Licenses

"Trumpet Brass Fanfare.wav" by ohforheavensake on Freesound.org is licensed under CC BY 4.0

In this episode, Megan and Cory are joined by david wolfpaw, a WordPress support superhero and master of analogies.

Today david shares about their path within WordPress and we discuss their experiences providing website maintenance services. We also chat about the philosophy behind the IndieWeb movement, decluttering the internet and much more!

If you have questions about WordPress website development, contributing, or anything else web-related, send an email to [email protected]. You can also find us on Twitter @InTheLoop_WP.

## Links

david’s personal site: https://davidwolfpaw.com/

FixUpFox: https://fixupfox.com/

david’s newsletter: https://davidwolfpaw.com/newsletter/

IndieWeb: https://indieweb.org/

IndieWeb Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieweb/

Velox Theme: https://wordpress.org/themes/velox/

## Upcoming WP Events

WordSesh: https://wordsesh.com

WordCamp Europe: https://europe.wordcamp.org

WordFest Live: https://wordfest.live

In this episode, Megan and Cory talk to John James Jacoby of Sandhills Development about what he’s working on and how it can help us make better websites. John, AKA JJJ, contributes to Core and Meta, is a BuddyPress & bbPress lead, speaks at WordCamps, and is very generous with his time and knowledge.

John was great to talk to, and we have have an extra-long episode jam-packed with a myriad of topics ranging from Gutenberg versus page builders, getting started contributing, remote work on tiny screens, and surgeons, with a sprinkling of useful plugins John is working on like Sugar Calendar, WP User Profiles, and BerlinDB.

If you have questions about WordPress website development, contributing, or anything else web-related that you’d like to hear us discuss, go to blackbird.digital/podcast or send an email to [email protected]. You can also find us on Twitter as @InTheLoop_WP.

## Links

Sandhills Development: https://sandhillsdev.com

Sugar Calendar Plugin: https://sugarcalendar.com

WP User Profiles Plugin: https://github.com/stuttter/wp-user-profiles

BerlinDB: https://github.com/berlindb

GiveWP 100k Celebration: https://givewp.com/givewp-100k-celebration-invitation/

Today, Joe A Simpson Jr joins the show to chat about all things WordPress. He shares his WordPress origin story, as well as how he became the leader of two Meetups. We also chat about his experience as a graphic designer stepping into WordPress for the first time, online events, and connecting with others in the community.

If you have questions about WordPress website development, contributing, or anything else web-related, send an email to [email protected]. You can also find us on Twitter @InTheLoop_WP.

## Links

Joe’s Site: https://joesimpson.info/

Joe’s Podcast: https://backdownmemorylane.com/

HeroPress Article: https://heropress.com/essays/second-chances-how-a-trip-back-into-the-wordpress-community-saved-my-life/

WordPress Santa Clarita Valley Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/wordpressscv/

WordCamp Santa Clarita - https://santaclarita.wordcamp.org/

Elementor Meetup Info - https://elementor.com/community/meetups/

WP Accessibility Day - https://wpaccessibilityday.org/

WordFest - https://www.wordfest.live/

Joining us today is Michelle Frechette, the Head of Customer Success for GiveWP. Megan and Michelle chat about WordFest, Big Orange Heart, online WordPress events, and the work she and others are doing to keep our community connected. 

If you have questions about WordPress website development, contributing, or anything else web-related, send an email to [email protected]. You can also find us on Twitter @InTheLoop_WP.

## Links

Big Orange Heart - https://www.bigorangeheart.org/ 

WordFest - https://www.wordfest.live/schedule/ 

5.6 Release - https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-6/ 

Underrepresented in Tech - https://www.underrepresentedintech.com/

WP Career Pages - https://wpcareerpages.com/ 

GiveWP 100K Celebration - https://givewp.com/give-swag-store-intro/ 

Wow! A lot has happened since our first episode one year ago! Happy birthday to us, I guess?

In this episode, we are introduced to some new faces and discuss our early days on the web, our experiences integrating Gutenberg, some hot topics in WordPress right now, git repositories, and music to code to.

Listen until the end to catch a preview of our upcoming episode, where Megan interviews Michelle Frechette of GiveWP!

If you have questions about WordPress website development, contributing, or anything else web-related, send an email to [email protected]. You can also find us on Twitter as @InTheLoop_WP.

## Links

Welcome to In the Loop, a WordPress podcast from Blackbird Digital.

On this show we’ll be discussing every aspect of WordPress—from how it’s built and developed for, to the ways that businesses, organizations, and individuals are using the platform.

Today I am joined by my colleague and co-host, the Lead Technologist of Blackbird Digital, Cory Hughart, with our first guest, Megan Rose, the Technology Manager of KHM Travel in Brunswick, Ohio (update 2021: Megan has joined Blackbird!) and one of the lead organizers of the Northeastern Ohio WordPress Meetup Group.

The topic for our first episode is “Why WordPress?” Specifically, why have we chosen to specialize in this platform. In answering the question, we chat a bit about our winding career paths and how they led to WordPress, how our development and deployment processes differ, what you can expect from a WordPress MeetUp, and the various ways to participate and give back to the open source community.

Lastly, if you have any questions about WordPress that you would like us to discuss in a future episode, please email them to [email protected].