Post Status Podcasts

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller and David Bisset discuss the recently announced acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields plugin by Delicious Brains Inc. After having time to absorb community feedback and listen to a pre-recorded interview with those involved, David and Cory share why this move is a win for the WordPress community in the long run.

Also covered in this episode: For freelancers and solopreneurs with projects and products that grow close to an unmanageable size: where do you draw the line between owning your product and handing the reins of your creation to someone else? (Controlling your destiny is great, on the one hand, but having full responsibility and the stress that comes with it is tough to sustain, on the other hand.)

Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡

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• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Cory Miller (Twitter)
• Post Status (Twitter)
• Epic WordPress Announcement / Podcast
• 10 Years of ACF
• Amazon.com: Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
• Iconic Has Joined the Liquid Web Family of Brands
• PostStatus Member Survey

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This episode features a conversation in Twitter Spaces that took place on May 28, 2021. Our topic is monetization of WordPress plugins. Speakers: Cory Miller, Joe Casabona, Joost de Valk, David Bisset (host) along with many others commenting live in Post Status Slack.

Post Status Comments  provides a stage for WordPress professionals to exchange ideas and talk about recent topics and trends. 

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• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Cory Miller (Twitter)
• Post Status (Twitter)
• How I Built It - Is ProfilePress' Move Indicative Of A Bigger .Org Problem?

Take the guesswork out of building, maintaining, and securing WordPress websites. Professional plugins and training from iThemes help you create and manage your sites. Secure, back up, and manage them quickly and easily. Master leading-edge WordPress skills to grow your business and make more money. Learn and grow with the experts at iThemes.

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller and David Bisset discuss the future of Post Status and Cory's full acquisition of it from its founder, Brian Krogsgard. Brian launched Post Status eight years ago. Today, Brian shared his announcement publicly, and Cory also outlined his plans for the future of Post Status.

Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡

Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧

• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Cory Miller (Twitter)
• Post Status (Twitter)
• Cory: Our Future Together
• Brian: A New Era for Post Status
• Introducting A New Chapter: An Interview With Cory Miller

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In a move many people have admitted they didn't see coming, Liquid Web announced this week their acquisition of GiveWP. WP Business Reviews is also part of the deal. (Both belong to the Impress.org brand.) GiveWP and WP Business Reviews will join under a new brand, StellarWP. Stellar will house all of Liquid Web’s software assets. 🤝

This acquisition follows Liquid Web acquiring iThemes in 2018 and The Events Calendar in December 2020.

In this episode of Post Status Draft, Brian Krogsgard talks with GiveWP's (former) CEO and COO, co-founders Devin Walker and Matt Cromwell following the announcement that their company, Impress.org, has been acquired by Liquid Web.

Take the guesswork out of building, maintaining, and securing WordPress websites. Professional plugins and training from iThemes help you create and manage your sites. Secure, back up, and manage them quickly and easily. Master leading-edge WordPress skills to grow your business and make more money. Learn and grow with the experts at iThemes.

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller and David Bisset discuss the recent announcement of GiveWP and WP Business Reviews joining the Liquid Web Family of Brands. StellarWP will house all of Liquid Web’s software assets, including iThemes, The Events Calendar, Restrict Content Pro, and Kadence WP.

Also covered in this episode: David gets Cory's take on acquisitions in general for the WordPress space — what's the potential (good or bad), and how should the WordPress professional view the consolidation of their ecosystem under fewer, bigger companies?

Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡

Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧

• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Cory Miller (Twitter)
• Post Status (Twitter)
• GiveWP Joins the Liquid Web Family of Brands
• Liquid Web Family of Brands Acquires Impress.org and Flagship Product GiveWP

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In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller recommends three books with great value to the WordPress community and people who make their living as professionals in it. From the business value of community itself to marketing fundamentals and how to avoid being a perfectionist, Cory explains why he thinks these books stand out. Cory also tells us how he reads "like a vampire." 🧛‍♂️ (No he does not sleep in a coffin.)

Also covered in this episode: David talks about a recent post on the Make WordPress site by Francesca Marano, "Updates on updating the updaters." David asks Cory how he handles WordPress core and plugin updates. Cory's answer may (or may not) surprise you! (Learning how to be an "Imperfectionist" might be useful when it comes to WordPress updates.)

Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡

Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧

• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Cory Miller (Twitter)
• The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community Your Competitive Advantage
• Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Story Brand Guide for Any Business
• How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism
• How To Read Strategically
• [Feature project] Updates on updating the updaters – Make WordPress Core
• WordSesh 2021
• WPCampus: Call For Proposals

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In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about the most recent update to Gravity Forms (version 2.5). Cory reflects on the early days of the WordPress ecosystem. David recounts how Gravity Forms was his first major plugin purchase as a freelancer. Find out what's in the new Gravity Forms and why it matters for WordPress professionals.

Also covered: David brings up this week's announcement from Matt Mullenweg about CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine: they are joining the WordPress project. Does this mean the WordPress Media Library might get some overdue attention?

Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡

Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧

• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Cory Miller (Twitter)
• Gravity Forms 2.5 Release - Now Live!
• Take a Sneak Peek at the New Gravity Forms 2.5 Form Editor!
• CC Search to join WordPress.org – Matt Mullenweg

Gravity Forms is the easiest and most trusted advanced forms solution for your WordPress website. Packed with time-saving tools and features, Gravity Forms is the only WordPress form management plugin you will ever need. Stop losing valuable leads and grow your business with Gravity.

Danielle Joseph is the founder of Function Creative, a full-service brand and web design studio, and the author of The Brand Planner: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Brand Clarity & Business Direction. Her most recent project is Willowspace, a client management portal for freelancers and agencies that will be launching in the next few weeks.

In this episode of Post Status Draft, Danielle talks with Brian about her work with clients as a designer and how that has shaped the direction of her agency and Willowspace.

Freelance designers and any service-based businesses can benefit from a client management portal, but Willowspace goes a step further. it also has CRM style functions like lead capture forms to go with email integration, proposal generation, contracts, invoicing, and online payments. Leads become paying clients, and as they check in on their project status, you can offer them additional services. The client experience is very simple and can be managed through email with payments made in their own currency.

• Danielle Joseph (@hellofunction, LinkedIn)
• Function Creative (Instagram: hellofunction)
• Willowspace.co

Gravity Forms is the easiest and most trusted advanced forms solution for your WordPress website. Packed with time-saving tools and features, Gravity Forms is the only WordPress form management plugin you will ever need. Stop losing valuable leads and grow your business with Gravity.

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about Cory's recent negative experiences with admin notices in the WordPress dashboard. If the WordPress community cannot control and improve upon the location, frequency, language, and other aspects of notifications and notices inside the WordPress admin interface, the experience will continue to degrade for users, and Cory thinks WordPress.org will step in.

Also covered: David finds the animated GIFs (pronounced however David said it) starting to annoy him in the WordPress plugin repository.

Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡

Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧

• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Cory Miller (Twitter)
• WP Notify Wiki
• Feature Project Proposal: WP Notify – Make WordPress Core
• WP Notify Planning Meeting Notes from Monday, February 8, 2021
• Is WP Notify the Silver Bullet WordPress Needs to End Admin Notification Spam? 

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In this episode of Post Status Draft, Brian Krogsgard talks with Beth Livingston, M. Ed. 

Today, Beth is an Online Course Creator and Educator at WP Roadmaps and Coaching. Previously, Beth worked in education and corporate IT management. When she joined the WordPress community, Beth saw a need that combined these two roles: project management education and training.

While attending WordCamps, WordPress Meetups, and engaging in WordPress Facebook groups, Beth kept hearing the same questions:

• How do I get the client to give me the content?
• How can I control scope creep without angering my client?
• What does it take for my client to understand how much is involved in building a website?

Beth learned how to solve these problems during her many years as an IT Business Analyst, Instructional Designer, and Project Manager. For that reason, it was a logical step for her to help WordPress professionals by offering online courses and private coaching in project management.

Whether you are a developer, designer, or agency, if you manage WordPress projects, Beth can help.

Learn about the key principles of WordPress project management with Beth in this interview. She covers deep discovery, proper proposals and estimates, scope creep, and gold plating.

Project management is not a plugin or SaaS tool like Trello, Asana, or Wrike. It's a role and a task with a skillset you train to acquire.

• Beth Livingston (@BethLivingstoNC, LinkedIn)
• https://wproadmaps.com/wordcamp/
• WP Roadmaps and Coaching
• WP Project Manager's Academy

No matter what you’re working on with your WordPress website, Sandhills Development has a tool that can help you. Sell digital products with Easy Digital Downloads. Use AffiliateWP as your affiliate marketing solution. Sugar Calendar is event management made easy. And WP Simple Pay is a lightweight Stripe payments plugin. Craft superior experiences with the ingenuity of Sandhills’ plugins.