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Post Status Podcasts episodes

November 04, 2015Understanding WP-CLI, and a discussion on micro plugin businesses
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.
In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss micro plugin businesses and playback a recent interview with Barry Kooij. They also tackle WP-CLI, what it is, why it’s useful, and ways they use it the most.
The interview with Barry starts around 3:00 in and ends 20:00 in, for members that would like to skip it, if they already heard it in the main newsletter. WP-CLI discussion starts around 44:00.
Topics & Links
Niche Plugin Businesses
Never5

Shop Plugins

WP101

SearchWP

FacetWP

SeedProd

GravityView

GravityPlus

Event Organiser

Theme of the Crop
WP-CLI
WP-CLI

WP-CLI Built-in commands

Community commands

S3 Uploads by Human Made (has built-in CLI integrations, instead of a UI)

A more RESTful CLI
1 hr 20 min
October 28, 2015Using WordPress as an application framework
In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss a popular site’s redesign, and how the developers viewed WordPress’s shortcomings. They also talk about WordPress’s chops generally for complex sites and applications.
Topics:
An outside look at WordPress
WordPress shortcomings, from developers that prefer other software

Redesigning The Toast

Timber, Twig templating for WordPress

WordPress MTV

Advanced Custom Fields

CMB2
WordPress as an application framework
Building a database abstraction layer

Nomad Base

ElasticPress, by 10up

SearchPress, by Alley

Elasticsearch on WordPress.com

Scaling WP queries with Elasticsearch
1 hr 13 min
October 16, 2015Work life balance
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.
In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss work life balance. We discuss working long hours, managing and preventing burnout, moonlighting and its challenges, side projects, embracing hobbies, and creating exercise routines.
Links
Overcoming burnout

People without phones in phone poses

Epic procrastination series

Don't moonlight long-term
1 hr 17 min
October 09, 2015Responsive images for WordPress and mobile pages with AMP
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.
In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss Google’s AMP project for Accelerated Mobile Page loading, and what it means for WordPress. They also go in-depth on WordPress’s upcoming core support for handling responsive images.
Topics & Links
Google's AMP
AMP

How AMP works

WordPress AMP plugin

AMP on Neiman Lab: What publishers need to know
Responsive Images (starts at 35 minutes in)
Responsive images merge

Merge Proposal

Plugin version
1 hr 9 min
October 04, 2015How WordPress core development happens
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his guest co-host, Brad Williams discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.
This week Brian and Brad talk about how to get involved in WordPress core, what to expect when you do, how to navigate the waters of core development. They also discuss term meta, its use cases, how it works, and why it’s a great feature for WordPress 4.4.
Brad is guest hosting this week, as Joe is out. He’s the co-founder of WebDevStudios, a co-organizer for WordCamp US, and wrote Professional WordPress Design & Development (my go-to book on WordPress development). You can follow Brad on Twitter @williamsba.
Topics
WordPress core development process:
WordPress core components

Features as plugins

WordPress Trac

The WordPress core team

How to get on WordPress Slack discussions
Term meta:
Term Meta posts/notes on Post Status (some members only content)

The case for term meta (members only)

Term meta lands in core

Term Meta posts on Make Core

WordPress Fields API project
1 hr 2 min
September 25, 2015All about the WordPress REST API and its current state
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.
This week, Joe and Brian go into depth discussing all aspects of the WordPress REST API, and the state of the API today.
With the recent merge proposal, there is a good chance it will be included in WordPress core via a two stage process in the WordPress 4.4 and 4.5 releases. The first release would be the core infrastructure and the second release would include the endpoints. This is our longest podcast, but we go in depth on one of WordPress's most anticipated features in years.
Topics:
Brief overview: what is the REST API?

Why is the REST API important, and why are people excited about it?

REST API proposal

Reviews from the core team

New REST API core component

Trac Ticket

Comparison's to Drupal's REST API

Customizer roadmap in regards to the API

Authentication and future REST API projects
Links:
REST API Version 2 site and docs

REST API merge proposal

Committer review requests for the REST API

Introduction to the WordPres REST API

How StoryCorp uses the REST API for mobile audio uploads

WordPress on OpenHub

The core ticket for merging the REST API infrastructure (Stage 1)

Lessons for WordPress from Drupalcon (members only)

Matt Mullenweg's excitement for the API on a Product Hunt AMA

Ryan McCue's "A Future API" post on possibilities, including centralized auth

Possible roadmap for the Customizer (including REST API integrations, perhaps)

The new REST API core Trac component

OAuth1 for the WordPress REST API

The API on Github

A Day of REST conference all about the API
1 hr 27 min
September 19, 2015Local WordPress development strategies and transparency in business
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today's hottest, current WordPress news
Links and stories discussed:
Working locally
Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV)

Chassis

Salty WordPress

Get DesktopServer

MAMP and MAMP Pro

Docker Hub

Installing LAMP stacks with Homebrew

How to Dockerise and deploy multiple WordPress applications on Ubuntu

Docker Machine

VIP Quickstart

WP-CLI
Underscore.js
Underscore.js

Intro to Underscore.js templates in WordPress

Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress
Transparency
WPLift's Public income reports roundup

Buffer+Transparency

Is there a downside to transparency reports?
Nomadbase.io launch
Nomadbase.io
1 hr 23 min
September 11, 2015Justifying conferences, improving WordPress comments, and WordPress’s PHP version support
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.
Links and Stories Discussed
Events links
A Day of REST and the Post Status post on it

WordCamp US

WordCamp Tampa

WordCamp NYC

PressNomics

WordCamp Europe

Are conferences worth it?
Comments links
Brian’s recommendations for comments

Performance for comments, part of Mark Jaquith's Cache Buddy

Featuring comments by Pippin Williamson

Comments Redux

Comment Trac tickets
PHP links
WordPress PHP stats

PHP releases

New in PHP7

PHP benchmarks

PHP7 on WordPress
Segments
We start the show with events and discuss justification for them.

25 minutes in or so, we switch to comment discussion.

47 minutes in we switch to PHP.
1 hr 18 min
September 05, 2015Using React with WordPress
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today's hottest, current WordPress news.
Stories discussed:
Language packs background and details (members only)

Plugin translation details

WordPress.org sub-site for translations of WordPress, plugins, and themes

Trac gardening

ReactJS

React Europe talks

Redux framework

Web Pack

USTwo site in React with a WordPress backend

Loopconf talk on React and Flux

Nomadbase React app

React and the WP API for a native app

A Day of Rest: a WordPress REST API conference

Details for A Day of REST
56 min
August 28, 2015Our WordPress 4.4 wishlist -- Draft podcast
Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes. My co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, and I discuss some of today's hottest, current WordPress news.
Stories discussed:
WordPress 4.3 "Billie" released

What is on your wishlist for WordPress 4.4?

Don't add WP API to Core in 4.4?

Mel Choyce's biggest issues with WordPress

Who is using WP REST API and why?

REST API Documentation

A not-so-brief summary of the REST API
1 hr 4 min

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Post Status Draft, Excerpt, Comments, and Live provide the interviews, news digests, community discussions, and live shows that matter — for WordPress professionals.