Pressing Matters

This week Jack and I talk about the recent Zoom security issues, our workflows for setting up new WordPress sites, developer happiness, and retro games consoles. We also debate the rights and wrongs of the  ‘WordPress way’ when it comes to the site files and autoloading, compared to modern PHP frameworks.

This week Jack and I talk about the recent Zoom security issues, our workflows for setting up new WordPress sites, developer happiness, and retro games consoles. We also debate the rights and wrongs of the  ‘WordPress way’ when it comes to the site files and autoloading, compared to modern PHP frameworks.

This week we have a good catch up and general chat about what’s been going on over the last couple of weeks. Jack and I are in our new workspaces – Jack’s garden office is (almost) finished and he is in! I’ve finally moved house and am enjoying my new spare bedroom setup (sadly not …

This week we have a good catch up and general chat about what’s been going on over the last couple of weeks.

Jack and I are in our new workspaces – Jack’s garden office is (almost) finished and he is in! I’ve finally moved house and am enjoying my new spare bedroom setup (sadly not the one in the photo).  We talk WordCamps, PayPal, Indiana Jones, Composer, and doing things the old way.

So we couldn’t agree on this – what is the best Indiana Jones film?

— Pressing Matters (@pressingfm) July 1, 2019

 

This week we welcome our first ever guest! 🎉 We chat to Elliot Condon, the man behind the enormously successful WordPress plugin Advanced Custom Fields, about developing a plugin, becoming a father, Gutenberg, and running a business. We run a little longer this time round, and we could have talked for much longer! But we …

This week we welcome our first ever guest!

We chat to Elliot Condon, the man behind the enormously successful WordPress plugin Advanced Custom Fields, about developing a plugin, becoming a father, Gutenberg, and running a business.

We run a little longer this time round, and we could have talked for much longer! But we hope you enjoy listening as much as we did chatting.

This week we chat about how we go about working out what features to work on next for our side projects. I talk about the approach we take on a larger scale for our plugins and products at Delicious Brains, and about the challenges I face with my Instagram plugin reliant on Instagram’s API. This …

This week we chat about how we go about working out what features to work on next for our side projects. I talk about the approach we take on a larger scale for our plugins and products at Delicious Brains, and about the challenges I face with my Instagram plugin reliant on Instagram’s API.

This episode is sponsored by Intagrate, the Instagram WordPress plugin which automatically creates posts from your Instagram images and videos on your WordPress site. Find out more at intagrate.io.

This week Jack and I talk through the release of WordPress 5.2 which landed last week. We discuss all of the developer-friendly features and improvements which have been included. This episode is sponsored by Better Notifications for WordPress – a simple but powerful plugin that allows you to customise the email notifications that WordPress sends …

This week Jack and I talk through the release of WordPress 5.2 which landed last week. We discuss all of the developer-friendly features and improvements which have been included.

This episode is sponsored by Better Notifications for WordPress – a simple but powerful plugin that allows you to customise the email notifications that WordPress sends using a WYSIWYG editor and shortcodes. All of the default WordPress email notifications are available for you to customise as well as lots of new and useful ones. Find out more.