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The WP Minute - WordPress news episodes:

05.29.2024
WordPress Media Corps
WordPress Media Corps — you might even chuckle when you hear the phrase. This experimental initiative is a team that replaced the WordPress Marketing Team. Not commercial WordPress, mind you, but the open source dot org side of the house....
05.10.2024
Level Up, WordPress Builders!
I really enjoyed the conversation lead by Brian Coords on the topic of version control for WordPress developers and builders. He was joined by my recurring cohost, Mark Szymanski, as he asked the tough questions many beginners might be facing...
05.05.2024
6 Biggest WordPress Moves While Mullenweg Was On Sabbatical
The Biggest WordPress Moves While Mullenweg was on Sabbatical Matt Mullenweg is returning from his 3 month sabbatical, dubbed “Samattical”, which kicked off February 1, 2024. He handed the CEO reigns back to Toni Schneider and placed Daniel...
04.26.2024
How WordPress is Helping Beginner Developers
WordPress is amazing not just because it’s a great tool to publish words on the internet, but that it has the potential to encourage you to learn more about the web — if you want. If you remember the...
04.12.2024
WordPress vs Webflow
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Sam Harrison, a professional Webflow consultant and content creator. He was open to co-host a WordPress vs Webflow debate with me, while also unpacking how business is going for his services company....
04.05.2024
Looking ahead to WordPress 6.6
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03.29.2024
Could WordPress Use A New Logo?
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03.22.2024
Who is Responsible for WordPress Marketing?
March 22 2024 It’s the WP Minute! Today we ask, “Who’s responsible for WordPress marketing?” Coming up next! Josepha Haden Chomphosy, Executive Director of the WordPress Open Source project, posted an idea that shifts the dynamics of...
03.15.2024
Who is WordPress for?
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03.08.2024
The Brittle WordPress Business
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03.01.2024
Platforms vs Creators: Who Should Profit?
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02.23.2024
Site Editor: Still Loading...
I think it’s one of the most important default themes WordPress has released in a while. Sure, the design is fairly opinionated, but with the mix of new patterns/blocks available, I think someone with a little WordPress know how (and...
02.16.2024
How to get started with WordPress
Getting started with WordPress. A topic that’s been popping up a lot more in my WP Minute+ interviews lately. Where does one go when they want to get started with WordPress? Learning how to use it. Learning what...
02.09.2024
Contributing Through WordPress Training & Education
# Contributing Through WordPress Training & Education It’s the WP Minute! Let’s talk about contributing through WordPress training, education and content! Coming right up! Something that’s been on my mind as I loosely plot out my YouTube world domination: Contributing...
02.06.2024
Your Feedback Needed!
Coming up on the WP Minute! Help me with this quick survey to shape the future of WP Minute, plus more WordPress goodness, coming right up. It’s time to take a quick survey. If you have less than...
01.30.2024
WordPress: A Deep Dive into Passion and Strife
Cory Miller and I discuss how the WordPress community is impacted when “big issues” clash with Matt, Automattic, and other community members. How should we handle these moments of passion and strife? It’s easy to label these issues as WPDrama,...
01.19.2024
A Bridge Too Far
I wanted to take today off, to have a bit of a reset from the weekly grind (often chaos) of WordPress stuff. Instead, I’m hoping I can reset expectations with you, my valued reader/listener/viewer of the WP Minute. We’re going...
01.11.2024
Is 2024 the Year of Page Builders?
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01.05.2024
3 Predictions for WordPress in 2024
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12.14.2023
Will Data Liberation grow WordPress?
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12.11.2023
State of the Word 2023
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12.08.2023
How Many Automattic Products is Too Many?
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12.01.2023
The Best Time to be a WordPress Professional?
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11.22.2023
Sarah Gooding leaves WP Tavern, Page Builders at a Crossroads, is WordPress thriving?
WP Minute+ News Round Table Episode 1. This will be a monthly series on WP Minute+ Podcast. Make sure you're following the podcast! Follow WP Minute+ Read the full shown notes: https://thewpminute.com/?p=12987 Get the weekly newsletter: https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Support the show! https://thewpminute.com/support ...
11.17.2023
Will WordPress Page Builders Survive?
I’ve been learning the Twenty Twenty-Four theme deeply over the last few weeks, as I feel this is one of the most important default themes ever released. A theme that has a good set of patterns at launch, a less...
11.10.2023
Twenty Twenty-Four Theme is...Good!
Today’s update is a brief one. If you hadn’t heard the news, WordPress 6.4 was released on November 7th. Things didn’t go as smoothly has we all hoped, with the core teams rushing to release 6.4.1 to catch a...
11.02.2023
Find WooCommerce inside Woo.com
WooCommerce is now Woo, kinda. Here’s a quote from their announcement Say hello to Woo.com - WooCommerce post: You can call us Woo, WooCommerce, Their Supreme Wooness — whatever you’d like. But if you want to be specific:Woo is how...
10.26.2023
The big impact of WordPress 6.4
On the latest WP Minute, we delve into the release of WordPress 6.4 RC 2, potential implications for the WordPress professional community, and a spotlight on the upcoming Twenty Twenty-Four theme. Is it set to revolutionize the market? The episode...
10.19.2023
100+ Performance Enhancements coming to WP 6.4
WordPress 6.4 is coming packed full of 100+ performance updates, along with some minor iterative changes to the overall UI. In a recent YouTube video, I took a look at RC1 available now to demo. Now’s your chance to dive...
10.13.2023
Plugin Previews, Ollie Theme, and Open Source AI in WordPress
WordPress.org briefly introduced 1-click plugin previews this week. If you found yourself looking at the plugin page on the world’s largest directory this week you could enter the official WordPress playground to explore what the plugin had to offer. ...
10.04.2023
One WordPress Theme to Rule Them All?
The dust is settling on the Ollie theme’s onboarding experience, which was set to be included in the theme’s core functionality when author, Mike McCalister, submitted it to the theme repo. The onboarding experience bucked the trend of traditional themes...
10.03.2023
WP Minute Launch Services and WP Product Writeup
I recently had the opportunity to chat with WP Minute Editor, Eric Karkovack, about some new services we are launching to better help WordPress product owners. Eric has been creating content for WordPress developers and designers for over a decade....
09.29.2023
The Most Popular Gutenberg Block
Hey it’s Matt from the WP Minute. Did you know there’s a professional group of WordPress’ers excited to meet you? If you’re looking for a more casual WP Slack membership to join, chat about the news, and share your own...
09.15.2023
Is WordPress Thriving?
At the time of this publication, thirty-thousand plus eyeballs have landed on John Blackbourn’s tweet that has sparked an event that goes well-beyond #WPDrama this week. It seems WordPress.com has publicly replicated the .org plugin pages. My peers at WP...
09.08.2023
The Future (recap) of WordPress 2023
If you missed out on WordCamp US 2023, today’s episode will share some of the highlights from the talks of Matt Mullenweg and Josepha Haden Chomphosy. I urge you to watch the entirety of their presentations, but to also tweet...
08.18.2023
Equalize Digital to the Moon
There’s a solid batch of headlines this week that I think you’ll find interesting before you head out to WordCamp US next week. Speaking of, if you’re headed to WordCamp next week, be sure to say hi! I’d love to...
08.11.2023
Can we have more WordPress 6.3?
We have a packed episode today chock full of WordPress news goodness, including some audio clips from Courtney Robertson, Jeff Chandler, and Rich Tabor sharing what they love about WordPress 6.3. First up, Aurooba Ahmed shared her new project wphelpers.dev...
08.03.2023
For the first million
In this episode of the WP Minute podcast, host Matt discusses various WordPress news and topics. He starts by highlighting a WordPress.com initiative to encourage people to transfer their domain registration from Google Domains to WordPress.com. Matt also talks about...
07.27.2023
Sick and tired of the dashboard?!
If you're sick and tired of the WordPress dashboard, maybe you want to give Eric's post, The WordPress Dashboard Needs Some Love, a read. Also in today's episode, I'm reminding you about our other podcast feed The WP MInute+, a...
07.21.2023
Will WordPress 6.3 be the best ever?
There are a lot of exciting features coming to WordPress 6.3 which will set the tone for the next few years of our favorite CMS. We’ll explore the upcoming state of this new release and provide some thoughts on which...
07.13.2023
The Wonderful World of WordPress
Matt explores some of the more challenging aspects of the WordPress project, in today's episode. With so many parts of the project being planned or already underway, the challenge to keep up with the software's evolution might become rather difficult....
06.29.2023
Command Palette enters the chat
In this WP Minute podcast episode, Matt discusses changes in WordPress. He focuses on a feature called the Command Palette. This used to be known as the Wayfinder. Matt talks about how this is similar to things you can find...
06.15.2023
So much Automattic; Here comes the PE
Apple Journals & Day One | Matt Mullenweg Important Takeaways: Apple announced its own Journal app at WWDC, which competes with Automattic’s product, Day One.Day One has a few advantages over Apple’s Journal app. One of them is the upcoming feature...
06.07.2023
We're slapping the beta label on it
We’re slapping the beta label on it! For the summer, we’re experimenting with a new format to the podcast and the newsletter. In the past, I’ve talked about the cost of curating and commenting on the weekly cycle of WordPress...
05.31.2023
The WordPress birthday party hangover
We have to start this week’s news with coverage of WordPress’ 20th birthday. Our beloved CMS officially reached the milestone on Saturday, May 27. Dozens of celebratory events were held around the world. You can even sign an online birthday...
05.17.2023
Choppy start to WCEU
The hot topic this week was diversity. More specifically, how it relates to the upcoming WordCamp Europe speaker lineup. After the event announced its fifth round of speakers, StellarWP’s Michelle Frechette took to Twitter with the following observation: “So far...
05.10.2023
WordPress 2022 annual survey results
Results from the WordPress 2022 Annual Survey have been released. WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy notes that this was a slimmed down version of the survey. It featured 29 questions - as opposed to nearly 100 in past editions....
05.09.2023
20 Years of WordPress: The Impact on Freelancers
On May 27, 2023, WordPress will celebrate its 20th birthday. It’s hard to fathom that the software has been around for so long. Yet some of us may struggle to remember what the web was like without it. Just think...
05.03.2023
Twitter + Jetpack connection extinguished, WCUS sold out, WP Speakers
It looks like the days of automatically sharing WordPress.com content to Twitter are over. Automattic announced that customers will no longer be able to auto-publish to Twitter via the Jetpack Social plugin. You may recall that WordPress.com’s access to the...
04.26.2023
WooExpress launches, Yoast leadership change, WordPress certifications
Managed WooCommerce hosting is a growing segment within the WordPress ecosystem. And it has a new entrant: WooCommerce. The Automattic-owned eCommerce provider recently launched WooExpress. The service is hosted by WordPress.com. It aims to be a one-stop shop for building...

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The WP Minute - WordPress news episodes:

WordPress Media Corps

Level Up, WordPress Builders!

6 Biggest WordPress Moves While Mullenweg Was On Sabbatical

How WordPress is Helping Beginner Developers

WordPress vs Webflow

Looking ahead to WordPress 6.6

Could WordPress Use A New Logo?

Who is Responsible for WordPress Marketing?

Who is WordPress for?

The Brittle WordPress Business

Platforms vs Creators: Who Should Profit?

Site Editor: Still Loading...

How to get started with WordPress

Contributing Through WordPress Training & Education

Your Feedback Needed!

WordPress: A Deep Dive into Passion and Strife

A Bridge Too Far

Is 2024 the Year of Page Builders?

3 Predictions for WordPress in 2024

Will Data Liberation grow WordPress?

State of the Word 2023

How Many Automattic Products is Too Many?

The Best Time to be a WordPress Professional?

Sarah Gooding leaves WP Tavern, Page Builders at a Crossroads, is WordPress thriving?

Will WordPress Page Builders Survive?

Twenty Twenty-Four Theme is...Good!

Find WooCommerce inside Woo.com

The big impact of WordPress 6.4

100+ Performance Enhancements coming to WP 6.4

Plugin Previews, Ollie Theme, and Open Source AI in WordPress

One WordPress Theme to Rule Them All?

WP Minute Launch Services and WP Product Writeup

The Most Popular Gutenberg Block

Is WordPress Thriving?

The Future (recap) of WordPress 2023

Equalize Digital to the Moon

Can we have more WordPress 6.3?

For the first million

Sick and tired of the dashboard?!

Will WordPress 6.3 be the best ever?

The Wonderful World of WordPress

Command Palette enters the chat

So much Automattic; Here comes the PE

We're slapping the beta label on it

The WordPress birthday party hangover

Choppy start to WCEU

WordPress 2022 annual survey results

20 Years of WordPress: The Impact on Freelancers

Twitter + Jetpack connection extinguished, WCUS sold out, WP Speakers

WooExpress launches, Yoast leadership change, WordPress certifications

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