Ben is just a Cool guy who works at an awesome hosting company.  A2 hosting has been making waves in the WordPress community with their efforts to make WordPress run faster and cleaner than on other hosting platforms.  In this episode, we discussed hosting, programming, 5 for the future, and Ben’s path to where he is today.

Blogger at WP Tavern, co-host of the WordPress Weekly podcast, WordCamp speaker and community leader Jeff Chandler will be joined us for episode 37. Remember to check us out on iTunes if you can’t catch the video. In this episode we discussed WP Tavern, the WordPress weekly podcast, and his involvement in the WordPress community. Our picks of the week were: Kyle – WordPress Front End Editor Jason – The iThemes book “How Selling WordPress Maintenance Can Save Your Freelance... Read More Read More

Nikhil Vimal is a 15 year old WordPress Wiz Kid. While still in high school, he already has his own tech company where he builds WordPress stuff. He has also been a contributor to WordPress core and will be speaking at some upcoming WordCamps. Nick share with us the struggles he’s had building a company while attending school and the support he’s gotten from the community. It’s an inspiring story that should be shared with students, teachers, and parents everywhere.... Read More Read More

That’s right, we’ll be interviewing the one and only John James Jacoby a.k.a. “J-Trip”.  John is the lead developer of BuddyPress and bbPress and has truly been a critical player in making the WordPress we all know and love today.  John’s recent crowdfunding campaign has taken the community by storm raising over $50,000 to give him 6 months of dedicated work on improving BuddyPress, bbPress, and GlotPress.  He’s gotten as much as $10,000 from one private contributor and $5,000 from... Read More Read More

Becky Davis is the founder of Becky Davis Design, a Chicago based consultancy focusing helping clients implement effective web site solutions. She is also a speaker at numerous events and a Meetup organizer.  Becky shared with us a world of great information.  We talked about how she got into web design, WordPress, and the community. When it comes to being a solopreneur, Becky has it down pact.  She shared with us the struggles and benefits of running a one-person business.  She... Read More Read More

Ben lives on a freaking BOAT! What more do you want?! How about…. Ben went from wanting to be a Forest Ranger to being a developer.  He started out with a friends Pokemon website and finally made it to being the Lead Developer at Web Dev Studio.  He also talks about his time with Automattic and Microsoft (where he used his Mac).  Ben gives us some great insight on the benefits and difficulties of working remotely and his experience with... Read More Read More

Marcus Couch is a prolific podcaster, plugin aficionado and WordPress expert.  If you’d like to get more great content from Marcus, you can find him at WP Plugins A to Z and at WordPress Weekly. Marcus brought a lot of great information and inspiration about podcasting and running a business.

Sheri Bigelow is an Automattician and a member of the Theme Team.   *Unfortunately, the audio is pretty bad in this interview.  It sounded great before started but went bad as soon as we went live.

Chris Klosowski is a developer at GoDaddy. He’s also a WordCamp speaker and an expert on plugin development.  Chris’s famous WordCamp speech, “Honey, I Shrunk the Logs” is a must see for anyone into debugging.  This was a great interview and Chris shared a lot of insight into the hosting space and what’s in store for the future of WordPress hosting.   Chris is… A WordPress wizard A software developer at GoDaddy A prolific plugin developer A WordCamp speaker In... Read More Read More

Dave Bloom is a one-man web development “label” and creator of several plugins for Headway Themes (the ONLY theme worth using of course).   Dave brings personality and simplicity to web design in an effort to put all of us designers out of business with his Ginger Soul Records products.  He’s only just begun his business and we were excited to hear about the struggles and rewards he’s seen so far.  Compared to most of our guests, Dave is a relative... Read More Read More