Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. 2018 was a year of big changes in the WordPress community and there’s no telling what new things we will see in 2019, but we are sure that these five WordPress trends aren’t going away anytime soon. Love WordPress News But Hate Reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop! Happy New Year. 2018 was a wild year for WordPress. After years of hype, we finally […]
8 Great Interviews from WordCamp US 2018
WordCamp US has just wrapped up and we were very fortunate to have the chance to talk to many WordPress heroes during our stay in Nashville, TN. Considering the release of WordPress 5.0 was the day before WCUS, it’s no surprise that Gutenberg was a frequent topic, but we also noticed another topic that kept popping up: WordPress governance. We hope you enjoy these videos. Thanks to JJJ, Morton Rand-Hendriksen, Jenny Wong, Josh Pollock, Raitis Sevelis, Mark Maunder, Taeke Reijenga, and Micah Dailey for their time. You can watch the full playlist here.
Doc Pop’s News Drop: WCUS 2018 Wrap-up
Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. We are live at WCUS 2018 in Nashville to give you a short recap of the event. Be sure to check out all of our WordCamp US interviews in this YouTube playlist. Love WordPress News, but hate reading? My name is Doc and this Doc Pop’s News Drop. I’m here in Nashville for WordCamp US 2018. WordPress version 5.0 with the Gutenberg editor went live on December 6th, the day […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: Why is Marcel Bootsman going to Walk to WCEU?
Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. In this week’s News Drop we talk to Marcel Bootsman about his “Walk To WCEU” project, which will help raise money for DonateWC. Marcel will be walking 435 miles from the Netherlands to Berlin, and you can help support him via http://walktowc.eu or follow the project on Twitter with #walktoWCEU
Doc Pop’s News Drop: A Bold New WordPress Theme for Webcomics
Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. Webcomics are changing and so are webcomic themes for WordPress. In this week’s News Drop we chat with Jason Brubaker about his new Inkblot Ace theme. Unlike most webcomic themes, Inkblot Ace allows Patreon sponsors to be able to access comics without requiring a login or password. To learn more about Inkblot Ace, check out Jason’s full video here.
Doc Pop’s News Drop: A chat with Josh Pollock about React, Gutenberg, and his WordPress predictions
Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. In this week’s News Drop we have an in-depth conversation with Josh Pollock about React, Gutenberg, and his predictions for WordPress. Josh is the founder/lead-developer at Caldera Forms and a regular Torque contributor.
Doc Pop News Drop: GutenbergCloud and the Gutenberg Module for Drupal
Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. At DrupalEurope, one of the largest Drupal conferences in the world, Per André Rønsen and Marco Fernandes announced a new Gutenberg module in the works. When finished, this module will allow Drupal users to use a similar block based content editor as the upcoming on planned for WordPress 5.0. But that’s not all, the team also announced GutenbergCloud, which is an online repository for developers to share their custom Gutenberg blocks […]
Interviews from WordCamp for Publishers 2018
WordCamp for Publishers is a two day conference for online publishers of any size. This year’s event was hosted in Chicago and was filled with talks about how agencies are helping publishers improve their workflow with Gutenberg, how to improve accessibility, and why paywalls may actually be good for the open web. I had a great time at the event and was lucky be able to interview many of the speakers throughout the week. We talked with Jake Goldman (10up), Chris Van Patten (Tomodomo), Jeannette Washington (Bearly Articulating), Mike Selander (Human Made), Libby Barker (Human Made), Jodie Riccelli (WebDevStudios), and […]
Video Interviews from WordCamp Europe
Did you miss this year’s WordCamp Europe in Belgrade, Serbia? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We had a great time talking to some of our favorite WordPressers, and we’ve complited them into a playlist of interviews. Along with a recap of Matt Mullenweg’s WCEU talk, we chatted with Joost de Valk, Libby Barker, Karim Marucchi, Rian Rietveld, Tom Rankin, and Jenny Beaumont. There are some great interviews in there, so be sure to catch them all and let us know which ones are your favorites.
Could AWS Translate Open New Markets for Your Site?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) released their Amazon Polly plugin, a text to speech tool, back in February. In June, they announced a huge new update which provides real time translation functionality to the Polly plugin. We attended the AWS Translate launch event at the Amazon Loft in San Francisco and managed to learn more about this powerful new tool. We chatted with Robin Dautricourt, Sr. Product Manager at Amazon Polly, Yoni Friedman, Sr. Product Manager at Amazon Translate, and Steven Word, Innovation Program Manager at WP Engine, about this powerful new WordPress plugin
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