Press This: The WordPress Community Podcast

Advanced Custom Fields is a popular plugin designed to enable WordPress developers to have more control over their custom field data. And it’s also a two time Plugin Madness winner. Recently Advanced Custom Fields released version 6.1. To talk about these new features in ACF 6.1, we’re joined by Iain Poulson.

Over the past year, AI powered tools like Dall-e and MidJourney have taken the world by storm, and it’s still in the early days of large language models and text-to-image generators. So, joining today is my guest, Joe Hoyle, the CTO and co-founder of Human Made. We’re gonna talk about AI’s Place in a WordPress agency.

Changing your company’s name after many years of building up trust and recognition can always be tricky. If your company’s growing successfully, though, sometimes you might have outgrown what the original mission was, and it might be time to reconsider a rebrand. And that’s what we’re gonna be talking about today. Our guest is Devin Walker, a general manager at StellarWP, and the co-creator of GiveWP.

Each week of Press This, we usually focus on one conversation with an individual on a specific topic. But there’s too much WordPress news to do that, and I’m really excited about today’s segment. This is our Word Around the Campfire segment with Sam Brockway and Mike Davey.

WordPress 6.2 was recently released, and it’s a huge update for WordPress, particularly the way the site editor works. With this release, we’re almost at the end of Gutenberg Phase Two, which focused on Full Site Editing through content blocks. So that means that soon WordPress will begin working on Gutenberg Phase Three, which is multi-author Collaboration to talk about the new features in 6.2. And what’s next for Gutenberg, we are joined today by Justin Tadlock.

Today’s guest is Bobby King, the Chief Operating Officer at the White Label Agency. The White Label Agency is a WordPress agency that specializes in partnering with other digital agencies, and we are gonna talk about when and why agencies should consider partnering up on WordPress projects.

As an agency or plugin developer, there are many times when running customer support could be made so much easier if you had access to your customer’s dashboard. But there’s obviously a lot of concerning issues about asking for that sort of access and how it could be done. That’s why today we’re gonna be talking with Zack Katz.

Today’s guests, Teresa Gobble and Blake Wilson gave a great talk at WP Engine’s DE{CODE} titled, “React-Gutenberg Bridge: Introducing the React-Gutenberg Bridge, A Headless Block Support for an Even Better Editing Experience.” 

Have you ever wondered how you can stand out in the competitive world of WordPress development? What if WordPress certification was a way to help you stand out as a Developer? On today’s episode of Press This, we’re excited to dive into the topic of certification with Talisha Lewallen, the founder of CertifyWP and WPConnects through her work at WPConnects, Talisha has been helping military veterans find new careers within the WordPress industry. 

Now, there’s a lot of discussion this year and right now about the web and artificial intelligence, AI. And some developers are experimenting using AI tools like ChatGPT to generate code snippets. A lot of fascinating things are happening right now around AI, and as we’re recording, it’s really hard to tell where we are in this technological cycle. Are we just at the very beginning?