The WP Minute

The WP Minute

The WP Minute brings you news about WordPress in under 5 minutes — every week! Follow The WP Minute for the WordPress headlines before you get lost in the headlines. Hosted by Matt Medeiros, host of The Matt Report podcast.

Episodes

Interview: Brad Touesnard on selling Delicious Brains plugins to WP Engine

Interview: Brad Touesnard on selling Delicious Brains plugins to WP Engine

June 3, 2022 8:36 PM

If you haven’t heard, Brad Touesnard has sold his suite of Delicious Brains plugins to WP Engine.

In this interview, I ask him the following question:

1. The million-dollar question: Why sell a suite of WordPress popular, profitable and beloved plu

Jetpack breaks up

Jetpack breaks up

June 1, 2022 8:07 PM

News

WordPress turned 19 this year on May 27th. Sarah Gooding over at WPTavern wrote an article covering the beginning when Matt Mullenweg partnered with Mike Little and released the first version of WordPress based on the b2/cafelog software. The high

InstaWP scores Automattic investment

InstaWP scores Automattic investment

May 31, 2022 4:08 PM

If you’ve been using InstaWP to launch sandbox WordPress websites, things are about to heat up for the platform lead by Vikas Singhal.

In an exclusive interview with Daniel Schutzsmith, Vikas shared how he landed a seed funding round from Automattic a

Interview with Dave Martin, CEO of WordPress.com

Interview with Dave Martin, CEO of WordPress.com

May 27, 2022 6:09 PM

After some spotty patches announcing new pricing, WordPress.com released a new $5/month Starter plan.

I had the chance to send some questions to Dave Martin, CEO of Automattic, about the announcement, plus, some other areas of .com that I was interest

Get 6 from .org and 5 from .com

Get 6 from .org and 5 from .com

May 25, 2022 6:21 PM

News

WordPress 6.0 “Arturo” was released. This release was named for the Latin jazz musician and director Arturo O’Farrill. With nearly 1,000 enhancements and bug fixes, the second major release of 2022 is here. You can watch the official release over

What if Automattic bought Mozilla?

What if Automattic bought Mozilla?

May 19, 2022 5:01 PM

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Carolina Nymark shares some of the trends she’s seeing with Full Site Editing themes in the repo. Data like, common block styles include button, post-title, and site-

Is WordPress going sour?

Is WordPress going sour?

May 11, 2022 6:23 PM

News

Want to find the latest with Gutenberg? You can quickly find the updates on the Gutenberg Hub. where can check out the latest resources or tutorials. Maciek Palmowski tweeted this resource where you can create a Gutenberg page quickly by using the

10 Million searches

10 Million searches

May 4, 2022 5:54 PM

News

With the release of WordPress 6.0 RC1, it is time to explore the 97+ enhancements that have been made. Milana Cap over at make.wordpress.org has shared the field guide where developers can read about the high-level changes in WordPress 6.0. The fi

No admin for you!

No admin for you!

April 27, 2022 7:24 PM

News

WordPress 6.0 Beta 3 is now available for testing. These releases are moving along and testers are needed for the most recent release. If you would like to check out the release schedule you can go over to make.wordpress.org.

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How to make it as a WordPress writer w/ Eric Karkovack

How to make it as a WordPress writer w/ Eric Karkovack

April 26, 2022 6:01 PM

Recently on the WPMinute, I was able to have another interview with Eric Karkovack a producer at the WPMinute about his view of the Freelancer in WordPress.

Eric has been a freelancer since 1999 and knows how the changes and ups and downs can impact

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