Over the last four weeks, I have screened some of the best podcasts via Stitcher. I found some excellent shows around WordPress, too.
I may not have found all WordPress-related podcasts, but let’s start with the five shown below which include links to apps. The podcasts cover different topics. They are created by WordPress enthusiasts who share their expertise, their insights and even offer free advice about freelance work.
You can download the apps to your mobile phones and download links to learn more on how to make podcasts.
WordPress Weekly by WPTavern
WordPress Weekly is hosted by Jeff Chandler, contributing writer to WP Tavern site, & Marcus Couch. Recorded on Wednesday nights, Chandler and Couch cover all news around WordPress and interview presenters of recent WordCamps. Nearly every podcast has a section about Plugins, where Couch shares newly discovered Plugins. The show features WordPress royalties like Matt Mullenweg, and last month covered WordPress’ 12-year anniversary.
During last week’s episode Chandler and Couch took a closer look at the upcoming WordPress 4.3 release. Right now, WordPress Core 4.3 is in Beta 3, and the final release is scheduled for August 18, 2015. They also discussed the community’s take on how to handle old content on WordPress TV, which has content dating back to 2007 when there was still a 2 in front of the WordPress version numbering.
Congratulations to Jeff Chandler, who will host WordPress weekly’s 200th episode this week!
WPElevation WordPress Business Podcast
Troy Dean, owner of WPElevation.com, discusses how to create a business as WordPress freelancer or consultant. He talks about how specific tools and concepts can help make better WordPress Plugins or themes to better serve your clients. Dean built his own business providing specialized advice to Plugin developers, themes designers or website implementation consultants. His guests include business owners working within the field of WordPress. Dean brings you behind the scenes of their businesses, and lets you in on their failure, struggles and triumphs.
This week’s episode was a real treat – Dean featured Seth Godin who advised Kristina Romero, who has been struggling with the conundrum of having less and less time available to work but still needs to earn additional income.
I also enjoyed one of the previous episodes when Dean interviewed Kronda Adair, a fellow member of NTEN Community of Practice and a volunteer for Black Girls Code. You can learn more here.
Next show is already online:
Know what problems your clients have & be the authority at solving them. My appearance on @WPelevation w/ @troydean http://t.co/fgYkZNl7QZ
— Jason Swenk (@jswenk) July 20, 2015
WordPress Plugins from A to Z
Who is able to keep track of all the thousands of Plugins beyond the most popular 100?
It seems Jeff Overall and Marcus Couch can.
During their weekly podcast they review new Plugins and separate the wheat from the chaff. They cover all aspects of WordPress – ecommerce, multi-site, handling of graphics and BuddyPress, as well as maintenance, security and speed. I always appreciate their wit and wisdom, sorting through the vast amount of Plugins available on WordPress.org as well as around the universe of Premium plugins. Once in a while, I go on a binge listening session, mostly when I need to procrastinate. Listening to Overall and Couch always makes me want to improve the various WordPress sites in my portfolio.
Latest Show announcement:
It's Episode 226 w/plugins for User Feedback, Interactive Maps, Inserting Media from Dropbox http://t.co/kB80erARyL
— WP Plugins A-Z (@wppluginsatoz) July 13, 2015
Kitchen Sink WordPress
Adam Silver, organizer of the South Bay WordPress Meetup and former stand-up comedian, hosts the weekly Kitchen Sink Podcast. The format of his show varies. Sometimes he creates an educational segment and other times he features guest interviews. But Silver always covers Upcoming events, WordPress News and includes a Tip of the Week. This week Silver interviews Kyle Maurer of Real Big Marketing. Maurer is a speaker at WordCamps and develops WordPress Plugins and themes. Silver also offers you, the listener, to leave him a voicemail–via SpeakPipe–asking him a WordPress question. Go check it out!
This week’s podcast, Episode 73, is online here
WPCast.fm
Dave Hehenberger and Doug Yuen host the WPCast.fm, a podcast for WordPress professionals by WordPress professionals.
Yuen runs a successful WordPress hosting and online service business, and Hehenberger runs a WordPress Plugin business. They don’t number their episodes, and their format varies from time to time, depending upon what’s going on in their own professional lives.
Hehenberger just returned from WordPress Europe. He gives a recap of his experiences and talks with Yuen about the progress on their business while giving shout-outs to other great WordPress professionals. It’ll be worth going back to some of their podcasts to “binge listen.”
How to listen to podcasts on your mobile phone?
- Verge: The Best Podcast App for Android
- TalkAndroid: Top 6 Podcast Apps for Android
- LifeHacker: The Best Podcast Manager for iPhone
- Five iPhone Podcast Apps Compared: Which One Is Right for You?
Inspired to create your own podcast?
- The Next Web: 19 tools to start your podcast from scratch
- Pat Flynn’s free podcasting tutorial
- John Lee Dumas’ free podcasting course
- Scott Paton’s Course on Udemy
Photo by Patrick Breitenback on flickr
4 replies on “Five of the Best Podcasts”
Gin from WP Elevation here. Thanks for including us in your top 5. We’re honored!
You are certainly welcome! Great show!
Great list, Birgit. You should also check out WP-Tonic (http://www.wp-tonic.com), which publishes twice a week (one interview, one round table show).
Hi John! Thanks so much for pointing out WP-Tonic out to me. And you are right, I might need to update this post as there is also PostStatus -Draft, I missed on my first go around the topic and also Website Engineer by Automattic Happiness Engineer, Dustin Hartzler.
Does anyone else have a podcast suggestion for WordPress people? Leave a comment!