Best PublishPress Podcasts (2025)

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How YouTube and AI Unlocked Jamie Marsland's Creativity 55:03

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In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Steve Burge chats with Jamie Marsland. Jamie is known for his YouTube work on the PootlePress channel and now the official WordPress channel. A few years back, he had a regular job in publishing, but a career change unlocked a whole new wave of creativity. First, they talk about how AI has changed Jamie’…

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Helping Print Publishers Find Success with WordPress, With Simea Merki 52:00

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Simea is part of a digital agency called Morntag, based in Switzerland. Her agency helps people navigate between different worlds. Many of Simea's customer are traditional print publishers and they need her help to navigate the online world including WordPress, AI and YouTube. Also the customers often need to work in different linguistic worlds inc…

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Using WordPress and Open Source to Improve Government, With Luke Fretwell 56:56

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Luke Fretwell is one of the most creative and pioneering people I've met in open source. He's enjoyed a 25+ year career that has covered multiple projects, collaborations, and businesses. The through-line for all Luke's projects has been making government better through technology. Luke created GovPress, a very popular WordPress theme focused for g…

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Journalism Across North and South America, With Carol Cavaleiro 50:23

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Carol Cavaleiro lives in Brazil and supports journalists across North and South America through her work at Indiegraf. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Carol discusses her journey from co-founding the fact-checking agency AusFatos in Brazil to becoming a product director at Indiegraf, a Canadian publishing platform. We talk about misinf…

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What WordPress Media Operators Need to Know in 2025, With Jacob Donnelly 52:30

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Jacob Donnelly is the founder of A Media Operator (AMO) Over the last five year, he's grown AMO from a newsletter to a fully-fledged media organization. Soon after launching, Jacob moved from Substack to WordPress with the goal of owning his platform and audience. Jacob and AMO have covered huge changes in the publishing industry over the last few …

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How to Make Your Publishing Paywall Successful, With Pete Ericson 50:16

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In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, we interview Pete Ericson, the founder of Leaky Paywall. He has many years of experience building paywalls for publishers. Pete says that publishers are still nervous about paywalls, but increasingly see how valuable they can be. We talk a lot about the importance of newsletters in building audience enga…

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How Native Advertising Can Drive Revenue for Publishers, With Matt Hoy 45:51

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Matt Hoy is the Chief Revenue Officer of Revcontent which provides native advertising for publishers. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Matt talks about how publishers can drive revenue despite the challenges posed by changes in Google search and the rise of AI. Matt believes the key to success is trust. The advertising landscape is shif…

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Why the Most Successful Media Companies Use WordPress, With Ben May 49:46

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Ben May runs The Code Company, one of the most successful WordPress agencies in Australia. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, we discuss Ben's journey in the Australian publishing industry, the evolution of WordPress, and the importance of community engagement. Ben has tons of experience with scaling WordPress sites, particularly with com…

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WordPress is the Ultimate Platform for Food and Travel Blogging, With Andrew Wilder 45:16

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In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, we talk with Andrew Wilder from NerdPress. His team specializes in WordPress support and maintenance for independent publishers, particularly in the food and travel blogging niches. Because he works with very high-traffic websites, Andrew and his team do things differently. For example, their plugin upda…

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Teaching Web Design to Everyone from Harvard to Human Trafficking Survivors, With Jen Kramer 47:34

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Jen Kramer has taught web design for decades. Her career spans Harvard, community colleges, LinkedIn, Frontend Masters and now Annie Cannons, a nonprofit boot camp for human trafficking survivors. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Jen talks about her career and how web design teaching has changes over the years. Jen believes that good te…

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Building a Community on Authentic Content, With Kyle Van Deusen 41:00

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Kyle Van Deusen runs the popular The Admin Bar community, a platform for WordPress agency owners and freelancers. He's been able to grow the community to over 12,000 people because he's still an agency owner and is constantly dealing with the same problems as his members. Find out more: - https://theadminbar.com - https://www.facebook.com/groups/th…

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Blogging is Still Very Big Business, With Colin Devroe 47:55

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Colin Devroe has been a blogger since the 1990's. He currently runs Hubbub, a social sharing and website growth plugin for WordPress. He is passionate about helping bloggers succeed. And in 2025, that means owning your audience. On this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Colin shares his vast experience in the blogging industry. He talks about ho…

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WordPress as a World-Class Publishing Platform, With Brad Williams 52:31

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Brad Williams is the CEO and Co-Founder of WebDevStudios, a leading WordPress agency. He's been involved in some ground-breaking projects, such as moving Microsoft's blog networks from closed-source code to WordPress. Microsoft's adoption of WordPress really helped validate the platform for enterprises. On this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, …

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This Dev is Moving 100s of Newspapers to WordPress, With Tyler Channell 45:52

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Tyler Channel runs PaywallProject which is a WordPress stack for news publishers. Tyler recommends that the publishers use a paywall to drive revenue, no matter how small or regional their audience is. When he was in college, Tyler heard a professor say that someone needs to discover a way to make newspapers sustainable. That's been his goal for ye…

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Community is the Foundation of Great Journalism, With Matt Medeiros 47:16

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Matt Medeiros is a foundational member of WordPress community, as a journalist and a podcaster. He believes that community is far more valuable than large number of newsletter and social media followers. Matt believes deeply in community, and also curiosity. It's fascinating to hear about his journey and how his curiosity as led him from project to…

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How to Build a Successful Media Company in 2025, With Brian Morrissey 1:07:40

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Brian Morrissey is a veteran of the media industry after long stints at DigiDay, Adweek. He is full of interesting opinions about where the industry is going. He thinks that smaller is better for publishers. He believes that relationships are often far more valuable than large number of newsletter and social media followers. And scarily for WordPre…

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Using Real News Skills to Cover What Happens In WordPress, With Rae Morey 39:22

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Rae Morey launched "The Repository" in 2019. It's a weekly newsletter that often break real news about what's happening in the WordPress ecosystem. Sign up for Rae's newsletter at https://www.therepository.email. Here are some of the topic we covered: Each weekly issue has about 5 major stories, with lots of community comments, plus a couple of doz…

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This WordPress Dev Bought a Newspaper in Indiana, With Chris Hardie 49:02

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Chris Hardie is a software engineer with a deep interest in journalism. Chris worked for Automattic for five years and recently completed a master's degree in journalism. In 2022, Chris combined these two passions by acquiring Western Wayne News in Wayne County, Indiana. The paper has a WordPress site and a weekly printed edition. It covers the spe…

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Running a Successful TV Review Website With WordPress, With Andy Dehnart 40:28

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Andy Dehnart has run the Reality Blurred website for 25 years now. He writes about reality TV and now also about true crime TV shows. Andy talks about his career as an independent reviewer, and how small publishers can still thrive in 2025. This episode features Steve Burge from PublishPress and Dan Knauss from Multidots. Here are some topics we co…

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Introducing the New Content Publisher From Pantheon, With Josh Koenig 44:28

9M ago44:28

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Josh Koenig is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Pantheon. When I scheduled this interview, I thought Josh was launching a tool called "Content Publishers" to connect Google Docs to WordPress. Given Josh's achievements, I should have known better. Josh's goals with this product are far bigger and more interesting. We cover these topics a…

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How Gutenberg Powers The Pew Research Center, With Seth Rubenstein 25:46

9M ago25:46

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Seth is the Lead Engineer at the Pew Research Center. He's been an early adopter of using Gutenberg in WordPress. He's often on the cutting edge of many of the coolest Gutenberg features. In this episode we dive into how Gutenberg is driving innovation throughout the Pew organization. We cover these topics and more: What is the Pew Research Center?…