Keeping pace with all the developments in WordPress requires some serious effort. Whether you are a developer, community marketer, WooCommerce store owner or just someone who likes WordPress (it really is a nice platform), things are moving so fast that staying updated requires a significant investment of time and effort.
Not everyone can find time to read or watch videos every day. If this is the case with you, you have two options: either accept the fact that with every passing day, you are losing your technical edge or find a way to get the latest WordPress podcasts.
Podcasts to the Rescue
Podcasts are a great way of getting the latest in WordPress without a huge time commitment. The good thing about WordPress podcasts is that you can listen to a podcast while you are on your morning run, driving to work or simply relaxing with a cup of coffee.
In the last couple of years, the WordPress podcast scene has matured significantly with a number of excellent podcasters have entered the space and there is no dearth of quality podcasts on a variety of WordPress-focused topics.
The Challenge of Choice
The number of WordPress podcasts can actually become a blocker for many people. There are just too many podcasts to choose from and selecting the right podcast to suit the mood and level of the listener is often a reason why many WordPress Community members often shy away from podcasts.
To help you get over this issue, I have decided to jump into the arena and vet out the top WordPress podcasts that are well suited for WordPress Community members of all shades. I have tried to keep the list to a reasonable number so that as you go through the list, you can try out the podcasts that catch your eye and decide if you wish to return for more.
Note: This list is in alphabetical order and does not represent any ranking.
Agency Trailblazer
Host(s): Lee Jackson
Who Should Listen: Designers and Agencies
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
Lee Jackson’s Agency Trailblazer is one of the best WordPress podcasts that aims to help agencies so that they “love their businesses again”. This podcast addresses the stressful life of agency owners and how they can balance their personal life. Not only this, Agency Trailblazer frequently interviews professional developers who share their experiences with the WordPress Community.
Big Orange Heart
Host(s): Recurring
Who Should Listen: Developers, Designers, Marketers, and Agencies
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
Big Orange Heart is one of the unique WordPress podcasts that aim to provide health support within the WordPress ecosystem. The team of Big Orange Heart did a survey in which 64 percent of respondents stated they felt different pressures. This podcast now focuses on skills, mental, business, and physical health issues.
BobWP
Host(s): Bob Dunn
Who Should Listen: Ecommerce
Podcast Frequency: Biweekly
Bob Dunn aka BobWP is a podcaster and content marketer that brings together everything related to WooCommerce. He has been in marketing for the last 17 years. You cannot only listen to some of the best WordPress WooCommerce professionals on his podcast but also follow the best WooCommerce tutorials on his blog.
Developer Tea
Host(s): Jonathan Cutrell
Who Should Listen: Developers
Podcast Frequency: 3 in a week
As the name suggests, Developer Tea is a developer-focused WordPress podcast. Jonathan Cutrell, the co-founder of Spec, hosts this podcast to help developers excel at their work with clarity and purpose. This is one the most downloaded WordPress podcasts that have garnered more than 13 million downloads till now.
Distributed.blog
Host(s): Matt Mullenweg and others
Who Should Listen: Miscellaneous
Podcast Frequency: Seasonal
Distributed.blog belongs to Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic. This podcast has 6 episodes including the interviews of Matt Mullenweg, Upwork’s Stephane Kasriel, Zoe Harte and Han Yuan. Distributed.blog focuses on managing people, collaboration in a distributed context, and the future of work.
Gutenberg Changelog
Host(s): Birgit Pauli-Haack and Mark Uraine
Who Should Listen: Developers and Bloggers
Podcast Frequency: Bimonthly
Birgit Pauli-Haack, along with Mark Uraine, is curating opinions of the WordPress Community in her podcast since the announcement of Gutenberg Editor at WordCamp Europe 2017. This is what Gutenberg Changelog is all about! It is one of the best news hubs and resources of the WordPress Block Editor.
How I Built It
Host(s): Joe Casabona
Who Should Listen: Developers and Agencies
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
Joe Casabona is the brainchild behind How I Built It. Every week, he interviews different professionals from the WordPress agencies and asks them how they built their products for different customers. This podcast also focuses on sharing interesting thoughts about a product launch from inception to execution and its success.
Jim Galiano
Host(s): Jim Galiano
Who Should Listen: Marketers and Agencies
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
Jim Galiano shares his passion and knowledge about digital marketing and entrepreneurship. His podcast is diverse as he, along with the guests, talks about marketing, designing, and development. Besides, you also get a chance to listen to small and medium-sized business owners.
Kitchen Sink WordPress
Host(s): Adam Silver
Who Should Listen: Developers, Designers, Marketers, and Agencies
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
With over 10 years of experience, Adam Silver hosts Kitchen Sink WordPress which covers everything related to WordPress. This podcast not only tries to share tips and tricks but also aims to resolve problems faced by WordPressers. Each podcast varies information for developers, designers, and agencies who use WordPress.
LMScast
Host(s): Chris Badgett
Who Should Listen: Developers and Marketers
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
LMScast is an initiative of LifterLMS, a popular WordPress plugin that helps you sell your online courses. Chris Badgett hosts this podcast and talks about almost everything about online marketing, growth, and entrepreneurship. He is a self-taught WordPresser and contributing to the WordPress Community since 2008.
Matt Report
Host(s): Matt Medeiros
Who Should Listen: Freelancers, Agencies, and Startups
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
A known WordPress blogger and podcaster, Matt Medeiros hosts this podcast on a weekly basis. Matt Report will help you build your business websites powered by WordPress. With over 200 episodes, this podcast has hosted top names from the WordPress Community that share valuable advice for amateurs and digital business professionals.
David Perell
Host(s): David Perell
Who Should Listen: Miscellaneous
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
David Perell aims to teach thousands of people to write online and share their ideas. He hosts the North Star Podcast and his weekly newsletter is Monday Musings. He has interviewed famous names from different fields, such as Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist), Jason Fried (founder of Basecamp), and Seth Godin (a millionaire author).
Pete Everitt
Host(s): Pete Everitt
Who Should Listen: Developers, Designers, and Marketers
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
Pete Everitt is the eponymous host of this WordPress podcast. He has worked as a marketer for more than a decade in different agencies. His podcasts are motivational and give good advice on how to listen and dare like those who have succeeded in their field.
Post Status Excerpt
Host(s): Cory Miller and David Bisset
Who Should Listen: Miscellaneous
Podcast Frequency: Biweekly
Post Status Excerpt is one of the best WordPress podcasts that provides news, insights, analysis, and interviews of the industry experts and community. Post Status caters to beginners to professional developers, freelancers to businesses. Besides, this podcast has some big names on the list, like Matt Mullenweg.
Shop Talk Show
Host(s): Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert
Who Should Listen: Designers and Developers
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
Shop Talk Show is an award-winning podcast sound effect on this list. Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert have hosted more than 350+ podcasts that cover everything related to design and development. Chris is the co-founder of CodePen and the founder of CSS-Tricks, one of the largest resources for learning web development.
Syntax.fm
Host(s): Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski
Who Should Listen: Developers
Podcast Frequency: 7 in a month
Syntax.fm focuses on developers who like to put their hands in grease. The topics allow uses of different levels to easily choose the one that suits them best. The discussions are always simple and clear. You often find new tips and tricks that enhance your coding skills.
The Admin Bar Podcast
Host(s): Kyle Van Deusen and Matt Sebert
Who Should Listen: Agencies
Podcast Frequency: 3 in a month
The Admin Bar Podcast highlights the people who have a real positive impact in the WordPress community. What’s right for agencies? Kyle and Matt dig in to understand the processes and obstacles encountered before touching the end goal, so agencies can get the best value in the market.
The Foundr Podcast
Host(s): Nathan Chan
Who Should Listen: Entrepreneurs and Startups
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
Nathan Chan interviews some of the greatest business minds on The Foundr Podcast. Entrepreneurs, startups, incubators, digital marketers can learn business strategies from successful ventures. This podcast caters to every single question that entrepreneurs want to know: from how do I start to how do I scale my business.
The Kim Doyal Show
Host(s): Kim Doyal
Who Should Listen: Entrepreneurs
Podcast Frequency: Biweekly
Kim Doyal is one of the best content marketers for online entrepreneurs. She was the host of the popular podcast, The WP Chick. She then focused on the live show Just Show Up TV and building her personal brand and helping people with content marketing grow their business.
The WPMRR WordPress Podcast
Host(s): Joe Howard and Christie Chirinos
Who Should Listen: Marketers
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
Joe Howard hosts The WPMRR WordPress Podcast that entirely focuses on business growth. WPMRR aims to help WordPress professionals so that they can sell, execute, and increase their monthly recurring revenue. It has recently crossed the 50th mark!
Voices of the ElePHPant
Host(s): Cal Evans
Who Should Listen: Developers
Podcast Frequency: 3 in a month
Voices of the ElePHPant is perhaps one of the best WordPress podcasts that not give an opportunity to WordPress professionals but also get insights from the PHP Community. Cal Evans is the guy who hosts this podcast every two weeks. It’s a great listen for sure!
Women in WP
Host(s): Angela Bowman, Amy Masson, and Tracy Apps
Who Should Listen: Developers, Designers, and Marketers
Podcast Frequency: Bimonthly
This podcast is one of the best contributions to the WordPress Community. Women in WP is all about the women who use WordPress every day and who belong to designing, web development, and marketing. Amy Masson first shared this idea of a podcast on Twitter and eventually, Tracy and Angela joined her hands.
WP Elevation Podcast
Host(s): Troy Dean and Dave Foy
Who Should Listen: Developers, Designers, Marketers, and Agencies
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
WP Elevation Podcast is not only a series of a podcast but also one of the largest WordPress business communities of WordPress consultants. Troy Dean is the founder of WP Elevation Podcast and Video User Manuals. This podcast consists of more than 200+ interviews with WordPress professionals belonging to different communities.
WP-Tonic
Host(s): Jonathan Denwood and Adrian Tobey
Who Should Listen: Agencies
Podcast Frequency: Biweekly
WP-Tonic is a biweekly podcast that addresses recent developments in the WordPress Community, e-learning business owners, online marketing, and entrepreneurship. Adrian is the co-host of WP-Tonic and he has hosted more than 400+ podcasts with their regular WordPress expert guest panel.
WPBuilds.com
Host(s): Nathan Wrigley and David Waumsley
Who Should Listen: Developers, Designers, Marketers, and Agencies
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
WPBuilds.com is a weekly podcast series that covers news and webinars related to WordPress. The main focus of this podcast is WordPress Core, hosting, plugins, and WordPress themes, and hosting. Nathan Wrigley along with David Waumsley host WPBuildsPodcast, where they share their experiences about building a website on WordPress and how to tackle the complexities.
WPwatercooler
Host(s): Jason Tucker and Steve Zehngut
Who Should Listen: Developers, Designers, and Marketers
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
Jason Tucker started WPwatercooler in 2012 with some of his friends from the WordPress Community. After a few years, he introduced WPblab and started conducting Q&A sessions to answer WordPressers’ queries. Every week, Jason interviews professionals and discusses how WordPress is changing the digital world.
Your Website Engineer
Host(s): Dustin Hartzler
Who Should Listen: Developers
Podcast Frequency: Weekly
Since 2010, Dustin Hartzler is running Your Website Engineer without any break. His goal is to empower users to master WordPress and discuss one main topic every Wednesday. He gives a lot of motivation and tips to help aspiring developers get started with WordPress.
Summary!
Keeping up with WordPress is the only way of getting ahead of the crowd. This list of WordPress podcasts is ideal for developers and site owners who need to keep abreast of the latest in the WordPress world but cannot spare time. I will continue to update this list with the latest and the best in the WordPress podcasting world to help out fellow WordPressers.
If I have missed out on your favorite podcasts (or you are a podcaster who wishes to catch the eye of our WordPress audience), do leave a comment and I will update the list.
Happy listening!
Mansoor Ahmed Khan
Been in content marketing since 2014, and I still get a kick out of creating stories that resonate with the target audience and drive results. At Cloudways by DigitalOcean (a leading cloud hosting company, btw!), I lead a dream team of content creators. Together, we brainstorm, write, and churn out awesome content across all the channels: blogs, social media, emails, you name it! You can reach out to me at [email protected].
