In episode #22 of the WP Elevation podcast I had the pleasure of speaking with Mike Little, one of the founding developers of WordPress. It’s a true story that the entire WordPress project began with a comment that Mike left on Matt Mullenweg’s blog. This man started out programming monochrome computers to type his own name across the screen and ended up co-developing a piece of software that now powers 20% of the Internet. If you want to learn how belonging to a community can have a massive impact then don’t miss this interview.
I'm giving away a copy of Scott Berkun's book "A Year Without Pants" which chronicles his experience of working at Automattic for a year. To enter, leave a comment under the video and tell Mike the number one thing you would like to learn about WordPress in a video course.
The highlights of this episode include:
You can reach out and thank Mike on Twitter.
Mike suggested I interview Simon Dickson from Code for the People. Simon, keep your eyes on your inbox.
Hint: to enter the competition, leave a comment below and tell Mike the #1 thing you’d like to learn about WordPress in an online video course.
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Thanks for WordPress and keeping it Open 🙂 Number one for me would be learning to develop own bulletproof themes and plugins for WordPress. Other thing is building and using community knowledge to reach next level.
I know how to install themes, plugins, edit css and create child themes. But there is this dark side of the WordPress that is a mystery. I would take a course on architecture, files structure, database io. I want to know more about what’s under the hood. The red pill!
Great interview. I would love to learn how to develop themes from a html framework like Foundation and create custom plugins for theme framworks. Thanks!
Really enjoyed this interview. At the tail end of the podcast (57 minute mark) you briefly touched on a topic about using a clean framework and adding plugins vs using a theme that already contains the bells and whistles. I would love to have a course on why this is an issue and how non-developers can still create custom wordpress sites without delving too far into the code. And how do you determine if a theme or plug-in is well built.