21 Best WordPress Podcasts to Listen to in 2024
About twenty years ago, everybody and their mother had a blog. Recently, that seems to be the case with podcasts. Perhaps you have even been thinking of starting a podcast yourself. However, not everybody (or their mother) knows a thing or two about WordPress. This is where we come in.
In our selection of WordPress podcasts, we have tried to find a good fit for any role, whether you are a developer, designer, or general user. Here is where you will find all the quality podcast content you could possibly want, all (or nearly all) of which focusing on WordPress, and all (without exception) of which we can heartily recommend.
Here are our top picks:
With over 400 episodes, WPwatercooler is one of the oldest WordPress-related podcasts around – in fact, it will turn 11 in 2024. It is hosted by Jason Tucker, a seasoned developer, with guests from various members of the WordPress community, and focuses on tips and best practices. It is produced with the broadest audience in mind. Whatever your role or range of interests, there is going to be content on it for you.
If you are a new WordPress user, Hello, WP! might be just the thing for you. The hosts take their time to talk the listener through various topics which a novice user is likely to find useful. An experienced developer may also find some use for the discussions: sometimes, developers forget that they may be developing somebody’s first ever CMS. Hello, WP! can help keep them grounded.
For those looking to grow both their development and business skills, Post Status Draft might be a great resource. Hosted by Cory Miller and other contributors, it features interviews with WordPress professionals and other people who make a living doing their business online, as well as WordPress-related news and analysis.
WP Builds is a twice-weekly podcast hosted by Nathan Wrigley and David Waumsley dedicated to interviews with WordPress experts, entrepreneurs, and other members of the WordPress community. The interview episodes are supplemented with a “This Week in WordPress” episode every Monday, making this podcast ideal if you want to keep abreast of current affairs.
The name of Kim Doyal is likely familiar to a great deal of early WordPress adopters – that, or her alias “The WordPress Chick”. The Kim Doyal Show is a podcast devoted to helping entrepreneurs grow their WordPress businesses. It is geared towards the general user, shying away from most technical details, and choosing to center instead on SEO, marketing, and content creation.
WPMRR Podcast (WordPress Monthly Recurring Revenue) was launched by the people behind WP Buffs, a website maintenance company. Unsurprisingly titled, it is devoted to growing a WordPress website’s monthly recurring revenue, and, with over 150 episodes, is chock-full of interviews with people who have previously had success growing their online businesses.
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If you are looking for a podcast to get you started with WordPress and the community built around it, maybe Kitchen Sink WP is a good fit for you. The podcast is hosted by Adam Silver, a developer and online course lecturer with over a decade’s experience in WordPress and adult education. The episodes are usually very short and focus on a single tip or trick, piece of news, community event, or interview with a developer or business owner who relies on WordPress for their work.
Do the Woo is a podcast devoted to WordPress developers working with WooCommerce, the most popular e-commerce platform.While it concentrates on WooCommerce, the podcast also covers a range of general topics, from web development to skill development to business tips in over 100 episodes. Ideal for store owners and developers alike.
The crew behind Do the Woo (see above) used to work on a different, more general e-commerce podcast – WP eCommerce Show. The podcast is no longer in production, but the archive is still there, and it remains a valuable resource for people looking to learn more about WordPress-powered online stores.
Your Website Engineer (formerly known as Your WordPress Engineer) is probably the oldest entry on this list. In its 500+ episodes, it touches on topics relevant to building, maintaining, and running websites in general and, specifically, WordPress websites. Episodes focusing on WordPress offer a more in-depth look at issues such as plugin development, SQL, database optimization, and more.
Hosted by Matt Medeiros, an accomplished internet entrepreneur, the Matt Report podcast is dedicated to helping other business owners get a leg up in the online business world. The episodes consist of interviews with experts, developers and consultants on topics ranging from web development to marketing tips, concentrating more on the business rather than the coding side of things..
Hosted by the people from WP Tavern, a WordPress news website, WordPress Weekly is a weekly podcast aimed at the entirety of the WordPress community. It involves interviews with developers and members of the business community surrounding WordPress and covers such topics as full site editing, mergers, block-based development and more.
WordPress Plugins A to Z is, not at all surprisingly, a podcast dedicated to WordPress plugins. It deals with new releases, known vulnerabilities of popular plugins (an important security concern), and interviews with developers. If you are in two minds about installing a plugin, search this podcast for reviews and tips on how to best make it work for you.
If WordPress security (and online security in more general terms) is what you‘re concerned about, Think Like a Hacker with Wordfence is as worthy of a listen as anything. Hosted by Mark Maunder, it covers website security news (with special focus on WordPress vulnerabilities), maintenance tips, and interviews with security innovators.
WP Tonic is a podcast which focuses on LMSs (learning management systems) – online courses, in other words – hosted on WordPress. It covers such topics as course building, marketing tips and tricks, and other related topics in over 600 episodes. A good fit not only for people looking to use their websites to host online courses, with several episodes dedicated to brand-building, news, social media, and the like.
If you are a designer on the lookout for tips and tricks on running and growing a design agency using WordPress, Agency Trailblazer is tailor-made for you. In over 300 episodes, the podcast covers topics from productivity tips to business strategies for start-ups and marketing. The focus is on interviews with industry professionals, but there are episodes in which the host, Matthew Jackson, discusses a topic on his own.
The IT industry has long been a boys‘ club. If you are interested in hearing from new, long underrepresented voices, Women in WP might be just the thing you need. The podcast, hosted by Amy Masson, Tracy Apps, and Angela Bowman, all seasoned web creators, covers a broad range of topics: from development, through design, content creation and marketing, all WordPress-related.
How I Built It is a podcast focusing on interviews with developers and business owners, and the steps they took to create a development tool, theme, plugin, or other WordPress product or brand. You will also be able to find tips on how to build fully-fledged companies from struggling start-ups and how to organize and participate in community events.
Dedicated to a more generalized sort of listener, the hosts of The Get Options Podcast Adam Silver (of Kitchen Sink WP; see above) and Kyle Maurer, a marketing expert, discuss WordPress, career, and business-related questions which usually come from listeners. Episode topics range from how to code plugins to career-building advice.
WP Briefing is a podcast hosted by Josepha Haden Chomphosy, and focuses on WordPress development in general, in terms of both software and community. Episodes focus on the principles of open source development and the life of a WordPress developer in general, but also include meditations on diversity, democratization of online publishing, and more. A more abstract listen, but nonetheless worth it.
A podcast notionally designed to fit into your tea break, Developer Tea covers a range of topics useful to WordPress developers and developers in general, with topics ranging from coding tips to business and career tips, and with episode runtimes usually around 15 minutes.
In Conclusion
As you can see, there is no shortage of quality, WordPress-oriented podcasts for any taste or level of experience. If you are new to WordPress, we suggest you start by binge-listening to Hello, WP! (it is very short and sweet), and then diving into the podcast world, casting your net wide with something like WPwatercooler or WordPress Weekly, or go niche with Think Like a Hacker with Wordfence or Do the Woo. Countless hours of useful and entertaining content await.
