Podcast appearances and mentions of tom mcfarlin

The annual State of the Word event has been scheduled for December 15, 2022 from 1:00 - 2:30pm EST. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg will take to the microphone to discuss the year that was and what lies ahead. The event will take place in New York City and will also be live streamed. If you'd like to attend in-person, there's a survey available to fill out. Meanwhile, you can also submit questions to Mullenweg ahead of time by emailing ask-matt@wordcamp.org or during the event via YouTube's chat feature. Links You Shouldn't Miss The WP Minute's Eric Karkovack has a wish list of things he'd love to see from WordPress in 2023. More than any technical enhancements, his hopes include better communication, collaboration, and more opportunities to get together for in-person events. Tom McFarlin contributed to The WP Minute with an in-depth tutorial on working with multiple user metadata queries. He takes us step-by-step through the process of retrieving a custom set of user records. WordPress.org is launching a blog aimed at developers. Sarah Gooding of WP Tavern reports that the project is currently in beta testing. The focus will be on new features that impact theme and plugin developers. According to WP Tavern, the Divi page builder will undergo some major changes in 2023. Version 5.0 isn't slated to see new features, rather a complete rewrite of its underlying framework. The revamp will be built using React and aims to improve compatibility with the Gutenberg Block Editor. Last week, we reported on Mike McAlister's concept for OpenPress, a plugin that would turn a WordPress install into a syndicated microblogging platform. This week, Alex Standiford expands on the idea and wonders if WordPress might one day have a bidirectional relationship with social media platforms. Classifieds listings buy yours Equalized Digital Get 50% off Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker November 20-30 with coupon code BlackFriday22 and start making your website accessible. From the Grab Bag Now it's time to take a look at some other interesting topics shared by our contributors. WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced that Tumblr will soon add support for ActivityPub, an open and decentralized protocol for connecting to Mastodon and other social media platforms. The announcement comes as more users are contemplating Twitter alternatives. Speaking of Tumblr, Nyasha Green at MasterWP looks at the platform's recent resurgence. Sell Courses Online have

News WordPress continues to work on core template changes to refine the creation experience. Many more options will be released with WordPress 6.1 that will continue to improve website building. You can explore the enhancements now in the Gutenberg plugin. Sarah Gooding over at WPTavern wrote an article about how the WP-Optimize plugin was being accused of cheating their page speed performance tool. Before the dust settled, there was a follow up article covering the details about WP-Optimize denying the cheating allegations. If you are interested in the specifics around the performance gathering and analyzing the techniques both articles are worth a read. Sarah Gooding was writing a lot about performance last week. She had another article about how WordPress is placing WebP by default on hold for WordPress 6.1. There were many objections from lead developers and the image upload has been controversial since it was announced. WooCommerce If you are a WooCommerce user, there is a Store Editing Roadmap update for Q3. A lot of work has been going on for the last few months and you can quickly see what is coming Now, Next and Later. Events WordCamp US is right around the corner. Make sure you look for Raquel Landefeld who will be representing the WP Minute and don't forget that you can sign up for the live stream if you are not attending in person. The speaker call for WordCamp Buffalo is open. This WordCamp will be an in-person event and held October 22, 2022. Submissions must be in by September 11th, 2022 for speaker slots. Next up! Michelle Frechette with the Community Minute - “Attending a post-covid WCUS” Richard Tabor teases his upcoming WCUS talk: A New Era of WordPress Themes is Here: Block Themes From Our Contributors and Producers Sam Munoz shares that the WP Engine Builders have become a community that is unique and special. Go check them out on Twitter and become part of the builder team. Tom Mcfarlin has written a post about using the block editor as a developer. It has not been the greatest experience. Most of the frustration comes from standards that are not in place and documentation that is scarce. This often happens with major changes and updates in WordPress. Take a few minutes to read his article. It is organized and steps you through what you will need to develop blocks and it has many great reference links. Can we please stop saying “Gutenberg' now? Fränk Klein's post on the HumanMade website makes a good point of how Gutenberg is confusing. Is it a project? Is it a plugin? Is it an editor? Not for developers? Some kind of historic timeline in the multiverse that is human history? The bottom line is to be specific when r

News WordPress 6.0 "Arturo" was released. This release was named for the Latin jazz musician and director Arturo O'Farrill. With nearly 1,000 enhancements and bug fixes, the second major release of 2022 is here. You can watch the official release over on YouTube. It is a minute and a half of great jazz and cool features. There were some interesting numbers on Gutenstats.blog of what blocks are used for with .com and Jetpack. The stats are interesting showing 76.6 million active installations and it is exciting to see where all the common blocks are being used. If you are interested to see where Gutenberg is headed, make sure you keep updated at make.wordpress.org. Are you interested in starting a new site with your idea or small business? WordPress Starter is a new, beautifully pared-back plan designed to put that idea center stage. For just $5/month you get fast WordPress managed hosting, unlimited site traffic, and reasonable startup prices. This is the new price point for WordPress.com that Sarah Gooding, over at the Tavern, and I have been waiting to hear about for some time. I've reached out to Automattic for a comment. Events WordCamp EU will be happening next week. There is an interesting panel discussion with the global lead Taeke Reijenga on “Acquisitions in WordPress”. The WPMinute has been covering these acquisitions individually over the past year but you may want to check out this panel to hear their takes on some of the major changes and takeovers within the community over the past year. From Our Contributors and Producers Speaking of acquisitions, Adrian Tobey of GroundHoggWP tweeted that his team has acquired Scott Bolinger's plugin, HollerWP. Bolinger exited the plugin space recently joining the team at GoDaddy. Would you like to see a practical use of Gutenberg in the digital news space? Check out this Twitter thread by Seth Rubenstein where he explains how he has gone all in on block development and what is possible in Gutenberg. Tom McFarlin shares his perspective of WordPress as an application. He goes beyond the latest published newsletters, tweets, blog posts, podcasts, etc., around Full Site Editing and Headless options. He points out that we may be forgetting the fact that WordPress is far more malleable than FSE and Next.js. The WPTavern jukebox recently interviewed Ana Segota and Kelly Choyce-Dwan about how the WordPress pattern creator works. If you want to hear how you can submit your patterns and the constraint challenges around the submission, go take a listen to that episode. Joost de Valk warns us to optimize crawling to save the environment:  Every time they find a URL, they crawl it and if it's interesting to them, they'll keep crawling it basically forever. The bigger your site, the more URLs you have, the more likely every individual URL is to be hit multiple times per day. Speaking of the environment: Over on the Matt Report, “Can WordPress save the planet?” Hannah Smith talks to Matt about how web sustainability can save the planet. This is a very unique approach for a

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Life Updates Kyle: Yay! Taxes were great this year. Adam: 2 week hiatus..   Good: WordCamp Raleigh.  Bad:  Pulled muscle/location!  Ugly: Taxes.   WordPress News A multitude of plugins with issues Duplicate page Pipdig Jetpack   Alex Vasquez ran into Matt Mullenweg in Japan. Changes Bethany Heck and Joshua Goldenberg join the A8C design team Tom McFarlin…

Michelle Schulp is using atomic design and WordPress. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr Show Notes: Marktime Media My Name is Michelle Fitness and Freelance WordPress Find a WordCamp near you. Pattern Lab Book: Atomic Design by Brad Frost Check out the new Gutenberg editing experience on WordPress (and compare it to the former editor, TinyMCE) Other CMSs of note: Joomla and Drupal Developer Resources for WordPress WordPress TV Joe Casabona Zac Gordon Tom McFarlin’s blog on Practical WordPress Development Pippin’s Plugins Book: Discover Object-oriented Programming using Wordpress by Carl Alexander Michelle Schulp is on Twitter Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical.

Today's guest is Tom McFarlin. Tom is a WordPress developer, blogger, and guitar player. He operates his own business building custom WordPress sites and products and writes the Practical WordPress Development blog.

Transcription: Aaron: [00:02] Hi, I’m Aaron. Micah: [00:04] And I'm Micah. And you are listening to the WP Square One podcast. Today we have with us Tom McFarlin. He is a self-employed WordPress developer, dad of two girls, married to his high school sweetheart, and a sweet Instagram influencer for fifteen to twenty people at… The full content for Tom McFarlin (Pressware) can be viewed on WP Square One.

In this episode, Matt Medeiros continues the impromptu Season 6 with his interview with Tom McFarlin. Tom is a developer and business owner in the WordPress community but is not solely dependent on WordPress. He balances his consulting and development business along with teaching and blogging with a focus on  Object Oriented Programming (OOP) encouraging people to write good code. Listen to the episode Matt Report - A WordPress podcast for digital business owners How Tom McFarlin manages a product & services business Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds 00:00 / 00:55:46 Subscribe Share RSS Feed Share Link Embed Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:55:46 What you will learn from this Episode: Tom has a  membership area with Digital courses on his site TomMcfarlin.com. (1:10) Pressware has been growing over the past 7 years and provides consulting, custom plugin and development functionality. (2:43) Tom's blog has moved into a combination of free posts along with paid content for members. (2:28) Marketing your product: The marketing strategy is not just a focus this year for the membership site launch. (3:39) Building strong content will take time and people can sign up as needed or when they recognize the value. (8:02) Blogging with great content with authority takes a lot of work. (8:52) The current blog is established and is being published with a set schedule. (9:42) Word of mouth and posting to Twitter have been the best marketing strategy so far. (13:34) The blog material is being updated with interesting and new material that is being discovered by new developers. (15:59) Tom's blog is very genuine reflecting his personality. (19:48) Networking at events is a great way to meet the authentic blogger or WordPress owner. (21:40) It is difficult to build an audience using YouTube because the videos come off as being instructional or tutorials on a software product. (23:37) The Future of WordPress: Consultants have been the boots on the ground for WordPress. (27:24) Blue collar digital workers are becoming a commoditized service becoming people who can fix the code of products that were created. (28:40) There is a consumer level of technology that may always need fixing. (30:09) There may always be a WordPress but consultants may not be directing or taking customers where they want to go with the software. (31:41) WordPress is getting wider with the options of where people want to take it. (32:47) Jetpack (or other WordPress plugins) will probably be part of WordPress moving forward and may not be offered as individual products. (36:07) The individual user seems to be the new direction for the growth of WordPress. (37:37) Plugin development and sales may not take the same direction that themes have. (42:17) Pressware was named without “WP” intentionally even though it is software built on WordPress. (42:54) Building a Business: If you are going to be working for yourself you need to learn about running a business and know that you should be able to manage a team of developers, contractors, designers, etc. (44:39) Understand the value of the dollar when you are in business and understand where the money goes. (46:47) If you are working in the U.S. make sure you have a great CPA. (48:48) As your business grows you will need to learn to let go of many things and delegate to good people. (49:49) Make sure you have a set ending time to the day when the work discussion ends. (52:18) Episode Resources: Pressware TomMcFarlin.com WordCamp US Troy Dean Gary Vaynerchuk Sandhills Development Dr. Dre sells Beats to Apple Video Gaming on YouTube The Blue Collar WordPress Worker Scott Bollinger's Shopify post Jetpack WordPress plugin repository Awesome Motive EDD WooCommerce Monster Insights Slack To Stay in Touch with Tom: Tom McFarlin.com/yearly membership Twitter To stay connected with the Matt Report, head on over to mattreport.com/subscribe. If you like the show, please leave a 5 Star review over on the Matt Report on iTunes. Be sure to check out Matt's new offering at UserFeedbackVideos.com. It is like having a co-founder for $59.00. ★ Support this podcast ★

In this episode, Matt Medeiros continues the impromptu Season 6 with his interview with Tom McFarlin. Tom is a developer and business owner in the WordPress community but is not solely dependent on WordPress. He balances his consulting and development business along with teaching and blogging with a focus on  Object Oriented Programming (OOP) encouraging people to write good code. (more…)

Tom is a man of many hats! He’s a WordPress user, avid blogger, developer, editor for Envato, and much more. He also takes the approach that he’ll scratch his own itch if he needs to. In this episode, we talk about how he tackles problems, why and how he built the plugin Page Template Dashboard, […] The post Episode 32: Tom McFarlin & Page Template Dashboard appeared first on How I Built It.

Tom is a self-employed WordPress developer and a top contributor to the WordPress development community. Tom also runs a small business called Pressware, that builds web applications, sites, themes, plugins, and more – using WordPress. He also works as the Tuts+ Code editor where he is responsible for overseeing all of the Web Development and CMS content that’s published via Envato. You can find a lot of Tom’s open source work both in the WordPress Plugin Repository as well as on GitHub (though some of it’s quite old and outdated so be mindful of the dates in the repository). Tom tries to keep as many repositories as updated as possible, but contracts and clients come first, so those projects take a backseat.   TomMcFarlin.com https://tommcfarlin.com/   Pressware https://pressware.co/   ==================   Our episode this week is sponsored by LiquidWeb and Beaver Builder. Our first sponsor this week is Beaver Builder. What sets Beaver Builder apart from their competition is their thriving community, top-notch-support, and third-party ecosystem. The Beaver Builder 2.0 UI and Beaver Themer are also right around the corner. If you've been on the fence about using a page builder, now might be the time to give Beaver Builder a try.   ===================   Liquid Web is offering a 33% discount for your first 6 months of managed WordPress hosting. Head over to https://LiquidWeb.com/wordpress and use the code WPTONIC33 at checkout for your discount.   ==================   Table of Contents for Episode 183   0:00 Podcast intros. 4:04 How did Tom first get into web development? 7:50 What initially attracted Tom to the WordPress ecosystem? 14:12 Where did the decision to blog daily come from, and what impact did that have on Tom's career? 21:21 Where does Tom's passion for code quality come from? Is the WordPress ecosystem getting better at quality development? 29:04 WordPress is not the new hotness, but it is reliable and stable. 34:40 Thoughts on telemetry in 2017. 40:36 How the WordPress UI may evolve in 2017. 44:01 Quick thoughts on e-commerce and WordPress. 46:51 Podcast outros.   ===================   Find bonus content for this episode on the WP-Tonic website: https://www.wp-tonic.com/183-tom-mcfarlin/   ===================   Subscribe to WP-Tonic on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wp-tonic-wordpress-podcast/id893083124?mt=2   ===================   WP-Tonic is both a WordPress maintenance service, and the publisher of a twice-weekly WordPress podcast.

This week I answer a few listener questions. Upcoming Events No WordCamps :( Call for speakers: WordCamp Chicago WordPress Essentials Course – Feb 21 2017 Segment 1: In the News PrettyLink released Version 2. I was a guest on WP Blab talking about speaking & teaching to grow freelance business. Tom Mcfarlin article Segment 2:  …

This week I answer a few listener questions. Upcoming Events No WordCamps :( Call for speakers: WordCamp Chicago WordPress Essentials Course – Feb 21 2017 Segment 1: In the News PrettyLink released Version 2. I was a guest on WP Blab talking about speaking & teaching to grow freelance business. Tom Mcfarlin article Segment 2:  …

Our WordPress panel discusses the planning, coordination, and execution of a complex site migration from one hosting environment to another. We'll also cover what type of content planning you'll need to put together when moving from one platform to another (like from an external CMS to WordPress.) Our panel this week: Sallie Goetsch: https://www.wpfangirl.com/ Jackie D'Elia: https://jackiedelia.com/ Robert Abela: https://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/ Jonathan Denwood: https://www.wp-tonic.com/ John Locke: https://www.lockedowndesign.com/ Table of Contents for Episode 157 0:00 Podcast Intros 3:15 WordPress Story #1: Tom McFarlin to Launch Marketplace for Blogging Plugins, Finds New Maintainer for WordPress.org Plugins https://wptavern.com/tom-mcfarlin-to-launch-marketplace-for-blogging-plugins-finds-new-maintainer-for-wordpress-org-plugins 10:42 WordPress Story #2: What makes a great editor? https://make.wordpress.org/design/2017/01/11/what-makes-a-great-editor/ 27:39 WordPress Story #3: WordPress Hosting Review 2017: The Results https://wpshout.com/wordpress-hosting-review-2017-results/ 39:32 Main Topic: Coordinating Complex Site Migrations 39:42 Why would someone want to migrate their site to a new host or platform? 41:41 Some things that should be on your migration checklist. Some things to look out for when setting up your website. 47:16 Separation of DNS concerns, and a debate on A Records vs CNAME Records for DNS. 49:20 Moving email from CPanel or Plesk requires some planning. How do you move email archives from your hosting server to another service? 53:50 A great definition of site migration. 55:00 Sallie describes a complex migration, and how to migrate comments, and moving categories into different custom posts types (starting from just Posts). 58:43 Why you should plan 301 redirects and site mapping far in advance of the site migration.< /p> 1:00:53 Making a strong case for doing a content audit before the site migration. 1:03:20 Be sure to change the TTL (Time to Live) in your DNS days before the migration. 1:07:38 Is migrating a website on a Friday a bad idea? 1:15:07 Our recommendations for tools to make tricky site migrations a bit easier. 1:24:13 Closing thoughts and podcast outros.   ===================   LInks mentioned during the show: CMS 2 CMS https://cms2cms.com/ Zoho Email https://www.zoho.com/mail/ GSuite https://gsuite.google.com/ Migrate Email Between Servers Using IMAP https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204405444/how-do-i-migrate-email-between-servers-using-imap Moving Email http://www.how2lab.com/internet/email/moving-emails.php Migratng Comments in WordPress with Disqus http://rockt.tech/migrating-comments-wordpress-disqus/ Post Type Switcher

  In episode 4 you can definitely tell that the crew is getting more comfortable and finding their voice. This was a great episode where we all share some of favorite resources for keeping up to date in our industry as well as dig into why James & Kevin chose to keep the WP Ninjas as an in-office team versus hiring a more distributed team. We share some of the in-office dynamics of our own space along with some of the challenges. Regardless of which option you choose, it should be based on the values and goals of your company. There may be lots of wrong ways to build a team, but there is definitely no right way. Resources Mentioned: yearinwp.com Favorite Things: How we stay up to date Kevin: Blogs (Josh Pollock, Tom McFarlin, Pippin Williamson, Brad Touesnard) WordPress Trac Tickets Kenny: Laracasts Advanced WP Facebook Group Jon: WP Mayor, Quay Morgan (wpninjas.com, ninjaforms.com) Competitors who shall rename nameless James: Twitter... Boooo... WP News Desk Pros of working in-office vs remote Chris Wallace Tweet bonlifecoffee.com Backwoods Alabama Cleveland, TN Sponsor: Wendy's Taco Salad Special thanks to the CrashJonesBand for providing us with our theme music. No One Can Tell You How To Live by CrashJonesBand

In this episode the interviewer becomes the interviewee! Join as special guest host Tom McFarlin interviews Carrie Dils.

Relationships and the Role they play in Business Growth, Episode 94 Aired on March 10th, 2016 with Tom McFarlin View Transcript Join the Discussion Video Player 00:0000:00 We started of this season of the podcast talking about the importance of communication in business. In this episode, we continue in that vein to discuss the role relationships play in growing your business (and how poor relationships can cripple your success). Join me with WordPress guru and small business owner Tom McFarlin as we chat about the root of true success: great relationships.

Tom McFarlin is the founder of Pressware, which develops web apps with WordPress. He is also an open source software developer and an editor for Touch Code, an online technology magazine. Tom has been appointed a Microsoft Most Valued Professional 4 years in a row. He has a computer science degree from Georgia Tech. Solving Customer Problems What is […] The post Software Development Is A Profession with Tom McFarlin – 076 appeared first on Art Of Value.

I've long admired +Tom McFarlin for his commitment to sharing knowledge and passion for coding standards. He blogs regularly at tommcfarlin.com and is the brains behind the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, an object-oriented code base for WordPress plugins. When he's not busy giving away his knowledge,Tom runs a custom development WordPress shop called Pressware with partner Andy Adams.

Fan favorite Carrie Dils joins the show today to talk about GiggleSnort — I mean WordPress freelancing. Carrie brings us through some amazing stories, from bootstrapping a greeting card service to working at StarBucks and how both experiences impacted her career.  If you're just starting out or working a day to day that you're trying to get out of, this episode is for you! Carrie Dils Genesis Developer Listen to the audio Lessons from GiggleSnort   I love stories about people beating the street to earn a living. I'm a solid believer in learning the “cold call” before launching yourself into the entrepreneurial journey. Carrie ran a greeting card company called GiggleSnort that quickly exposed her to the hard lessons of small business. Failure is great. You learn from it, get thicker skin, and find new opportunities. Fail fast, if you can. Finding Genesis Once Carrie found StudioPress & Genesis there was no looking back. She has leveraged the product to build custom solutions for her clients, while continuing to elevate her expertise over the years. You can find her as one of the recommended Genesis developers and recently launched two commercial themes. Utility can be found in her store and Winning Agent over at StudioPress. Aside from all of the great WordPress code Carrie develops, she's also an awesome person. I've been a fan for quite a while and wish her the best of luck in her business. Matt Report Pro It just so happens that Carrie and Tom McFarlin taught a course about starting and running a WordPress theme business in the Pro forum of the site. Become a member and get access to that and a lot more! Join Matt Report Pro (updated for iTunes) ★ Support this podcast ★

Tom McFarlin has taken the plunge from successful desk job into the wild, but fulfilling world of startups. In this interview, we talk about how his team collaborates and what the one element is that makes a team thrive.

Some of us love what we do and some of us do not. Tom McFarlin joined me to talk about building his WordPress freelance career. He’s a partner at 8bit and co-creator of  The Standard Theme. He works with a wide range of clients and considers himself successful in doing so. It’s not because of the money he makes – but that he loves what he does. I was delighted to have Tom on and share his experiences with us. Let’s sit back and watch this amazing interview! (more…)

Some of us love what we do and some of us do not. Tom McFarlin joined me to talk about building his WordPress freelance career. He's a partner at 8bit and co-creator of  The Standard Theme. He works with a wide range of clients and considers himself successful in doing so. It's not because of the money he makes – but that he loves what he does. I was delighted to have Tom on and share his experiences with us. Let's sit back and watch this amazing interview! Tom McFarlin on WordPress freelancing, building a team, and doing what you love Click to watch Listen to the audio version Matt Report - A WordPress podcast for digital business owners Tom McFarlin: How to make a living and find success using WordPress Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds 00:00 / Subscribe Share RSS Feed Share Link Embed Download file | Play in new window The journey Here's what I love about Tom's journey: it's authentic. There was no master plan or cunning strategy. It was hard work, making connections, and building a product that someone loves that brought him his success. Tom has a lot of different identities online. From his freelancing portfolio, working with 8bit, to downloadable themes. He keeps this all organized using exceptional time management skills. He shares some of his tips with us in the video. Building a team via networking And we're not talking LinkedIN. Tom has been involved with the WordPress community since he started coding plugins. He also shares that getting involved with others and putting your work out as soon as you can is one of the best steps a young freelancer can do. It was by taking these steps, Tom was noticed from others in the community and how the guys at 8bit brought him in. What did you think? Episode #4 in the can! What do you think so far? I'm still working on the technicalities and interview questions as we move along. Want different questions? Shorter interviews? Let me know in the comments! ★ Support this podcast ★