WordPress talk with the live edges left in.
WP Builds follows the WordPress ecosystem through guest interviews, live panel chats, and plenty of friendly housekeeping. It suits people who care about plugins, block themes, hosting, security, AI, and the odd sidetrack before the point lands.
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WP Builds is a WordPress show with room to wander. Its center of gravity is practical conversation: interviews with builders, product people, and community figures, plus live panel episodes that track what has changed across WordPress. The Thursday interview format often starts with a generous runway before reaching the guest. There may be subscription notes, listener thanks, advertising reminders, WordCamp travel, or a quick apology about a shifted live schedule. Then the subject settles in. Recent conversations have covered Brian Gardner's bet on block themes, Jonathan Jernigan explaining Cloudflare's role in WordPress security and performance, Jamie Marsland debating AI's effect on content and creativity, Jon Penland's path at Kinsta, Naweed Chougle's plugin for turning blog posts into eBooks, and Ben Pines on WordPress business marketing. The weekly panel side has a different energy. This Week in WordPress gathers guests around releases, repo experiments, Gutenberg changes, WordPress 7.0, performance, security, developer updates, WooCommerce themes, AI in agencies, Playground, open source maintainer support, and smaller plugins that might otherwise pass unnoticed. It can be very specific. It can also drift into crochet, timing mishaps, tiny interface frustrations, and the practical comedy of running a live internet show. That looseness is not a defect. WP Builds makes WordPress feel like a lived-in professional community rather than a stack of changelogs. Technical ideas are usually handled through examples: selecting posts for an eBook, narrowing categories, editing outdated references, improving site speed, or figuring out what a new repository feature might mean for plugin discoverability. The show is best for people already inside or near WordPress who enjoy hearing the ecosystem think out loud. It is warm, lightly dry, and openly conversational. It gives products and platform changes context without turning them into polished sales copy. The result is a dependable, slightly meandering record of WordPress as people actually discuss it: plugins, themes, hosting, AI, security, business, and all the small community rituals around the work.
Made for: WP Builds is for WordPress builders, agency people, plugin makers, site owners, and community regulars who want ecosystem context rather than compressed headlines. It especially suits listeners who enjoy practical technical talk delivered at a conversational pace.
What sets it apart: The show combines focused WordPress interviews with live weekly panels, keeping the housekeeping, listener comments, schedule changes, and digressions that reveal the community around the software. It feels less packaged than many tech shows, and that looseness gives the technical material a grounded, working-room quality.
Nathan Wrigley and David Waumsley discuss what it is that they like about WordPress, from plugins to people, themes to hosting!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
WP Builds connects WordPress tools and platform changes to practical questions of agency work, product reach, security and cost.
WP Builds treats WordPress as both software and a working economy, moving between news panels and Nathan Wrigley's focused guest conversations.
WordPress 7.0 shares a bill with robots and wrestling; you came for updates, stayed for the detour.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical WordPress workflow for shaping selected blog posts into an editable eBook.
WP Builds episode 460 turns a common WordPress habit into a concrete publishing question: what happens when a blog already holds the pieces of an eBook, but still needs editorial shape.
WordPress news, plugin discovery, and a slightly unruly weekly tour with enough personality to keep it moving.
This Week in WordPress episode 368 stays close to the news while still feeling loose enough to breathe. It moves through plugin discovery, WordPress 7.0, Gutenberg 22.6, FAIR, site speed, and then veers into Claude, a tiny new phone, and neural networks made of literal human…
A practical WordPress discussion about making template content areas more flexible.
WP Builds episode 458 takes a practical WordPress site editor question and keeps it close to real template work: how can a template make space for different kinds of content without pushing each kind into its own metadata field?
A loose WordPress panel that mixes practical updates with an unruly, personality driven conversation.
This Week in WordPress episode 367 opens with Nathan Wrigley and guests Tim Nash, Mark Benzocaine, and Onar Alili, then quickly settles into a loose, talky mix of AI, WordPress 7.0 beta testing, Slack and WordCamp channels, cybersecurity, and open models.
A public anti-AI stance becomes a practical lesson in agency positioning, trust, and client demand.
Andy Bell's stand against AI lands as more than a personal preference once it starts shaping who wants to work with his agency. Nathan Wrigley keeps the focus on the useful tension: professional polish usually rewards certainty, yet Bell published something more candid,…
A grounded review of Cloudflare's security scale, enterprise economics, and candid incident reporting.
Cloudflare's WordPress story lands as a practical look at scale, security, and the business model behind protection. Jonathan Jernigan frames free users and enterprise clients as parts of the same wider system, with bot attacks, DDoS attacks, firewall services, and massive…
A practical WordPress editing discussion about seeing the finished page while keeping template control intact.
This episode looks at a WordPress editing choice that matters beyond preference: whether people should write on a plain canvas or inside the site's full template.
Lean websites, lower waste, clearer choices.
WordPress work, news, and community notes.
WordPress, traced through its working community.
Practical web tools without the code fog.
Modern CSS, explained close to the metal.
Web development talk with real production scars.
This episode discusses enhancing WordPress security through user role management with guest Robert Abella from Mellapress.
Nathan Wrigley interviews Jonathan Jernigan about how Cloudflare enhances WordPress security and performance.
This episode features an interview with Matt Schwartz of CheckView about automating WordPress form and checkout testing.
This episode features an interview with Jonathan Jernigan about simplifying event calendars and ticketing in WordPress using Pie Calendar.
Nathan Wrigley hosts Birgit Pauli-Haack and Fabian Kaegy for the third episode of 'At The Core,' a quarterly series on WordPress Core updates.
This episode features an interview with Dave Grey discussing how he addresses WordPress admin pain points through smart utility plugins.
Nathan Wrigley and accessibility specialist Danielle Zaccaro discuss why accessibility should be a priority for WordPress developers, drawing on her roughly 12 to 13 years in WordPress and about five years specializing in accessibility.
This episode of the WPBuilds podcast features an interview with Brian Gardner discussing his significant investment and focus on block themes within the WordPress ecosystem.
This episode features an interview with Jonathan Jernigan about how Cloudflare enhances WordPress security and performance.
This episode features a debate with Jamie Marsland about AI's impact on content, creativity, and the future of WordPress.
This episode features an interview with Jon Penland about his career progression from a support role to CEO at Kinsta, discussing his journey and insights within the WordPress community.
This episode of This Week in WordPress covers recent developments including WP Engine's acquisition of WPackagist, updates to WordPress versions, an agency's shift to AI, and new tools for developers and themes.
Episode 460 opens with the usual housekeeping.
Episode 368 of This Week in WordPress is a loose conversation about what has been moving around the WordPress world.
This episode features an interview with Ben Pines discussing how to build a sustainable WordPress business through authentic marketing strategies.
WPBuilds episode 458, published Thursday 26 February 2026, focuses on Ian Svoboda's Content Area Block plugin for giving WordPress more than one editable content area.
This Week in WordPress #367, titled When a Podcast Encourages a Wrestling Match, was recorded on Monday, February 23, 2026.
Nathan Wrigley introduces Andy Bell and the episode's theme: building a human-centered web by saying no to AI.