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How are you?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:13] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, very good. Nice to chat with you. The tables are turned because not that many weeks ago I appeared on your podcast, which is going to be the focus of this podcast today. So it&#8217;s kind of inception, WordPress Podcast inception.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:27] Bud Kraus: You know, podcasting is getting very incestuous. I mean, everybody&#8217;s on everybody&#8217;s show. It&#8217;s more convoluted than the Hapsburg Empire. I mean, it really is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:36] Nathan Wrigley: That&#8217;s a description. I like it. Before we begin and start to explore your podcast, why you did it and so on, let&#8217;s just get into who you are. So a couple of minutes, really, your potted bio. Tell us anything that you like. This is obviously a WordPress podcast, so centering it around your WordPress journey would probably be ideal. So, couple of minutes, over to you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:54] Bud Kraus: Alright. Well, I have a little elevator speech on this, or a little longer than an elevator. But in 2009 I had a friend client who sat me down at the Oyster Bar in New York City and said, you know, you really need to learn WordPress. And I said, no, I&#8217;m a Rage Against the Machine kind of guy.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then he got very serious and then I started to learn. And once I learned that you could make a child theme and what that was all about, you know, I was hooked. And then I started teaching WordPress at FIT in New York City and everywhere. I was just teaching like crazy. And I was making websites, and eventually I got to hate making websites because I just wanted to do it my way, not the client&#8217;s way. That&#8217;s not really a good attitude.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And eventually in the last couple of years, I&#8217;ve really gotten into creating WordPress content for WordPress businesses. So I call myself a WordPress content creative. That also includes, of course, podcasting and my show Seriously, BUD? So that&#8217;s it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:44] Nathan Wrigley: So are you still working with WordPress in any way, shape, or form for other people, or is it primarily just for yourself now?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:51] Bud Kraus: I try not to, unless you beg me. Now, occasionally, no, I do have a couple of sites that I do updates for. I could get rid of that business. It&#8217;s not really much, but I just like doing it and I like the people and so, you know, I do it. But I have my own two sites, joyofwp.com and seriouslybud.com. And I am the client, so I get to decide everything and that&#8217;s what I like about it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yes, I don&#8217;t want to stop doing WordPress, okay, the site stuff, because it will diminish my ability to write and create WordPress content, but I don&#8217;t want to get paid to do it for clients.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:27] Nathan Wrigley: And was the intuition to move into content, was that purposeful? In other words, did you sit yourself down and say, do you know what? I&#8217;m fed up of doing the client thing, I want to stay in the WordPress space, so what can I do? Well, content seems like a good thing. Or was it more an evolution where you just wrote a few pieces and discovered that you enjoyed that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:44] Bud Kraus: Well, I am not that smart. The first way to do it, like to think logically I should be doing this, I don&#8217;t go that way. So, Vikas Singhal from in InstaWP got me really on this track a couple years ago when we first met online. And he said, why don&#8217;t you create a video for me on security? I said, okay. And I did.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I started doing some other things, and then Marcus Burnette said, why don&#8217;t you write articles for GoDaddy? And I started doing that. And I said, you know, I have written articles before, but I never got paid for it. And I thought like, you actually can get paid to create WordPress content. No way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that turned into, now I write for Hostinger on a regular basis. I write for Kinsta on a regular basis. And I could write for, name it, okay. But that&#8217;s not, the problem is I can only, you know, one person and I&#8217;m not interested in cloning myself and making myself into a content agency. And so this is it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the podcast, well, we&#8217;ll get into that. But I wish I were smart enough to plan. Life is what happens to you while you&#8217;re busy making other plans. That&#8217;s just the way it is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:48] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I think the same is true for me. I was building client websites and straight into, I mean, all I do basically is create podcasts. I&#8217;ve never written much. I don&#8217;t really have the capacity to overcome the blank page at the beginning. But I stumbled into podcasting and it slowly became what I did.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there was never an intention there. It surprised me that the WordPress ecosystem is actually big enough that that kind of thing is possible. Now, if everybody in the WordPress space decided to make a podcast, both you and I would be sunk.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:22] Bud Kraus: Wait a minute. Pardon for the interruption, but doesn&#8217;t everybody in the WordPress space have a podcast. Where are you going with this?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:29] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, it does definitely sometimes feel that way. But if everybody did it, then we&#8217;d all be sunk. But the fact of the matter is, there are literally millions of people out there using WordPress. And so there&#8217;s a niche within a niche. You know, you can find, I don&#8217;t know, maybe you do a security podcast in the WordPress space or a community podcast or what have you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve settled on, Seriously, BUD? Tell us what that is then, and how you&#8217;ve settled on that format? And what is the format?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:55] Bud Kraus: Well, the idea came in an instant. This was after years of saying to Bob Dunn, you know, I will never make a podcast. What are you doing podcasts for? This is the most ridiculous thing. Why does anybody ever make a podcast? So I was not looking to do this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I was in an Uber leaving WordCamp US 2023 in Washington. I&#8217;m telling you, like a lightning bolt, this thing hit my head and it went like this. You know, I wish I could spend more time with Nathan Wrigley. 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And it&#8217;s been every Friday at eight o&#8217;clock in the morning, in Eastern Standard time, a new episode comes out and I&#8217;ve, I don&#8217;t miss. The really cool thing is that the stories are phenomenal. I mean, there is a certain, similarities between people, there definitely is and I can write a book now about the WordPress community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m also, you know, the purpose of the show too is not just to satisfy me, but to give people an opportunity to tell their stories. And not surprisingly, people like to talk about themselves. You know, so my job is sort of, let them do that, get out of the way, hopefully get them to say something that they don&#8217;t really want to say. It&#8217;s just been really, it&#8217;s taken over my life.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:47] Nathan Wrigley: Have you always been, how to describe it, a raconteur? Have you always been the kind of character that can fill a silence? Or is this something that you&#8217;ve had to develop and get out of your comfort zone a little bit?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:59] Bud Kraus: No. I&#8217;ve always been pretty good at talking to people. And I really started to realise that, or sort of got into that, I took this train trip around the United States in 2018. I was gone for 19 days, went all the way around the country, and I basically would interview people. Now, you know, I didn&#8217;t record much, but I would just go around and say, when you&#8217;re on a train for that long a period of time, you get to talk to people.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I started realising, my God, everybody I&#8217;m talking to has the most unbelievable story. It wasn&#8217;t like right from there, I went from that to WordPress, to my podcast. But I, you know, in a very gradual process, I started to realise that I like doing this. And the other thing is I love radio and the spoken word, and I think you do too. Most people who are in podcasting are sort of like frustrated radio personalities or whatever. I don&#8217;t feel that&#8217;s what I am, but I&#8217;ve always listened to talk radio ever since I was a little kid so, yeah, it all fits together.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:56] Nathan Wrigley: I feel there is a certain skill if you are going to do interviews as you do, and it, I guess it&#8217;s more of a conversation what you have. I think most of content that I create is more of an interview where the person comes and I ask a series of questions, which hopefully elicit responses.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I think there is a certain character trait about that. You know, the ability to ask questions and then sit back and listen. And that is one of the things that I discovered at the beginning was the most important skill is not necessarily the question, it&#8217;s the listening. Which sounds a bit the wrong way round. But if you&#8217;re not listening to each reply as it comes out the guest&#8217;s mouth, then the follow-up question is basically, you&#8217;re just following a proforma.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;m going to ask this question, and then whatever comes out of their mouth when they finish saying that, I&#8217;ll go to this question. And that, for me, has never really worked. It&#8217;s been more a case of, okay, be quiet Nathan, listen to the reply, and then hopefully the conversation will flow, because a question that you didn&#8217;t anticipate will come out of your mouth. And so I wondered if that was a part that you&#8217;ve discovered as well as I did, that listening is equally important.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:12:03] Bud Kraus: It&#8217;s probably more important now. You know, it reminds me, in fourth grade, I had a music teacher that said, it&#8217;s not the note you&#8217;re playing, it&#8217;s the next note. And that&#8217;s very much like what you&#8217;re talking about, which is you&#8217;re listening and you&#8217;re figuring out, and it&#8217;s hard. It&#8217;s not that simple, because you&#8217;re listening to what they&#8217;re saying, but you&#8217;re also thinking, what&#8217;s going to be my follow up question? What&#8217;s the natural flow of the conversation?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, and if you&#8217;re really good at it, you&#8217;re not really thinking that way. It just flows natural, you know? So if they say something, I think the first thing you need is curiosity. Where did that come from? Or, why did you do that? Or, how come you didn&#8217;t do this? And in fact, we&#8217;re releasing a book, an ebook now called Questions I Wish I Had Asked. And I have five people who have answered each one, their own question that I should have asked them, or I forgot.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when it comes to this kind of stuff, you can build like a little empire with eBooks and blogs and this, you know, it&#8217;s just amazing what can grow out of a podcast.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:12:55] Nathan Wrigley: I make sure that all of the guests have access to some sort of shared show notes, so that if I have a series of questions, at least they can be prepared. But also my weapon of choice is what you can now see, but the people listening to this can&#8217;t. It&#8217;s basically a pen and a piece of paper. When something during the course of our conversation occurs to me, I know that my job is to not interrupt you with that moment&#8217;s thought, but I just scribble it down and then when you&#8217;ve finished, see if that&#8217;s where the journey takes me. But it might be that something else comes along. So yeah, it&#8217;s kind of interesting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we&#8217;re both very lucky though, in that we are in the technology space, and WordPress in particular is this perfect medium for getting a podcast out into the real world. Because I feel that for a lot of people, that&#8217;s another hurdle that they&#8217;ve got to go through. Okay, I want to make a podcast. How do I do that? Where do I put it? How do I get a website, and all of that? And so, what do you feel about that? Do you feel that you&#8217;re in a, you know, a lucky position that you knew WordPress when you started out this whole thing?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:55] Bud Kraus: Yeah, but I didn&#8217;t really launch with a website. I launched just by learning the software, Descript and SquadCast and the Riverside and this and that, you know? Because I didn&#8217;t know any of this. And, you know, some people were giving me, why don&#8217;t you check this, check that? And eventually I came up with my podcast stack. How do you like that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then after I had a couple episodes out, I thought like, you know, I should have a website. And then that came along. And of course that&#8217;s easy because, you know, we both know WordPress, so that part&#8217;s done.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, you&#8217;re right. I mean, we&#8217;re lucky also that we&#8217;re in a community who is technologically savvy and will listen to podcasts. And so that&#8217;s another thing that&#8217;s also fortunate that there are many corporate sponsors of WordPress podcasts. Although I don&#8217;t consider myself a WordPress podcast, but you know, I guess I am.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:43] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I guess the people that you&#8217;re interviewing are definitely bound to that subject, but you are very often not dealing with WordPress too much during the conversations, which is I think kind of nice. And we&#8217;ll get onto that in a minute.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, do you mind if I obsess about the tech stack there? Because it may be that there&#8217;s people listening to this who have listened to this podcast and it just comes out of their phone or it comes out of their speakers, and they&#8217;ve never really thought too much about the bits and pieces that go on in the background. So let&#8217;s just share our similarities and differences there. What would you say is the tech stack that you&#8217;ve got? What are the three or four things which are essential that you&#8217;ve learned?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:16] Bud Kraus: Well, I start with SquadCast for the recording. And I&#8217;m not an expert on this because I&#8217;m still new at this and I don&#8217;t, you know, I haven&#8217;t used, I&#8217;ve experimented a little bit with Riverside, and I know there&#8217;s a whole bunch of other ones and free ones and this one, but SquadCast, you pay a little bit of money, so what. And I think it&#8217;s really good. You can do audio, you can do video, you can do all kinds of stuff. And then I use Descript to do the editing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you know, everybody has a different workflow. I will use the timeline, I will use the text-based editing. I&#8217;ll do it my way, you&#8217;ll do it your way. It&#8217;s always kind of interesting to learn how people use these tools in different ways. And then after the show is edited, and personally I find the editing to be the best part of the show, which is really, you know, you think talking to the people. Well, that&#8217;s fun but, you know, Nathan, going back to what you were talking about, about listening, I don&#8217;t really hear the show until I start editing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s the first time I really hear it, because I&#8217;m not concentrating on the questions. I&#8217;m now focused on what the guest had to say. And then it&#8217;s a very creative process. Do you want to shorten the gaps between pauses? Do you want to take out all the ums, sos, you knows, all that stuff? You know, all those words that, the filler words, or do you want to let it fly? Do the Rob Cairn&#8217;s approach, no editing. There&#8217;s different ways of doing this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am more of a particular on the editing. I like to really clean things up and cut things out, especially if it&#8217;s me talking. I did this episode with Jeff Chandler where we went on and on and on about sports. That all got ripped out because like, come on, we&#8217;re both from Cleveland, Ohio. So you know, we start talking about Cleveland sports, get rid of this, no one&#8217;s going to listen. So I try to think of like the audience too.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But anyway, the editing is the most fun. A little tedious, but I think the most interesting part. And when it&#8217;s all done, then I run the file through, what did he take? It was a, I forgot what it&#8217;s called. Anyway, I run it through like a cleaner and then I published it to Buzzsprout, which seems to be doing a very good job publishing and putting it on all these platforms.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because you don&#8217;t want, you need to have a podcast distribution service. You can&#8217;t go to all these different services and do it yourself. So it&#8217;s kind of, you know, it was sort of, because I had an understanding of technology and how things worked. The learning curve wasn&#8217;t too bad. It was pretty easy actually, when you think about it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:37] Nathan Wrigley: I think when I started, I think I started in 2016 or something, it was definitely, it wasn&#8217;t difficult at that point. Many of the hurdles have been overcome, but it&#8217;s certainly easier now. When I did it, I began with Skype, which has just died actually, or at least Microsoft have said they&#8217;re going to kill it off.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought an app which would go on the Mac, and then that would record. But there was no clever sort of software like you described. We&#8217;re using now SquadCast, which is basically, you open it in the browser, send a link to somebody, and so long as they&#8217;ve got access to the internet and a microphone, we are good to go.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;ll record everything in separate isolated tracks. And then, as you said, both of us will throw it into Descript, which is a piece of software, it&#8217;s actually available in the browser, but you can also download it as app. And you can do all sorts. It&#8217;s amazing what it can do actually. It will bind the transcript that it creates to the timeline. And so you can delete portions of text by highlighting as if you&#8217;re in a Google Doc or something like that, so delete sentences and what have you. And it&#8217;s really sublime. So it&#8217;s much, much more straightforward.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m, a bit like you, I&#8217;ve really enjoyed the editing experience because you can fiddle with it, can&#8217;t you? And you can decide which bits stay on the edit room floor and which bits go in, and sometimes you go off on different tangents. But the other side of it, that&#8217;s the software side. What are you using to actually record the audio? So microphones and computers and any of that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:18:59] Bud Kraus: Okay, well, thank you Omnisend, my first sponsor. I have to get that in there, because they bought me, they said, we don&#8217;t want you using that crummy microphone anymore. Go out and buy yourself a nice microphone. Which is, it&#8217;s the same thing that you&#8217;re using. What is it?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:11] Nathan Wrigley: It&#8217;s a Shure MV7.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:13] Bud Kraus: Yes. And I really like it a lot. I have it on my desktop. I have a desktop stand for it. I have a hard time doing a boom microphone. So it&#8217;s a desktop, and it&#8217;s nice. But you know, you don&#8217;t need, I think a lot of people know, you don&#8217;t need a lot of heavy investment to do a podcast. It&#8217;s almost, talk about a barrier to entry being nothing or next to nothing. Podcasting certainly is that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:35] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, you really, really need very little. You and I have got this modestly priced mic. It&#8217;s not the top tier and it certainly isn&#8217;t the bottom tier. But when I began, for probably four or five years, I had a really cheap mic. And it&#8217;s about where you position it and how far away you are from it and refining all of that and, you know, not breathing too heavily over it and different bits and pieces.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the barrier to entry really is, if you&#8217;ve got a phone, you&#8217;ve got everything that you need, because it&#8217;s got its own microphone built in, it&#8217;ll do a credible job. The audio software will kind of clean it up nicely. And the website, the WordPressy bit is icing on the cake. If you really wanted to keep it cheap and cheerful, Google&#8217;s YouTube will suffice. Really, you could just upload it to YouTube and they now offer podcast as an option. It doesn&#8217;t have to be a video. Well, it needs to be a video, but it doesn&#8217;t have to actually be a picture of you and your guest or anything like that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:28] Bud Kraus: I upload, I mean I know I&#8217;m interrupting you, but I have a question. So, where do you think the future of all this podcasting is going? I mean, what&#8217;s podcasting going to be like in a couple of years, according to you?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:38] Nathan Wrigley: I will give you the answer to that in about.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:40] Bud Kraus: I&#8217;m sorry for interrupting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:41] Nathan Wrigley: No, no it&#8217;s fine. I will give you the answer to that in a few weeks time. I&#8217;m going to, one of the biggest podcast shows in the world is held in London every May. I&#8217;m going to be going to that. 10,000 attendees. You know, I&#8217;m in this little WordPress bubble of podcasting, but it&#8217;s an absolutely gigantic industry. It&#8217;s occupying one of the biggest convention spaces in the UK in London, in Islington, if you&#8217;re a person that knows London. I will give you more of an answer then because it&#8217;ll be interesting to see what the trends are.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we did have a bit of a bump in credibility in podcasting for a while, and then I think it plateaued a little bit or perhaps went down. But more recently, I think it&#8217;s been going up again.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason I think it remains popular is the same reason that talk radio hasn&#8217;t gone away, is because you can really get into the subject matter. If you&#8217;re really into WordPress, then there&#8217;s a bunch of WordPress things, or if you&#8217;re into, I don&#8217;t know, skiing, there&#8217;ll be skiing podcast and what have you. And the crucial bit for me is that you can do other things at the same time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:43] Bud Kraus: Well, that&#8217;s where I was going to go too, which is talk about a mobile media. You could take it wherever you go. 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Hello, Ryan?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:37] Ryan Welcher: Hello. How are you?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:38] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I&#8217;m good. Very nice to meet you. This is my second interview in Manila. It&#8217;s WordCamp Asia. You have a presentation coming up. No. You&#8217;ve got a workshop.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:47] Ryan Welcher: I do. Yeah. I&#8217;m really excited. It&#8217;s actually the second year in a row that I&#8217;ve given this workshop at WordCamp Asia.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:52] Nathan Wrigley: And it&#8217;s a sellout.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:54] Ryan Welcher: It is a sellout, yeah. And not in the bad way. It&#8217;s a sellout in the sense that there&#8217;s a wait list apparently and everything. So I&#8217;m very excited. I&#8217;m very flattered and very excited about it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:02] Nathan Wrigley: So before we get stuck into what it is that you are doing here, and that&#8217;s going to be the focus of this conversation around the topic of, well, I&#8217;ll explain that in a moment. Would you just tell us a little bit about who you are, what kind of work you do in the WordPress space and who you work for?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:16] Ryan Welcher: Sure. Well, I am a developer advocate. I&#8217;m sponsored by Automattic. I&#8217;ve been with Automattic for, I guess it&#8217;s going to be my third year. Prior to that I was, I used to work at 10up, I&#8217;ve been at a bunch of agencies. I&#8217;ve been using WordPress as a developer since maybe 2009.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been around in this space a while and, yeah, my current role is a lot of fun. I get to do things like this. I get to chat with people in exotic places, and go to conferences and lead workshops and write code that nobody ever has to use in production. It&#8217;s fantastic.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:43] Nathan Wrigley: So you&#8217;ve got a really public facing role. Is that the kind of job that you&#8217;ve always wished to do, or is it something that you more or less fell into?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:51] Ryan Welcher: If you&#8217;ll indulge me with a bit of an anecdotal story here. When I first started in web work, I used to do a lot of work with Flash. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m aging myself by saying that, but we used to do a lot of work in Flash. And there was this conference called Flash in the Can, and it&#8217;s still around now, it&#8217;s not called that anymore. And there was this guy who used to work for Adobe, his name was Lee Brimlow. I think that&#8217;s how you say it. He was a platform evangelist. His job was literally go to conferences and give really fun, cool talks on the latest, greatest in Flash.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I remember seeing this guy, going, this is like my dream job. This is phenomenal. And I just wasn&#8217;t at a place in my career where there was anything like that. And then, fast forward however many years later, and there was an opening for Dev Rel. And I was like, yes, this is exactly what I would love to do.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love writing code. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed being a developer, but now this is kind of like, I&#8217;m also pretty outgoing, extroverted, so this kind of fills both. You know, I get to write code and like my dream is just like sitting down writing code with some obscure API, and that&#8217;s literally all, like I just get to tinker, and that&#8217;s what I love about it. It&#8217;s so much fun.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:50] Nathan Wrigley: And is that full-time then?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:52] Ryan Welcher: It is, yeah. I&#8217;m full-time. Yeah, it is fun. It is very cool. And I realise fully how lucky I am, because this is a fun job and I get to hang out with really cool people all the time. And being public facing is fun, but it&#8217;s, you know, it&#8217;s got its downsides too.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:06] Nathan Wrigley: We have this expression in the UK and it&#8217;s called painting the Forth Bridge. And there&#8217;s this bridge in Scotland called the Forth Bridge, and essentially when you&#8217;ve finished painting it from one end, you go to the other end and begin again. And I feel that WordPress, maybe for somebody in your position, is a little bit like that. It&#8217;s this constant treadmill of, okay, that&#8217;s changed. Yeah. Now we need to adapt new content. And yeah, okay, that bit&#8217;s changed over there in the meantime. New content. Is that what it&#8217;s like a bit?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:37] Ryan Welcher: A little bit, yeah. I mean it&#8217;s, when we started, there wasn&#8217;t really a Dev Rel team for the open source project that is WordPress. We were like, you know, there&#8217;s a joke, it&#8217;s like, yeah, there&#8217;s five of us or six of us for 43% of the internet. So there&#8217;s like a lot of work to be done, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so there&#8217;s a lot of that. We are doing a lot of work around documentation and all that sort of stuff, so it&#8217;s like improving that. But every release, there&#8217;s like a new cycle of things that, you know, the new stuff like 6.7, all the block binding stuff and, you know, Interactivity API and all that really cool, fun stuff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we get to do that, but then it&#8217;s like, okay, well then now there&#8217;s new changes to the Interactivity API, so we have to kind of like talk about that a bit and stuff. It&#8217;s always new, but then there&#8217;s always, I love it when we&#8217;re like, hey, remember that bug that people have been talking about for two years? Like, oh, it&#8217;s fixed now. So we get to also be the harbinger of really good news about things like that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:23] Nathan Wrigley: And do you get to put your own roster together of work each week, or does it come in from on high?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:28] Ryan Welcher: We kind of, it&#8217;s usually based around the next release. So whatever&#8217;s coming out in the next release, there&#8217;s always sort of like, you know, the featured items that are coming out. So that kind of dictates what we focus on for the next release.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no like on high declaration of what we need to work on. It&#8217;s more like we&#8217;re fairly autonomous in what we do, but I mean, it makes the most sense. If there&#8217;s like new features coming with the next version of WordPress, we should probably get that out and, you know, talk to developers and get people testing it and get people working with it, so we can take that feedback, good and bad, and give it back to the teams that are actually working on those features and stuff like that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:59] Nathan Wrigley: So given that it&#8217;s a Dev Rel job, developer relations, is that your target audience? It&#8217;s definitely developers, a hundred percent developers, not novices?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It could be a 101 article on how to use WordPress or, you know, a video piece of content or something like that. Right up to, okay, here&#8217;s the nuts and the bolts of exactly how this thing works.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:22] Ryan Welcher: Yeah, exactly. Like, I did an article on the developer blog, developer.wordpress.org/news. It was on like the internals of webpack, which is like, if you&#8217;ve ever messed with webpack, nobody ever wants to deal with internals of webpack, but WordPress handles it. It does this really elegant thing where you don&#8217;t have to actually install packages that WordPress provides. It kind of like all of a sudden just uses the ones that are coming, that are with the install.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So like explaining all that, it&#8217;s cool, I get to nerd out and get right into the details but, you know, it&#8217;s not for everyone. Yeah, but then we&#8217;re like, I&#8217;ve also written our articles on like an introduction to SlotFill or an introduction to Block Variation so, yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:55] Nathan Wrigley: It feels like, if we were to rewind the clock like three or four years, there wasn&#8217;t so much emphasis put on documentation, knowledge base articles, video content, learn.wordpress.org. But it feels like in the last two or three years, a much greater emphasis has been put on getting the pieces of documentation right. Getting the Learn resources, you know, putting the courses together and those kind of things. Just looking at it from the outside, that&#8217;s what I think. But is this on the internal side, is this what&#8217;s happening?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:22] Ryan Welcher: Yeah, there&#8217;s definitely a focus on that. I mean, when you&#8217;re a developer and you don&#8217;t have the resources to get the answers that you&#8217;re looking for, that&#8217;s extremely frustrating. We&#8217;ve always had documentation, we&#8217;ve had, you know, it&#8217;s like 20-year-old documentation. It&#8217;s been around a long time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we&#8217;ve spent a lot of time improving that. Like, we&#8217;ve focused a lot on the Block Editor Handbook because block development is something that can be very difficult, especially if you&#8217;re coming from, you know, solely a PHP background, and you&#8217;re not really up to speed on React or you just don&#8217;t know JavaScript as deeply as other folks do.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I mean, our job is to like make that transition easier, as much as possible, right? So that&#8217;s why there&#8217;s a lot of tooling around it that abstracts away the things, like the scripts package, which is like the build process that the Gutenberg plugin uses it, but it&#8217;s also like the defacto build process for building blocks.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That handles all that webpack stuff, that handles all that config stuff. You just have to like build your files. Like, you don&#8217;t have to worry about that. So there&#8217;s a lot of trying to make life easier, simpler. And a lot of that is in improvements to documentation, but there&#8217;s also like quality of life fixes for people who are working in the code specifically.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, like I spent a lot of time working, like the Create Block package is like my baby. I absolutely love it. It&#8217;s not my baby, like I didn&#8217;t build it, I&#8217;ve just been trying to maintain it as much as I can and adding new features to make life a little bit easier so you can like reuse it and, I don&#8217;t know, I could get into the minute details.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I love that kind of stuff because as a developer, having been one for a long time, I know what I like and I think, I&#8217;m not saying like, what I like everyone should like, but I know when something is getting in my way versus helping me. And I think that&#8217;s a really, that&#8217;s kind of like my compass that I try to work with. It&#8217;s like, okay, it&#8217;s great, but it&#8217;s done all these things I don&#8217;t need, now I have to go and delete all that and figure out all this other stuff to get around this scaffold and, I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m really in the weeds right now.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:11:04] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, yeah. But it feels like, I&#8217;m kind of asking the same question again really, about the materials being created in a much more, well, intentional way. Yeah, the backstory to that, presumably though, is that there&#8217;s more boots on the ground. And I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s, in your case, it&#8217;s Automattic sponsoring you into the project. Is there more focus on that from, well, let&#8217;s just go from the Auttomatic side, so more investment from them, yeah?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if that&#8217;s the case, is that a reaction to anything? Like, perhaps the rise of SaaS platforms, proprietary platforms, you know, the Wixs and the Squarespaces. Because that&#8217;s interesting. It kind of feels like that&#8217;s always been talked about, you know, WordPress versus all the other platforms. Pay your $20 over there per month, and you get this, and you get access to their platform and it&#8217;s well documented and so on. So I didn&#8217;t know if it was connected to that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:11:57] Ryan Welcher: I don&#8217;t think there was any, I think that the rise of Dev Rel played a large part in that. Like, I don&#8217;t know the reasoning behind the creation of the team, that was decided before I joined. But I think that in the past four and five years, there&#8217;s been a real, like just across the tech community, there&#8217;s been a real like surge in the concept of developer relations and improving developer experience.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I think people realise that developers, like a lot of these platforms, developers are literally their client base, right? And so I think Automattic recognised that and thought, hey, it&#8217;d be great if we had a dedicated team of folks that were just making life easier for developers. You know, I always say that there&#8217;s no, like I have no KPIs or whatever, I just make things, my mandate is to make things better, as much as possible.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:12:40] Nathan Wrigley: Where do you make things? So is it things like YouTube videos, written documentation, knowledge base articles, blog posts?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:12:48] Ryan Welcher: A bit of everything. I tend to focus a bit more on the, like I have a live stream that I do on Twitch every Thursday at 10:30 Eastern. I tend to do a lot more of that sort of stuff. That&#8217;s kind of like more my wheelhouse. I write articles. I&#8217;m not the best writer. I rely on ChatGPT to help me clean that up a little bit. I write the articles, but then I, you know, smarter brains than I help me make it nicer to read.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, so I think we all, like everyone across our team has their own sort of strengths and we all kind of like play to our strengths a bit. Mine is definitely more like in the video side. I try to use my development experience as much as possible to do more complicated things. That&#8217;s not to say that the other folks on our team don&#8217;t either, but, I mean, I think I&#8217;m in a position to be able to be like, here&#8217;s a really complicated issue that people are having and how would we solve that? And it&#8217;s fun because I get paid to solve that. And other people who have clients that don&#8217;t want to pay them 20 hours just to fart around on a problem is, that&#8217;s where I can come in and help with that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:39] Nathan Wrigley: Give that to us again though. Where do you do your YouTube stuff? And what handle would that be?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:44] Ryan Welcher: I stream on Twitch and YouTube. I multistream to both platforms. Thursdays, 10:30 Eastern, every week.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:50] Nathan Wrigley: And what handle would that be?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:52] Ryan Welcher: Ryan Welcher Codes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:53] Nathan Wrigley: We&#8217;ll drop all of the links that we stumble across during this episode into the show notes. Yeah, so you can find it all there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So WordCamp Asia, the workshop that you are giving is called the Block Developer Cookbook. And I am just going to read the blurb so that you, dear listener, get some idea of what it is that Ryan&#8217;s doing. And it says, this is the second year for the Block Developer Cookbook Workshop at WordCamp Asia. Last year in Taipei, we covered lots of topics like block transforms, adding editorial notes, creating a custom format and more.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, in addition to the existing recipes from the last year, we will have new ones to choose from that leverage the newest features released in WordPress 6.7, such as Block Bindings API, Plugin Template Registration API, Preview Options API and more. And there&#8217;ll be a workshop all about that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I think your intention at this workshop, should the internet hold up, is to do like an interactive thing where the audience say, I want to do this, and you hopefully help them out with that because that&#8217;s very brave.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:58] Ryan Welcher: You can say that, yeah. I&#8217;ve had this idea for a while of a workshop where the attendees pick the content. Because, especially with a topic like block development, it&#8217;s like saying, come to my WordPress workshop. Like, there&#8217;s so many things, right? So like picking something for everyone is really hard.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I thought, well you know what? I&#8217;ll build this little website and they can go in. It&#8217;s like chef theme because it&#8217;s block developer cookbooks. So, you know, you login, you have a little chef hat on your avatar and stuff like that. But you can vote on which of the recipes that you&#8217;d like to work on. And so that&#8217;s the idea. And then they vote and then we go from top to bottom. We get as many done as we can in the 90 minutes or whatever it is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been going to conferences and speaking at conferences long enough to know better than to rely on the wifi, but I thought, I&#8217;m just going to do it. So this is the second year in a row. I did this last year as well at Taipei. So I&#8217;m like super flattered that they accepted my submission is a second time in a row, so.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:49] Nathan Wrigley: I think there&#8217;s a push to make WordCamps a little bit more, and I&#8217;m going to use air quotes, exciting, interactive. Yeah, it seems like, you know, Jamie Marsland&#8217;s, the thing that he does with the Speed Builds, just sort of grabbing the attention of the audience a bit more. Does it feel a bit like that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And workshops, they seem to grab the audience a little bit more, because it&#8217;s more interactive. It&#8217;s kind of less being presented to and more interacting with. So I don&#8217;t know, kind of opening up the laptop, trying things out. What do you think? Is that a way that you think events should go in the future?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:23] Ryan Welcher: I think so too. I think for me personally, I gravitate towards workshops more than talks. I&#8217;ve given talks and I&#8217;ve done workshops before and I think I enjoy, personally enjoy the workshop aspect because there&#8217;s a lot more like interaction and back and forth. And like if you have a question, you just raise your hand and we answer, you know. And it&#8217;s just more organic, I guess is maybe how I&#8217;d describe it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, yeah, I think you&#8217;re right. These sort of like fun interactive things. I have some 3D printed swag that I&#8217;m bringing. I don&#8217;t have nearly enough, so I&#8217;m going to have to come up with a, maybe whoever asks a question gets a, it&#8217;s a little like key chain of like a chef hat with the WordCamp 2025 on it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:57] Nathan Wrigley: I am sure it&#8217;ll come out on WordPress TV at some point in the near future. But yeah, good luck with that at least anyway.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But some of the bits and pieces that you are going to be talking about, we&#8217;re going to get into that now. And the way I want to take this interview is we&#8217;re at WordPress 6.7 at this point. It depends really on when you&#8217;re listening to this, but we&#8217;re at that point at the moment.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a whole bunch of stuff that has dropped, and I feel that the audience for this podcast, there&#8217;s a ton of developers. But there&#8217;s also lots of people who are not really inside the ecosystem too much. You know, just regular users. Maybe they&#8217;re using a page builder, maybe they&#8217;re a freelancer, something like that, and they don&#8217;t follow the project, they don&#8217;t really obsess about it as much as I do, and probably as you do as well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let&#8217;s just take a couple of these and discuss them. And if we could go in at a low level. So we&#8217;re not able to do a video and open a code editor on this podcast, it&#8217;s all about the audio, but let&#8217;s start talking about the Block Bindings API. 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And so what you can do with the Block Bindings API is you can connect that to say a paragraph block. So you can insert just a regular old paragraph block and then in the UI you can go over and say, okay, I want to connect the content field of that paragraph block with this piece of post meta. And it just shows up in there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then you can actually edit it in the block editor, as opposed to having to open up like the custom fields panel down at the bottom. You can edit it and it goes both ways. And it&#8217;s like extremely powerful. It&#8217;s the beginning of how powerful it&#8217;s going to get, but currently it supports, there&#8217;s four blocks that are supported. There&#8217;s the paragraph block, header block, the image block, and the button block.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you have to use one of those four blocks, unless you want to get into custom bindings, which is sort of the second piece of it, which is like a means of defining your own binding sources. 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It&#8217;s still kind of in its infancy, but already it&#8217;s shown to be super powerful.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like, now we&#8217;re seeing a lot of people who are not writing custom blocks for this anymore. Like, it used to be like, okay, I want to show the job description, so I have to write a custom block that introduces something in the sidebar where you input the meta there and then that block displays that because you&#8217;re handling that, it&#8217;s a dynamic block, you&#8217;re pulling the meta out and the PHP, all that sort of stuff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you don&#8217;t have to do that. Now you can just do a block variation of a paragraph block to auto set the meta that you want. You don&#8217;t even have to do that. You can do it right in the admin. But I would recommend doing a block variation, because setting that up every single time is a bit tedious. And especially if you&#8217;re doing it for clients, you can just do a block variation that says like, job description, and then you click on it and it just goes in.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:46] Nathan Wrigley: So you, your face, gave away something a moment ago. And it sounds like you are quite excited about what&#8217;s coming and is not yet there. But I guess one of the nice things about your job is that you really have that high level view of what&#8217;s going on in the project. And you can imagine scenarios in the near term, maybe 6.8 or something like that. For example, in this case, the Block Bindings API will enable novice users to do, well, more than you&#8217;ve just described. Yeah, that&#8217;s kind of a nice position to be in.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:13] Ryan Welcher: I don&#8217;t have, I will say this for the record, I don&#8217;t have an inside track to anything that&#8217;s not available on like Make. But I know some of the folks that are working on it, and like just in conversation, I&#8217;m very excited. I can see where it&#8217;s going, and that&#8217;s not because I have inside information, it&#8217;s just because the logical next step, it looks really cool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like, more blocks. Being able to do it with custom blocks will be huge once you have a custom block that you can now connect it to meta and stuff like that. There are some technical hurdles that need to be addressed to do that, but it&#8217;s going to be a big, I hate using the word game changer, but it&#8217;s going to be a game changer.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:47] Nathan Wrigley: One of the things which I always find interesting when I speak to people who are really in the weeds of it all, is that the stuff just, well, it just keeps on coming out. Because you are in there every day and it&#8217;s so self-evident to you. 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And there&#8217;s obviously the Interactivity API, obviously, but it is one of the most exciting things that I&#8217;ve, I mean, it&#8217;s already out and there&#8217;s just more stuff coming and they&#8217;re just doing really, really cool things. I just love it. It is so cool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:50] Nathan Wrigley: Do you think, again, just kind of dropping you into it a little bit, do you think we&#8217;re at any risk of overcomplicating the amount of things that you can do in WordPress at the minute? Here&#8217;s an example. Let&#8217;s say I just took somebody off the street and said, here&#8217;s a brand new installed WordPress website. It allows you to make content, publish websites, off you go.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>How realistic do you think it is with all the different bits and pieces that are dropping? I know you don&#8217;t have to get into the weeds of all this, but how easy do you think the UI is right now? 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And you have access to almost everything that you would need in the editor experience now, whereas you didn&#8217;t before. If you wanted to build a very customised theme, like in classic, and this isn&#8217;t like taking a shot at classic, but if you wanted to have a person post type, you couldn&#8217;t do that. You needed to edit code to be able to output that meta.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, I&#8217;m sure there were plugins and stuff, but now you don&#8217;t really need to do that. You have everything that you need as long as you know where to click to find it. But it&#8217;s like, anybody who&#8217;s never used WordPress would have to figure that out in any platform. You&#8217;d have to sort that out. 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I think that&#8217;s going to, maybe not replace, but the new Stack Overflow is like these AI tools that you can ask questions on, how do I do this? I don&#8217;t know, I think it&#8217;s just changing things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:38:45] Nathan Wrigley: I think it&#8217;s a really interesting time and it doesn&#8217;t make me feel I&#8217;m nervous. I&#8217;m more sanguine about it, in all honesty. Yeah, maybe a year ago I was kind of assuming a bit like the sky was going to fall in, but it really does appear that people who are making interesting things in the AI WordPress space are just finding curious holes, yeah. And filling them up.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, so Jamie Marsland did something the other day where he put a video together where he created a little iPhone app where he could upload images and click a button and it was able to do what Jamie wanted. And I think the same will be true, you know, for clients that will come to you. I&#8217;ve got this unique problem. Maybe that would&#8217;ve taken a week of developer time in the past. Maybe now it will be able to be done in a heartbeat, in more like an hour or a couple of hours or something like that. So it makes the possibilities for real bespoke websites much more possible.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:33] Ryan Welcher: Yeah. And like hobbyists, kids who want to get into coding, that&#8217;s fantastic. You can just say, I want to build a website for my dog, and then all of a sudden they&#8217;re like learning by osmosis how coding works and that sort of stuff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of times that I&#8217;ve talked to a developer, and I&#8217;ve done this myself, where I&#8217;ve built a little like one-off thing, like my wife likes to track, she&#8217;s really into gut health. So like all the different like vegetables and stuff, you know, this like little point system. So I built a, just a like a really simple little app for it. It was like a weekend project. 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But I think that the thing that has kept me there is this whole open web concept, and that I see WordPress as a very important counterbalance to some of the closed solutions that exist on the web.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a viable alternative that is open helps keep those other platforms accountable, if you will. And so I think that what&#8217;s kept me around is really that kind of idealistic thing that I have around how important WordPress is. And so, yes, I&#8217;m just as excited about it as I was back then.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:47] Nathan Wrigley: It feels like, if we were to rewind the clock 18 years ago, it feels like open was more normal, perhaps than it is now. And I think the closed platforms have monetised their way into the web and have kind of become, in many ways, the default, especially for people who aren&#8217;t in the inner circle of open source projects.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So for example, the way to carry out messaging online is to go to a closed platform. The way to communicate via email is to use close, well, the protocol&#8217;s open, but you know, the system that you might use may be closed, and so on and so forth. So that seems to be the default.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, let me just read the blurb from your presentation so we&#8217;ll get a flavor of what it is that Aaron will be talking about out. So we&#8217;re talking about why the open web matters. And the blurb that went with that goes as follows.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The internet has revolutionised how we share information, enabling unprecedented collaboration, and accelerating human progress in ways once unimaginable. However, this powerful tool is now at a crossroads. In this talk, Aaron will explore the critical role that open systems and the open web play in shaping our future. He will delve into the potential consequences of a closed digital ecosystem, and argue why preserving the openness of the web is essential, not only for innovation, but the very fabric of our global society. Discover why the open web matters more now than ever, and what&#8217;s at stake if we lose it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there&#8217;s some fairly powerful words in there, you know, the future of society and so on. However, underpinning it all is this phrase, open web. And it occurs to me that, dear listener, you may not know what that means. So my opening gambit to you Aaron, what is the open web? What does that even mean?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:20] Aaron D. Campbell: Honestly, you were talking a little bit about how we see more of these closed platforms now, and maybe it was more the standard 18, 20 years ago, and it&#8217;s true. When the web started around 1991, it was open in that information flowed easily and freely back and forth. And the things that we used to interact with the web, HTTP, HTML, all these things that we use were these open standards that could be implemented by anyone. You could implement them in some sort of closed web browser. You could implement them in an open source web browser. Either way, they were open standards that you could implement.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I think that that, where we started is kind of the core of this open that I&#8217;m talking about. It&#8217;s the interoperability, the ability for things to work together for different companies to be able to give you that same experience that you might want to have with their flavor. But if you then choose to leave that company, you can go somewhere else and still have whatever it is that you built, or created, or were using.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so open, while I love open source and a lot of what I do is around open source, I don&#8217;t think that open source in and of itself is the open web. 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It would be crazy if you could only email people who are using the same service that you had. And so you can move providers all the time, but you may not be able to move your email address. So it&#8217;s a sort of complicated picture, but transportability, yeah. Is that possibly it?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:30] Aaron D. Campbell: Yeah. I think that your example of, I&#8217;m fed up with my CMS, so I want to go somewhere else. That&#8217;s valid, I guess. But I look at it more from, let&#8217;s say that you&#8217;re a company that sells leather goods, and wherever you have your website has decided that they no longer allow you to sell leather goods on their platform.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need to go somewhere else for your own livelihood. You need to be able to go somewhere else. Can you? And if your site is WordPress, and it&#8217;s your host that says, we no longer allow leather goods, you can just move somewhere else. But if your site is on Facebook, and Facebook says that you can&#8217;t do that anymore, you can&#8217;t just take what you have and move somewhere else.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s a big difference because that&#8217;s a thing that is key to you continuing to, you know, I don&#8217;t know, run your business, make your money, put food on your table. And so it&#8217;s not just like, I got sick of this tool and wanted to move to another one. I think that part of it is like, who has control, and what are your options if what they want no longer aligns with what you want?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:36] Nathan Wrigley: So it really boils down, in your case, to the ability for you to choose where things end. Yeah, choice. A choice. Okay.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really haven&#8217;t ever read a history of the internet, but the bits and pieces, the impression that I&#8217;ve got over the years when I&#8217;ve been reading around how the internet began, CERN and ARPANET and those kind of things. When the internet began, I don&#8217;t really know what the enterprise was to begin the whole thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it felt like it was more or less a service to provide the capability for academics to communicate with each other. There was never this intention that, okay, we&#8217;ll be buying and selling goods online. We&#8217;ll all be communicating through messaging platforms online. We&#8217;ll be sending photos online. So how did the internet begin? Do you know?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:11:20] Aaron D. Campbell: It began open and it began specifically for the purposes of sharing information. The commercial internet exchange was trying to connect all these big networks that had tons of information in them at places like universities, governmental agencies, right? That were these silos of information.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>They wanted to interconnect those networks, make the internet, be able to share data back and forth for the purposes of being able to learn from each other. It was very much an academic pursuit.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that that&#8217;s kind of how we grow our knowledge as people, right? We learn from what other people have learned, and then we learn some more on top of that. And they saw the value of having this kind of connected digital network to share information. And it was only useful if it was open, and that information could flow back and forth freely. And so, yes, you&#8217;re right, it wasn&#8217;t meant to be a commercial endeavor. It was meant to be a knowledge sharing endeavor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:12:18] Nathan Wrigley: It&#8217;s kind of a really altruistic enterprise when you say it in those terms. It really feels like it&#8217;s for the betterment of humanity. But I&#8217;m sure all of us can imagine scenarios where we think about our use of the internet, and the words, betterment of humanity are just not, well, they&#8217;re just an anathema.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because, you know, the internet has undoubtedly caused harms in various ways, and there&#8217;s misinformation being spread and all sorts of things like that, problems that we&#8217;ve got online.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m wondering, well, if we were talking about open on all levels of the internet, so for example, the internet that I&#8217;m using, I&#8217;m using a CMS, a web browser. It&#8217;s HTTPS, CSS, JavaScript, those kind of things. But underpinning it all, here&#8217;s my Mac, and the Mac presumably talks to the TCP IP stack, and there&#8217;s a bunch of routers and all of those kind of things going on, holding the internet together. Does all of that stack need to be open, or is it okay for some bits and pieces holding the infrastructure together to be closed?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I&#8217;m not sure that you&#8217;d kind of want the hardware layer, if you know what I mean, some of those bits and pieces. Maybe they need to be, well, maybe they need to be proprietary and closed. I don&#8217;t know. What are your thoughts?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:27] Aaron D. Campbell: That&#8217;s a really intriguing question, and I think that for the purposes of just being able to use and enjoy and leverage the internet, no, all those layers do not need to be open. For the purposes of preserving the internet as this information sharing kind of altruistic tool, I think that there needs to be openness at every one of those levels.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that, for example, you were talking about the routers that shift all the information around, and they&#8217;re largely these hardware things, although they do have some software on them. But do all of those need to be open? No. But if one company is the only one that&#8217;s capable of shifting information around the web, then it becomes a problem. So as long as there are viable open alternatives, and some are closed and some are open, great.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I don&#8217;t want any company, no matter who it is, you know, in this case maybe a, Cisco is maybe the biggest router company, right? I don&#8217;t want them to be the only one in control of what information can be sent back and forth across the world.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:31] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. I think our conversation is probably going to dwell on the information layer, the bit at the top. So the text that we send and, you know, the images, and the CMS and so on. Now, in the beginning of your presentation, there was a phrase which stuck out because you said, we&#8217;re in a time of unprecedented collaboration, and accelerating human progress is what the internet is kind of all about. It&#8217;s a fairly lofty phrase and I was wondering what you meant by that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:59] Aaron D. Campbell: So first of all, the internet allows for a kind of collaboration that we&#8217;ve never seen before in history, right? Like, collaboration, we all hop on these Zoom calls all the time and think nothing of the fact that I am in an instant virtual video call with people in eight different countries. But that&#8217;s possible. I literally do that almost every single day. People on my team are in the UK, they&#8217;re in Bulgaria, that&#8217;s normal. That was not normal 20 years ago. It was certainly not normal, I guess, what, 40 years ago, pre-internet.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a level of collaboration that can happen now that just never was able to before. And we see that in tons of places. My wife&#8217;s neurologist, I think I gave you this example in some notes that I sent over. She collaborates with neurologists all over the world, live, almost daily. And that&#8217;s mind boggling. But the fact that a neurologist can immediately learn from other specialists, like that is fantastic. That&#8217;s so amazing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so, yeah, it sounds lofty when you put it into words, but the truth is, this is our normal every day, and maybe we&#8217;ve gotten a little used to it. But if you take a step back and look, it&#8217;s amazing what the internet has enabled.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:22] Nathan Wrigley: I occasionally, and it really is an example of how quickly you can become, something that is extraordinary becomes completely normal, and you don&#8217;t really expect what&#8217;s going on. But occasionally I have the thought that, I&#8217;ll be looking at my computer, on my phone, and I think what I&#8217;m doing, to my 10-year-old self, was the realm of Star Trek. It was science fiction that there was a device in somebody&#8217;s hand which enabled you to communicate.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a screen which held images on it, and it was all encapsulated in your hand, you know? And obviously Star Trek, well, we&#8217;ve still got a long way to go. We can&#8217;t transport each other across the universe and so on. But it&#8217;s incredibly profound. And the mere fact, just take a look and think about it for a moment. You&#8217;re probably listening to this on a phone, dear listener, and I don&#8217;t know, you&#8217;ve probably got a pair of Bluetooth headphones or something like that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This incredible stack of technology, which is now completely normal. You and I collaborating for this episode on a Google Doc. The world has utterly changed, and it really does behoove everyone, once in a while, to take a step back and think, wow, I&#8217;m really lucky.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:31] Aaron D. Campbell: I mean, when I was in school, my teacher very specifically would not let us use calculators on tests because, quote, you will not always have a calculator in your pocket. You need to know how to do this. Well, they were wrong. I have a calculator in my pocket, which is actually also a computer connected to every other computer in the world. It&#8217;s astounding how much things have changed.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:56] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, it&#8217;s pretty remarkable. I mean, I guess the next point that I want to raise is that the web, despite the fact that it&#8217;s marvelous in all these ways that we&#8217;ve just described, I think it&#8217;s, well, we&#8217;ve had an era over the last, let&#8217;s say, decade, maybe more, where it feels like the internet has been taken over largely by closed corporate platforms.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, not to throw any aspersions out there, and not to name only these ones, but the ones which come to mind in my life are Google, dominating search, for example. You know, I basically have outsourced my brain most of the time to Google. I don&#8217;t really think I just Google something, and then trust that what Google gives me back is going to be credible and accurate. And I really give it a hundred percent of that. You know, I don&#8217;t question what it gives back. I assume that the algorithm is doing me justice and doing me a favor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And equally things like Facebook over the years, I&#8217;ve invested large amounts of time into that. But it feels like in the last year, so we&#8217;re in 2025, most people have got a slightly different relationship. There&#8217;s maybe a bit more skepticism coming in. We can see the harms that maybe some of these companies are doing. And so this really does feel like a moment where open platforms, WordPress in particular, it&#8217;s an important moment to step up. So really there&#8217;s no question there. It&#8217;s more like, do you have any thoughts about proprietary platforms and their growing dominance?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:17] Aaron D. Campbell: Yeah. First of all, I hope that you are right and that in 2025 we&#8217;re seeing some of that, kind of, questioning of whether these closed, for-profit platforms are really doing what&#8217;s best for us. Because I know that they&#8217;re doing what&#8217;s best for them. The question is whether that is also what&#8217;s best for us. Companies like Facebook, like Google, they&#8217;re looking out for themselves. The question is, does that help us?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re right, we&#8217;ve all outsourced our brain to Google in many ways. I mean, when you talk about, I don&#8217;t know, researching a thing, you don&#8217;t even say, I&#8217;m going to go research it. You say, I&#8217;m going to go Google it. That&#8217;s what that means in our vernacular. And I think that, I hope that, people are really starting to realise, not that that&#8217;s bad because I don&#8217;t think it is, I am actually super thankful that Google makes it so easy for me to learn so many things. I love that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I hope that they, everyone&#8217;s starting to understand some of the potential risks there. Is it good that you don&#8217;t even question whether what Google fed back to you is the right thing? Does Google get to decide what we&#8217;re able to learn or not learn now? Is that healthy for us?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would love if people are asking those kinds of questions, because it pushes toward having more alternatives. How do you go check, if you decide that you&#8217;re not sure if Google&#8217;s really looking out for you, how do you go check that? What do you use to make sure that Google&#8217;s still giving you what you ought to get? And if you go looking for that, that&#8217;s good. Going and looking for those alternatives, ensuring that there is a choice keeps us from being locked in, in a way that becomes unhealthy.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:11] Nathan Wrigley: I think my intuition is that increasingly these platforms seem to be tied up in profit motives, and so, the example that comes to mind in my head is the algorithmic feed in your social network of choice, really. Insert whichever platform you want there. But the idea that it will maximize engagement at any cost.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if it can keep your eyes glued to the screen for another minute, that&#8217;s a win, regardless of whether or not that information that&#8217;s being given to you is good. And I&#8217;m doing air quotes. And so if that were to creep into, for example, Google search, okay, can we keep you on our platform? I know that&#8217;s a silly example because that&#8217;s not really the point of Google, but you get the point.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what I&#8217;m wondering is, is profit really kind of the enemy here? Does everything have to be freely done by volunteers for it to be open? Because there&#8217;s this feeling, it feels that there&#8217;s a bit of that in the open source community. You know, if it&#8217;s done by volunteers, if it&#8217;s done for free, if you can access it completely for free, if the platform&#8217;s code is verifiable and open on the web, is that better? So, yeah, sorry there&#8217;s a lot there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:22:18] Aaron D. Campbell: Well, first of all, I&#8217;ll go ahead and plant my flag on this one. And it&#8217;s maybe not the most popular opinion amongst the hardcore open source people that I honestly spend a lot of time with and work with regularly. But I don&#8217;t think profit is bad. I don&#8217;t. But if that is the core motive and that becomes the only tool that you have is one that is focused on profiting off of you, then yeah, there are concerns.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Facebook, you&#8217;re right, or any of these social networks, they want to keep you around as long as they can because that&#8217;s their profit model. However, it doesn&#8217;t mean that you can&#8217;t profit off of open, and I am fine with profit as long as there is open. There are many companies in our space that make really good profit implementing WordPress solutions. That is open. The companies that they are implementing those solutions for own their own data. They can move it wherever they want. That&#8217;s great, even if there&#8217;s profit there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I don&#8217;t think that profit alone is the enemy, but it does seem like most of these kind of closed solutions, yeah, are by for profit companies that are just looking to profit. And again, I think it comes down to choice. As long as there are enough options out there, you&#8217;re not beholden to just the one model from the one company. You know, social networks is a good example. If there&#8217;s something that&#8217;s a problem with you and Facebook, you can go to some other social network. There are other options. It&#8217;s when it&#8217;s a for-profit and just one option that it really starts to become a problem.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:03] Nathan Wrigley: I think it&#8217;s really a difficult thread to get right in our community. Because the WordPress community in particular does seem to have two sides. There&#8217;s the real for-profit side, and obviously we&#8217;re here at WordCamp Asia, and if we were to walk into any of the sponsor booths, there&#8217;s a bunch of companies here. And I imagine the fact that they can sponsor, they&#8217;re making a healthy profit. You know, they&#8217;re sending staff here and they&#8217;ve got a booth and so on.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then there&#8217;s also the more, and again, I&#8217;m doing air quotes here, there&#8217;s the more community side, which seem to see that as a bit of a trade off. We&#8217;ve got to have these people here, but on some level it would be better if they weren&#8217;t here. If we could just do the whole thing more non-profit, that would be better. So I feel that the community we&#8217;ve got, that&#8217;s a difficult tightrope to tread.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:48] Aaron D. Campbell: It&#8217;s a very difficult tightrope to tread. The way that I thread it, I get the altruistic, if we could do everything just volunteer, but we could also have diverse volunteers and many volunteers with different points of view, and different sort of technical backgrounds, right? So that we could build a thing that works for everyone, that would be great.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that&#8217;s really difficult because you see many open source projects that had that and built up and then failed and have sort of disappeared, because it&#8217;s very difficult to have longevity in that. To have people that stay around long enough.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I think that what the for-profit side does in our WordPress space is it helps ensure the longevity because those companies, hosts, for example, are hosting many, many thousands, or tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites, they&#8217;re making money off of that. And so they have a vested interest in making sure that WordPress continues.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so, yeah, there&#8217;s this fine balance between, they&#8217;re actually investing in a way that helps keep the platform going, keep the platform being built, keep the platform improving. But does that also mean that they want some influence in the platform? And I think that that&#8217;s that line you have to tread where profit helps with longevity. It does, it keeps people around. But it also leads towards a desire to influence. And are we watching out for that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is been a question that the WordPress project has been struggling with since its very beginning. I think that we&#8217;ve got it right at times. I think we&#8217;ve got it wrong at times. But I think that by and large, for 20 plus years, we have successfully brought those two things together, in a way that&#8217;s built something pretty amazing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:39] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. And also if you think about it in the long march of history, the internet is still in its infancy. And these open source platforms, this idea of volunteering your time for a global project is quite a new thing. We are just figuring it out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so whilst you and I are inside the baseball, we hear the arguments from both sides all the time, give it another a hundred years and no doubt things will have bedded down and the arguments would&#8217;ve been done this way and that way, and hopefully things figured out. So to me, it&#8217;s pretty remarkable that we&#8217;ve even got 20 years under our belt. Yeah, there&#8217;s going to be some disagreements along the way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:27:15] Aaron D. Campbell: The internet sort of, as we know, it&#8217;s about 34 years old. It&#8217;s not been around long when you take a more, sort of, broader historical view alright.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:27:24] Nathan Wrigley: Over the last period of time, I&#8217;m going to say 12, 15 years, something like that, the internet feels like it&#8217;s become a sort of platform. So a good example of that would be social media, so X, Twitter and all the other ones, LinkedIn, and the multitude of ones that have come in to existence and even gone away in some cases. They&#8217;ve obviously got their proprietary technology stack, but it feels to me what you are proposing is that the internet shouldn&#8217;t be a place of platforms, it should be more a place of protocols. And what I mean by that is the underpinning technology.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So as an example, we could swap out X for something like ActivityPub or the AT Protocol. And then a variety of different platforms can build on top of that, change the UI, change the UX, change the experience for everybody. But we&#8217;d all be able to communicate using that same thing. Have I kind of got that right? Is that what you are hoping for?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:14] Aaron D. Campbell: I would love to see more of the platforms on the internet having open standards, open protocols, open data standards at their core. It would be fantastic if something like Twitter, X, whatever it is now, built on top of an open standard. And that was, like they built their own custom experience on top of it. They brought a lot of people together and gave a good experience, but that you could, other companies could also implement that protocol. And again, then you would have choice and options.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that at its core, like the easiest way to sum this up for somebody experiencing it is that, I really think that lock-in is unhealthy. 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