The OSTraining Podcast #31: Daniel Bachhuber on a Career in WordPress

Daniel has played a key role in Gutenberg, the WP REST API, the WP-CLI project, Co-Authors Plus, Edit Flow, Jetpack, Post Meta Inspector, Publishing Checklist, Rewrite Rules and the list goes on and on.

In this episode, Daniel explains how he accidentally stumbled into such a key role in the WordPress world. We spend time talking about how Daniel balances all these duties, including how he moves on when his time is up in a role.

Follow Daniel via his blog at DanielBachhuber.com and his work site, HandBuilt.co.

Here are links Daniel mentions during the podcast:

• My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project
• Open source is debt
• One case against College Publisher

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This episode’s sponsor is PublishPress.

PublishPress offers professional publishing tools for WordPress, including an editorial calendar, pre-publishing checklists, and collaboration tools.

Here’s an overview of the publishing tools you’ll find in PublishPress:

• There’s a beautiful Editorial Calendar to give a clear picture of all your planned and published content.
• You can create Notifications to keep your team up-to-date with what’s happening.
• You can write Editorial Comments to leave feedback for your site’s authors.
• There are Custom Statusesso you can see where content is in your publishing workflow.
• The Content Overviewscreen allows you to drill down and analyze your site’s content.
• You can add Metadata to give your team extra information about each post.