#48
Mara Ellison
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Freelance WordPress work on public marketplaces has thinned out since 2023. Mara Ellison walks through why retainers, productized services, and community referrals are replacing bid boards — and how AI changed the math.
August 19, 2026·Alex Harlan
#47
Jonah Hale
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Jonah Hale’s path runs from printmaking studios to hosting ops to theme leadership. We talk about the overlap of craft and logic in WordPress work, and why community contribution still feels like the point.
August 12, 2026·Alex Harlan
#46
Elena Voss
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
WordPress can overwhelm new builders with options. Educator Elena Voss explains why she left, why she came back, and how pacing, defaults, and better onboarding beat another settings screen.
August 5, 2026·Alex Harlan
#45
Theo Marczak
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Theo Marczak spent a year poking at WordPress hosts that sell “secure hosting.” Most WordPress-specific issues still slipped through. We unpack what the tests showed, and what buyers should ask next.
July 29, 2026·Alex Harlan
#44
Priya Sen
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Priya Sen argues that accessibility-ready WordPress themes are mostly disciplined HTML, not a mysterious extra track. We cover skip links, headings, alt text, and why block themes can actually help.
July 22, 2026·Alex Harlan
#43
Lukas Novak
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Outdated PHP is still sitting under a shocking number of WordPress sites. Lukas Novak explains the security and performance cost, and why “the plugin isn’t ready” is a weaker excuse every year.
July 15, 2026·Alex Harlan
#42
Dana Whitfield
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Abuse doesn’t respect brand boundaries. Dana Whitfield talks about sharing signals across hosts, why trust is the scarce resource, and what a healthier incident response looks like.
July 8, 2026·Alex Harlan
#41
Irena Kovac
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
University programs that grant credit for WordPress contribution are growing. Irena Kovac explains why businesses should care, and what curricula still get wrong.
July 1, 2026·Alex Harlan
#40
Noah Okoye
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Noah Okoye walks through a week in plugin review: the bugs that are boring, the ones that are dangerous, and why a 2,000-line readme is not a security policy.
June 17, 2026·Alex Harlan
#39
Hannah Briggs
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Hannah Briggs argues that most pattern libraries fail because they look finished in a screenshot and unfinished in a real site. We talk constraints, defaults, and saying no.
June 10, 2026·Alex Harlan
#38
Omar Siddiq
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Omar Siddiq has tuned stores that sell socks and stores that sell industrial parts. The same three bottlenecks keep showing up. We name them.
June 3, 2026·Alex Harlan
#37
Sofia Núñez
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Sofia Núñez has shipped bilingual editorial sites that did not become two WordPress installs taped together. We talk language switchers, SEO, and editors who do not want a new dashboard.
May 27, 2026·Alex Harlan
#36
Ben Choi
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Ben Choi has run Contributor Days that felt like a hallway and ones that felt like a workshop. The difference is not the snacks. It is the table cards.
May 20, 2026·Alex Harlan
#35
Claire Davenport
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Claire Davenport runs a newsroom that lives in WordPress. She has opinions about revisions, lockouts, and writers who paste from Google Docs like it is 2014.
May 13, 2026·Alex Harlan
#34
Chris Lang
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Chris Lang ships one plugin, answers every ticket, and still sleeps. We talk support hours, the directory, and saying no to a companion add-on.
April 29, 2026·Alex Harlan
#33
Yara Mensah
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Yara Mensah runs WordPress where the homepage is a public service. Lockouts, embargoes, and writers who paste from Google Docs anyway.
April 22, 2026·Alex Harlan
#32
Felix Rahman
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Felix Rahman reads autoload and leftover options for a living. We name the plugins that leave a suitcase in wp_options.
April 15, 2026·Alex Harlan
#31
Nina Kovacs
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Nina Kovacs teaches spacing scales to people who think in Figma. No shame, no PHP first, and a lot of named tokens.
April 8, 2026·Alex Harlan
#30
Joel Park
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Joel Park ships WordPress where a RFP is a character. Accessibility, records retention, and why ‘just a theme’ is never just a theme.
April 1, 2026·Alex Harlan
#29
Aisha Rahman
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Aisha Rahman runs a network of school sites that cannot all be administrators. Roles, updates, and the principal who wants a slider.
March 25, 2026·Alex Harlan
#28
Tomas Berg
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Tomas Berg used block bindings to stop building a custom field UI for the fifth time. We talk what still needs PHP.
March 18, 2026·Alex Harlan
#27
Keiko Sato
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Keiko Sato lives where a string that fits in English does not fit in the button. We talk GlotPress, context, and release week.
March 11, 2026·Alex Harlan
#26
Mateo Ruiz
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Mateo Ruiz has seen the spreadsheet that was supposed to be the source of truth. We name the sync jobs that lie.
March 4, 2026·Alex Harlan
#25
Ruth Keller
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Ruth Keller builds donation pages that cannot look like a checkout from a sneaker brand. Receipts, recurring gifts, and the board packet.
February 25, 2026·Alex Harlan
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