Cory is joined by Justin Tadlock of Automattic to talk about his series of articles on the WordPress developer blog about adding custom controls to core blocks, theme scaffolding, and workflow scripts.If you have questions about WordPress webs

27: It's Time for Core Fields with Scott Kingsley Clark

Jun 21st, 2023 1h 2m

Cory and Phil are joined by Scott Kingsley Clark of Pagely and the Pods Framework. We talk about Pods vs ACF (in a friendly non-competitive way), the Core Fields API project, and the JavaScriptification of the WordPress admin.If you have quest

26: AI-Generated Episode

May 17th, 2023 1h 17m

Cory, Phil, and Jack talk about the recent explosion of machine learning algorithms, how they will affect what we do as developers and designers, and how we do it—if we still have jobs at all.If you have questions about WordPress website devel

25: Learning Out Loud with Aurooba Ahmed & Brian Coords

Apr 12th, 2023 1h 13m

Aurooba Ahmed and Brian Coords are back to talk to Cory and Phil about their new podcast, viewSource—well, new as of January 2023. We talk about why they started it, who it's for, and why we keep putting ourselves out there.If you have questio

24: Enterprise Blocks with Fränk Klein

Mar 15th, 2023 1h 19m

Cory and Phil interview Fränk Klein, founder of and educator at WPDevelopment.courses and Principal Engineer at Human Made. We talk about some considerations for WordPress at scale and how that affects architectural choices, how WordPress as a

23: Transitions, Templates, Transcripts

Feb 15th, 2023 1h 8m

Cory and Phil kick off 2023 with a look at what we changed about our custom theme workflow last year, including a particularly vigorous discussion about template tags, and some goals for new things we want to try this year. We also couldn't hel

22: Season 2 Retrospective

Dec 21st, 2022 1h 42m

It’s an In The Loop holiday special! Cory and Phil listen back to clips from every episode this season and judge themselves harshly. If you haven’t listened to all of the season 2 episodes yet, or if you’re curious about our thoughts since the

21: Mastering Theme Development with Brian Coords

Nov 16th, 2022 1h 13m

Cory and Phil interview Brian Coords of Howard Development & Consulting and Editor at Master WP. We talk about connecting with the wider WordPress community as an agency, how we’ve been experimenting with Gutenberg for client sites and how it’s

20: Equal Access with Amber Hinds

Oct 12th, 2022 58m 15s

Cory and Phil interview Amber Hinds of Equalize Digital, an agency and plugin company that specializes in accessibility. We talk about their Accessibility Checker plugin, how it can be useful for agencies and their clients, and the journey of b

19: All-In on Gutenberg with Ryan Welcher

Sep 14th, 2022 1h 9m

Cory interviews Ryan Welcher, a Developer Advocate at Automattic focusing on the Gutenberg Project, as a special follow-up to our last episode, titled “We Like Gutenberg, We Swear!”. We talk about his WCUS talk, being a Developer Advocate, how

18: We Like Gutenberg, We Swear!

Aug 17th, 2022 1h 5m

Cory Hughart and Phil Hoyt talk about the reality of the current state of Gutenberg for certain tasks that agencies deal with every day, including what the decision-making process looks like for when to create custom post types and when you mig

17: Build Your Product Muscles with Lesley Sim

Jul 13th, 2022 1h 12m

Cory and Phil interview Lesley Sim of Newsletter Glue, a WordPress plugin that lets you write your newsletter in WordPress and connects to several different email services.We talk about the journey from digital agency to WordPress plugin compa

16: Just Build It with Aurooba Ahmed

Jun 15th, 2022 1h 9m

Cory and Phil interview Aurooba Ahmed of Aurooba Makes, a full-stack WordPress developer, WordCamp speaker, and serial plugin, tool, and course author.We talk about developing for Gutenberg, goings on with ACF and whether it’s still a must-use

15: Number Goes Up

May 18th, 2022 1h 7m

Cory and Phil are back for a Dev Chat discussing the impending WordPress 6.0 release, version numbers, market share, and full site editing in the wild.If you have questions about WordPress website development, contributing, or anything else we

14: All the Web's a Stage with Allie Nimmons

Apr 13th, 2022 49m 21s

Cory and Phil interview Allie Nimmons, founder of Beedia Productions, a LinkedIn learning instructor for WordPress, cohost of the Underrepresented in Tech podcast, and frequent WordCamp speaker.We talk about Allie’s path through WordPress and

13: Accessibility by Default with Bet Hannon

Mar 16th, 2022 1h 1m

Cory and Blackbird senior designer Jack Watson interview Bet Hannon, web accessibility advocate and founder/CEO of BH Business Websites, an agency that designs, builds and maintains accessible sites. Bet was a speaker at WordCamp US 2021 and is

12: Pajamas & Burnout

Feb 9th, 2022 1h 14m

Welcome back to a new season of In The Loop! We have some excellent guests lined up this year, but we start off 2022 with a Dev Chat between Cory Hughart and Phil Hoyt about the recently released WordPress 5.9 and Full Site Editing, open source

11: Season 1 Highlights

Dec 23rd, 2021 54m 53s

Our final episode of 2021 is here, closing out Season 1 of In The Loop! Today we’re taking a look back at the first 10 episodes with some highlights, so if you have only listened to one or two this should give you a taste of what the other epis

10: Tips for WordPress Experts with Mike Demo

Nov 3rd, 2021 43m 41s

Megan and Cory chat with Mike Demo about his open source adventures and his current role at Codeable. Demo shares about the Codeable platform and their expert community and gives lots of great advice for freelancers and dev agencies.If you hav

9: WordPress Was Never Easy

Oct 1st, 2021 54m 38s

We’re back with another Blackbird Dev Chat between Megan Rose, Phil Hoyt, and Cory Hughart. In this episode we talk about the WordPress 5.8 release and how that has dramatically affected theme development for us, an update about Advanced Custom

8: WordPress Agency Panel Discussion

Aug 4th, 2021 51m 17s

In this episode, Megan and Cory chat with Ebonie Butler, Lauren Pittenger, and Ryan Welcher, who work at web agencies of varying sizes. We talk about using WordPress in an agency setting, including common challenges, favorite projects, and care

7: The Big Fat ACF Episode

Jul 14th, 2021 1h 4m

In this episode, the devs at Blackbird get back together to talk about block widgets, themes, patterns, directories, and other WordPress 5.8 goodies, Advanced Custom Fields anxieties, and part 2 of the highly-anticipated Gutenberg Shuffle serie

6: Website Maintenance with david wolfpaw

May 26th, 2021 1h 7m

In this episode, Megan and Cory are joined by david wolfpaw, a WordPress support superhero and master of analogies.Today david shares about their path within WordPress and we discuss their experiences providing website maintenance services. We

5: WordPress History with John James Jacoby

Apr 28th, 2021 1h 24m

In this episode, Megan and Cory talk to John James Jacoby of Sandhills Development about what he’s working on and how it can help us make better websites. John, AKA JJJ, contributes to Core and Meta, is a BuddyPress & bbPress lead, speaks at Wo

4: WordPress Connections with Joe A Simpson Jr

Mar 3rd, 2021 23m 49s

Today, Joe A Simpson Jr joins the show to chat about all things WordPress. He shares his WordPress origin story, as well as how he became the leader of two Meetups. We also chat about his experience as a graphic designer stepping into WordPress