The Melapress Show

Do you quote a price after one 30-minute call? Kyle Van Deusen, owner of OGAL Web Design and founder of The Admin Bar community, stopped doing that years ago. Instead, a structured inquiry form, a no-cost "vibes check"...

Most organizations only consider accessibility when faced with a legal deadline or a complaint. Anne-Mieke Bovelett's approach begins much earlier, at the stage of product decisions, design systems, and CMS workflows...

Agencies applying updates across dozens of client sites face a consistent challenge: the issues that matter most, such as broken forms, failed checkouts, and layout regressions, rarely surface on the homepage. Without a...

Getting started with WordPress, whether as a learner, a contributor, or an agency evaluating plugins for a client, has always required more setup than it should. WordPress Playground was built to address that friction...

Supply chain attacks against WordPress plugins are difficult to spot because they often hide behind legitimate update processes that users trust every day. In this episode, Austin Ginder, Founder of Anchor Host and...

In Episode 51 of the Melapress Show, Jonathan Bossenger, Developer Advocate at Automattic, joins Robert Abela to break down how WordPress is being rebuilt from the ground up to work with AI and what that means for the...

In this 50th episode of the Melapress Show, Vova Feldman, Founder & CEO of Freemius, joins Robert Abela to explore how AI is transforming the way WordPress products are built, maintained, and supported. While AI is...

In Episode 49 of the Melapress Show, Matthew Rollings, application security professional and bug bounty hunter, joins Robert Abela to break down RegexXSS: a vulnerability class hiding in the regex code of WordPress...

WordPress powers nearly half the web, but the people doing the actual core work are often underfunded, under-supported, and contributing on their own time. Chris Reynolds has seen this firsthand as a long-time...

In Episode 47 of the Melapress Show, Dan Knauss, Solutions Architect (worked with Multidots and Solid Security), joins Robert Abela to break down the gap between how enterprises perceive WordPress security and what's...

In Episode 46 of the Melapress Show, Matt Cromwell, co-founder of GiveWP (acquired by StellarWP) and founder of Roots & Fruit, joins Bram Vergouwen to talk through what the GiveWP journey really looked like from the...

In Episode 45 of the Melapress Show, Daniele Besana, CEO & Founder of WP-OK, joins Robert Abela to break down what really happens when WordPress sites fail in production and what it takes to keep them running reliably...

In Episode 44 of the Melapress Show, Raffaele Riconosciuto joins Robert Abela to break down how compliance actually works in real-world WordPress teams, and where it goes wrong. Compliance is often treated as a legal...

In Episode 42 of the Melapress Show, Rodolfo Melogli, WooCommerce expert and founder of Business Bloomer, joins Robert Abela to examine one of the most debated platforms in e-commerce and the misconceptions that...

In Episode 41 of the Melapress Show, Kevin Beaver, Founder & Principal Consultant at Principle Logic, joins Robert Abela to unpack the human side of cybersecurity and why most security failures aren’t purely technical...