Podcasts are still one of the most underused resources for WordPress professionals. There is no shortage of blogs and YouTube channels covering WordPress, but a podcast fits into time that other formats cannot: a commute, a walk, dishes, a gym session. You cannot read a tutorial while driving, but you can absorb a 30 minute interview about running a WordPress business.

Podcasts have grown enormously over the past decade, with well over four million shows now published across the major platforms. WordPress has its own small but committed corner of that world, ranging from official project updates to independent shows run by developers and agency owners sharing what actually works. Below is an updated list of WordPress podcasts worth subscribing to, along with what changed for a few of the older, more established shows.

Why WordPress Podcasts Are Worth Your Time

  • Passive learning: you can absorb tips, strategies, and industry news while doing something else entirely.
  • Business insight: many hosts run their own agencies or products, so the advice comes from people solving the same problems you are.
  • Staying current: WordPress core, page builders, and hosting all move quickly, and podcasts are often faster to cover a change than a written guide.
  • Free access: almost every show on this list is free to stream, with no subscription required.

1. The Agency Hour Podcast (formerly WP Elevation)

This show has an interesting history worth knowing about before you subscribe. It started as the WP Elevation WordPress Business Podcast, hosted by Troy Dean, and focused specifically on WordPress consultants and freelancers building recurring revenue businesses. The show has since been rebranded as The Agency Hour Podcast, sponsored by E2M Solutions, and broadened its focus to digital agency owners more generally rather than WordPress builders exclusively.

Troy Dean still hosts the show, and the older WP Elevation episodes remain archived and listenable if you specifically want the WordPress-focused back catalog. Current episodes cover operations, team building, pricing strategy, and increasingly, how agencies are adapting their service offerings around AI tools. If you run a WordPress services business, it is still relevant, just less narrowly WordPress-specific than it used to be.

2. LMScast

LMScast is produced by the team behind LifterLMS, a WordPress learning management system plugin, and is hosted by Chris Badgett. The show bills itself as a resource for course creators, membership site owners, and anyone running an online education business on WordPress, and it has kept a steady publishing schedule for years, with new episodes still going out weekly.

Each episode is typically an interview with someone running a course platform, membership site, or educational WordPress product, covering topics like course pricing, student retention, assessment design, and increasingly, how AI tools fit into course creation and delivery. Episode length varies but usually stays under an hour, and video versions are available for anyone who prefers to watch rather than just listen.

If you are building or considering an online course business on WordPress, this is one of the more consistently useful shows on the list, since it stays tightly focused on that niche rather than covering WordPress broadly.

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3. WP Briefing

WP Briefing is the official WordPress project’s own podcast, hosted by Josepha Haden Chomphosy, the executive director of the WordPress open source project. It launched in 2021 with a simple premise: short, digestible updates on what is happening inside the WordPress project itself, delivered directly by the people leading it, rather than filtered through third party commentary.

Episodes are intentionally brief, most running under 20 minutes, and cover things like upcoming core releases, community initiatives, and the philosophy behind decisions the core team makes. If you use WordPress professionally and want a direct line to what the project leadership is thinking, rather than relying on secondhand takes from blogs and forums, this is the most authoritative source available. Publishing cadence has slowed compared to its first year, so treat it as a periodic check-in rather than a strict weekly habit, and always check the current episode list directly on WordPress.org since archive pages can lag behind the live feed.

4. Your Website Engineer

Hosted by Dustin Hartzler, Your Website Engineer (previously known as Your WordPress Engineer) is one of the longest continuously running WordPress podcasts, with well over 500 episodes published. It remains active with new episodes still coming out regularly as of 2026.

The format is hands-on and practical. Episodes typically run 10 to 20 minutes and walk through a specific WordPress feature, plugin, or maintenance task rather than an open-ended interview format. Recent topics have included using AI tools inside WordPress, staying current on major version releases, and passkey-based login security. If you want short, actionable episodes you can finish during a coffee break rather than a long-form interview, this show fits that format better than most others on this list.

5. Developer Tea

Developer Tea is not a WordPress-specific podcast, but it earns a spot here because a large share of its audience is web developers, and a meaningful portion of those developers work in WordPress day to day. Hosted by Jonathan Cutrell and part of the Spec network, the show is built around short episodes meant to fit inside an actual tea or coffee break, typically five to twenty minutes.

Rather than covering specific plugins or code tutorials, Developer Tea focuses on career development, decision making, and the mental models that help developers do better work and avoid burnout. It remains active, with recent episodes addressing how AI tools are reshaping software engineering careers. If you want a broader perspective beyond the WordPress bubble specifically, this is worth adding alongside the more WordPress-centric shows on this list.

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6. Matt Report (Archived, Redirect to The WP Minute)

Matt Report, hosted by Matt Medeiros, ran for roughly a decade and became one of the more recognizable names in WordPress business podcasting, covering freelancing, agency growth, and product development inside the WordPress space. It is worth including here specifically because it illustrates something important about following any podcast list: shows end, pause, or transform, and an outdated recommendation can send you to a dead feed.

As of this writing, Matt Report has not published new episodes since early 2023, and Matt has redirected his current podcasting effort toward The WP Minute, a shorter-form WordPress news and commentary project. The full Matt Report archive remains available on the major podcast platforms and is still genuinely useful listening, particularly older episodes on freelance pricing and agency operations, but treat it as a back catalog rather than an active subscription. If you want Matt’s current work, follow The WP Minute instead.

7. How I Built It

How I Built It focuses on the products behind well known names in the WordPress space rather than the personalities themselves. Instead of a general career interview, each episode digs into how a specific plugin, theme, or WordPress business was actually built: the technical decisions, the early mistakes, and what the founder would do differently. Episodes typically run 30 to 45 minutes, and you do not need to be a WordPress developer to get value from it, since the underlying lessons about building and shipping a product apply more broadly. If you are considering building your own WordPress plugin or theme, or you are simply curious how the tools you already use came to exist, this is one of the more substantive shows on the list.

8. Post Status Draft

Post Status is not a single podcast but a small network of shows aimed at WordPress professionals, and Draft, hosted by Cory Miller, is the flagship interview show in that lineup. Draft features conversations with WordPress professionals and other people making a living building on the open web, and it has kept publishing steadily, with recent episodes dating into late 2025.

Beyond Draft, the Post Status network also runs Excerpt, a weekly news and community roundup hosted by Dan Knauss with Nyasha Green, Comments, a discussion-format show covering current WordPress trends, and Get Hired, aimed specifically at people trying to start or advance a WordPress career. If you only have room for one show from this network, start with Draft for the interviews, then branch into Excerpt if you want a weekly digest of what happened in the WordPress world without following every blog and forum yourself.

9. Open Channels (formerly Do the Woo)

This entry deserves an explanation, since the show has changed names since it was first recommended in older versions of lists like this one. Do the Woo was, for years, the go-to podcast for anyone building with WooCommerce, run by Bob Dunn, widely known in the community as BobWP. The show has since evolved into a broader podcast network called Open Channels, still independently owned and operated by Bob Dunn, and it now covers open web and open source topics more broadly rather than staying narrowly focused on WooCommerce.

The network remains genuinely active, with new episodes released multiple times a week across its shows as of mid-2026. If you specifically want WooCommerce-focused content, check which show within the Open Channels lineup is currently covering ecommerce topics, since the branding change means the WooCommerce-specific content is no longer under a single dedicated feed the way it used to be.

How to Choose Which Shows to Subscribe To

Not every show on this list needs a permanent spot in your podcast app. A reasonable way to narrow it down:

  • If you run a WordPress services business or agency, start with The Agency Hour Podcast and Post Status Draft.
  • If you build or sell courses and memberships, LMScast is the most directly relevant show here.
  • If you want official, first-party WordPress project updates without commentary, WP Briefing is the only show that fits that role.
  • If you want short, practical, almost tutorial-style episodes, Your Website Engineer is the closest match.
  • If you run a WooCommerce store or build ecommerce sites, look through the Open Channels network for its current ecommerce coverage.
  • If you want a weekly digest of WordPress community news without reading five different blogs, Post Status Excerpt covers that role.
  • If you want to think about your career and workflow more broadly, rather than WordPress specifically, add Developer Tea.

It is also worth resisting the urge to subscribe to everything at once. Podcast fatigue is real, and a feed with a dozen unlistened shows piling up becomes something you eventually ignore entirely. Pick two or three shows that map directly to what you are working on right now, actually listen to a handful of episodes from each, and only add more once those have become a genuine habit rather than a guilty backlog.

A Note on Podcast Longevity

Podcasts have a much higher mortality rate than blogs. A blog post published in 2021 is still readable in 2026 with no extra effort from the author, but a podcast needs a host who keeps showing up, week after week, sometimes for years, without the show generating direct revenue. That is part of why this list includes a show that has effectively ended (Matt Report) alongside its active successor (The WP Minute): recommending only the shows that are still actively publishing, and being upfront about the ones that have gone quiet, is more useful than pretending every show from a few years ago is still a live feed worth subscribing to.

Before subscribing to anything, it is worth a quick habit: check the most recent episode date directly in your podcast app before committing to a show. A stale feed with no new episodes in over a year is not necessarily bad listening (the Matt Report archive proves that), but it changes how you should treat it. Treat it as a library to search through for a specific topic, not a weekly habit to build your commute around.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are these podcasts free to listen to?

Yes, every show on this list is free and available on the major platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and direct RSS feeds from each show’s own website.

Do I need to listen in order, or can I jump to specific episodes?

Most of these shows are built around standalone episodes rather than a serialized story, so you can search for a specific topic (course pricing, a particular plugin, freelance rates) and jump straight to a relevant episode without needing the earlier back catalog for context.

Which show is best for someone brand new to WordPress?

Your Website Engineer and WP Briefing are both good starting points for newer users, since neither assumes deep prior WordPress business experience, and both keep individual episodes short.

What happened to WP Elevation?

It rebranded as The Agency Hour Podcast, still hosted by Troy Dean, with a broader focus on digital agencies rather than WordPress consultants specifically. The original WP Elevation episodes remain archived on the same feed.

Is there still a dedicated WooCommerce podcast?

Not under the old Do the Woo name specifically. Bob Dunn’s show evolved into the Open Channels network, which still covers ecommerce and open source topics but under a broader umbrella rather than a single WooCommerce-only feed. Check the network’s current episode list to see what is being covered week to week.

How many WordPress podcasts should I actually follow?

Two or three is a realistic number for most people. Following ten shows sounds thorough in theory, but in practice it usually means episodes pile up unlistened and the habit falls apart within a few months. Pick shows that map to what you are actually working on, whether that is agency operations, course sales, or general WordPress news, and build the habit around those before adding more.

Getting the Most Out of WordPress Podcasts

A few habits make podcast listening more useful than passively letting episodes autoplay in the background.

First, keep a simple running note, even just a phone notes app, of specific tips or tools mentioned in an episode. Podcasts move quickly and it is easy to hear something genuinely useful, nod along, and forget it entirely by the time you are back at your desk. A one-line note with the episode name and the tip is usually enough to jog your memory later.

Second, adjust playback speed to match the content. Interview-heavy shows with a lot of back-and-forth conversation, like Draft or How I Built It, often hold up fine at 1.25x or 1.5x speed. Denser, more technical episodes are usually worth listening to at normal speed, since speeding through them risks missing details that actually matter.

Third, treat podcast recommendations, including this list, as a starting point rather than a fixed answer. Shows launch, rebrand, and sometimes go quiet, as several examples on this list demonstrate. Checking a show’s most recent episode date before committing real listening time takes thirty seconds and saves you from building a habit around a feed that stopped updating two years ago.

Finally, do not underestimate how much value sits in a show’s back catalog even after the host moves on to something else. The Matt Report archive is a good example: the show itself has gone quiet, but hundreds of episodes on freelance pricing, client management, and agency growth are still sitting there, still accurate, and still worth searching through for a specific topic even though nothing new is being added. The same is true for early Do the Woo episodes now filed under the Open Channels umbrella. A podcast does not stop being useful the moment it stops publishing new episodes, it just changes from a weekly habit into a searchable library.

Building a Habit Around Listening

The single biggest reason people stop listening to podcasts is not a lack of good shows, it is a lack of a consistent trigger to actually press play. Tying a specific show to a specific recurring activity works better than a vague intention to listen more. Pair a short, practical show like Your Website Engineer with a specific daily task, such as your morning coffee or a short commute, and save longer interview shows like Draft or How I Built It for an activity with more sustained attention, like a longer drive or a workout.

Subscribing through a dedicated podcast app rather than relying on a browser tab also makes a real difference. Apps like Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, and Overcast automatically download new episodes, track your listening position across devices, and let you queue up a playlist in advance, which removes the small daily friction of hunting down where you left off.

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