Podcast
We present Craft CMS and the whole ecosystem in detail in the podcast. Talks with developers, designers, and editors who use the user-friendly content management system. And, of course, news about releases and plugins.
Latest Episode
From Notepad to Guiding AI: Why You Shouldn't Be Worried
Episode 24 with Michael Thomas 1 hr 10 min
Notepad, tables, Grunt, webpack, Vite, and now AI. Michael Thomas has watched the tooling change for twenty-odd years and doesn't believe this time is different. We talk about the Craft CMS skills he built for Claude Code, and why he still reviews every line.
All Episodes
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Episode 15 with Ryan Irelan 1 hr 10 min
CraftQuest On Cast
Ryan Irelan studied German and planned to become a teacher. That never happened, but teaching a foreign language turned out to be the perfect preparation for teaching web development. He talks about CraftQuest, the subscription model, and running a one-person education business in the Craft community.
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Episode 14 with Shawna O'Neal 1 hr 26 min
Dodgy Takes on Price increases
Shawna O'Neal from Dodgy Code never built a WordPress site and hated Craft the first time she used it. She and Thomas discuss the Craft CMS price increase, what it means for small agencies, and whether a lighter license tier would make sense.
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Episode 13 with Brandon Kelly 1 hr 18 min
Craft CMS - Ten Years and Beyond!
Brandon Kelly, creator of Craft CMS, looks back on ten years: from learning ExpressionEngine in a day to plugin revenue surpassing his salary to almost naming it "Blocks CMS" to leading a 16-member team running conferences on multiple continents.
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Episode 12 with Andrew Armitage 53 min
Selling a relationship - Running an agency
Andrew Armitage from A Digital talks about the realities of running a small Craft CMS agency: managing a team, competing in an increasingly crowded market, and why the hard work starts after a website launches.
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Episode 11 with Andrew Armitage 45 min
Not hard to sell - using Craft CMS as an agency
Andrew Armitage from A Digital was in the room when Craft CMS was first shown publicly under the name Blocks. He talks about building a Craft-only agency, deliberately staying small, and selling Craft to clients who have never heard of it.
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Episode 10 with Andrew Welch 53 min
Lost in the Sierra Nevada with Andrew Welch
Andrew Welch taught himself Pascal at 15, ran a Mac software company for two decades, got a threatening letter from General Electric's lawyers, and eventually wound it all down to build Craft CMS plugins alone from a converted barn. He talks about that journey and how SEOmatic came to be.
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Episode 9 with Charlie Dowley 32 min
From Dreamweaver to Craft - The story of a female web developer
Charlie Dowley's employer sent her on a Dreamweaver course. She found it more interesting than design, quit shortly after, and spent eight years in WordPress before Gutenberg pushed her toward Craft CMS. She talks about that journey, accessibility, and working as a female developer in tech.
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Episode 8 with John Henry Donovan 1 hr 6 min
Surviving a web development career
In the 8th episode John Henry Donovan tells how he literally survived his career as a web developer. His experiences as a speaker at web conferences and unexpected drastic health problems are also discussed.