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 7 with Jack McDade 55 min
Ten years of Statamic
When Brandon Kelly called Jack McDade to ask if he wanted to build a new CMS together, Jack was already close to finishing Statamic. They compared ideas, said no to each other, and went their separate ways. Jack talks about that conversation and ten years of building an indie CMS.
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Episode 6 with Ben Croker 1 hr 5 min
Natural Progression – from BASIC to Plugins
Ben Croker moved from Ireland to Graz for love and the mountains, runs two education startups behind him, and built some of the most widely used Craft CMS plugins. He talks about learning BASIC, the road to PutYourLightsOn, and what it means to hide complexity from the user
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Episode 5 with Justin Holt 58 min
Justin Holts web developer journey from HTML sites to Craft CMS
Justin Holt spent $1,000 printing 5,000 copies of his BMX magazine with a typo on the cover. That was the moment he understood what the internet could do. He has been building websites since 1996 and specializes in Craft CMS.
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Episode 4 14 min
New in Craft CMS 4.1 and 4.2
Thomas walks through the changes in Craft CMS 4.1 and 4.2, and marks the end of Mijingo, Ryan Irelan's training platform that shaped a generation of ExpressionEngine and Craft developers.
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Episode 3 11 min
New in Craft CMS 4.0
Craft CMS 4.0 arrived on Star Wars Day 2022, two and a half years after its announcement. Thomas walks through the biggest changes, what made the cut, and what the community is still waiting for.
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Episode 2 22 min
WordPress or Craft CMS for client projects?
Thomas has been using WordPress since 2005 and Craft since 2013. In this solo episode, he shares his personal take on when to use which CMS for client projects, and why the answer is rarely black and white.
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Episode 1 21 min
2021 - Year in Review
The first English episode of CraftEntries. Thomas has been podcasting about Craft CMS in German since 2017 and now dares to do it in English too. A look back at 2021 in the Craft ecosystem.