Jared is the author of Timber, a powerful development library for WordPress with more than 1 million downloads. Jared started his career working at newspapers. He and his partners saw the importance of the backend user experience in digital publications and started using WordPress to develop custom built WordPress interfaces for large-scale websites. What does such an interface look like? And where does he see the future of content management and WordPress? Find out in our conversation.
Highlights
0:00 Intro
1:09 WordPress is great, but the loop isn't
2:23 Timber's origins
3:57 Jared's background
8:43 Editor empathy × developer experience
15:06 WordPress usability studies
17:36 Gutenberg revolution vs. evolution
25:09 Timber 2.0
27:51 Getting out of the way
32:59 Consistency of WordPress
35:49 Building platforms that last
40:18 Structured data in WordPress
47:20 Large scale CMS interfaces
Links
Timber: https://upstatement.com/timber/
Upstatement: https://upstatement.com/
Flynt: https://flyntwp.com/
Heroku: https://www.heroku.com/
Roots: https://roots.io/
ACF: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/
Lumberjack: https://lumberjack.rareloop.com/
make: https://www.make.com/
Zapier: https://zapier.com/
Airtable: https://www.airtable.com/
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