Appearances
Podcasts, interviews and talks
23 of them between 2017 and 2026: ten as co-host of a WooCommerce developer show, the rest as a guest or on a conference stage. Mostly about performance, WooCommerce at scale, and lately about what happens when the agent writes the code.
Open Makers, as co-host
Ten episodes co-hosting the WooCommerce developer show on Open Channels FM, formerly Do the Woo, with Mike Andreasen. Mostly performance, HPOS and the parts of WooCommerce development that only show up at scale.
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Co-host
Inside the Developer Experience with HPOS
Open Makers, with Mike Andreasen
First episode as co-host.
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Co-host
Shifting Gears in WooCommerce Development From PHP to React
Open Makers, with Carl Alexander, Mike Andreasen and Zach Stepek
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Co-host
From Hosting to Core Web Vitals for Building Fast WooCommerce Sites
Open Makers, with Mike Andreasen
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Co-host
Scaling WooCommerce: Insights on High-Performance Order Storage
Open Makers, with guest Vedanshu Jain
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Co-host
The Ultimate Guide to WooCommerce Hosting
Open Makers, with Mike Andreasen
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Co-host
Caching, Scaling, Plugin Optimization, Security, Headless, and AI
Open Makers, with guest Andre Faca
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Co-host
Optimizing WooCommerce Performance and Code Quality
Open Makers, with guest Brian Jackson
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Co-host
Advanced WooCommerce Development, Lessons and Challenges
Open Makers, with guest Chase Gruszewski
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Co-host
Reflections on the WooCommerce Releases from 2024
Open Makers, with Mike Andreasen
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Co-host
Building Trust and Converting Online Sales with Simple UX Decisions
Open Makers, with guest Marc McDougall
As a guest
Interviews and panels on other people's shows, from the official WooCommerce channel to hosting companies and the WordPress press.
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Guest
O Futuro das Agências na Era da IA
Fellyph Cintra, with host Fellyph Cintra
In Portuguese. Orchestrating agents with WP Dev Docs MCP and Playground, and what that does to how an agency prices and estimates.
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Guest
Modern WordPress Architecture: What Agencies Should Actually Care About
Greyd Conversations #14, with host Jessica Lyschik, with Tome Pajkovski
Why reaching for headless rarely fixes a performance problem that is really unoptimised PHP.
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Guest
From Tech Enthusiast to Digital Agency Founder
Changing Lives with Codeable
The long version of the career, from first project to running an agency.
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Guest
Is it time for WordPress distros?
Kinsta Talk
Performance, custom builds, and why WooCommerce stopped being just a plugin.
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Guest
Finding Work With Codeable and Working With WooCommerce
WP Tavern Jukebox #42, with host Nathan Wrigley
Recorded on the floor at WordCamp Europe in Porto.
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Guest
The Benefits of WooCommerce Freelancing with a Company
Do the Woo, with Christopher Churchill
Three years before joining the same network as a host.
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Guest
WooCommerce Live: eCommerce Design
WooCommerce, with hosts Noëlle Steegs and Jonathan Wold
First impressions, impersonating your customer, and treating branding as a revenue decision, on the official WooCommerce channel.
Talks on video
Conference sessions that made it to tape. Portuguese unless noted. The 2026 WordCamp Portugal pair are the current agentic material; the 2017 one is a period piece.
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Speaker
A Nova Era do WordPress: De Developer a Arquiteto com Engenharia Agêntica
WordCamp Portugal 2026
55 minutes on orchestrating agents instead of writing code line by line.
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Speaker
WP Agentic Admin
WordCamp Portugal 2026
The privacy-first admin assistant that runs entirely in the browser.
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Speaker
Como instalar e integrar um servidor MCP com WooCommerce e ChatGPT
WordPress Day Porto 2025
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Speaker
Simplificando o WordPress para Empresas: Temas e Plugins Customizados
WordCamp Porto 2024
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Augmented Reality and WooCommerce
WPSessions
In English. Building AR into mobile apps backed by WooCommerce.
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Speaker
Lojas on-line com WooCommerce: o que faz, o que não faz e o que deveria fazer
WordCamp Lisboa 2017
The earliest one on record.
Press
Coverage rather than appearances: written about, not spoken on. Both concern an unofficial WordCamp app for iOS, later renamed WP Camps.
Looking for a guest on WordPress, WooCommerce performance or agentic development? marcel@pluginslab.com. Upcoming talks are on Up Next.