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Elliott Richmond, a 20+ year WordPress developer and YouTube content creator, discusses his journey from early b2/WordPress days to running a pizza delivery business powered by WooCommerce and custom plugins. He shares how he built a delivery slot system with geolocation radius restrictions, now being packaged as a freemium plugin. Elliott also reveals a new arrangement with Automattic to create educational video content about wordpress.com features throughout 2026, with early access to upcoming features. He covers his content creation process including loose scripting, using AI to polish brain dumps, and a minimal tech setup (iPhone camera, DIY cat-food-box lighting, DaVinci Resolve).

#211 – Elliott Richmond on WordPress Content Creation, Education, and Pizza Plugins