Welcome to The Excerpt Episode 3, part of the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes. Draft consists of two formats: long form interviews like I’ve done for a long time, and The Excerpt for a summary of news around the WordPress ecosystem.

With The Excerpt, we cover a few of our favorite stories from the Post Status Club over the last week or two. The primary goal is to keep it short and informational: we keep the podcast to around 15 minutes.

In Episode 3, I'm joined by Beka Rice, who writes the excellent eCommerce blog SellWithWP and is a partner at eCommerce company SkyVerge.

Stories discussed:

• Mesh by Automattic, an in-progress app I discovered by accident.
• Release leads for WordPress 4.3, and 4.4 were announced.
• April Fools' roundup (Club only, but we talk about them individually), including my own about Jetpack bundling WordPress.
• A theme shop's year in review. I also covered this in the Club.