WP Legends

A YouTube series with the founders, agency owners, and product builders shaping WordPress. Hosted by Gautam Khorana, produced by Seahawk Media.

About The Show

WP Legends is a YouTube series I host where I sit down with the founders, agency owners, and product builders shaping WordPress. The conversations are not interviews, they are working sessions about how the open web is built, who is building it, and what is changing now.

Each episode runs 30 to 60 minutes. We skip the fluff. The questions get into how guests actually run their businesses, what is working in 2026, and what they would do differently if they were starting today.

The series is produced by Seahawk Media and ships weekly across the year.

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What You'll Learn

The recurring themes across the series:

  • How agency founders price, scale, and protect margins in a commoditized market
  • Where WordPress core is going, block themes, the site editor, WordPress 7, AI features
  • What product builders learn shipping plugins to millions of users
  • The honest economics of running a WordPress hosting company in 2026
  • How AI is reshaping content production, support workflows, and developer tooling
  • What works for SEO and AEO inside the WordPress ecosystem right now
  • Career paths through the open-source WordPress community

If you build with WordPress, sell to WordPress users, or maintain WordPress sites at scale, the show is built for you.

  • How host and server security actually works, malware detection, WAFs, and server hardening, with founders from BitNinja and Monarx
  • How the domain and registrar layer shapes digital identity and SEO, with leaders from Saw.com, Dynadot, and Atom.com

Why Subscribe

Three reasons:

  • You will hear unfiltered takes from people who are usually careful in public, the format encourages honesty about what is actually working
  • You get one hour with someone who has shipped at scale and would otherwise charge for the conversation
  • You will see WordPress through founder, agency, and product lenses, the three perspectives that determine where the platform is going

If you only subscribe to one WordPress show, this should probably be it.

Topics Covered

The series spans the technical and operational stack of running on WordPress:

  • WordPress hosting and infrastructure, Kinsta, WP Engine, Cloudways, Rocket.net, edge deployment
  • Headless WordPress, WPGraphQL, Faust.js, Next.js, Astro, SvelteKit
  • WordPress agency operations, pricing, hiring, retention, niche selection
  • WordPress products, plugin distribution, freemium economics, support scaling
  • Performance and Core Web Vitals, LCP, INP, CLS at scale
  • SEO, AEO, and GEO, what works inside WordPress for AI search visibility
  • Migrations, Sitecore, Drupal, Typo3, AEM into WordPress
  • AI in WordPress, block-level AI features, content production pipelines, developer tooling
  • Community and contribution, how WordPress core gets built, contributor paths
  • Host and server security, malware detection, WAFs, server hardening (BitNinja, Monarx)
  • Domains and digital identity, registrars, premium domains, TLDs (Saw.com, Dynadot, Atom.com, Namecheap/Spaceship)

Behind The Scenes

The show is produced lean. One host, one camera, no studio. Most episodes are recorded remote, guests are scattered across timezones, and we treat the format like a working video call rather than a polished broadcast. The audio gets a careful pass before publish, the visuals stay raw.

Editing is light by design. The point is the conversation, not the production.

Get Involved

Three ways to engage with the series:

  • Subscribe on YouTube to get every episode the day it drops
  • Suggest a guest, if you know a WordPress founder or product builder whose story should be on the show, tell us
  • Sponsor an episode, for product companies who want to reach the WordPress agency and operator audience, episode sponsorship is available through Seahawk Media

FEATURED GUESTS

156 conversations and counting, every guest on the show, newest first. Each thumbnail opens the episode on YouTube; company names link out to where they build.

RELATED READING

Deep dives on the topics the guests keep coming back to: hosting, security, domains, and going headless.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is WP Legends?

WP Legends is a weekly YouTube interview series hosted by Gautam Khorana, with 156+ episodes featuring the founders, CEOs, and product leaders building the WordPress, hosting, security, and domain ecosystem.

Who has appeared on WP Legends?

Guests span hosting leaders (Kinsta, WP Engine, Hostinger), host and server security founders (BitNinja, Monarx), domain and registrar leaders (Saw.com, Dynadot, Atom.com, Namecheap/Spaceship), and product builders (Elementor, TranslatePress, Freemius). The full, current list is on this page.

What topics does WP Legends cover?

WordPress hosting and infrastructure, host and server security, domains and digital identity, headless WordPress, agency operations and pricing, performance and Core Web Vitals, and SEO, AEO, and GEO.

How often do new episodes air?

A new episode airs most weeks. Subscribe on YouTube or watch the full playlist to get each one the day it drops.

WANT TO BE A GUEST?

If you run a WordPress agency, build WordPress products, or operate at the edges of the WordPress economy and have a story worth telling, get in touch. Episodes drop weekly.

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