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  • Podcast Appearances
    January 7, 2026

    🔗 On WooCommerce’s Challenges and Innovations in a Changing WordPress Landscape at WPTavern

    In this episode, Nathan Wrigley interviews Brian Coords, Developer Advocate at WooCommerce, about his career path, WooCommerce’s recent rebranding, and its approach to developer relations.

  • Podcast Appearances
    December 19, 2025

    🔗 On Teaching English, Tattoos, and Building Community at WooCommerce on Seriously, BUD?

    In this episode of Seriously, Bud, Brian Coords shares his journey from English teacher to WordPress developer advocate at WooCommerce. Brian talks about raising five kids, playing guitar at home, discovering WordPress by accident, building community through writing and developer relations, and how tattoos, storytelling, and friendship all shape his life and work.

  • Tutorials
    December 3, 2025

    Building a Woo Product Category Image Block with WordPress 6.9

    Let’s extend some WordPress 6.9 features for WooCommerce, including the Block Bindings API for integrating data into templates and the Terms Query Loop block for showcasing taxonomy terms.

  • Newsletter
    December 2, 2025

    RSS Readers Still Exist?

    I built an RSS reader using new WordPress components. Because people still need RSS readers, right?

  • Newsletter
    October 6, 2025

    Open Source is a Tradeoff

    How should we build and advocate for changes inside an open source community?

  • Newsletter
    September 15, 2025

    Are you down with MCP?

    How I learned to stop worrying and love the MCP craze. And a few interesting links.

  • Tutorials
    August 20, 2025

    How to hide WooCommerce block patterns

    A quick code snippet to unregister the block patterns provided in WooCommerce.

  • Newsletter
    August 18, 2025

    Personal Tech Debt & Rediscovering Jetpack

    I’m clearing out old tools and migrating to Jetpack, which surprised even me.

  • Newsletter
    July 22, 2025

    My AI Coding Wins and Losses + WordPress Theme Debate

    Vibe coding isn’t going as well as I’d liked, plus thoughts on another ‘Gutenberg is in crisis’ article going around.

  • Newsletter
    June 16, 2025

    We’re all senior developers now

    AI is my over-confident junior developer, plus links from around the web.

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