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Making a Career Change
This month I’m embarking on a new role: Developer Advocate, WooCommerce.
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Getting the Block Editor Ready for AI
If WordPress wants to survive, it needs to take generative AI seriously.
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Is LLM-generated code good for open source?
Thoughts on whether generative AI-based coding is really going to save open source software.
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Another Post About What WordPress Core Should be Doing
There’s been another batch of “what WordPress should do” posts this past month. They’re all great, but I think there’s something missing from the conversation.
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Misconceptions About Matt, Open Source, and Contributions
As we learn more about the Matt vs WP Engine fight, it’s time to clear up some major misconceptions.
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The WCUS Closing I Wish We’d Had
In case you missed it, WordCamp US 2024 ended on a very wild note, with Matt singling out WP Engine as enemy number one.
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Custom fields and post types inside the block editor – An Automattic Adventure
Earlier this week, I livestreamed to talk about Create Content Model, the open source prototype that I was lucky enough to participate in with the team from WordPress.com. If you haven’t already, I recommend watching the stream because I tell the whole story, demo the prototype, and answer a few questions. But I’ll give some…
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Will WordPress 6.6 have components?
A true component-based web design system inside of WordPress would be the developers dream, but I just don’t think we’re there yet.
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Dev Considerations for a New FSE Project
This post outlines the main developer experience issues with block-based themes, with some thoughts around how I plan to solve them, including what tools I might need to leverage along the way.
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Should the “Page” in WordPress be the new default?
A crazy thought experiment: let’s make “page” the default post type in WordPress- and make posts (and all that come with them) opt-in.