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  • Newsletter
    January 27, 2025

    Is AI Dethroning WordPress?

    Join me live with Matt Medeiros to talk about the future of WordPress in our increasingly AI world.

  • Tutorials
    January 18, 2025

    Pull WordPress from Prod to Local with WP-CLI Bash Script

    Simple bash script for pulling your wp-content folder and database down into your local environment.

  • Newsletter
    January 14, 2025

    What is happening to WordPress and the web?

    Weekly news with a heavy dose of AI.

  • Blog
    January 7, 2025

    Is LLM-generated code good for open source?

    Thoughts on whether generative AI-based coding is really going to save open source software.

  • Newsletter
    December 20, 2024

    One last thing before we wrap this year

    It’s a double newsletter week. Normally I wouldn’t do this to you, but my holiday vacation is about to start and I wanted to get a few additional things off my chest. As I’m hurriedly writing this, my inbox has been hit with four other WordPress newsletters who thought publishing on a Friday before Christmas…

  • Blog
    December 20, 2024

    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.

  • Video
    December 18, 2024

    WP Queries in PHP and JavaScript – Building a custom Avatar block

    In this video, I share how I built a custom solution for displaying guest speaker images on my podcast website using WordPress. I combined plugins like Seriously Simple Podcasting and the outdated WP Term Images, then created a custom Gutenberg block to dynamically display speaker headshots. I discuss the challenges of working with the REST…

  • Newsletter
    December 18, 2024

    Google’s Game Plan and WordPress Fifteen Years On

    I’m starting to sound like a broken record here, but I’ll say it again: I’m playing with the format of my content, people! I’m asking myself questions like “what is a newsletter?” and “is it bad to use the word ‘content’?”. There’s no strategy, friends. Last week I included three dozen links at the end…

  • Newsletter
    December 13, 2024

    This is why we can’t have nice (self-hosted) things

    In case you missed it, last week I launched a podcast: Webmasters.fm. Today I’ve dropped a new interview: Jessica Lyschik, developer at Greyd and one of the driving forces behind the very popular TwentyTwentyFour default WordPress theme. This episode is audio-only, but I’ve set up a new YouTube account to mirror the feed for any…

  • Newsletter
    December 4, 2024

    Introducing Webmasters.fm – A New Podcast

    Launching a new podcast, a new website, and hopefully a new look at the open web.

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