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  • Blog
    February 1, 2025

    Getting the Block Editor Ready for AI

    If WordPress wants to survive, it needs to take generative AI seriously.

  • Livestream, Video
    January 28, 2025

    Are Matt’s AI Skills Making WordPress Developers Obsolete?

    In this livestream, Matt shows me his new AI developer skills and I decide if I should be worried about my career.

  • 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 I combined plugins like Seriously Simple Podcasting and the outdated WP Term Images, then created a custom Gutenberg block to dynamically display speaker headshots.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…

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