News and Insights for WordPress Developers

You can set your clock by it – the recurring flare-ups of Gutenberg frustrations that turn into tweets that turn into videos that turn into livestreams that turn into… what exactly? I’m not entirely sure. What are we frustrated about? Leadership. Vision. Direction. Governance. Inflation. But above all: Gutenberg. I won’t retread the arguments about…

It’s a phrase that I’ve started to use more often, to the point where it starts to lose any sense of meaning. Does it mean anything?

Tomorrow I’m going head-to-head in a friendly “page building” livestream with Bricks Builder aficionado Kevin Geary (click to get notified here). We’ll take turns building the same landing page, talking the whole time about the tools and workflows and trying to compare apples to apples (Bricks to Gutenberg) as much as possible. I’ve responded to…

Is WordPress getting too hard? Are the masses really leaving? How big is the moat that keeps WordPress safe? The same questions year after year. (I even found a post I wrote about it for MasterWP two years ago). That’s not to say they’re unimportant questions- in fact they’re probably more important than ever. WordPress…

Work on WordPress 6.6 is underway. If I’m being completely honest with you, I would love it if WordPress 6.6 introduced zero new features. I have not been shy about my desire for a cleanup-only release cycle (this tweet about it had 31k views). A maintenance-only release is an idea that originated with the project’s…

Hey all, Just wanted to send out a quick note on a few exciting things. Catch me at the WP Tavern For the next two weeks, I’ll be contributing regularly to the WP Tavern. It’s all part of Matt Mullenweg’s devious Hunger Games to find contributors/editors for the venerable WordPress news site. Check out my…

There’s something special about WordCamps, big and small. Meeting up with WordPressers in real life is always a rewarding communal experience. So much better than Twitter. This past week at WordCamp Phoenix all the labels of competing hosting companies and competing plugins disappeared and the vibes were harmonious. As soon as I have my hands…

Let’s talk WordCamp Phoenix, page builders vs Gutenberg, and secret bonus content.

Hello WordPress friends, These past few months I’ve been digging into Full Site Editing in WordPress. My theory is that it’s almost ready for primetime use by the developer/agency community, so I’m testing it out on some client projects. Overall I’m… mostly impressed. Don’t get me wrong- there are still a ton of rough edges,…

As anniversaries go, I’m really not sentimental. My wife just had to remind me that we’re hitting ours this week. I’m glad WordPress is sticking around, though, and I do appreciate the schmoozy posts and all that. If I have to pick one anniversary to try to remember, it should probably be my own wedding.…