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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.…

What a fun week in WordPress. The twentieth anniversary of WP is kicking off with the #WP20 campaign and you can feel the community coming out of it’s winter cave and engaging with each other more. Not always in the most positive way, but overall it’s been fun to see the conversations pick up on…

Last month was a bit of a whirlwind, culminating in a trip to Arizona for WordCamp Phoenix. I was hoping to share a few of my favorite talks, but I’ll probably wait until the edited videos are all available. Let’s just say that I learned a LOT about PHP 8, generative AI, WooCommerce, and the…

If I’ve been a little quiet on the blog here, it’s because I’ve been busy preparing for WordCamp Phoenix, just around the corner. I’ll be giving a presentation titled Migrating your Workflow from ACF Flexible Content to ACF Blocks. (In case you couldn’t tell, that’s been a theme around here.) If you’re interested in WordPress…

Some people LOVE to start new things. They register domain names with reckless abandon. Others (like me) get hit with insecurity before they can even begin. They talk themselves out of it or fall victim to resistance. But I’m trying, people. It’s been a new year of new projects, most notably the viewSource podcast (and…

Happy Thursday! Why am I sending this on Thursday instead of Friday? Why do I assume that anyone would even notice the difference? I don’t know. I’m playing around with productivity schedules (including a return to time-block planning, Cal Newport-style) so I’ll be experimenting with different formats and schedules for blog posts and this newsletter.…

What do litter boxes, advice blogs, and conspiracy theories have in common? They’re the topic of my main post this week. Warning: it’s a fairly personal one. As I think about the future of the internet, I’m genuinely concerned about our (read: my) inability to create deeper meaning at scale or to even be able…

RSS was maybe the first “great” syndication method for writing online. It’s easy and open. Almost every blog or content-heavy website supports it. I see a writer I like and I can just add their URL to my RSS feed reader. Email newsletters are also great- they use a pretty open protocol. You still have…