Category: Featured

  • Brian Coords asked a great question on Xwitter this morning about tutorials and resources for learning the tooling and processes behind modern WordPress development, such as Node.js, NPM, and Git. One of the trickier aspects of modern WordPress development, especially with the advent of blocks, is that it goes far beyond HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and…

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  • I regularly use a couple of AI resources to create content — not so much blue-sky generative efforts as much as polishing up my own writing or content supplied by clients. However, recently I’ve found myself being protective about LLM/AI appropriation of specific content on specific client sites. Opting in to using ChatGPT for my…

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  • Frequently, when dealing with files from clients, colleagues, or even my own creations (especially when using Canva), I encounter documents that feature spaces and uppercase letters in their names, making them less than ideal for creating neat and user-friendly URLs. Perhaps I’m a bit old-school in my approach, stuck in the days of strict, but…

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  • Imagine you have a really cool toy that you can build and change however you want. Well, WordPress is like that toy but for making websites. It helps people make really nice websites without knowing a lot of complicated coding stuff. Now, there’s a new way to make websites called “Full-Site Editing Block Themes.” It’s…

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  • Recently some things have transpired in the social media sphere that have prompted a healthy chunk of us to look for new digital “3rd places” to haunt with one another. All debates around how worthwhile spending time on social media actually is aside, the WordPress community has quickly coalesced around Matthias Pfefferle‘s ActivityPub plugin and…

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  • It’s not uncommon to see folks on Twitter these days inquiring about the best continuing education on WordPress, particularly for Full Site Editing. Here’s a small collection of the best resources out there right now. TL;DR FullSiteEditing.com Carolina Nymark without a doubt was one of the first people – if not THE first person – to create…

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  • Have you ever wanted to hear Tom Finley just talk about the regular WordPress stuff? Probably not — and I wouldn’t blame you – contrary to popular belief I’m actually not *that* fond of my own voice.

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  • Variable fonts are by turns really fun and really difficult to wrap one’s head around when it comes to using them on the web. Variable fonts are incredibly useful when designed and optimized to be contained in a single, compact file because they give you a broad typographical palette to work from with significantly smaller…

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