Not Everyone Wants to Build
Most people asking for a website don't want a blank canvas and a kit. They want something finished enough to use, then make it theirs.
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The Dashboard Can't Write the Joke
Measurement can tell you which option won. It can’t tell you what the third option should have been.
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WordPress should open the door for agents
WordPress can make its public content easier to read, discover and use, while keeping site owners in control of what agents can do.
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WordPress Needs an Official Second Door for the Frontend
People already build headless WordPress sites. The next step is for Core to make decoupled frontends a dependable option alongside themes.
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The demo is part of the theme
You can write excellent theme code and still screw up the thing people actually see. Purple made me want to talk about that.
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The moat was never the servers
Media Temple made people proud of where they hosted their websites. I'd like to see Spacefast build that kind of community for people making things with AI.
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Omarchy Gave Me a Name for OpenStation
Omarchy calls itself a malleable OS. That helped me explain what I want OpenStation to be for WordPress.
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WordPress Core Already Gives Us a Path to Better Plugin Discovery
The stable Plugins API in Core lets WordPress.org improve search for existing sites now—and leaves room for richer Core features later.
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Beeper Built the Inbox. Now Let’s Build the Town Square.
I'd like a Matrix community app connected to WordPress, with Beeper support and OpenStation as a first community to try it.
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WordPress Has Rebuilt Everything Except The Room You Work In
OpenStation lets people arrange their WordPress work in windows and return to it later. I think the admin has needed that kind of change for years.
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The Repairman and the Book
A Nintendo repairman, a 2006 web manifesto, and one stubborn rule: choose your constraints, build less, and make something surprisingly good from proven junk.
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WordPress Without the Dashboard
What if WordPress kept its superpowers and lost the dashboard? A case for publishing by conversation—and getting every panel, notice, and click out of the writer’s way.
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