Your WordPress workspace should feel like yours
WordPress can be more than an admin panel everyone experiences the same way. WP Desktop Mode and ODD treat it as a personal workspace—wallpaper, tools, weirdness, ownership and all.
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Themelets: Static Sites in a Tiny WordPress Hat
A themelet is a static site that learned the WordPress handshake: one page, one purpose, friendly files, and a tiny hat. GitHub Pages simplicity with a WordPress ID badge.
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Teaching Robots To Stop Writing Weird WordPress Plugins
Model Context Polytechnic is a tiny university where AI agents study WordPress plugin craft, attempt labs, get graded, and graduate with fewer terrifying ideas about production code.
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I Built a WordPress App Platform With Claude, and I Think It's Kind of a Big Deal
AI helped me build useful little tools, then deployment killed them. Bazaar turns WordPress admin into a home for tools-of-one: upload a zip, get an app, keep moving.
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Featured Plugins Round 2 Drove Nearly 18,000 Extra Installs. Round 3 Is Your Shot.
Eight featured plugins gained 17,683 extra installs in fourteen days. The biggest wins went to the smallest plugins, which is exactly why the next round matters.
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WordPress Deserves Better Typography. Here's the Playbook.
Matthew Butterick taught me that authority often lives in margins, line length, and type choices. WordPress can look far better without getting louder; it needs a typography playbook.
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Cloudflare Is Right About WordPress Security. Their Solution Is Wrong.
Cloudflare is right: WordPress plugins get far too much access. But replacing WordPress with a new CMS is not reform. It is burning down the house instead of fixing the locks.
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WordPress Needs a Front Door
Vibe coders are building sites with agents, and every platform wants to catch them. WordPress has the open foundation they need; what it lacks is a front door built for how they arrive.
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The quieter your brand, the louder it travels
Logo stickers circulate inside communities that already know the logo. The physical objects that really travel are quieter, stranger, and good enough to exist without the brand shouting.
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Your AI Remembers Everything. You Own None of It.
Your AI remembers your habits and history inside someone else’s database. The relationship may feel personal, but the memory is rented—and can disappear when the owner changes the terms.
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The Featured Tab Just Changed Everything
Changing the Featured Plugins tab meant changing what millions of WordPress sites see first. The scary part was deciding which small plugins deserved the spotlight.
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The Anti-AI Crowd Is Going to Get Left Behind — And That's On You
Letting the loudest anti-AI users veto every product decision is not caution. It is surrender dressed as strategy—and the companies doing it will be left behind.
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