Building My Dream Plugin Curation Tool
The plugin directory has plenty of hidden gems and almost no tools for finding them deliberately. So I started building the curation system I always wished existed.
OPEN ENTRYTEDDY'S FILING CABINET · 12 DRAWERS ACTIVE
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Good Chaos: A WordPress Plugin Discovery Experiment
The Featured tab could keep rewarding yesterday’s winners—or become a launchpad for the next great WordPress plugins. Here is a simple experiment for choosing discovery over inertia.
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From Idea Limbo to Creative Paradise: How Telex Changed Everything
For years, good ideas died between the napkin sketch and the developer invoice. Telex changed the equation: the gatekeeper became a collaborator, and idea limbo finally got an exit.
OPEN ENTRYThe Future of Telex: When AI Gets Personality (And We All Have More Fun)
Telex is already powerful. Give it characters, rivalries, and a little theater, and building blocks could feel less like operating software and more like joining a strange dev team.
OPEN ENTRYBuild a Better Mousetrap (Dad Was Right All Along)
Dad’s advice was simple: stop worshipping originality and make the thing in front of you a little better. Creation is not a prize reserved for whoever arrived first.
OPEN ENTRYWhy WordPress Lost the Cool Kids (And How to Win Them Back)
WordPress did not lose designers because the platform stopped working. It lost them through stale interfaces, boring defaults, and signals that made other tools look cooler.
OPEN ENTRYThe WordPress Setup Revolution
WordPress.org’s restrictions look like an onboarding dead end. Used differently, they could become the foundation for setup experiences that are faster, clearer, and far less punishing.
OPEN ENTRYWhere WordPress Gets Weird (And Weird Gets Wonderful)
WordPress democratized publishing, then got house-trained. This is a manifesto for the weird themes, risky ideas, and playful experiments that can make the platform feel wild again.
OPEN ENTRYPest, Persist, Pioneer: My WordPress Story
A lifelong theme obsession, a lot of pestering, and the people who kept opening doors anyway. This is how enthusiasm became a WordPress career—and eventually a theme of my own.
OPEN ENTRYStop Building WordPress Themes Like It's 2015
WordPress themes are still trapped in the safest version of 2015. The platform does not need another compatible beige box; it needs designers willing to make the web feel alive again.
OPEN ENTRYThe Plugin That Could Transform WordPress's Rep
One small plugin made a standard WordPress theme feel polished, intentional, and modern. View Transitions may be the easiest reputation upgrade WordPress has overlooked.
OPEN ENTRYSmall Touches, Big Impact: The Art of Hover Effects
A hover state can make a theme feel alive—or make it feel like a circus. Here are the link effects Claude suggested, including the quiet one that actually shipped.
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