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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Why Recess Feels Like a Missing Piece for AI-Coded WordPress
AI can produce a WordPress idea in minutes, but sharing it still means files, screenshots, and infrastructure. Recess gives that half-formed idea a clickable place to run around.
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Youish Is My Answer To The Pencils-Are-Holy Club
Bad AI writing sounds like nobody and keeps talking after the point is dead. Youish is my answer: an editor that makes your draft better, tighter, and still unmistakably yours.
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WordPress Is the Doorway, Not the Room
WordPress gets us into the same building. The room should be about making things, surviving clients, trading strange ideas, and meeting people—not another Settings API slide deck.
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We Have Been Here Before
People have feared creative technology before, often for good reasons and with the wrong conclusion. From Sousa to AI, the pattern is worth understanding before anxiety becomes prophecy.
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I Love WordPress. There's Nothing for Me at WordCamp.
I read every WordCamp Europe 2026 session looking for one reason to attend. There was nothing for the work I do—or for the people who use WordPress because they want to build.
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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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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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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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Your Second Brain Will Outlive Your Notes App
Your notes app may disappear, pivot, or trap your export. WordPress has survived for twenty years and might be the safest place for a second brain you actually own.
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The Intent Layer: Reimagining WordPress Navigation for the AI Era
WordPress organizes its admin around system objects. People arrive with intentions. An interface built around ‘what are you trying to do?’ could close the gap between the two.
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I Dug Through 6,162 WordPress Plugins From 2025. Let's Talk About What's Missing—And Why 2026 Could Be Different
I analyzed all 6,162 plugins added to WordPress.org in 2025. The directory has plenty of volume; what it lacks is audacity—and AI may be how we get it.
OPEN ENTRYWhy I Built Ask Seraphina
At 2 a.m., with a sick dog and nowhere useful to put the fear, I learned that fear does not always need solving. Sometimes it needs a warm voice that stays.
OPEN ENTRYWhat If Plugin Developers Could Actually Make a Living?
A great free plugin can become critical infrastructure, then quietly die because its developer cannot afford to keep working. What if WordPress maintainers could make a living?
OPEN ENTRYThe AutomaticCSS Naming Was Just Stupid
AutomaticCSS picked a confusing name, WordPress objected, and somehow Matt got blamed. This is a defense of my friend and an argument for naming products like the ecosystem matters.
OPEN ENTRYFinding WordPress's Hidden Gems: A Discovery Story
Great plugins disappear in a directory too large for casual browsing. I wanted to understand why discovery fails—and what it would take to give small developers a real chance.
OPEN ENTRYIntroducing the WordPress Development MCP Server: Your AI's Epic Training Montage
AI can generate WordPress code, but it rarely has the battle scars to make good WordPress decisions. This MCP server gives it the training montage it has been missing.
OPEN ENTRYTwo Rebels, One Mission: How Framework and WordPress Are Democratizing Tech
Framework and WordPress look unrelated until you notice what they protect: your right to open the thing, change it, repair it, and keep owning what you bought.
OPEN ENTRYI Made a Cheat Sheet That Lets AI Write Your Perfect WordPress Plugin Readme in 5 Minutes
I turned WordPress.org’s plugin-ranking rules into a cheat sheet an AI can use. Five minutes later, you have a better readme without memorizing an SEO ritual.
OPEN ENTRYWhy Your WordPress Plugin Has 10 Installs (And How to Fix It)
Your plugin may be good. Ten installs do not prove otherwise. WordPress published the ranking clues years ago; this is how to use them instead of waiting to be discovered.
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 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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