AI assistants like Claude Code, Cowork, and ChatGPT are incredible productivity boosters, and if you wished that you could connect these AI tools with WordPress directly, then you’re not alone. Lately, I have been using WordPress MCP by WPVibe to let my AI assistant manage my website, and it’s truly amazing how much time this…
Last week at WordCamp Europe there was a get-together among WordPress Core committers and a question arose concerning the separate Gutenberg npm packages that are built and distributed. I was curious about how frequently they are updated and which ones are most active, so I asked Codex to review git commit activity, gather commits per…
Ever logged into WordPress to publish a post, only to end up spending hours on admin tasks? It happens more often than we probably want to admit. You meant to write, but then you noticed yesterday’s orders needed checking. A landing page needed updating before tomorrow’s promo. And your form needs to be integrated with…
Hi there, This is the time of the year when publishing on the Gutenberg Times becomes less frequent. I will be on vacation and back at the beginning of July with the weekend edition, just in-time for Beta 1 of WordPress 7.1. Three more Gutenberg plugin releases will happen before that. What also happened was…
Lights! Camera! Action! Todd Spangler at Variety writes: Automattic’s ‘Code for the People’ Documentary Is a Rallying Cry for Users to Fight for the Open Internet, from the NYC premiere last week. I’m looking forward to the San Francisco premiere of the documentary, and then tomorrow everyone can stream it for free on codeforthepeople.com! Appearances…
A standard contact form tells you almost nothing about the person who just filled it out. You get a name and an email address, but no idea whether that person is ready to buy, still exploring options, or not a real fit at all. At WPBeginner, we run a hosting quiz that works differently. Before…
Otter Blocks 3.2.0 is now live, bringing AI that builds full sections and pages, a redesigned AI writing toolbar, AI form autoresponders, a completely rebuilt Design Library, a new Content Slider block, more reliable forms, and full WordPress 7.0 support. This release focuses on the slowest part of building in the block editor: getting started…….
Getting traffic to your WooCommerce store can be tough when your product pages don’t show up in Google. Plenty of store owners sell great products but still miss out on search traffic because their pages aren’t properly optimized. Often, the issue isn’t the product. It’s the way the product page is set up for SEO….
A few years ago, buying decisions happened on Google. People searched, clicked through a handful of sites, compared their options, and chose. That journey is collapsing into a single step. Now people ask AI tools, like ChatGPT, Gemini, or even ,Google to get a direct recommendation and act on it. The “compare a handful of…
Companies depend on open source software. Supporting the projects that support your business shouldn’t be treated as charity; it should be part of sustaining the infrastructure, ecosystem, and user trust your products rely on. The post Open Source Support Can’t Depend on Charity appeared first on Aaron D. Campbell.
