Open Channels FM: Finding Balance: The Importance of Downtime at Conferences
Conferences are hectic, but experts say taking breaks is key for success. Pausing helps recharge, absorb info, and connect meaningfully with others. Balance is everything!
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Open Channels FM: IndieWeb: Protocol or Philosophy?
Matthias Pfefferle and Ryan Barrett discuss the Indie Web’s dual nature as both a philosophy and a protocol, emphasizing website ownership and the role of open standards like RSS.
Forget Boring Forms: How to Build Interactive WordPress Surveys with AI
Building a survey in WordPress is easy, but designing one that gives you actionable data is a different story. Most surveys give useless results because they aren’t engaging enough to get honest, detailed answers from visitors. I’ve found that the best way to fix this is by creating interactive surveys that adapt to your users…
Gary: Claudaborative Editing 0.2: now with 500% more collaboration!
A week ago, I put together a quick tech demo, showing how an MCP server could be created for Claude Code that hooked directly into Gutenberg’s Collaborative Editing feature, allowing it to act as a digital collaborator on a post. The demo focused primarily on text generation, but that’s not really the benefit that I…
WordPress.org blog: WP Packages is Working the Way Open Source Should
When WP Engine acquired WPackagist on March 12, the WordPress developer community faced a familiar question: what happens when critical open source infrastructure ends up under corporate control? The community already had an answer in progress. Four days later, WP Packages (formerly WP Composer) launched as a fully independent, community-funded alternative, with some neat additional…
#209 – Simon Pollard on Navigating the New Normal for WordPress Community and Events
Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, trying to navigate the new normal for WordPress community and events. If you’d…
Matt: Taxonomist
I’m really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which I think represents a new way we might build things in the future. First, the problem: My WordPress site has 5,600+ posts going back decades, and I had some categories that were old and I didn’t really…
Riad Benguella: Meet Studio Code: I redesigned my WordPress site in 2 hours
The shoemaker’s children go barefoot or, as we say in French, Les cordonniers sont toujours les plus mal chaussés. That’s been me for years. As a developer working on WordPress, I’ve long neglected the design of my site. This ends today. We’ve recently released a new tool called Studio Code, think of it as Claude Code but tailored for WordPress. A…
How to Accept Pre-Orders in WooCommerce (Most Stores Miss This)
Pre-orders are an incredibly powerful way for online stores to launch new products, assess demand, and secure sales even before items are in stock. This strategy can bring in revenue earlier and help you manage inventory more effectively. However, finding the right way to set up pre-orders in WooCommerce can get tricky. With various plugins…
#212 – Anne Bovelett on How Web Accessibility Boosts Traffic, SEO, and Revenue
Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. [00:00:26] Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case how web accessibility boosts traffic, SEO, and revenue. [00:00:39] If you’d like…