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…
WordCamp Asia 2026 will be available to watch live across three days of streaming, making it easy for the global WordPress community to follow along from anywhere. This year’s live streamed programming begins with a special Contributor Day broadcast, followed by two full conference days of presentations from across the WordPress community. This post gathers…
You call yourself a Christian engineer, but you haven’t given your life to Open Source? Huh. What license would Jesus choose? I don’t know if it’s GPL or MIT, but sure as heck it isn’t proprietary. Letting proprietary code dictate your life is like following a Bible you’re not allowed to read. Beware those who…
I wanted to hook up Claude Code to be able to interact with my local wordpress-develop core development environment via MCP (Model Context Protocol). I couldn’t find documentation specifically for doing this, so I’m sharing how I did it here. Assuming you have set up the environment (with Docker) and started it via npm run…
In this episode, Adam and Marc discuss agency challenges in digital marketing, focusing on AI’s impact, client expectations, and the importance of communication and efficiency in managing multiple websites.
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…
In this episode, Derek Hanson chats with Devin Walker about Jetpack Social updates, including interface redesign, Twitter integration, AI features, and upcoming WordPress 7.0 enhancements for WordPress users.
Writing blog posts can take a lot of time. Between brainstorming ideas, creating outlines, and turning everything into a polished article, it’s easy to get stuck staring at a blank page. That’s where AI can make a big difference. Today’s AI blog tools have changed blogging by helping you generate ideas, write full blog post drafts, and optimize content for search engines. I’ve tried many AI blog generators while experimenting with different writing workflows, but only five really stood…
Key figures from the FAIR TYPO3 hackathon discuss the platform-agnostic FAIR protocol, its integration with TYPO3, and advancements in digital goods distribution across multiple systems.
In this episode, Bob introduces “Keep It Open,” a new initiative dedicated to supporting independent, honest conversations around the open web. He shares the importance of community contributions, sponsorships, and how listeners can get involved in keeping the web open and free here at Open Channels FM. Takeaways The significance of maintaining an independent and…