For the life of me I don’t understand saying “false claims” instead of “lies”.

🎤 Call for Speakers is open - WordCamp Canada 2026 We’re looking for practical, experience-driven talks, from AI and modern WordPress development to community, open source, and real-world insights. 🔗 Apply here: canada.wordcamp.org/2026/call-fo...

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The WordPress AI plugin 0.8.0 is now available! This release introduces Refine from Notes for automated content refinement, new AI dashboard widgets, Guidelines integration, and promotes Image Generation to a stable Feature. make.wordpress.org/ai/2026/04/2...

When we say Everyone Watches Women’s Sports, we mean it! 🔥 The NWSL x TOGETHXR capsule collection drops May 7.

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ClassifAI 3.8 adds two enterprise features driven by client needs: Usage Monitoring for OpenAI budgets and alerts, plus API Key Credential Filtering for safer secret handling. We also released a plugin connecting WordPress 7.0 to Ollama. fueled.com/blog/ollama-...

How is TJ Maxx not getting in on "looksmaxxing," riding it hard for a fiscal quarter of advertising campaign, then walking away with the satisfaction of having murdered the trend.

Our team just shipped “AI Provider for Ollama”, a new AI Connector plugin for WordPress 7.0. It offers an open source path to integrating AI into WordPress, with control over infrastructure and privacy. fueled.com/blog/ollama-...

New experiments include Content Classification for smarter tagging, SEO-friendly Meta Description generation, and bulk Alt Text generation from the Media Library. Plus usability improvements, extensibility hooks, and reliability updates. make.wordpress.org/ai/2026/04/1... #WordPress #AI #OpenSource

Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space. And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history

at least it's friday

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Boston-area WordPress friends: this month’s Boston WordPress meetup brings together Ethan Marcotte and Mary Hubbard for a thoughtful evening on design, community, and the future of WordPress. If you’re nearby, now’s a great time to RSVP for April 27: bostonwp.org/2026/04/april-20... #WordPress

So if we can automatically register people for selective service with no ID issues, why can't we do the same with voting?

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

🍁 Look Back: WCEH 2025 🍁 From Carleton University in Ottawa to late-night debates, last year's energy was unmatched. Ready for WCEH 2026 in Vancouver? 👉 Check out last year’s highlights! #WordCampCanada2026 #WCEH26 #WCEH #WordPress #CommunitySupport #WCEH2025Recap

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Working in AI or machine learning? WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai features sessions on LLM integration, data pipelines, and AI workflows built on WordPress. Explore the schedule and find the topics you want to dive into: asia.wordcamp.org/2026/schedule/ #WCAsia #WordPress

WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for testing. The final release is scheduled for April 9, 2026. Install it in a test environment and report any issues you find. wp.me/pZhYe-5hO #WordPress

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AI 0.6.0 continues the shift from experiments to real publishing workflows. Image refinement, better feature structure, and groundwork for WordPress 7.0. make.wordpress.org/ai/2026/03/2... #WordPress #AI #OpenWeb

WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 1 is available for testing. The final release is scheduled for April 9, 2026. Install it in a test environment and report any issues you find. wp.me/pZhYe-5gh #WordPress

Over the past few months, our experts shared perspectives across interviews, podcasts, articles, and events touching on everything from mobile loyalty to the future of the open web. fueled.com/blog/q1-26-m...

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

Super proud of the team working on platform extension development work, taking all that we've learned within our Open Source Practice on company- and community-owned open source and applying it to client-owned open source projects like this work with Jobber.

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For small service businesses, the website is often the booking engine. We partnered with Jobber to build WordPress and Wix integrations that make adding booking to a website simple, secure, and scalable. fueled.com/work/jobber/...

my kid came home from kindergarten today and announced she was setting a trap to catch a leprechaun. apparently other kids at school always end up with candy and treats in their annual leprechaun traps, so she’s pretty stoked to see what she gets. I am begging other parents to fucking cool it

This is insane.

AI is making open source more valuable than ever, but it’s also increasing the pressure on the communities that maintain it. Some thoughts after being quoted in two recent LeadDev articles. jeffpaul.com/2026/02/ai-i...

The AI Experiments 0.5.0 release prepares the plugin for WordPress 7.0, shifting to the AI infrastructure now bundled in core and migrating provider credentials to the new Connectors screen. make.wordpress.org/ai/2026/03/1... #WordPress #AI #OpenSource

WordPress 7.0 Beta 5 is available for testing. This beta adds a Command Palette shortcut in the admin bar, giving logged-in editors quick access to navigation and customization tools from anywhere on their site. wp.me/pZhYe-5fD #WordPress

A recent family puzzle night featured a puzzle from Fueled Shop, our company’s Pressto Shop-powered merch store. The experience highlighted both the convenience of print-on-demand merchandise and some of its tradeoffs.

I’m pleased to be a founding donor to the Open Source Endowment, a new initiative exploring a community-funded endowment model to sustainably support critical open source infrastructure.

WordPress now runs entirely in your browser. my.WordPress.net gives you a complete, private WordPress environment with no sign-up and no hosting plan needed. Everything stays on your device. You can use it to write, learn, experiment, or build with pre-configured apps. wp.me/pZhYe-59R #WordPress

WordPress 6.9.4 is now available. The WordPress Security Team found that not all security fixes in 6.9.3 were fully applied, so 6.9.4 contains the necessary additional fixes. Update your sites as soon as possible. wp.me/pZhYe-5fy #WordPress

The Zeel Thakkar Memorial Scholarship helps women from India and Nepal attend WordCamp Asia. I’ve made a donation and shared a few reflections here if others want to support the effort too. jeffpaul.com/2026/03/hono... #WordCampAsia #WordPress #OpenSource #WomenInTech

WordPress 6.9.3 is available now. It fixes a bug from 6.9.2 that caused blank front ends on some sites. Updating gets you all the security fixes from 6.9.2 and the bug fix in 6.9.3. wp.me/pZhYe-5fg #WordPress

WordPress 7.0 is scheduled for release during Contributor Day at WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai. Release squad members will be there, with sessions on the release process, testing tables, and opportunities to contribute alongside the team. Not your typical Contributor Day. 👉 wp.me/pgnY82-2rx #WCAsia

WordPress 6.9.2 is now available. This security release addresses 10 vulnerabilities, including stored XSS issues, an authorization bypass, and a path traversal fix. Update your sites as soon as possible. wp.me/pZhYe-5eS #WordPress

WordPress Releases Updated AI Experiments Plugin Official WordPress AI Experiments plugin enables users to get advance access to AI features right now. #seo #smm

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.