Can an AI agent offer a better workflow than command line tools for scaffolding WordPress editor blocks? In a new deep dive, one of our Senior Front End Engineers puts Cursor project rules head-to-head with classic CLI scripts: www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-pr...

Apply to work with us at @humanmade.com — we're looking for an Engineering Manager on our Americas team! wrkbl.ink/4gUMj3B If you want to work with and lead an absolutely world-class WordPress delivery team (or just if "telling me what to do" sounds fun), please consider applying!

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

📝 joemcgill.net/2025/09/a-po...

The best way to warm leftover pizza is a cast iron skillet. I will take as many questions as Wesley Bell at a town hall (which is none). Please do not hire cops and bullies to put their hands on me like he did his constituents.

Get Ready for My WCUS 2025 Workshop: Set Up Your Local AI-Powered WordPress Environment Join my Scalable, Ethical AI workshop at WordCamp US 2025 for a practical experience in creating privacy-friendly AI workflows within WordPress. Prepare your laptop in advance to maximize your hands-on time…

Manager: "What's this milestone about ..'Living on a prayer'?" Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable" Manager: "What's the status of that?" Lead: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Lead: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

I spotted a Labubu on the boardwalk and couldn’t stop thinking: what if Wapuu + Labubu = Wabubu? I asked ChatGPT to help me visualize the mashup and things spiraled into a multiverse of plushies, claymation, pixel art, and bento boxes: jeffpaul.com/2025/08/wapu... #WordPress #Labubu #Wapuu #Wabubu

We're heading back to WCUS 2025, this year as a Contributing Sponsor as the WordPress Practice of Fueled. We’re excited to reconnect with longtime partners & friends in the WordPress community, deep dive into what’s new in WordPress, & share more about our expanded capabilities under our new brand.

Petey is undefeated

My fantastic four

I agree with this hypothesis that you need to get through the learning curve with AI development tooling before getting any productivity benefits, but interesting to see study like this.

Our team is helping make WordPress – and the open web – faster. Partnering with the broader WordPress Performance Team, we’ve shipped measurable gains in load times, server response, and Core Web Vitals. @joemcgill.bsky.social breaks it down. www.linkedin.com/pulse/engine...

Storybook

Fun to see first hand how this team is managing such a widely used plugin.

This exactly. This team has become a complete mess. Blow it up. Restart.

🗞️ Big news: 10up has officially unified under the Fueled name, with a bold new brand, mission, and vision for the future. 10up is now the brand of Fueled’s enterprise WordPress practice. 10up.com/blog/2025/ne...

Chicago Bulls intros trigger nostalgia in Millennial men at a firmware level, it's impossible to not look up old NBA Finals intros on YouTube after thinking about them.

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

The body and blood of Christ

They hated Illinois Nazis as well.

Search is changing fast. AI-powered answers are replacing clicks — and most brands aren’t ready. 📄 Fueled+10up wrote a whitepaper to help you stay visible in a world of AI Overviews and zero-click results. fueled.com/blog/search-...

Nice idea @peterwilson.cc! But now that I know that I've contributed to over half of all WordPress releases, I feel old: peterwilson.cc/wordpress-co...

Fueled+10up’s @joemcgill.bsky.social joined Do the Woo to talk about WordPress 6.8 performance improvements and the power of first-time contributors in open source. Check it out: dothewoo.io/first-time-c...

Always a pleasure to talk WordPress with @bph.social and @nonstopnewsuk.bsky.social. Thanks for having me!

#WordPress 6.8 is here, with refinements to blocks, performance, & accessibility. We led the way with 24 contributors, including @jeffpaul.com as Release Coordinator, @joemcgill.bsky.social as Tech Lead, and 3 others acknowledged as Noteworthy Contributors. 10up.com/blog/2025/te...

#WordPress developers, bookmark: WordPress 6.8 Field Guide 300 Core Trac tickets included in WordPress 6.8, 104 of which are enhancements and feature requests, and more than 170 bug fixes. make.wordpress.org/core/2025/03...

My first time serving as a Core Tech Lead for a WordPress release was quite an adventure. My thanks to the team and everyone who contributed.

Substack’s model has always been terrible for creators unless you’re big enough to get kickbacks on marketing. It’s so predatory and gross. Just spin up a WordPress site and own your own email list.

I’m continually blown away by the work I see coming out of the projects my colleagues at @10up.com produce

The third release candidate for WordPress 6.8 is here! This is a crucial milestone as we prepare for the final release. Download and test RC3 to help us ensure it’s ready for everyone. Your feedback is invaluable! Learn more about the release and how you can contribute: wp.me/pZhYe-4Rb

This @stlcitysc.com team is showing cementing their personality as a defensive power. But I’m gonna need either a bit more possession or a cardiologist. #allforcity

Shoutout to the #stlwx community for showing up over here. I knew I could count on you. Stay safe pals.

Friday evening's the best time to drop a new post right? Right? Anyway, if you're using Speculation Rules then you might wanna check out this post when you get back into work mode next week - lots of tips and info in there: developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...

Gender disparities in the WordPress industry continues to be the regrettable reality that we need to reckon with.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

For 15 years, my code has helped power WordPress aaron.jorb.in/15-years-of-...

Extracting particularly relevant bits for y'all: > I’m off to celebrate this the best way I know how, by contributing to WordPress. I hope you’ll join me (or if you can’t join me, maybe you can help sponsor my continued contributions?)

Plus, platforms like @ghost.org, @buttondown.com, and @wordpress.org embracing open social protocols means they'll have the "native" discovery aspect of Substack, too. The difference is that their implementation won't be in a silo, it'll be across platforms, and you'll own your audience completely.

Remote work doesn't thwart productivity. It boosts focus. Government workers are 12% more productive when randomly assigned to work from home. They're more efficient where it's quiet. Most people aren't shirking from home. They're escaping distractions and long commutes.

Oh god

Invoker Commands in WordPress pascalbirchler.com/invoker-comm...

Meryl Streep did WHAT.

Happy 10 year birthday for the default `sizes` attribute in WordPress. joemcgill.net/2025/01/happ...

The panic that just rang through our home was something

I should never under any circumstances hear sounds from your phone without warning, but *specifically* from video

WordPress 6.8: Release Squad, Timeline, and Focus

Now more than ever it's important for organizations that want to see WordPress continue to succeed to step up. I continue to be in search of more sponsors for the work I do on WordPress core. github.com/sponsors/aar...

The WordPress Core Team is looking for new team reps for 2025 make.wordpress.org/core/2024/12...

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