I got a little wordy on Performance with WordPress + Page Builders 😅 remkusdevries.com/wordpress-p...

Scanfully 1.7 is out. The biggest change: shareable public reports for broken links and broken media scans. You can now send clients a direct report link without giving them dashboard access. Less explaining. Less screenshotting. Faster approvals. Also included:

Bubbles are real in all contexts, but especially in WordPress. Which is why is super important you go out of your way to have conversations outside that bubble at tech events. CloudFest is one such example.

So many WordPress people over the past weeks have asked me if they should go to the @CloudFest WP Summit... or not. So I created a video explaining why they absolutely should. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWS...

The Within WordPress newsletter is out. Featuring byMiles.ai, WP Sudo, and Olliewp.com and much more! withinwp.com/newsletter/...

My biggest frustration working with AI is its loss of memory in the same thread/chat. Doesn't matter if we're talking Grok, Claude or ChatGPT. Anyone have a fix for this yet other than "read thru this chat before replying"?

🎶 "I'm thankful for the darkness. Everything that let me see. So much beauty in the storm" – @DermotKennedy open.spotify.com/track/3KcmK...

Updated this article: "How to Control Third-Party Scripts Without Breaking Marketing and Analytics" remkusdevries.com/how-to-cont...

3️⃣ This week's Top 3 Links from "Loop WP", Issue 198: 1) Two Trends Shaping WooCommerce - creativethemes.com/blocksy/blog... 2) Control WordPress with your own MCP - kinsta.com/blog/mcp-ser... 3) Response Headers - remkusdevries.com/response-hea... Read the full newsletter below. 👇

If you’ve made it past Module 2 of my Make WordPress Fast course, you’ve learned all about Preload, Prefetch, and Preconnect. But... it looks like we’ll see a fourth option soon. If you think prefetch isn’t enough, but prerender is too risky for your site...

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Love the positive feedback we've received with our Broken Media, Broken Links monitors alongside our Scanfully.com WordPress Activity Log. Next up is turning the reports into shareable reports.

This short answer stops all commercially motivated message (spam) I receive in my DMs: Zero interest.

"One day I'm gonna grow wings..." 🎶 open.spotify.com/track/2fuYa...

Do you know what can ruin a perfectly set up cache strategy for your WordPress site? Response Headers is what. Let's talk about them remkusdevries.com/response-he...

I know all the API things coming to WordPress 7.0 is the fashionable thing to gush over, but I still very much appreciate the REST API. And optimizing it for performance and scalability. Maybe you do as well? remkusdevries.com/optimizing-...

Happy to announce I'll be speaking at the WP Summit Day at CloudFest next month. You'll never guess what I'll be talking about: www.cloudfest.com/event/agend...

I'm in the market for a new office chair. I'm looking for: - one that works for a tall man (193cm/6'4") - thicker than average seat cushion - armrests and all the other comforts, ofc. What's your best recommendation?

This is a first. Client requested a funky custom RSS feed for their dashboard. All I had was the required format, but you could barely call it an RSS feed. Fed it all into Codex, gave it the requirements of the feed, internal caching needed, etc, and it nailed it in one shot. Zero changes needed.

I keep seeing WooCommerce site owner who've clearly outgrown their email tools, but they stay because migration feels risky. Simpley because the switch sounds like weeks of chaos, broken automations, and revenue dips. So they tolerate a setup that no longer fits.

Every so often we see these clickbaity hot takes claiming WordPress is dead, done, and over. No future. Nothing left. First, as a community, we engage far too much with these posts and feed the algorithms more than we should. We really need to stop doing that.

What is the bigger problem... AI now allowing anyone to "vibe code" plugins or everyone using inherently insecure and bad-performing code snippet plugins? I know the answer, do you?

Something has been shifting in my WordPress Agency work for years, and it finally has a name. remkusdevries.com/a-new-direc...

YouTube embeds break more often than most site owners realize. A video gets deleted, set to private, restricted, etc. We help you get in control, though. Our Broken Media monitoring scans your site for all kinds of media, YouTube embeds being one. More: scanfully.com/how-to-find...

I went rogue a bit and published about something other than WordPress: remkusdevries.com/not-from-ho...

We released our Broken Media Monitor in the Scanfully dashboard yesterday. In short: Say goodbye to YouTube videos that are no longer working, tweets being deleted without you knowing, missing images, etc etc.

Most WordPress sites don’t break. They slowly drift. An image disappears after a cleanup. An embed stops loading. A script fails quietly after an update. Nothing crashes. The site stays online. But the experience degrades, and users feel it.

Let's talk misconceptions about Cloudflare's free vs APO remkusdevries.com/why-cloudfl...

This chasing of perfect performance metrics is great and all, but understanding it while building > optimizing later.

Very excited to see @Scanfully.com's third core feature close to release! We now have a hosted WordPress Activity Log, Broken Links scanner, and *almost* a Broken Media scanner on top of the uptime monitoring and site health features. 2025 may have been slow, but 2026 is on 🔥

I see people left and right automating things with OpenClaw, but I'm ready to give it that kind of unbridled access to all my data. Sure, I've played around with it, but quite neutered. I need it to be less vibed and way more stable and secure. Even on a dedicated MacMini. Just me?

Man, the ESP landscape is volatile lately. Now that Sendlane has been acquired and Yotpo recently shut down their email/SMS product... I’m super happy I found a stable partner in @Omnisend. After switching over myself, I can’t help but think I should’ve made the move sooner.

I can just about guarantee that today's @WithinWP.com newsletter is the best newsletter I've created all year! Chock-full of wonderful resources and must-reads! withinwp.com/newsletter/...

This is a good reminder I'm in a bubble. I see a nice looking WooCommerce theme, I check out the demo and then I see the Lighthouse scores 😭. Look, it don't have to be a perfect 100 everywhere, but 90 should be your minimal goal everywhere. Certainly for a demo...

Got an awesome father and son roadtrip season ahead with @roandevries. We'll be traveling to #CloudFest (Germany), #PressConf (from NYC to PHX), and then #CheckoutSummit in Sicily... And that's just until April. We got #WCEU in Kraków, Poland in June as well.

Moved 2 clients this week off of Mailchimp to Omnisend and both couldn't be happier. And when I say "moved", I mean taken advantage of Omnisend wonderful migration service for the flows, automations & campaigns. It's a no brainer, really. Time reevaluate your clients on Mailchimp, like right now.

🎉 "Loop WP", Issue 191 is out now! This week in my newsletter about WooCommerce and WordPress - The Future of WooCommerce - Key takeaways from Matt Mullenweg on WooCommerce’s future: execution risks, AI, merchants, WordCamps, and long-term direction. Read the full issue. 👇

There's nothing like testing your how smooth your backup and restore plans are than being forced to use them 30 minutes right before you go to bed.

Your attention is leaking, and it's hurting you immeasurably more than you know: remkusdevries.com/your-attent...

I underestimated how hard it would be to build my first course. Delays. Overwhelm. Lessons the hard way. I wrote it all down, if you’re building a big course (or thinking about it), read this first: remkusdevries.com/lessons-lea...

Chatty is being direct. I'm a fan.

In 2025: Has AI sparked MORE creative ideas & inspiration for your work/projects... or LESS?

“What does become a problem is when the argument stops being about the idea and starts being about the person who shared it.” 💯

I needed to get this off my chest. remkusdevries.com/we-all-lose...

I wanted to have my YOURLS dashboard breath a bit more and implement a dark-mode theme, so I created one. It's not done yet, but I may end up releasing it once done.

Apple's AI offering to translate my messages with my kids, wife, and parents has to be the poorest implementation fail of AI I've seen so far.

Updated the testimonial section on my @WithinWP.com newsletter subscribe page. Looking for a lot more to add, so if you are a subscriber, I'd love to have you listed here as well: withinwp.com/subscribe/

FSE didn’t make things harder, it made things explicit and visual.

One of these commits is not like the other. That added action is going to save my co-founder with Scanfully.com a whole lotta typing with our upcoming features 😅 Love it when Barry is on 🔥.

Projects go sideways from unasked questions.