The Case for Content Modeling Without Code Are custom post types coming to core? My thoughts on the reaction to the new experimental content modeling features in Gutenberg.

EmDash: First thoughts and takeaways for WordPress Cloudflare launched its big WordPress competitor. What can WordPress learn from where Astro's CMS is heading?

Why ‘Future Revisions’ Should be the Next Priority Feature for WordPress Why WordPress is ready for future revision management, plus links from around the web.

How AI and Cloud Tools Are Transforming WooCommerce Development and Testing on OpenChannels.fm I sat down with Derek Hanson to talk about how Woo is using AI to improve our release process and take him through an example of how I build Woo extensions with Claude Code.

New Video: PHP-only Blocks and AI Skills WordPress 7.0 introduces PHP-only block registration—build custom blocks with zero build process. Combine it with AI agent skills and generate blocks through conversation with Claude Code.

Join us March 31, 2026 for a live discussion with community leaders on how to build meaningful connections, get more from events, and find your people in ecommerce. Guests include @amberhinds.bsky.social @4thhubbard.bsky.social @raquelkarina.bsky.social developer.woocommerce.com/2026/03/10/j...

Agent Skills are the markdown files I’ve been waiting for Skills are the first AI productivity hack that I can actually understand and enjoy.

I wrote a bit about how I'm using my WordPress/Woo sites as my own vibe-coding platform. I shared the boilerplate I use for new extensions, and some thoughts on what I'd like to see in WordPress to make this easier. www.briancoords.com/my-wp-woo-pl...

My WP/Woo Plugin Scaffolding in 2026 I've narrowed my last few plugin builds into my own personal 'extension starter' for my Woo and WordPress development.

On WooCommerce’s Challenges and Innovations in a Changing WordPress Landscape (WP Tavern) In this episode, Nathan Wrigley interviews Brian Coords, Developer Advocate at WooCommerce, about his career path, WooCommerce’s recent rebranding, and its approach to developer relations.

On Teaching English, Tattoos, and Building Community at WooCommerce w/ Seriously, BUD? In this episode of Seriously, Bud, Brian Coords shares his journey from English teacher to WordPress developer advocate at WooCommerce. Brian talks about raising five kids, playing guitar at home, discovering…

This week on Webmasters I chat with Rodolfo Melogli all about Checkout Summit, the conference dedicated to all things WooCommerce. Learn more about what to expect at Checkout Summit: webmasters.fm/checkout-sum...

30 days’ notice. Years of memories at stake. A race against the clock. Here’s how we stopped up:
 ✩ When Typepad Shut Down, We Helped 3,684 Blogs Find a New Home wordpress.com/blog/2025/12...

I’m building a podcast plugin for WordPress and @briancoords.com helped user test it live with me Thanks AI: Am I a WordPress Developer Now?! ( youtube.com/live/ghMnRhz...

Meetup is starting soon! @briancoords.com is joining me live for #WPA11yMeetup at 10 AM central to show how to fix common issues on a real website. #Captioned on Zoom ⬇️ Register Now ⬇️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #accessibility #a11y

WordPress 6.9 includes a killer new feature for WooCommerce stores: Term Query Loop. Showcase your product categories&brands on your landing pages or mega menus. And thanks to Block Bindings API I spun up a "Product Category Image" block with minimal code: www.briancoords.com/building-a-w...

Building a Woo Product Category Image Block with WordPress 6.9 Let's extend some WordPress 6.9 features for WooCommerce, including the Block Bindings API for integrating data into templates and the Terms Query Loop block for showcasing taxonomy terms.

Newsletter just dropped: RSS Readers Still Exist? I built an RSS reader using new WordPress React components. Because people still need RSS readers, right? Right?? (plus links from around the web) www.briancoords.com/rss-readers-...

RSS Readers Still Exist? I built an RSS reader using new WordPress components. Because people still need RSS readers, right?

Join us at this live accessibility remediation where the a11y GOAT ( @amberhinds.bsky.social ) will help me clean up a real website.

I built an RSS Reader that sits in your WordPress dashboard. It uses the DataViews for a modern WP look and feel. It's still in beta but try it out! github.com/bacoords/feeds

Thanks to the help of many smarter devs at Woo, our "create-woo-extension" tool is finally working again. There's still a bunch of scaffolding work to do, but getting the dependencies updated and the install & build running was a huge milestone here.

📣 Cat's outta the bag! We hope you'll join us and @rmelogli at the first-ever Checkout Summit in Palermo, Italy - April 23 & 24, 2026. Get your tickets now! t.co/b68vbCQ2d0

Call for testing: WooCommerce 10.3 includes a beta version of the WooCommerce MCP integration. Chat with your Woo store and let us know how it goes! Full testing instructions on the dev blog👇 developer.woocommerce.com?p=8769181

Yesterday I chatted with @ianmisner.com about what makes a checkout page convert and what to think about ahead of Black Friday. He gave a lot of good advice, including this one about maximizing those new customer relationships:

@ariellethisandthat.bsky.social listens to over five hours of podcasts a day — so she knows what makes a great podcast player. Check out why she chooses Pocket Casts to support her passion for podcasts and her work in the industry:

🎙️ Fresh podcast episode with Ian Misner of Kestrel. We talk about optimizing checkout ahead of Black Friday, growing your store long-term, and a bit of pontificating about extensibility for developers. webmasters.fm/optimizing-w...

Big announcement! 🛎️ I teamed up with @thewpminute.com to create a free course aimed at #WordPress freelancers and agencies. It's called "WordPress Hosting Decoded" and will help you make the right hosting choices for your clients (with no sales pitches). Get started: thewpminute.com/course/wordp...

🎙️Just published on the podcast: @nickdiego.com takes me behind the scenes of Studio, the open source local development app from @wordpress.com webmasters.fm/wordpress-st...

Open Source is a Tradeoff How should we build and advocate for changes inside an open source community?

My first video up on the Woo YouTube channel:

Finally had time to watch the @dannysullivan.bsky.social talk from #WCUS - if you haven't seen it, it's a good one. wordpress.tv/2025/09/03/h...

Took some prompt engineering but Telex was able to make me an animated bouncing-DVD screensaver WordPress block. For.. you know.. reasons.

Are you down with MCP? How I learned to stop worrying and love the MCP craze. And a few interesting links.

Ahh it's my face!

ChatGPT asked @bph , @jon_bossenger , @briancoords and myself the hard question about the future of #WordPress and AI in the Creators Studio at @WordCampUS. 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4B...

My thoughts on how AI is going to affect WordPress agencies - A short excerpt from an upcoming conversation with @ryanwelcher.com @bph.social and @jonathanbossenger.com

Hate to say it but the future of shopping is not “tell an AI agent what you want and it figures out and buys it for you from a shady site that ships the wrong thing” It’s “use a trusted app/site with great customer support that has the largest selection of goods and ships today”

A quick code snippet since someone asked me: How to hide the default WooCommerce block patterns from the pattern inserter. www.briancoords.com/how-to-hide-...

Built in just two weeks with the help of AI, the plugin introduces block-based mobile and dropdown menus, tackling a long-standing gap in WordPress site building.

Wrote a review of ChatGPT 5 for the company newsletter. aboard.com/desperately-...

Playing with the WordPress Playground CLI and Woo's Smooth Generator to build full Woo demo stores in seconds. (Next step: how can I push this into WordPress Studio for local development 🤔?)

I love the "wordpress/create-block" package, but I don't like the name, now that it's being used for many things other than creating blocks. If you agree, please join my discussion on GitHub so we can challenge this terrible injustice. github.com/WordPress/gu...

After a couple weeks of planning and preparing I'm excited to see this announcement. I'm excited to be part of a lineup that includes amazing folks like @jeffpaul.com, @ryanwelcher.com, @briancoords.com, @jonathandesrosiers.com, and many more who I'm looking forward to hearing from, and meeting!

Why I'm a terrible vibe coder, thoughts on the future of AI + WordPress, and my response to another Gutenberg "crisis" article. All that and more in my latest newsletter, sent this morning 📬 www.briancoords.com/newsletter/m...

Back on the pod to talk to @matthewmedeiros.bsky.social about whether WordPress themes are dead, why Claude code burns my money, and when we think AI will be able to make decent UI. webmasters.fm/are-wordpres...

🚀 WooCommerce 10.0 is here! - Major frontend accessibility improvements - Shareable checkout URLs - Coupon enhancements - A better product importer. And over 400 commits from 67 contributors! Get the full breakdown on the Woo Developer Blog 👇 developer.woocommerce.com?p=8768580

Join us for our July live event, focused on the future marketing direction of WooCommerce. developer.woocommerce.com?p=8768617

I added LLMS files to Woo’s dev docs not for AI crawlers but because having super streamlined markdown docs content available in IDEs like Cursor is very helpful. But we could’ve named the file literally anything.

I mentioned the other day that I'm about to launch a #podcasting / #podcast plugin for #WordPress. If you're interested in beta testing that, and finding out more, there's more here: https://www.podcasterplus.com/beta/