Over the last few days, we've seen a good discussion about what #WordPress needs to be relevant in the current age. I think it boils down to two things: we need good, capable *and empowered* product and marketing teams. progressplanner.com/wordpress-pr...

88, but then I went and searched for the ones I didn't know and learned a new thing or 26 as i really didn't know most of them 😅️

Might be time to find the best open source alternative for SubStack and *own your own subscribers and content*. This will inevitably lead to higher prices, and probably to more barriers to getting your data out too…

Today at #OSSummit @joost.blog and I with @fair.pm announced our open call to @linuxfoundation.org members to join a new directed fund to ensure a true #OpenSource #CMS ecosystem for generations to come! Get in touch to Join!

Just gotten off stage presenting about @fair.pm at the Linux Foundation’s #OSSummit together with @marucchi.com - we’re starting the conversations with funders of our project today.

We're delighted to launch the FAIR Package Manager with the Linux Foundation - read our announcement and come collaborate with us! #FAIRPM www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-...

Is WordPress innovation in plugins slowing down? In this post Marieke and I explore why new plugins struggle to gain traction and how established ones dominate and what that means for innovation. Walking around #WCEU today, I realized that I *really* needed to publish: joost.blog/innovation-i...

It's time to fix the image of WordPress and its security: progressplanner.com/time-to-fix-...

We made SEO easier for everyone. That was the goal. But in the process, we helped flood the web with content. This is a reflection on what worked, what didn’t, and what we can learn from it. joost.blog/unintended-c...

Not everything needs AI. But WordPress needs AI-ready infrastructure. Read my thoughts: progressplanner.com/wordpress-ne...

We've built something cool at @progressplanner.com over the last few weeks: an integration with Yoast SEO, to give you lots of recommendations to improve your Yoast SEO setup: progressplanner.com/progress-pla...

Google now wants your marketing emails. Literally. progressplanner.com/google-now-w...

I knew the risks of speaking up to Matt were there, and I’ve stayed silent on account of not wanting to get Taco in trouble before WordCamp Asia. But honestly, it sucks and it does have a real impact.

Post Status is celebrating Women in WordPress through brief interviews with @michellefrechette.bsky.social. In this interview, meet @raemorey.bsky.social! youtu.be/bUiSXkTxPA4

I've been having lots of different fun discussions around AI the last few weeks, but there's one that we simply have to shed more light on. In order to appear in AI, you can't build fancy headless websites. AI simply does not execute JavaScript when crawling your site. 1/2

I wrote about my experience at the #cloudfest Hackathon #cfhack and what I think the #WordPress world could learn from that: progressplanner.com/cloudfest-ha...

WP-CLI + MCP combines visionary technology and I‘m assembling an overall winning dream team to break any barriers. This is going to be a *pitch perfect* Hackathon project that allows you to master social media—I mean, WordPress—using AI. #CFHACK25 #CloudFest

I'm at the #Cloudfest #CFHack Hackathon! I've joined the WP CLI as an MCP host team (and yes that is a LOT of abbreviations in one sentence, we'll be using the #CLI-MCP hashtag).

I wrote a thing, mostly fun for search geeks: should we standardize redirect-by?

We (Marieke, @joost.blog, and me) have just started a new blog series "Progress for WordPress" on the @progressplanner.com website. Marieke wrote the first article "Why WordPress is a tough sell for marketing students". Go check it out at progressplanner.com/why-wordpres... #Progress #WordPress

I love it when I can send bug reports to a team, and they tackle them as pro’s, like The Events Calendar team did here:

Very thankful for our experience with PersonalizeWP and the team at Filter. While this was not our aspired outcome, I’m grateful for having the honest conversations and making the right choices when needed. I wish the team all the best!! personalizewp.com/blog/announc...

Yesterday we released Progress Planner Pro into the world. For me, it's what made me excited about developing for #WordPress again, as I truly thinks it helps people make & maintain their websites better. I'm super excited about it, so let me tell you about it:

So... We've acquired Post Status and then immediately handed it off to a new, non profit, foundation (I'm in that foundation too, of course, but not alone): poststatus.com/ringing-the-... Making sure Post Status keeps on being available for the community.

Help me out people: where can a student create a free WordPress site? (no domain needed, just something temporary)

Stuff that would make my life easier, "invoice" edition: 1. If I download an invoice from your site, give it a meaningful name, at the very least containing the word "invoice" or similar, your company name and the period.

Let’s be clear: Karim and I asked for and proposed change inside the #WordPress project. *We* did not talk about a fork.

Had a fantastic evening with my dad and three sons, watching Borussia Mönchengladbach play Bayern Munich.

Proud to have FINALLY launched my first WordPress plugin. Automagically speed up your images and optimize their markup via your edge provider of choice (Cloudflare / Accelerated Domains / Imgix, etc). wordpress.org/plugins/edge...

OK #WordPress community, help me find a talented theme designer! I want a new, custom, FSE based, theme for joost.blog - Who would you recommend?

Another discussion worth having: Why do we show pending comments in the first place? We render them (though only for the user who made them) when they've not been approved yet. I understand how and why that was built, but I don't think this functionality needs to exist, certainly not in core.

It's a new year, time to get blogging more! I wrote about my experience with (and fix for) #WordPress comment cookies and proxy caching:

File under “ChatGPT writing articles is not a blessing”:

It's clear the #WordPress world needs a change. So I wrote a post about exactly that: Breaking the Status Quo: A vision for a new WordPress era

Annoying missing feature of the day: why can’t I log medications on my iPhone through Shortcuts?

🎉 Big news! The WP Community Collective has officially incorporated as a membership nonprofit! 🚀 We're excited to take the next step in supporting the WordPress and open source communities. AND YOU CAN JOIN US! #WordPress #OpenSource #WPcommunity 🔗 www.thewpcommunitycollective.com/2024/12/17/t...

It's clear that #WordPress is at a crossroads, whether we want it to be or not. As a result, it's good to talk about what it is, and what it should do, so, I wrote a post about that: joost.blog/wordpress-ro...

It's kinda sad that Zendesk, which Bluesky uses to host its help docs, only has share on Facebook, X and LinkedIn links, not a share on Bluesky link... Example: blueskyweb.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/art... I actually think they should host their own help docs, to be honest...

This is kinda horrible. Safenames doesn't work at all, how are they going to sell any domain names for anyone?

I've updated my post about AVIF and WebP social share images with updated tests and more info, including on how to fix this for @Yoast SEO if you're using modern image formats on your site: https://buff.ly/3XuZ2jb Read quickly to see that you can now safely use WebP for share images everywhere!!

Hey #WordPress people! What is the best solution to clean up an uploads folder (ie remove not needed files) and is there any way to retroactively move uploads to year/month folders?

OK, call me silly, but if you sell a "general use" block library plugin and you *don't* use that block library to build the page that sells that block library, should you even be selling it? Looking at you @stevejburge.bsky.social and @wpengine.bsky.social

Had an absolute blast at #WCNL, it was so good to see everyone. WordPress isn’t just a piece of code, it’s the community that makes it, extends it, teaches it and uses it that makes us all so happy for it to be there. Thanks to the organizers, great work! See you next year at the next one!

Remember this? 🤣 Marieke is talking about mistakes we made in our time (and lessons learned from those) at Yoast. #WCNL

We just released an advisory about an authenticated RCE #vulnerability in Rank Math SEO plugin 💻 If you use this plugin, please update it to version 1.0.232 or later. 🔧 You're also protected from this vuln if you are a paid Patchstack user. 🔒 Link in the comment below 👇

I've got a thing I'd love the opinion on from #WordPress developers: should register_taxonomy and register_post_type() default to $public = false ?

Over the last six months, I've been setting up a better IT organization for my local football (soccer for those in the US) club, as I'm on its board. I started with a (free) non-profit plan for Google Apps, which got us free Drive, Docs, and Gmail. My next step was setting up Freescout.

Now that Bluesky seems to have taken off, what are people using to cross-post between different platforms? I can't be the only one who thinks that posting to Threads, Twitter, AND Bluesky is too much work, but might still be worthwhile...

WP Engine Expands Legal Fight Against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg with Antitrust Claims

Look at Wijchen being lovely in the morning: