If a government tells you that you can't call it "authoritarian," it's authoritarian! #authoritarian #government #censorship

WP Query Builder is a relational database query builder for #WordPress. github.com/CodesVault/h... #webdev #mysql

If you’re a fan or Murder shows, particularly British ones, The Marlow Murder Club is excellent.

I did a blog post today about a new image compression plugin for #WordPress called Cimo. It's groundbreaking, paradigm shifting, simple, and free. Check it out: topher.how/cimo-the-fut...

My oatmeal has the image of a flux capacitor in it. To what religion should I try to sell this holy relic?

The fertilizer industry must surely have conferences and I hope like crazy they’re called shit shows.

There needs to be an Advanced Simple List block for Gutenberg. #WordPress

A favorite photo.

Last day of WordCampUS! We’ve been over run by giant yellow monsters! You should come here and help us! Also, Wordpress.com is cool and you should try it. #wordpress #wordcamp #wcus #wcus2025

Kicking off Day 3 of WordCamp US! Many thanks to Wordpress.Com for getting me here, especially THESE people specifically! #wordpress #wordcamp #wcus #wcus2025

USPTO Rejects WordPress Foundation’s Bid to Trademark “Managed WordPress” and “Hosted WordPress”

Showcase Day at WordCamp US starts off for me today with a meeting of the Photography team. This is my first year on the team, and I'm excited to take LOTS of photos! Many thanks to WordPress.com for the opportunity! #WordPress #WordCamp #WordCampUS #wcus #wcus2025

This week's HeroPress contributor, Mainul Kabir Aion, is here at WordCampUS with me! If you're here, be sure to greet him! #WordCamp #WordCampUS #wcus #wucs2025 heropress.com/essays/learn-connect-contribute-my-wordpress-story/

Solar and wind power are #prolife. science.slashdot.org/story/25/08/...

WordCampUS contributor day is in full swing! Come say hi at the Photos table. Many thanks to WordPress.com for helping me get here. #WordPress #WordCamp #wcus #wcus2025

"Sometimes life just sucks, even for the bravest of us." -- a wise friend

IRL project snippet! www.patreon.com/posts/person...

Hello WordCampUS! I am MINUTES away. #WordCamp #WCUS #WCUS2025

Phase two of my journey to WordCamp US, thanks to WordPress.com ! #WordCampUS #WCUS #WCUS2025

Well this is an interesting message to get when arriving at the airport

I realized today that I’ve been using MySQL so long that when we started and needed support we called Monty at home.

Phase one of my trip to WordCamp US! Many thanks to WordPress.com for the help getting there! #WordPress #wcus #wcus2025

Learn how you'll be able to customize your Post Formats in Retraceur 2.0.0 📖 🧑‍🎓

Laurence Bahiirwa said “If you’re here for the first time and you don’t understand anything, that’s okay.” Inside me, something jumped: “Eh! That’s me you’re talking about!” — Moses Cursor Ssebunya #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-s...

"WordPress? “That’s for people who can’t code,” they’d say. Even teachers, IT technicians, and random tech hobbyists had an opinion — and it wasn’t kind." — Moses Cursor Ssebunya #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-s...

"In life, we pick things here and there. Like children at the seashore — a shiny shell here, a bottle cap there, a flat stone for skipping on the water. You never really know which one will be precious until life polishes it for you." — Moses Cursor Ssebunya #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-s...

When I first heard about WordPress, people talked about it like it was a joke — the cheap shortcut for people who couldn’t “do real coding.” — Moses Cursor Ssebunya #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-s...

This week's HeroPress essay is titled "The Stone That Turned Out to Be Gold – My WordPress Journey" by Moses Cursor Ssebunya from Kampala, Uganda. heropress.com/essays/the-s... #WordPress

There's a new photo on the WPPHotos info site! Check out this great ocean scene from Nilo Velez: wpphotos.info/taking-the-l... #WordPress #WPPhotos

I did a new post on the Performance Hub: Three unique WordPress plugins to make your website faster performance.startumproject.com/three-unique... #WordPress

I wish like crazy the Audacious media player had a @plex.tv plugin, so I could play my music with it. That would be the best possible streaming audio scenario I can imagine. audacious-media-player.org

We're about to release a design tool for any WordPress block. You can create styles with your choice of colors, typography, spacing etc and then let users apply them when they're creating posts. Coming soon to the PublishPress Blocks plugin.

Guess who got a new toy for the ride home? #charlie

Oh look, the return of “Spoon draws fashion dolls of D&D characters and too many outfits for them”! Zhiando (left) and Cynthia (right) are two OCs for our next campaign, and I got excited and drew their outfits. We’re still missing an OC, who is yet to be made. 😆 #DnD #fantasy #OC #art

Noah Centineo has been cast as young Rambo in a ‘RAMBO’ origin film which will be called JOHN RAMBO Jalmari Helander (‘Sisu’) is set to direct. (Source: Deadline)

I wish @firefox.com could load a custom URL on new tabs. So many of my favorite Firefox features have been removed over the years.

I've published a new WordPress security plugin: Strict CSP. It helps mitigate cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on the frontend and login screen (but not yet in the WP admin):

For the first time in nearly 2 years there's a new episode of HallwayChats! Meet Toby Cryns from Minneapolis MN. #Podcast #WordPress hallwaychats.com/episodes/epi...

When the temp is comfortable but a little humid at 6:30am you know that noon is going to suck.

The staff cartographers over here at HeroPress have invented some new continents. Be advised. #WordPress #maps #cartography heropress.com/new-continen...

Today's WPPhoto info is from Lidia Arroyo Vargas from Costa Rica. It's a lovely sunset on the beach in Costa Rica, with a very artsy branch coming up out of the sand. #WordPress #WPPhotos wpphotos.info/costa-rican-...

"I have to potty" — my dog "You just went an hour a go" — me "I HAVE TO POTTY" — dog "... what?" — me "NOW" "You go 10 hours at night without needing to go" "NOWNOWNOWNOWNOWNOW" "Fine." We go out. He stands there looking around. "Huh. It's boring out here, let's go back in." — dog

Did you know HeroPress has a Slack channel? Open to all, please come join us! heropress.com/slack

"That first bug ignited something within me. I started contributing to various areas — from core testing to translations, organizing local WordCamps, & even speaking at events. It felt empowering to give back to something that gave me so much." — Monika Rao #WordPress heropress.com/essays/a-dec...

“I didn’t take big leaps. I took small steps. But I took them every day. That’s how I got here.” — Monika Rao #WordPress heropress.com/essays/a-dec...

"Ten years. A full decade of working in tech, without pause. Of growing, stumbling, learning, and showing up — with WordPress at the center of it all." — Monika Rao #WordPress heropress.com/essays/a-dec...

This week's HeroPress essay is a rare sequel! We hear again from Monika Rao, in her essay titled "A Decade with WordPress: My Journey of Growth, Contribution, and Courage" #WordPress heropress.com/essays/a-dec...

REALLY bad support experience with @godaddy.com today. Very disappointed.