This week features @woocommerce.com, @kinsta.com, @therepository.email, @justintadlock.bsky.social, @relywp.bsky.social, @independentwp.bsky.social, @wordpress.org, @elemntor.bsky.social, @briancoords.com, @mikemcalister.com, @karmatosed.art, @remkusdevries.com, and many, many more!

WordPress people: I need your help. I've had this post in draft for quite a while (years in fact 😅), but I thought it was time to finish it and publish it. This post is meant to literally be the ultimate guide to debugging WordPress. And I need your help to make sure it is.

You know what's annoying as hell... not having a voice. I did a live stream yesterday and I could feel my voice go at the end, but I had hoped a good night's sleep would've fixed it. Alas. I have a few more modules to record for my Make WordPress Fast course, so I'll have to pause that for a bit :/

Going live now: www.youtube.com/live/EmIHpR...

Everybody is looking for performance, but people want a shortcut to thinking. They want someone to hand them a list of “good” plugins and “bad” plugins so they can copy-paste their way to a fast site. As if performance were a recipe, not a craft.

I joined my friend Kevin Geary for one of his WDD live streams. We talked about the philosophy of performance (for WordPress) and how to make BLAZING FAST WordPress sites. remkusdevries.com/notes/wdd-l...

Why TF does LinkedIn have games, and WHY TF am I getting notifications FROM OTHERS doing those stupid games. JFHC.

I want to talk WordPress and Security with you. I see a lot of misinformation in this field, so I wrote about it. remkusdevries.com/how-to-do-w...

Recorded three new videos of my Performance Series for YouTube today. They still need to be edited by @roandevries (he's for hire, btw), but the first one should land next week on my YouTube channel. Subscribe if you haven't yet: remk.us/youtube

I can’t imagine a better compliment for my work. Truly honoured.

The most reliable way to have positive impact in the design and development community—or any community—is to write the articles and books you wish somebody else had already written.

Looking for feedback. I've pre-launched my Make WordPress Fast course a few weeks back, but I've got more courses lined up. Which one should I prioritize? Please let me know by replying your preference. 1. Git for WP Builds 2. Unlock WP CLI 3. Cloudflare for WP 4. Fix WP w/ Query Monitor

Let's look at how to build fast WooCommerce sites. These are my recommendations. Check it out: remkusdevries.com/how-to-fix-...

I created the course I wish existed 10 years ago remkusdevries.com/i-created-t...

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I’m going to walk you through exactly how I approach diagnosing performance issues on a WordPress site. It’s fast, it’s methodical, and it tells me 90% of what I need to know in under 15 minutes. remkusdevries.com/how-i-diagn...

If the TTFB of your WordPress site is over 500 ms, you should dig into the server setup first. The TTFB basically tells me how long it takes for the server to process the request to render a given URL. It’s super important to test this uncached. Check out my post for more. Link 👇🏻

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What does Wapuu do? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It doesn’t boost SEO. It doesn’t compress images. It doesn’t even have a block editor opinion. It just sits there, hugging its WordPress orb like it knows the secret to the custom post type apocalypse. I would point to wordpress.org/plugins/wapu...

I've never liked Wapuus, but it's just that. I don't like them. But... someone out there has a waaayyy stronger opinion on them than that www.afteractive.com/blog/wapuu-w...

Just realized another win. I've also managed to quit caffeine. I wasn't drinking coffee, but I was taking chewing gum with caffeine. And, like, a lot. It's been three weeks without, and I'm back to not being dependent on caffeine to start my days like a fvcking rockstar 😆

This is great news! This will surely open up the option to have our cookie settings in the browser: Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it. www.politico.eu/article/eur...

🚀 I opened prelaunch for the first WordPress course I’ve ever released. It’s called Make WordPress Fast, and it’s exactly what I wish existed 10 years ago. Here’s why it might be the most practical performance course out there 🧵

In terms of performance optimization, there are three things I will always do: 0. Favor Edge Caching over just local Full-Page caching with @getNitroPack and @Cloudflare APO being my favorites. 1. Install @_perfmatters and use their Script Manager heavily.

I am happy to report that if you last saw me at #PressConf or #WCEU, I am now 10kg/22lbs lighter. Feels good and I'm ⅔ where I want to be. Easy does it.

To me, @wp_acf's API to create Blocks is what should have been inside of WordPress Core. It's still my favorite method to create complex blocks. It's good to see ACF is improving that experience even further with ACF 6.6. I like it. www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-6-...

I’m going to walk you through exactly how I approach diagnosing performance issues on a WordPress site. It’s fast, it’s methodical, and it tells me 90% of what I need to know in under 15 minutes. remkusdevries.com/how-i-diagn...

All flourishing is mutual. It's a quote by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and what it means to me is how strong social networks improve resilience, mental health, and economic opportunities for everyone, for instance.

I got to play with Jotform WordPress Agent. It makes it easy to add an AI-powered chatbot to any WordPress site; no coding is required. My favorite feature is that it auto-trains from your site content and integrates with, for instance, WooCommerce to answer product questions, track orders...

Has yours? If not what a sucky morning you must be having clicking an update button. Coincidentally my talk on automatic updates just dropped on @wordpress.org TV wordpress.tv/2025/09/30/t...

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Yesterday, at #WCLT I gave a talk about authenticity in the WordPress space. Today I blogged about it: remkusdevries.com/its-always-...

Hello fellow WordPress devs! If your schedule permits, I would be honored if you joined me for @loopconf.com on Sept 25th! I personally curated the schedule and couldn't be happier about the diversity of perspectives and experiences we get to hear. Check it out: loopconf.com

“WordPress isn’t dumbing down. It’s getting smarter about who can participate in the building process.” gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-ai...

🚀 I opened prelaunch for the first WordPress course I’ve ever released. It’s called Make WordPress Fast, and it’s exactly what I wish existed 10 years ago. Here’s why it might be the most practical performance course out there 🧵

I created the course I wish existed 10 years ago remkusdevries.com/i-created-t...

WordPress Boot Sequence, including FSE themes: remkusdevries.com/wordpress-l...

The WordPress Loading Sequence. It's something "we all" use from time to time in one way or another. I couldn't find a complete enough write (e.g. with FSE) up of it, so I wrote mine. I've got a lot of performance related posts lined up to be published, btw. This is the 1st.

I just dropped 4 domains from my collection, and I feel like I'm deserving a little praise for letting go?

OpenAI's study delves into the reasons behind the phenomenon of hallucinations in language models such as ChatGPT. So now we finally knows why it's making up shit... openai.com/index/why-l...

I absolutely love the progress Studio has made in the past couple of months. Would love it if they could have Studio Sync work with any host via a simple configuration JSON or something like that, and without reliance of all things Jetpack. developer.wordpress.com/docs/develo...

TIL sourcing data from disk can be faster than caching in memory. www.bitflux.ai/blog/memory...

When's the last time you used this tool?

When's the last time you used this tool?

Did we seriously deploy to production using FileZilla, and call that a workflow?

Don't I fvcking know it.

I was incredibly jetlagged in Portland this past #WCUS for the whole week, but it appears that going back to my own timezone went super smooth. Pretty much slept in my normal schedule both nights I'm back, so that's a win.

Enable context-aware web performance optimization with Obs.js. It uses Navigator and Battery APIs to access users' connection strength and battery status to allow for this optimization. Pretty neat. Link below.

Debugging CSS is now easier. Hovering over a CSS property in Chrome DevTools will not only reveal its intended function but also display its Baseline status.

I did the impossible! I spent a week in the US (for #WCUS) and I LOST weight 🤯