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Real talk about WordPress, AI, and what it looks like to build things on the web. No theory. No fluff. Practical, tested, and straight to the point.
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WordPress Can Be the Agentic Web. But Only If We Stop Building It Wrong.
The WordPress agentic web is closer than most people think. But there is a version of this that goes sideways.…
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WordPress AI Plugin Lock-In Is the Second Thing Nobody Is Talking About
Token costs were the first thing nobody was talking about. WordPress AI plugin lock-in is the second. And it’s worse…
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Calm Under Pressure in the AI Era: The People Who Win
A production database gone in nine seconds. An AI agent that wrote its own confession. And the one skill that…
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WordPress AI Features Are Coming. Nobody Is Talking About What They’ll Cost Your Users.
WordPress AI features are coming and the infrastructure is real. But there is a cost nobody is talking about. Not…
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Discover the Secret WordPress options.php: Raw Power for Advanced Users
Look, I’ve been knee-deep in WordPress since the days when installing it required FTP and a prayer that your host…
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Talk to AI Like It Owes You Money. My New WordPress Workflow
Look, I’ve been in this WordPress trenches for over 20 years. I built my first theme in Notepad++ when PHP…
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Teaching Artificial Intelligence to use WordPress standards
What we should be doing right now is teaching AI the WordPress way — the same way we’ve taught tens…
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WP Engine vs. WordPress: Core Functionality, Controversy, and Clarifying the Future
In recent discussions within the WordPress community, a lot of attention has been drawn to the conflict involving WordPress, Automattic,…
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One Year At WebDevStudios
It’s officially been one year since I started at WebDevStudios.com (WDS) & Maintainn.com. If you’ve been following my Role Model…
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I don’t type anymore. A story about voice to text.
Did you know that your smartphone has a web browser built into it? Did you know that most modern smartphones…
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Google Built My Website
At WordCamp Orange County, I had a chance to talk with Bridget Willard. Bridget expressed her hatred towards me every…
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A Problem With WordPress Theme Demonstrations
One of the awesome parts about buying a product always includes the test drive or the free sample. The same…