Tag: WordPress

  • Giving AI agents real context for WordPress block development

    Giving AI agents real context for WordPress block development

    Generic React tools don’t really understand WordPress blocks. I kept hitting that wall, so I built wp-block-grab.

  • WordPress Maintenance Mode

    WordPress Maintenance Mode

    Let’s discuss various easy ways you can put your site into the Maintenance Mode.

  • Working on CommentsWP

    Working on CommentsWP

    WordPress comments haven’t changed a lot – same interface, same functionality – for years. At some point, I decided to improve this important component and started working on the CommentsWP plugin. This post is a brief history of the CommentsWP plugin creation: how and when I came up with the idea, my general process, and…

  • How to organize custom code for plugins & themes

    You have lots of plugins, and even a theme. You are brave and adventurous – and you write (or copy-paste) lots of snippets to modify their default behavior. Now you have a custom code all over the place and even in your theme functions.php. Is there a better way to fix that mess?

  • What would you do if WordPress lost significant market share?

    What would you do if WordPress lost significant market share?

    Recently Ryan (@modemlooper) posted a question on Twitter: https://twitter.com/modemlooper/status/767398974592389121 It so resonated with me, so I decided to write a more lengthy answer. The introduction to the problem WordPress is big right now, with 26+% of the web it gives ability to reach millions of customers if you create a business around it. But that…