AI has made it weirdly easy to describe a WordPress idea and get something surprisingly good back: a shop, a portfolio, a tiny product page, a lesson site, a goofy little community thing, or a landing page for an idea you are not even sure deserves a landing page yet. That part feels magical. But […]

People keep saying you should handwrite everything. I get why. They have seen the slop. We all have. The padded paragraph that says nothing. The fake-confident sentence with three dashes and a little blazer on. The blog post that sounds like a committee laminated a thesaurus and made it manage a webinar. The backlash is […]

Every WordCamp program has a slide deck called something like “An Introduction to the Settings API.” It’s fine. It’s competent. It’ll be on WordPress.tv by Friday, where four people will watch it, two of them related to the speaker. No shade — we’ve all given that talk. But here’s the thing we rarely say out […]

I love AI. I love what it lets me do in software development, in design, in writing. It has opened doors I genuinely never thought I’d walk through. That’s not a talking point — it’s just true, and I’m done softening it to make it more palatable. I know some of you hate it. I […]

I’m not here to argue who’s right. I have opinions. Everyone does. But after fifteen months of watching this play out in public, I’ve landed somewhere simple: it no longer matters who started it or who’s owed what. Whatever the verdict, WordPress is the one bleeding out. So I won’t relitigate any of it. I […]

I went to the WordCamp Europe 2026 schedule the way I do every year, looking for a reason to be there. Every workshop, every keynote, every ten-minute lightning slot. I scrolled it twice. There was nothing there for me. To make sure I wasn’t being unfair, I had AI read every session summary on the […]

WordPress has always been a place people build for others. Posts, pages, stores, membership sites, documents, campaigns, dashboards. The admin area, though, has usually asked everyone to work the same way. Same menus. Same gray corridors. Same feeling that the tool belongs to the software more than it belongs to you. WP Desktop Mode changes […]

I made up a word and now it has a hat. The word is themelet. A themelet is a static HTML/CSS site that learned the WordPress handshake. It can stroll into Appearance > Themes, nod politely to plugins, show up with a screenshot, and still mostly be a pile of friendly files minding their own business. Not […]

I have been working on a strange little institution called Model Context Polytechnic, and I need to tell you about it because it has fully escaped the neat weekend experiment drawer and started wearing a blazer. Model Context Polytechnic is a WordPress-powered MCP server that acts like a tiny university for LLMs. You connect an AI […]

It’s called Bazaar. It’s on GitHub. I built it in between helping customers at the Pokemon shop with my buddy Claude. The question that wouldn’t leave me alone A few months ago I noticed a pattern. I’d describe some tool to an AI coding assistant — a card price guide wired to my collection, a […]