Let’s talk about Taxonomies vs Custom Fields. Or rather, how to model data you need to query in modern WordPress. Prompted by a comment someone made in The Guild on my recent article about modern WordPress query performance, an old question was raised: When creating custom post types, is it still more performant to use […]

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Connecting an AI assistant to WordPress now looks almost trivial. Install a plugin, copy an MCP URL, sign in, and start asking the assistant to work on your site. That is the easy part. The first difficult question appears one step later: what exactly can the authenticated assistant do? Or even better: what should it […]

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If you learned WordPress performance five or ten years ago, some of what you learned is now incomplete. Not because it was wrong, but because WordPress itself has evolved. Over the past several releases, Core contributors have fundamentally changed how WordPress retrieves, caches, and reuses data. Most of these improvements happened behind the scenes. There […]

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WordCamps are wonderful. I know that from experience, having initiated and co-founded WordCamp Europe and WordCamp Netherlands, and having organized WordCamps for the past 17 years. But if you work seriously with WordPress, WordCamps should not be the only events you attend. In this video, I talk about why WordPress Builders and Developers need to […]

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WordPress is slow. Something those of us working with WordPress hear all the time from people not in the know. As I did yesterday when I posted this on X: That is not a controversial statement if you understand performance. It is simply how performance analysis works. A slow site is not slow because a […]

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It was Cloudflare’s announcement of Markdown for Agents a few months bac that made everything click for me. I’m revisting the note I had saved in my Obsidian vault in preparation for my upcoming Cloudflare for WordPress course and decided to write out what I learned so far on Cloudflare’s intentions as I see them. […]

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I just got back from WordCamp Europe in Kraków, Poland. A wonderful event, one I helped start and shape. But… if you’ve been hanging around me at any WordPress event in the past couple of years, you may have heard me share my thoughts on what we’re missing in the world of WordPress events. WordCamp […]

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WordCamp Europe will always be special to me. Having been one of the people who helped get it started, it’s hard not to look around at WordCamp Europe and feel a deep appreciation for what this event has become. And still, every year, it comes back to the same thing for me: The conversations. It’s […]

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We’ve been busy over at Scanfully in the past couple of months, so I thought I’d be good to cover what we’ve added in the last four major releases. All of the features are built from the idea that a WordPress site can look fine while important things are failing in the background. For instance, […]

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This past weekend, at WordCamp Slovenia, I gave a talk built around a simple idea: we still talk about WordPress performance too narrowly. Too often, performance gets reduced to loading times, Core Web Vitals, caching layers, image compression, and hosting choices. Those things matter. They absolutely do. But they are only part of the story. […]

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This is the second post I’m writing about things that stood out in conversations and presentations at PressConf. I came back from PressConf with a feeling I haven’t been able to shake: the AI conversation in WordPress has changed. Last week I was at Checkout Summit, and this feeling was confirmed even harder (in the […]

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I spent last week in Sicily, Italy for a perfectly organized Checkout Summit. A conference fully dedicated to WooCommerce, organized by Rodolfo Melogli. James Kemp and Katie Keith from the Do the Woo podcast invited me for an honest look at the first dedicated WooCommerce conference in years.

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For years now, I have been teaching, writing, recording, testing, breaking, fixing, and sharing what I have learned from working with WordPress. A lot of that work has naturally centered around performance, security, architecture, and the practical reality of running WordPress well. But underneath all of that, there has always been a bigger throughline for […]

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Got to talk about WordPress again at Nathan’s This Week in WordPress. And yes, I am the danger 😛. I got this tshirt on my travels from NYC to Phoenix, making a dedicated stop at Alburquerque to visit some Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul filming locations.

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