Year: 2025

I was working in my local café yesterday, the kind of place where “coffee” has evolved into a giant bucket of syrupy milk with just enough caffeine to justify the name. Everything was lovely. There was soft chatter, the faint hum of the espresso machine, and the comforting illusion that humanity still had some manners…

Every morning, I always get one good idea in the shower. An idea that gets me excited. My brain apparently runs on a combination of hot water, steam, and the acoustics of terrible singing. It’s the same every time. I’ll be standing there, minding my own business, when suddenly the universe drops something brilliant on…

The new WooCommerce MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration quietly opens up one of the most interesting frontiers for eCommerce in years. Until now, WooCommerce’s REST API has mostly been used for backend automations: syncing products, managing orders, and building integrations. But MCP adds a twist, it lets AI assistants talk directly to your store in…

The Comet AI Browser from Perplexity opens up a completely new way to work with WordPress — blending browsing, creating, and publishing into one seamless flow. Here are ten powerful ways you can use Comet and WordPress together right now. ⚡️ 1. Talk to Your Site — Real-Time WordPress Editing via Chat Open your WordPress…

Over the last two decades, I’ve had the chance to visit India multiple times. I’ve seen the changes firsthand. I’ve worked with my own development team based in India. I’ve watched India-based WordPress companies like Brainstorm Force and InstaWP grow from small teams into global names. I’ve also been inspired by grassroots efforts like WordPress…

Most of us treat WordPress like a black box. You log in, publish a post, maybe install a plugin, and a website appears. It feels seamless. But beneath that simplicity lies a small network of programs that work together every time someone visits your site. The Four Layers That Make WordPress Work A live WordPress…

One of the most exciting things about Automattic’s Telex is that it lets anyone build custom blocks for WordPress. That is a big deal. Over the past few weeks, we have seen some really creative examples pop up: everything from video scrub-on-scroll effects to timelines, even a playable version of Pong. It is fun, it…

I just built a tiny WordPress plugin that adds a scroll-to-scrub effect to the Cover block… and honestly, I can’t stop scrolling it 🤓 It’s super simple right now, but already a lot of fun. If you want to play with it, you can: I built it using Cursor, so if you want to dig…

If you’ve ever wanted a headline that always fits its container—no manual font sizing, no media queries—Stretchy Type delivers. It’s a Gutenberg block that scales your text to the exact width of its container in both the editor and on the frontend. Click here to download the Stretchy Text Block. The core trick In plain…

Based on James LePage’s post on the WordPress Core AI Blog – July 17, 2025 WordPress is laying the foundation for a smarter, more flexible future with the introduction of AI Building Blocks — a set of tools designed to integrate artificial intelligence into the platform in a consistent and open way. These tools are…

There’s a new free WordPress plugin that can make your website feel dramatically smoother and more professional — and most people haven’t heard of it yet. It’s called the View Transitions plugin, and it uses a clever bit of browser technology to give your site beautifully smooth page transitions — the kind of slick experience…

You’ve got a brilliant idea, you’re ready to launch a website, and then it hits you: you need to pay for a domain name. Twelve pounds, twenty dollars, whatever the currency. But why? Why are we paying for something that sounds like it should just exist online, freely available like fresh air? It’s a fair…