Jamie Marsland
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WordPress MCP Accessibility prompt
If you are using WordPress MCP, then try this prompt out. Please audit my WordPress website for accessibility issues and give me a practical, prioritised report. I want you to review the site against WCAG 2.2 AA and focus on both the frontend experience and likely WordPress-specific causes behind any problems. Please check for: Because…
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In an Agentic Software World… Who Does First-Line Support?
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time recently playing with Claude and WordPress. The experience is genuinely remarkable. You can ask Claude to generate layouts, write content, build small apps, and connect things together in ways that would have required a developer not that long ago. But after a few weeks of experimenting, a…
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My Parents Can’t Remember the 60s, But Not Because They Were on Drugs
I grew up in the 1980s, which meant that the 1960s seemed like the most exciting decade in human history. Woodstock. Bob Dylan going electric. Jimi Hendrix setting guitars on fire. Students throwing paving stones in Paris. Civil rights marches. Protest songs. Cultural revolution. The 60s, according to history, was the moment the world woke…
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Are We in WordPress Asking the Right Question?
For about ten years of my life, my alarm clock went off at 4:00am. Not because I hate mornings. In fact, I rather like them. The world is quiet, the coffee tastes better, and nobody has started sending Slack messages yet. But even if you enjoy mornings, 4:00am is still objectively ridiculous. It was because…
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How to Turn LLM Hallucinations Into a Steady Stream of Free Blog Traffic
Something very strange is happening across the web. AI is linking to articles that do not exist. And those fake links might be one of the biggest free traffic opportunities for your blog. This is not theory. This is happening right now. And if you run a WordPress site, you can take advantage of it…
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100 Things Your AI Can Do to Your WordPress Site Right Now
There is a quiet shift happening in how websites work. For 20 years, WordPress has been something you log into. Now, with WordPress.com MCP, WordPress becomes something you talk to. Your AI assistant can read your site. Understand it. Change it. Improve it. Build on top of it. Not through hacks or brittle APIs. Through…
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Wave One Went to Lovable. Wave Two Might Be a Different Story.
That FT chart was doing the rounds last week. New websites up 35%. New iOS apps up nearly 50%. GitHub code output surging. I work at Automattic, parent company of WordPress.com. So when I saw it, I dug into the source data. The FT chart shows the explosion. It doesn’t show who’s behind it. The…
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How to Master a Skill Without Learning It
I recently bought an analogue synthesizer, specifically a Korg Monologue, which is a sentence that makes me sound much cooler and more musically competent than I actually am. I bought it because I have a band called Shenanigans, and I have decided, entirely on my own and without informing the other members, that we are…
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WordPress Isn’t Just a CMS Anymore. It’s Becoming the Capability Layer of the Open Web
For most of its life, WordPress has been thought of as a content management system. A place to write posts. Upload images. Publish pages. A place where humans create things. But something fundamental is shifting. We are entering a world where software doesn’t just display content. It uses it. It interacts with it. It builds…
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The Quiet Age: Or Why Nobody Is Singing With Their Mouth Open Anymore
I was walking through a city in England recently, which I will not name, mainly because it was all of them. Everywhere I looked, people had the facial expression of someone who has just remembered they left a lasagne in the oven in 2007. Nobody was striding. Nobody was beaming. Nobody was even doing that…
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Stop Publishing Markdown for AI. Do This Instead.
I love Markdown. I love it so much that I even built a frictionless writer for WordPress called PootleWriter that uses Markdown (and that this article was written with). The entire point was to remove friction between thought and publication. No buttons. No clutter. Just you and the words. Which is why I feel qualified…
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WordPress 7.0 Beta: The key features explained simply
WordPress 7.0 Beta is now available for testing. This isn’t the final version. The full release is expected in April 2026. But it gives a clear look at what’s coming. Here are the main features in the beta. 1. WordPress now includes the foundations for AI The beta introduces something called the AI Client. This…
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Sticky Header for WordPress Block Themes (free plugin)
If you’ve built a site with WordPress Full Site Editing, you’ve probably hit the same wall: getting your header to behave the way you actually want it to is surprisingly difficult. Block themes are powerful, but sticky headers, transparent overlays, and scroll effects require JavaScript — and that’s not something the block editor gives you out of the box. Sticky Header for Block Themes is a lightweight plugin that fills that gap, without touching your theme files or requiring any code. What it does At its core, the plugin makes your block theme header sticky…
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APOCALOPTIMIST
Or: Why Humans Are Absolutely Certain Everything Is About to End (Again) Human beings have many wonderful qualities. We invented sandwiches. We domesticated dogs. We created the ability to watch a man eat 14 cheeseburgers on YouTube while we ourselves eat a salad and feel morally superior. But perhaps our greatest achievement is this: We…
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The WordPress Interface Is Disappearing: What Comes After Gutenberg?
For 20 years, WordPress has been moving further away from code. AI may be the moment the interface disappears completely. Most people using WordPress today have never seen the full arc of how we got here. If you line it up, the evolution of editing looks something like this: HTML → TinyMCE → Shortcodes →…
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WebMCP for Non-Techies (A Simple Explanation)
You may have heard people talking about “MCP” or “WebMCP” in the same breath as AI, WordPress, or tools like Claude. It can sound technical. It is not. Here is the simple version. First, what problem is it solving? AI tools are very good at writing text. But they are usually trapped inside a chat…
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AI Isn’t Replacing WordPress. It’s Making It More Important.
I saw a post recently claiming AI will make platforms like WordPress obsolete. It was probably designed to spark outrage. It worked. But after working hands-on with AI-powered tools every single day, I think that take misses something fundamental about how the web actually works. Building Is the Easy Part AI has made building a…
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I Am Failing My Children (And I Work in Tech, So I Can See It Coming)
I have three daughters, Meg, Lily and Hetty. They are smart. Funny. Kind. Morally serious in the way only young people can be when they still believe adults are supposed to have answers. Unfortunately, one of the adults in charge is me. And I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. I work in software.…
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The play that goes wrong has gone horribly wrong
I was in London yesterday for a morning show at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, and on a bit of a whim my wife and I decided to grab tickets for The Play That Goes Wrong later that evening. I first saw it when it opened years ago, so I was curious to see how it…
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Creating personalised websites with WordPress playground
This tool generates a custom WordPress instance that runs entirely in your browser using WordPress Playground. When you enter a name and optional message, the app creates a Blueprint — a JSON configuration that tells WordPress Playground exactly how to set up the environment. The Blueprint includes a small PHP plugin that gets injected into…