Category: WordPress

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…

AI tools that build websites or apps from a single prompt, like Lovable or Bolt, can feel almost magical. You type something like “Build me a travel blog,” and seconds later, you’re looking at a working website. But what’s really going on behind the scenes?Surprisingly, the magic isn’t just about the AI getting smarter. It’s…

Say hello to drag-and-drop image uploads in PootleWriter – fully optimized and seamlessly integrated with WordPress. New Features Upload to WordPress Media LibraryDrop an image, and it’s instantly uploaded to your WordPress site. Filenames and alt text? Automatically cleaned and added. Drag-and-Drop SimplicityDrag images straight into the editor. You’ll see a blue dashed border and…

We’ve just shipped a new PootleWriter update with three powerful improvements to streamline your writing and publishing workflow. WordPress Categories — Automatically PulledPootleWriter now connects directly to your WordPress site and automatically pulls your existing categories using the WordPress REST API. Just pick the right category from a dropdown — no need to remember or…

What happens when two brilliant WordPress developers get just 30 minutes to recreate a completely ridiculous website design? At WordCamp EU’s Speed Build challenge, Fabian Kägy and Ellen Bauer were handed a design inspired by bubblegum, brutalism, and bonbons—and things got wonderfully weird. Here’s how it went down.

Creating an accessible, functional, and beautiful carousel in WordPress has traditionally meant reaching for a plugin—or writing custom JavaScript. But not anymore. Thanks to a new CSS spec, CSS Overflow Module Level 5, we can now build fully accessible carousels using nothing but HTML and CSS. And in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to…

One of the areas we’re exploring at Automattic is how generative AI might help us improve video content — for support, training, and product demos. And one of the most fascinating frontiers is AI avatars: realistic video presenters created entirely by machines, sometimes based on real people. I wrote about this recently in an article,…

Just finished teaching a WordPress course at OFFF Barcelona with an amazing group of young, energised creatives. They had no idea what was possible with WordPress — and they care deeply about creativity, freedom, and open source. The workshop sold out a week before the event, with all 25 places gone and over 30 people…

Still sending the same message to everyone? These brands didn't—and the results speak for themselves. 🎯 Kent Brushes (UK)Swapped out their standard Black Friday emails for hyper-personalized ones and saw an 839% increase in email-attributed revenue.Source: Klaviyo 🎯 Ferris State University (US)Tailored their website content to each visitor's stage in the funnel. Result? A 2798%…

WordPress is sitting on a goldmine. Over the past 20 years, its community has created more than 60,000 plugins — a massive, decentralized library of tools, ideas, and functionality. But until now, accessing that collective intelligence has been like trying to tap into an archive with no index. That’s where the new Feature API comes…

How a quiet shift in architecture could redefine how we build and interact with WordPress WordPress is changing — and not in the way people usually say it is. This shift isn’t aesthetic. It’s not about blocks or admin redesigns or even the embrace of full-site editing. What’s happening under the hood is far more…

The no-code vs. code debate isn’t new—but it’s evolving. Recently, a public exchange on Facebook between two professionals, Umar Mirza and Ahmad Awais (Founder & CEO at Langbase), reignited the conversation. It revealed not just differing opinions, but two fundamentally different visions for the future of software creation. Umar Mirza: No-Code Is About EmpowermentUmar Mirza…

If you've chosen to turn off monetization on your YouTube channel or specific videos, you might expect that no ads will run. But the reality is more complicated. In fact, YouTube can still show ads on your regular videos, even if you’ve disabled monetization. Here's what you need to know. YouTube's Right to Monetize Your…

How to Create High-Converting StoryBrand-Style Personalized Landing Pages Using Omnisend, Bolt.new, and WordPress (Beginner’s Guide) If you want to create landing pages that feel personal, professional, and high-converting — without hiring a developer — this guide is for you. In just a few minutes, I’ll show you how to build StoryBrand-style personalized landing pages that…

Creating a horizontally scrolling marquee in WordPress is a fun and eye-catching way to show off client logos, testimonials, team members, or anything you want to continuously loop across the screen. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through how to do this using only core Gutenberg blocks and a bit of CSS magic. No plugins or…

“Humans are just models too.” That’s what James Cameron recently said when talking about AI and copyright — and he’s kind of right. We, as humans, consume vast amounts of information throughout our lives and remix it to create ideas, stories, and solutions. That sounds a lot like what large language models (LLMs) do too.…