WordPress
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I Connected Claude to WordPress in 5 Minutes. No Plugins, No MCP, No Code.
I spent about five minutes connecting Claude directly to my WordPress site this morning. No plugin. No middleware. No Zapier. Just two things WordPress and Claude already had sitting there, waiting. If you’ve been wondering whether you can get Claude to read, draft, edit, or post to your site without engineering anything, the answer is…
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Write: What If WordPress Was Designed Purely for Writers?
What if you opened WordPress and all you saw was a blank page, a blinking cursor, and room to think? That’s the question behind Write — a free WordPress plugin and proof of concept that reimagines the publishing experience from the ground up, designed purely for writers. Take Write for a spin (WordPress Playground link)…
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Tell AI this one thing and unlock front-end WordPress superpowers
If you’re using AI to build things for WordPress, there’s one small instruction that makes a big difference. Most people don’t know to say it. But once you do, what you can build opens up fast. Here it is: “Use the WordPress Interactivity API.” When this matters (and when it doesn’t) You don’t need this…
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The WordPress Front-End Editor — editing for non-technical teams and clients
A simple text change on a WordPress site shouldn’t need training, access to wp-admin, or the risk of breaking the design. So I built a free plugin that lets non-technical teams and clients edit content directly on the front end. Try it out Take it for a spin WordPress Playground Click the text. Change it.…
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Who’s Building This for WordPress? Not Site Building… This.
I Tested a Business AI Agent on a Real Business I’ve been testing Helena, an AI tool that doesn’t build your website, but helps plan and run the marketing around a business. I tried it on my wife’s yoga studio business, Rosieglo, and just sat there while it quietly figured out the business, the audience,…
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5 steps to make WordPress easier for beginners
I’ve trained 5,000+ people to use WordPress. From complete beginners to small business owners to creators just trying to get something live. And I think one thing has changed: WordPress has become more powerful, more flexible, more ambitious.But also harder for beginners to navigate. Here are 5 ways I think we could make it simpler…
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What’s Coming in WordPress 7
WordPress 7 is expected in April 2026. Here are the key updates. 1. AI foundations in WordPress WordPress 7 introduces a new AI Client and Connectors system. This creates a standard way for WordPress to connect to external AI services such as OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini. It also gives plugin developers a shared framework for…
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The 9 Stories Lovable Tells on Social Media (and how I used AI to find them)
How this post was made I want to be upfront: this analysis was created in collaboration with Claude, Anthropic's AI, using Cowork mode. I didn't spend hours manually scrolling through timelines and taking notes. Instead, I had an idea for a piece of content — "what stories does Lovable tell on social media?" — and…
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The Moment the Left Lost the Plot: After Season 2 of The West Wing
There was a time when political communication felt… clever. Not correct. Not loud. Not dripping in moral certainty. Clever. If you go back and watch seasons 1 and 2 of The West Wing, it’s almost unsettling how good it is. The writing assumes the audience is intelligent. The characters argue. They doubt themselves. They change…
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I Built an Ambient Synth
I’ve always loved the sound of ambient synthesizers — lush pads, shimmering arpeggios, the kind of textures you hear in Stranger Things or Brian Eno records. I also own a Korg Monologue and have recently become a little obsessed with the Hologram Electronics Microcosm. So I decided to see if I could build my own.…
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I Built a WordPress Plugin Because YouTube Has a Feature WordPress Doesn’t
WordPress lets you make a post public, private, or password protected. What it doesn’t let you do is make it unlisted. YouTube has had this for years: a video that only exists for people with the link. It does not show up in search. It does not appear on your channel. It is not fully…
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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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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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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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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 →…