How to Verify Your SEO Is Intact After a WordPress Domain Migration
Changing your domain name is one of the scariest SEO decisions a WordPress site owner can make. Done right, your search rankings survive the move mostly intact. Done wrong, you can lose months of work overnight. I’ve audited post-migration sites where everything looked fine on the surface, only for missing redirects, stale canonical tags, or […]
Open Channels FM: The Changelog: Still Here, Still Doing It
commentary A bit over four years ago, in 2022, I recorded an episode from San Diego. I was getting ready for an event, about to attend my first-ever Contributor Day (which, yes, felt a little absurd given how many WordCamps I’d been to by that point). To fill the time before things kicked off, I […]
Dennis Snell: Gutenberg Package Activity
Last week at WordCamp Europe there was a get-together among WordPress Core committers and a question arose concerning the separate Gutenberg npm packages that are built and distributed. I was curious about how frequently they are updated and which ones are most active, so I asked Codex to review git commit activity, gather commits per […]
Open Channels FM: WordCamp Europe Takeaways: Community Vibes, Tech Advancements and Smarter Tools
This Open Channels FM episode from WordCamp Europe discusses the event’s vibrant atmosphere, the integration of AI in WordPress workflows, and the positive community outlook on evolving technology and opportunities.
WPTavern: #220 – Cathy Mitchell on Why WordPress Events Matter: Community, Connection, and Giving Back
Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, why WordPress events and community matter. If you’d like to subscribe to the […]
How to Find and Fix Orphan Pages That Are Killing Your WordPress SEO
You’ve done everything right: published your blog posts, optimized the titles, maybe even built a few backlinks. But traffic still isn’t coming, and you can’t figure out why. Now, before you publish another post, it’s worth checking whether orphan pages are working against you. Orphan pages are easy to miss. No internal links connect to […]
Open Channels FM: BackTalk on AI Burnout, Bridging Innovation and Standards, and the Risks of Single-Maintainer Tools
Conversations reveal insights on deep work, innovation standards, and the risks of underappreciated developer tools, highlighting challenges of mental fatigue, standardization, and reliance on single maintainers.
Open Channels FM: Rethinking Developer Life and Productivity with Rapid AI Advancements
In this episode of Open Web Conversations, Zach Stepek and Carl Alexander discuss with Alex Standiford the impact of AI on developers, highlighting productivity, burnout, workflow changes, and the necessity of setting boundaries in this rapidly evolving landscape.
TranslatePress vs WPML vs Universally: Which Is Better in 2026?
Translating your WordPress website into multiple languages is one of the easiest ways to reach a wider audience, boost your SEO traffic, and increase your sales. But with so many translation plugins available, choosing the right one can feel overwhelming. TranslatePress and WPML are established plugins with years of proven history, while Universally is a […]
Gutenberg Times: Gutenberg Changelog #131 – Gutenberg Plugin Releases 23.1 – 23.3, Calls for Testing for 7.1 and more
In episode 131 of the Gutenberg Changelog, Birgit Pauli-Haack welcomes Isabel Brison to discuss the latest developments in Gutenberg plugin releases 23.1, 23.2, and 23.3, as well as progress leading up to WordPress 7.1. The hosts highlight recent calls for testing, including collaborative editing—previously delayed from 7.0 due to stability concerns—and the new media editor […]