Matt: In Canada
I’ve been trying to find time in my calendar to attend more WordCamps as I love meeting WordPressers all over the world. The stars aligned, and I’ll be swinging by WordCamp Canada next week. They’ve put together an amazing program, including open web pioneer and inventor Dave Winer, so I’m looking forward to checking out […]
Matt: Twitter Hacked
Sorry everybody, my @photomatt on Twitter has been hacked, I’m trying to regain account access, but it is not currently in my control. Update: Thank you to the fine teams at X/Twitter and Nikita Bier, my account has been recovered. Just for future reference, I will never promote cryptocurrencies or similar investments. If you see […]
Gutenberg Times: Mega Menus in core, WordPress 6.9 calls for testing, going from Elementor to Site Editor — Weekend Edition 344
Howdy, After meeting so many people at WordCamp Gdynia, on the plane and then on the train, I caught a nasty cold and struggled all week. I call this stage mushbrain, and everything becomes much harder, especially reading comprehension suffers. I am over it now, though. It also wasn’t the first time that I sounded […]
Matt: Jeremy Kranz and Sentinel
I’d like to introduce you to Jeremy Kranz. With his career as an investor at Intel Capital, then GIC, which is the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore rumored to manage over $700B, to now running his own fund Sentinel Global, he has had a front-row seat to investments in industry changing companies such as ByteDance […]
Does SEO Still Work in 2025? (My Expert Insights)
Many website owners I talk to are feeling a bit nervous about SEO right now. With AI search results getting all the attention, it’s easy to wonder if all that hard work is still paying off. You may be wondering if SEO is still worth it in 2025. It’s a valid question, especially when your […]
How I Block Email Address Entries in My WordPress Forms
I’ve built all kinds of WordPress forms over the years, from surveys and contact forms to email newsletter signups. But even with CAPTCHA and other anti-spam tools in place, my inbox kept filling up with junk submissions. When I finally took a closer look at the problem, I noticed a clear pattern: most of the […]
Matt: Kathy Sierra
I was reminded today of the profound marketing influence of Kathy Sierra, who was a pretty prolific blogger and speaker back in the day. I would summarize her thesis as such: Your best marketing and communication should talk about how you make your users awesome, not how you’re awesome. If you’d like to check out […]
Open Channels FM: Bootstrapping a Successful WordPress Business Through Customer Feedback and Iteration
In this episode, Mark chats with Aurelio Volle from WPUmbrella about his journey in creating a WordPress management tool, maintaining customer focus, and the importance of community and transparency in business growth.
Matt: Battery Scan
One of the cooler companies I’ve seen in a while is LumaField, which does industrial CT scanning, as they describe it. Industrial X-ray CT (Computed Tomography) works on the same basic principle as medical CT, taking hundreds of X-ray images from different angles to capture the internal and external structure of objects in three dimensions. […]
WPTavern: #188 – Bud Kraus on Teaching and Using WordPress With Low Vision
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 teaching and using WordPress with low vision. If you’d like to subscribe to […]