Matt: Jetpack Saves
Mia Elvasia has a great article about how they realized they were spending $635/yr across various plugins to get things that Jetpack offered bundled and often free. Save money! Jetpack is frequently overlooked as one of the most underappreciated plugins in the WordPress universe. This is partially our fault, as the article notes, because the […]
Want More Sales or Signups? I Tried 11 Best Conversion Optimization Tools
“Why aren’t people buying?” That’s the question that kept me up at night when I first started my online business. My WordPress website looked good, traffic was coming in, but I wasn’t getting a lot of conversions. It wasn’t until I started experimenting with conversion optimization tools that things started to change. I finally understood […]
Matt: Chop Wood, Carry Water
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. Kyle Kowalski has an amazing blog post exploring many aspects of this Zen Kōan, including some diversions into David Foster Wallace’s legendary commencement speech, This is Water.
Matt: Creed Update
This week, the Automattic Creed received its first-ever update, which I’ll describe as a minor point upgrade. This is the sentence before and after. I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of […]
Matt: Wayback Machine Joint
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it’s a plugin I’d encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a reliable archived version. It also works proactively by archiving […]
Gutenberg Times: Plugin Security, Divi to Gutenberg, Internet Archive, — Weekend Edition 347
Hi there, On All Saints Day, November 1st, we honor dear people who passed. I wanted to take the occasion and point you to the WordPress Remembers page where accomplished contributors who passed have a permanent home. Their work lives on in every new story, every new website, and every new idea made possible by […]
WPBeginner Spotlight 17: Big Moves in the WordPress Ecosystem — AI Tools, Improved Forms, and What’s Next in 6.9
October brought a wave of new AI tools and smart features across the WordPress ecosystem. From faster website creation to smarter SEO and form automation, there’s plenty of WordPress news for both beginners and pros to explore. Each update this month focuses on saving time and improving everyday workflows—whether that’s creating content, collecting data, or […]
Matt: 50k Bounty
For smart, enterprising hackers Beeper is offering bounties of up to $50,000 for people who create open source bridges.
Open Channels FM: Episode 700 and The Biggest Lesson Learned With a Rebrand
As we hit 700 episodes, BobWP catches us up on the rebrand.
Tammie Lister: Abilities explorer
WordPress 6.9 is coming and with it a few Core AI goodies including the Abilities API. New Abilities API: A unified registry of callable WordPress capabilities with defined inputs and outputs, built for AI integrations and developer automation. This has a lot of potential for use, however in order to start that exploring, being aware […]