HeroPress: WordPress and Its Community: Designing a Life of Freedom – WordPress y su comunidad: el diseño de una vida libre

Este ensayo también está disponible en español. This is my story with WordPress, a tool that changed the way I work and how I connect with the world. The Starting Point: From Sociology to Design I am often asked how someone with a degree in Sociology ended up specializing in web design and development. My … Read more

WordCamp Central: WordPress Tech Congress, WordCamp Valencia 2025. Tradition and Innovation

Index Let’s begin, this WordCamp is yours 1.What is a WordCamp? 2.Talks and speakers 3.Light Talks 4.Speed Builder Game 5.Contributor Day 6.Kids’ area 7.If the family gets together, we eat. Traditional Valencian cuisine 8.A WordCamp with tradition 9.Team 10.Sponsors 11.Public reception 12.Final Let’s begin, this WordCamp is yours “Good morning! Welcome to WordPress Tech Congress, … Read more

Matt: AI Disruption

Two interesting posts today, first is Nick Hamze, who ponders the case on his delightfully avant-garde site for how WordPress fits in when everything is coded up on a whim, Nobody Rips Out the Plumbing. Separately, I was delighted to see that legendary investor Brad Feld has hooked up Claude Code to post to his … Read more

Dennis Snell: HTML API: Check for unclosed attributes.

Today someone was discussing the goal of linting HTML, specifically of detecting unclosed attributes. Consider the following snippet: <p class=”important><img src=”alert.png”>This is important!</p> It’s clear that a mistake led to a missing double-quote on the class attribute of the opening <p> tag. While WordPress’ HTML API doesn’t directly report this (because “unclosed attribute” isn’t particularly … Read more

Matt: Leadership at the Peak

I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for encouraging me to step away from the endless work of being CEO of Automattic to focus on training and development. Ann, as one of this generation’s great leaders, did it herself before recommending it. She took the course … Read more