Matt: Assorted Links
Sometimes you have to just start with beauty. Listen to Jon Batiste’s Beethoven Blues, then relish this interview, where he plays and talks about it. I can’t wait for Black Mozart, which is already starting to trickle on Spotify. Forget all that Ferrari stuff, what Jony Ive did with his LoveFrom Sailing Lantern is divine. […]
Open Channels FM: The Balancing Act: Freedom, Convenience, and Open Source in an AI-Driven World
So many of us are in a evolving relationship between freedom, convenience, and open source software in the world shaped by AI. The promise of freedom which is central to the open web and open source movements has to be continually weighed against the growing demand for convenience and simplicity. While open source software offers […]
SEO for Membership Sites: 7 Strategies to Rank Gated Content in 2026
If you’re running a membership site in WordPress, then you’ve probably run into a frustrating problem: you publish great content, but it doesn’t show up in Google. That usually happens because your most valuable content is hidden behind a login page or paywall. While that’s great for protecting your work and your revenue, it can […]
Akismet: Introducing the official Akismet PHP SDK
For twenty years, Akismet has kept spam out of WordPress. But spammers don’t care what your site runs on and neither do we. Last month we launched the official Akismet Drupal module. Today we’re introducing the engine that powers it: the official Akismet PHP SDK, a first-party client that brings Akismet to any PHP application. […]
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 […]