Open Channels FM: How Hosting Companies Empower Agencies Through Effective Partnerships
In this episode, Adam Weeks and Carrie Smaha discuss agency partner programs, emphasizing ongoing commissions, risk management, and building trust.
Greg Ziółkowski: Research: Architecting Tools for AI Agents at Scale
Loading all available tools into an LLM’s context simultaneously is one of the most consequential architectural mistakes teams make when building AI integrations. The solution isn’t bigger context windows, and it’s progressive tool exposure: dynamically presenting only the tools relevant to each interaction. This post surveys the major patterns for doing so, drawn from production servers, […]
Weston Ruter: Adding an MCP Server to the WordPress Core Development Environment
I wanted to hook up Claude Code to be able to interact with my local wordpress-develop core development environment via MCP (Model Context Protocol). I couldn’t find documentation specifically for doing this, so I’m sharing how I did it here. Assuming you have set up the environment (with Docker) and started it via npm run […]
Open Channels FM: IndieWeb: Protocol or Philosophy?
Matthias Pfefferle and Ryan Barrett discuss the Indie Web’s dual nature as both a philosophy and a protocol, emphasizing website ownership and the role of open standards like RSS.
I Tested 10+ Best AI SEO Tools for WordPress to See Which Are Worth It
You can’t just tell AI to ‘do SEO’ on your website and expect to rank at the top of Google. But the right tools can cut hours of repetitive work from your schedule. Many people think AI is just for writing blog posts, but the real time-saving advantage comes from automating technical tasks like internal […]
Open Channels FM: The Evergreen Platform
In this episode, Adam Weeks discusses a partnership between Servebolt and Crowd Favorite, focusing on innovative enterprise solutions. The partnership aims to address complex technological challenges, enabling businesses to prioritize growth over maintenance.
WordPress.org blog: How to Watch WordCamp Asia 2026 Live
WordCamp Asia 2026 will be available to watch live across three days of streaming, making it easy for the global WordPress community to follow along from anywhere. This year’s live streamed programming begins with a special Contributor Day broadcast, followed by two full conference days of presentations from across the WordPress community. This post gathers […]
Open Channels FM: Professionalizing Pricing Models for Open Source CMS Businesses
In this episode, Anne Bovelett chats with Dr. Christian Kurze discuss strategies for startups in open source CMS, emphasizing structured sales and sustainable monetization.
Gary: The Human in the Loop
If you’ve been paying attention to LLM-based coding tools in the past few months, you’ll have seen a seismic shift in how they’re being used. Even 12 months ago, they were little more than glorified auto-complete tools: useful for quickly repeating patterns, but terrible at producing well structured, thoughtful, maintainable code. More recently, however, there […]
Matt: TheOpenSource
It’s very cool to see Theo / t3.gg‘s open source arc. Just in general, with people creating more software than ever, it’s so exciting to see an explosion of open source and a growing understanding of why working together on open source makes so much sense for the future we want to build.