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I love working with, and podcasting about, WordPress. Podcasts at WP Builds and WP Tavern.
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426 – Why Independent Analytics could be the WordPress alternative to Google Analytics you’ve been waiting for In this episode, I talk with Ben Sibley and Andrew Mead, creators of the Independent Analytics WordPress plugin. We discuss how the plugin offers privacy-foc wpbuilds.com/2025/06/26/4...

Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem techcrunch.com/2025/...

New stuff from the No Script Show - Website Navigation: Why is it so bloody awful? - Go have a look? https://noscript.show/21/

New stuff from the No Script Show - Creating accessible navigation - Go have a look? https://noscript.show/learn/13/

New No Script Show podcast - Ep21. Website Navigation Why is it so bloody awful? - Have a listen? https://listen.hubhopper.com/episode/ep21-website-navigation-why-is-it-so-bloody-awful/32902409

Now that my blog post got the thumbs up from @zeldman.bsky.social, I can die a happy evangelist 🥰 Check out my intro to scroll-driven animations, hope you like it too ❤️ webkit.org/blog/17101/a...

As a follow up to the criteria for a repository to live under the WordPress organization on GitHub published 2 weeks ago, an audit of repositories, Slack channels, and WordPress Core team plugins was performed. Here are all of the actions that were taken at the conclusion of this audit.

I think that this is a new low for CAPTCHAs. Count the stack of rocks in almost invisible images... You have to get 3 in a row of this nonsense!

This Week in WordPress #337 The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 16th June 2025. With Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Steve Burge, Jesse Friedman. wpbuilds.com/2025/06/24/t...

Join us LIVE in about 90 mins for the 'This Week in #WordPress' show. It's fun, and we'd love your comments! Starts at 2pm UK time. wpbuilds.com/live Join Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Steve Burge, Jesse Friedman. See you there? @steveburge.com #TWiW

This Thursday evening a lucky attendee at #WPLDN (a Meetup in London for the WordPress community) will walk away with this iPad. You need to be in the room to win, so we'll see you there? It's our summer social, so fun all around! Register now: www.meetup.com/london-wordp...

Harper is a free English grammar checker that can be considered an #opensource alternative to Grammarly (forgot this existed). writewithharper.com github.com/automattic/h... #Rust

I'm putting the links together for discussion on Monday's 'This Week in #WordPress' show. If you have any stories that you think we ought to cover, please reply here and I'll take a look. Thanks so much. Show is at 2pm UK time on Mon 23rd June here: https://wpbuilds.com/live - invite everyone!!!

425 – From radio addiction to Do the Woo / Open Channels: Sir Bob Dunn on his podcasting journey In this episode, I with veteran podcaster Bob Dunn about the evolution of podcasting, especially within the WordPress and WooCommerce spaces. We discuss their early audio wpbuilds.com/2025/06/19/4...

This Week in WordPress #336 The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 9th June 2025. Join Nathan Wrigley, Remkus de Vries, Piccia Neri, Tim Nash as we chat about the WordPress news from the previous week. We dive into the launch of FAIR, a new decen wpbuilds.com/2025/06/17/t...

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Join us LIVE in a couple of hours for the 'This Week in #WordPress' show. It's fun, and we'd love your comments! Starts at 2pm UK time. wpbuilds.com/live Join Nathan Wrigley, Remkus de Vries, Piccia Neri, Tim Nash. @piccianeri.com @aremkus1.bsky.social #TWiW #WordPress

Consider me ‘concerned about AI’ So, it's the year 2025, and we're all falling headlong over ourselves to implement as much AI into our lives as we can. I'm not too sure that this is a good thing. Given that we really don't know what's going on with the processes AI uses to arrive at answers, I…

Earlier this year I asked 2025 to take a long hard think about it's actions and have a lie down. It didn't. It appears to have drunk several bottles of tequila, smoked a few things and decided to go 'out on the town' to see if there's any trouble it can cause.

424 – Revolutionising WordPress theme management with Brad Williams and Theme Switcher Pro In this WP Builds episode, Nathan Wrigley chats with Brad Williams about his longstanding role in the WordPress community and the launch of Theme Switcher Pro, a plugin that let wpbuilds.com/2025/06/12/4...

New stuff from the No Script Show - Website accordions: the good the bad and the ugly - Go have a look? https://noscript.show/20/

New stuff from the No Script Show - Building an accessible accordion with HTML and CSS - Go have a look? https://noscript.show/learn/12/

An interesting listen about the importance of open source software. This time the Tor project... www.eff.org/how-to-fix-t...

AI does worry me you know... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I've spent x2 days wandering around Basel. Parts of it are utterly magnificent. Sad to leave today.

Heading to #WCEU at silly 'o clock, but first, a few days of fun with a good friend.

Yep. Sums up much of my thinking.

423 – What just happened? Episode 4. Big events and Core release changes In this episode of the WP Builds podcast, Nathan Wrigley and Rae Morey recap major WordPress news from the past quarter. They discuss key events like PressConf, CloudFest, WordCamp Asia, and the wpbuilds.com/2025/05/29/4...

New stuff from the No Script Show - Becoming a better freelance web designer - Go have a look? https://noscript.show/19/

"A large language model is as neutral as an AK-47."

Sneak preview of my talk “Supercharge Web UX with View Transitions” which I’ll be giving at #WebExpo in Prague tomorrow. (Demo by the wonderful @maxiferreira.com – live-transitions.pages.dev) #CSS #ViewTransitions

This Week in WordPress #335 In "This Week in WordPress #335," Nathan Wrigley is joined by Tim Nash, Tammie Lister, and Piccia Neri to discuss rebuilding trust in the WordPress community, recent reforms proposed by Executive Director Mary Hubbard, and comparisons betwe wpbuilds.com/2025/05/27/t...

Join us LIVE for the 'This Week in #WordPress' show. It's fun, and we'd love your comments! Starts at 2pm UK time. wpbuilds.com/live Join Nathan Wrigley, Tammie Lister, Piccia Neri, Tim Nash. #TWiW #WordPress @piccianeri.com @karmatosed.art #TWiW

Looking for somebody to sponsor in WordPress? Rian Rietveld is looking for sponsorship to work on Accessibility documentation, and we need her! rianrietveld.com/2025/05/19/w... #WordPress #a11y

New stuff from the No Script Show - Programmatic CSS. Where is this going? - Go have a look? https://noscript.show/18/

Yo, I'm insane

Recently I gave a talk @wpldn.bsky.social which was a case study of how we built a recent #WordPress site using full site editing and the block editor. It is always great to catchup with the WordPress community ❤️ https://bit.ly/4kC1iy6

422 – Streamlining WordPress Agency Workflows: Zach Hendershot Introduces Miruni In this episode, I chat with Zach Hendershot about Miruni, an AI-powered tool designed to streamline edit requests for WordPress agencies. Miruni lets clients mark up website changes via wpbuilds.com/2025/05/22/4...

This Week in WordPress #334 The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 12th May 2025. Join Nathan Wrigley, Remkus de Vries, Tim Nash, Corey Maass as we discuss the news from the last 7 days. We dive into speed optimisation, with Remkus de Vries shari wpbuilds.com/2025/05/20/t...