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Do you need to approve things that happen on your WordPress site? We're about to launch exactly that feature in the PublishPress Future plugin. Here's a simple example to Stick or Unstick a post. But you could use this for just about any process in WordPress:

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Big news! I interviewed Jake Goldman (founder of 10up, now Partner at Fueled) for @thewpminute.com. Jake told me about the beginnings of 10up, the 2023 merger with Fueled, and their new rebranding process. We also touch on AI, full site editing, and more. #WordPress thewpminute.com/jake-goldman...

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Super List, my little block plugin has been updated! The latest version of #WordPress weirdly broke it and you couldn't add new list items. That's now been resolved. PLUS, you can live preview the plugin from the repo now :) wordpress.org/plugins/supe...

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Got the chance to chat with Google's Kenji Baheux who has been working on Web AI APIs today! (I'm personally excited about the possibility of using on-device LLMs to screen interactions for toxicity.) Learn all about these news APIs: developer.chrome.com/docs/ai

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Oh my geeerrrd, they gave me an Idris for a week

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Tapping the sign

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" With few realistic alternatives to the critical research performed by NOAA, NASA, and other federal agencies, it won’t be developers and underwriters, but homeowners and renters, who pay the steepest costs for the White House’s climate denial." newrepublic.com/article/1959...

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David Pogue: “I’m wondering what your thought is on the ban on foreign students, the proposal. I mean, you were one of those kids, right?” Elon Musk: “Yeah. I mean, I think we wanna stick to, you know, the subject of the day, which is, like, spaceships, as opposed to, you know, presidential policy"

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😌 automattic.com/2025/05/29/r...

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You can safely give normal users so much power with the WordPress block editor. @sethrubenstein.info is the lead developer at the Pew Research Center. Check out his demo of how they empower ordinary users to update their site's busy homepage ⬇️

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Three weeks after his mom attended a $1 million-a-head fundraising dinner for Trump, a nursing home executive who pleaded guilty to tax crimes received a presidential pardon, sparing him 18 months in prison. @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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In the 1946 midterm elections, the GOP used public anger over meat shortages to win back both houses of Congress for the first time in over a decade. Their message for those midterms was a simple one that Democrats should borrow: “Had enough?”

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"I spoke with a few congressional staffers who said that they had tried using Bluesky as an alternative to Twitter after Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, but they gave up after their bosses kept getting yelled at by Democratic users angry at their impotence" www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

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I hate how they tell you the "American Dream" is just making money. I don't know about you, but when I was a child I didn't dream of being a business guy with a good stock portfolio or whatever. I dreamt of being the Spider-Man.

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“Young Chinese women have small hands”

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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

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This was to honor her father, not play into his hero complex.

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I have tried to ditch Arc 4 times since the start of the year; within 24 hours I keep crawling back. How did they make the perfect browser and just abandon it 🥲

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Hey everyone, come worth with us at Pew Research Center! We're looking for junior engineer to join our team on a contract basis (with possibility of permanent hire at the end) to help out with dev tooling, automating support processes, and improve overall dev experience. tiny.cc/ttjk001

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Makes a great gift for your #Freelance clients. 😀 grumpydesigner.threadless.com/designs/be-c...

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everyone is correctly hating on all this AI stuff being forced into everything, but are you a big enough hater to install linux once they get around to forcing AI onto your proprietary operating system? i doubt it

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similarly, in the US there are far more people working in museums than in coal mining. there are some industries that have salience as 'working people' and 'hearts of the community' (often after decades of intentional managed decline) and some that do not.

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A thing I think is kind of messed up is that we’ve stopped considering ‘being evil’ to be a moral failing in a person

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New AI Coding live stream: The WordPress MCP plugin now supports Custom Post Types out of the box! Join me this Friday at 12:00 UTC to find out what's possible with these new tools. www.twitch.tv/jonathanboss... #wordpress #coding #ai

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I don't know what's more concerning, when I hear my cat doing something he shouldn't... or when I don't hear him at all.

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A paradox borne of the lack of left media infrastructure is that even when young men realize the rightwing manosphere is bullshit, there's no offramp. The algorithm can bury moments of clarity and replace influencers who are no longer useful. youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/i-dont-wan...

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OH MY FUCKING GOD, ITS HERE #starcitizen #idris youtu.be/X2OFObiypT4?...

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Ring deploy drone strike on unwanted guests

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Democrats with the fewest votes cast in line with Trump: Hirono: 2 Markey: 2 Merkley: 2 Murphy: 3 Van Hollen: 4 Warren: 4 Sanders: 5 Murray: 6 Smith: 9 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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So, like when is @cursor.com.web.brid.gy going to fix the extensions marketplace issue?

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my favorite part about staying up late is watching my UK mutuals wake up and start posting and showing me the little ways how we aren’t too different after all. their country is as spiritually fucked in ways i as an american recognize without much effort

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If I were a member of Congress I would have already introduced a bill prohibiting ICE agents from wearing face masks and requiring them to wear official identification at all times

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The most underrated interaction between the HomePod + iPhone is when an alarm is going off on your phone in another room, and you can't reach it. You can just say, "Siri, turn off all alarms," and it'll ask "So and so's iPhone?" It's one of the few things that actually consistently works well, lol.

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If Elon Musk continues to dominate the space-based internet, he could end up with more power over information than anyone in history, writes Ross Andersen:

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Timely paper simulating the climate effects of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan. Even though the number of weapons and yields are lower than the US/Soviet scenario, I was surprised to see that the atmospheric soot and ash can still affect food supplies for billions.

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Its always amazing these guys never say why “dc restaurants are in crisis”, which restaurants, or what their solution is. Its just yeah itll cost the businesses more money so we have to undo democracy - get the fuck outta here wtop.com/dc/2025/05/d...

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The best thing about working for Pew Research is that nowhere else would Google Sheets -> Remote Data Blocks -> Power Table Block (which can then convert columns of data into rows of data) be necessary, but it is for us, so I get to build it.

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Bluesky I will pay you $8.00 a month for edit capability!!

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Now this is a reasonable remedy; forcing the sell off of Chrome is not techcrunch.com/2025/05/06/u...

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