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February 22, 2023

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Editor’s Note: This post was updated on March 13, 2023 to include the Fireside Chat with Matt Mullenweg and Matías Ventura. Is your website feeling a little stale? Have you been looking for a way to breathe some life into your workflow? You won’t want to miss DE{CODE} 2023, WP Engine’s all-virtual conference for developers. This free event will cover topics including eCommerce, headless WordPress, managed WordPress hosting, and beyond. Everything you could need to spice up your website and amp up your development skills. This year for the first time ever, WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg and Matías […]

Press This: Headless eCommerce with Bryan Smith

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February 17, 2023

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So on today’s show, we’re gonna talk with Bryan Smith, the Principal Product Manager for Atlas eCommerce, about current trends in eCommerce and how decoupled WordPress is providing companies with more flexibility.

Get Ready for WordCamp Asia 2023, Finally

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February 8, 2023

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After three difficult years, WordCamp Asia is happening! The flagship event was scheduled for February of 2020 but had to be canceled due to the pandemic. This was a painful decision for the organizers who had put so much volunteer time into organizing such a ground-breaking event. However, nothing can dampen the spirit of the WordPress community who banded together to make it happen this year. Same city, same venue, same great people. The conference runs from February 17-19 in Bangkok, Thailand. If you were unable to secure a ticket before they sold out in only 24 hours, never fear. […]

Plugin Madness 2023 Nominations Open

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February 6, 2023

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Tie up your Jordans, put on your compression sleeve, and stretch out your hamstrings because it is time for Plugin Madness. Now in its eighth year, this bracket-style competition pits the best 64 WordPress plugins against each other to find the very best one. But first, we need you! To find our contenders we’re turning to the experts, the WordPress community, for Plugin Madness nominations. We want to find the hidden gems. Tell us about the plugins that solve an annoying problem, that make life easier, or that just work really well. Plugins will be sorted into four categories; Marketing, […]

Press This: Keeping Users On Your Site Longer

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January 31, 2023

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How can you keep readers on your site longer? Many WordPress sites use plugins like Contextly to show readers other relevant posts they might enjoy reading. In this episode of Press This, we talk with Ryan Single, the founder of Contextly, about how recommendation systems can keep new visitors on your site longer by showing them relevant content. Hear some of the lessons that Ryan has learned about site stickiness and find out more about new Contextly features currently available in the plugin.

Press This: AI-to-Code, Building WordPress Plugins with ChatGPT

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January 26, 2023

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Americaneagle.com WordPress Practice Director Ellis LaMay shares his ideas on how Large Language Models like ChatGPT can be used to speed up workflow or help develop a WordPress site.

Mark discusses using AI to create customized placeholder text that developers can use when showing a site to a new client. Or using AI to help inspire new design ideas. If you are looking for ideas on how to integrate AI into your WordPress business, this is a great episode for you.

Twenty Twenty-Three Theme Review: Flexible and Community Driven

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January 18, 2023

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Every year, WordPress releases a new theme to serve as its default theme — the one that comes with every fresh WordPress installation. As we head into 2023, WordPress has released their latest theme offering into the world, Twenty Twenty-Three, which we will review here. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg introduced Twenty Twenty Three in his State of the Word address. This theme aims to be fast, lightweight, and accessible, with a focus on simplicity and easy customization. In other words, it’s the perfect blank canvas for your next WordPress project. But what sets it apart from previous years? An intense […]

Press This: WPGraphQL and Faust.js

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January 12, 2023

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On this episode of Press This, we’re talking about Headless WordPress, GraphQL, and Faust.js. How these tools can be used together and what sort of cost could be associated with Headless WordPress. We’re gonna kind of try to dive in deep with this, and I’ve got two great guests joining me today, I’ve got Jason Bahl, a principal software engineer at WP Engine based in Denver, Colorado, where he maintains WPGraphQL. And we’ve got Chris Wiegman, an engineering manager working on Faust.js.

Find WordPress Work: 16 Best Job Boards to Help You Get Hired

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January 11, 2023

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If you’re a WordPress developer or designer, the struggle to find work can feel overwhelming. Not to mention neverending. The good news is that there are ways to get your WordPress skills in front of those who need it most. In fact, a good way to do this is to apply to ads on WordPress job boards. Doing so can help you land a high-quality client. Of course, you have to know where to look first. That’s what we aim to solve here today. We’ve rounded up some of the best job boards for finding WordPress work currently available. So […]

A Look Back at WordPress in 2022

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