Welcome to DEV, your monthly WordPress deep dive. The client just asked you to “make it pop more” for the 5th time. Take a deep breath and read this instead. Stick around to the end for a very catchy delivery. In today’s edition: WordPress 7.2 is mapping out its next moves, from safer secrets to...
Here’s a Monday-morning message nobody wants: “We haven’t had a single inquiry all month. Is the website broken?” So, you check the obvious things. The site is up. The contact form loads. You send a test and get the reassuring little “Thanks, we’ll be in touch” message. The form is working. Every submission is sitting...
Everyone knows you can cache the hell out of a WordPress site. Stick a CDN in front of it, cache the pages, make enough of the site static and you can serve a frankly silly amount of traffic without WordPress having to break much of a sweat. Which is great. We like caching. Cache is...
Welcome to DEV, your monthly WordPress deep dive. Before you clock off and lie in a rectangle of sunlight, let’s see what’s been happening in WordPress. Stick around to the end to see the hamster who’ll absolutely annihilate your fitness goals. In today’s edition: How 1,100+ WordPressers got into the zone in Arizona. Responsive styling!...
What if your WordPress site could help visitors find the content they need, and help you figure out what to write about next? The secret to a successful WordPress blog is creating content that’s highly useful and relevant to your readers. But how do you know what your readers really want to know? (After all,...
Welcome to DEV, your monthly WordPress deep dive. Is it really almost August already? Or are Julying to me?! Well, let’s not waste any more time and get right into it. Stick around to the end to see a toddler who’s well on her way to a comedy career. In today’s edition: The Classic Block...
A couple of months ago I was trying, really hard, to play with this new and exciting AI Agent tool called OpenClaw, but I just couldn’t manage it. My problem was that installing it on my Mac was a nightmare. There were a couple of problems actually. First of all, I don’t do Terminal (which...
