WordPress
I’ve been part of the WordPress ecosystem for over 20 years, as an agency owner, a founder, a WordCamp organizer, and now as Head of WordPress at Elementor. This is where I write about the community, open source dynamics, what’s happening in the ecosystem, and why it all still matters.
I gave this talk at WordCamp Asia 2026. The topic is something I’ve been thinking about: why WordPress’s history of open extensibility is actually a structural advantage in the AI era, not just a nostalgic footnote.
Cloudflare’s EmDash CMS for Astro has some architectural advantages over WordPress. But for the people who actually need to build and run websites, architecture alone isn’t enough.
This covers everything from the initial design brief and static prototyping to converting the site into a custom WordPress theme, optimizing for accessibility, and leveraging native WordPress features for a clean, high-performance result.
Today I woke up to find that Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, had enthusiastically shared this new site across the interwebs as a great example…
In life, plans are often upended, but when you live in a war zone, that’s the default. Plans become a hope and and a dream, so we create backup plans…
WordPress just introduced Agent Skills, and it’s a pretty significant signal. In practical terms, WordPress is starting to define how AI is allowed to act on the platform. That’s a…