Building with WordPress,
Backed by Community & Code
I’m a developer, meetup organiser, and educator building WordPress and WooCommerce solutions that empower the community from solo makers to growing businesses and enterprise teams.
WordPress meetup organiser
I organise the WordPress meetup in Cheltenham, UK, helping to connect and foster a local community of WordPress enthusiasts. My goal as a meetup organizer is to create a welcoming and inclusive environment where individuals of all skill levels can come together to:
- Share knowledge
- Exchange ideas
- Learn from each other
Theme & plugin developer
I’m a WordPress core contributor, theme developer, plugin developer, pattern author and all-around WordPress & WooCommerce enthusiast. I also create educational YouTube videos for WordPress and WooCommerce enthusiasts, where I share tips, tutorials, and insights to help others deepen their understanding and skills.
Square One Software
The business side of my work as a professional web developer. Alongside my wife and business partner at Squareone Software, we offer tailored web development and application development. With decades of experience, we help businesses achieve their digital goals by delivering unique and functional solutions while maintaining a client-centred approach. Our focus is on quality, innovation, and results.
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From code to crust… why my pizza business makes more economic sense than the AI hype…
If you had told me five years ago that I’d be making a living selling pizzas running a pizza business from home, I would have laughed you out of the room. Yet, here we are. What started as a late-night lockdown brainwave with my wife has grown into a business employing six staff. Back then,…
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AI Won’t Replace Developers Who Can Think Critically
I use AI every day. It’s become part of how I work, and I’m not embarrassed to say I’m reliant on it. But the more I use it, the more I notice something that doesn’t get talked about enough: knowing how to use AI well is a skill in itself, and it’s one that depends…
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WordPress AI Theme Creation: How Automattic’s New Claude Cowork Plugin Builds Block Themes from a Prompt
Automattic just released a repo that lets you build a full WordPress block theme from a text prompt. I gave it a spin this morning and came away genuinely impressed with a few caveats worth knowing about before you dive in. What Actually Shipped The repo is called wordpress-agent-skills, and it dropped on February 13th.…
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Beyond the Hype: Navigating AI Anxiety and the Future of Development
There is no doubt that AI is changing the world, particularly within the web development community. From rapid app prototyping to the more peripheral world of image generation, the initial launch was incredibly exciting. However, lately, I’ve noticed a significant psychological shift. We seem to have split into two camps: those who are embracing the…
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The Coming Divide: Why AI Agents Might Leave Most People Behind
There’s a lot of noise around AI agents right now. Tools like Moltbot, (formerly Clawdbot) an open-source agent that runs on your own machine and connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, or Discord… are genuinely impressive. And genuinely concerning! The security advice tells you everything you need to know about where we’re headed: run these agents on…
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Rethinking Where I Publish My Content
I spent two weeks away recently, travelling, slowing down, taking photos, making notes, thinking. The kind of experiences that stay with you long after you are home. Like most people, I shared parts of it online. A photo here, a clip there, the occasional thought typed quickly and posted without much friction. And somewhere during…
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Register Custom Block Styles Plugin Class
Register Custom Block Styles simplifies the process of adding block style variations by automating stylesheet registration and block style registration. Stylesheets are loaded from the active theme directory, making this ideal for theme-specific block styling. Features Usage Add the following to your theme’s functions.php file: CSS File Structure CSS files should be placed in your…
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Block Theme Cheat Sheet for WordPress
I Made a Cheat Sheet for FSE Block Themes (So You Don’t Have to Reinvent the Wheel) Here’s the thing about developing with Full Site Editing block themes: you’re constantly looking stuff up. What blocks are available in core? What goes in theme.json? Which hook was it that fixes that one annoying thing? I’ve been…
Note: This site is built using WordPress Gutenberg blocks in a blocktheme, with full site editing enabled.