Technology
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How I Use WordPress Playground Blueprints to Train Clients (Without Touching the Live Site)
When you launch a new website, training the client is the bit that gets neglected. The block editor is mature enough now that clients can do far more than they used to, but anything new needs teaching. So training isn’t an optional extra, it’s part of the job. The obvious place to do it is…
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Why I Spent 16 Months Turning 400+ Holiday Cottages Into WordPress Blocks
TL;DR: I rebuilt kate & tom’s, a 400+ property holiday cottage site, from Advanced Custom Fields flexible content into a native WordPress block theme. The client can now build pages from patterns instead of waiting on me to code a new widget every time. The hard part was migrating 10,590 widgets out of post meta…
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From WordCamp and 120 Pizzas to a Block Theme Launch
What a contrast a week can be. Last weekend I was at WordCamp, surrounded by a group of WordPress and open source enthusiasts, all buzzing about the same stuff I get excited about. The sort of weekend where you come home full of ideas and convinced you’re going to change how you work. Then the…
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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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