Now I’m pretty late to the table with this but I came back from WordCamp Europe this year with one thing I actually needed to go and try. Not for the sake of it. Because there was a job waiting on the other side. A client of mine is mid-migration from a classic theme to…

The Cheltenham WordPress meetup is taking a summer break. Holidays, busy schedules, the general impossibility of finding a free Wednesday in July when half your members are somewhere on the Continent. It’s nothing unusual. Other meetups do it too. We’ll be back. But the break has given me some time to sit with something that’s…

This year WordCamp Europe was truly quite special. I’ve attended quite a few WordCamp’s – and particularly a couple in Europe – and although I’ve been in the WordPress community for over 20 years and run our own little WordPress meetup in my local town, I have always been that introverted, shy, and retiring attendee.…

For a long time, music followed a predictable map. Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, middle eight, out. It was a comfortable pattern that everyone knew how to follow. Then you get bands like Angine de Poitrine who turn up and completely wreck the floor plan. It’s refreshing, especially now we’re living in an age where everything…

I’ve been using Claude Code for a while now, and something kept nagging at me. Every time I started a WordPress plugin project, I was repeating the same instructions. Don’t load scripts in the header – use wp_enqueue_scripts. Sanitise your inputs. Escape your outputs. Use Yoda conditions. Tabs, not spaces. Every session, the same preamble.…

I’ve got something to share and I want to be straightforward about it. I’m starting a sponsored project with A8c until the end of 2026, working specifically with WordPress.com. Through my YouTube channel, I’ll be publishing a series of videos focused on WordPress.com how to use it, how to set up a website with it,…

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,…

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…