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I've been experimenting with what a Canva-like editing experience might look like in WordPress. The hard part is not the dragging. It is turning what you dragged into a real WordPress page. Drag a heading anywhere on the page and you get two things that a

Most of us have an idea of how we'd like our shop to look. Getting that idea onto the screen can take rather longer. I've just tested a new way to do it: give AI a mockup, ask it to recreate the design using HTML and CSS, and include real WooCommerce prod

Nobody gets promoted to Head of Marketing and suddenly develops a love of complicated software. They're still a person. They still have too much to do. They still get annoyed when changing something that looks simple requires a tutorial, a support ticket

Developer educational content used to have a fairly obvious audience: developers. Documentation, tutorials, code examples, API references. Different formats, but broadly created for people who understood the fundamentals of software development and wanted

Until now, most generative AI has been making new versions of things we already understand. AI images are still images. AI music is still music. AI video is still video. But what happens when AI makes a type of media that couldn't really exist before AI?

I love Europe. I should probably establish that before proceeding. But I have just spent roughly four hours of my life queuing at Geneva Airport, which gives a man plenty of time to contemplate European technology policy, his own mortality, and whether it

I've noticed there are basically two modes a company can operate in. Customer-centric mode. And engineering-centric mode. Most great businesses start in the first one. Someone sees a problem. A real person has something annoying, expensive, slow, painful

Over the years I've trained more than 5,000 people face-to-face, so getting back in a room with beginners at WordCamp US in Phoenix today was a real joy. And the results were pretty great. Click here to see the students evaluation of the WordPress CourseD

Over the past year, I've been developing a new approach to educational content for YouTube, X and LinkedIn in the age of AI. The approach is pretty simple: build something exciting, show it working, then teach people exactly how I did it. Less theory abou

Adding an AI help bot to a WordPress product is easy now. Point it at your documentation, give it an API key, done. It'll work beautifully for about a month. Then you ship a release. A button gets renamed, a default gets retuned, a feature moves. Nothing