How to Setup a WordPress Appointment Booking System & Book Clients 24/7

Sending emails back and forth with potential customers just to find an appointment time is a huge waste of time that often leads to lost sales. When you’re stuck managing a calendar all morning, you can’t focus on actually serving your clients. That’s why I recommend accepting appointments directly on your WordPress website. This can […]

Matt: Easter Thoughts

You call yourself a Christian engineer, but you haven’t given your life to Open Source? Huh. What license would Jesus choose? I don’t know if it’s GPL or MIT, but sure as heck it isn’t proprietary. Letting proprietary code dictate your life is like following a Bible you’re not allowed to read. Beware those who […]

Matt: Turn Every Page

If you’re looking for a good watch this weekend, I couldn’t recommend more the documentary Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. The craft of research, writing, and editing is presented in the most beautiful way possible. Around 400,000 words were removed from The Power Broker, which was ultimately published […]

Open Channels FM: WEB Responsibility Scanner

Ekaterina Streltsova introduced the BEP Responsibility Scanner at CloudFest Hackathon, addressing web sustainability, accessibility issues, and legal compliance, emphasizing the need for open-source solutions.​ 

How I Built a Customer Feedback Loop With Surveys in WordPress

Many website owners collect user feedback but never act on it, so they keep making the same guesses about what to build, write, or fix next. A customer feedback loop changes that by turning survey responses into a clear list of the improvements that will actually grow your business. It takes the guesswork out of […]

Open Channels FM: Self-hosted WordPress Optimized Runtime on Docker (SWORD)

In the CloudFest Hackathon, Jan Willem shared his team’s project, SWORD, a self-hosted control panel for WordPress, highlighting collaboration, technical challenges, and team spirit.​ 

Visualizer’s Latest Release Is Here, Packed With AI Magic

Creating charts just got a whole lot easier. A lot of tools have been rushing to add AI just to keep up. We took a step back, understood exactly where AI could make the biggest difference for Visualizer users, and then we shipped it. No shortcuts. No gimmicks. Just a thoughtful update that genuinely makes… […]

Matt: Pedro Franceschi

This Ashlee Vance interview of Pedro Franceschi from Brex contains so many interesting stories it might cause you to reconsider what it means to be a CEO. ​ 

Matt: EmDash Feedback

So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security. (Is it nominative determinism or a simulation glitch that everyone trying to terraform the web has some variation of “Matthew” in their name? I was in a call set up by Matthew Prince, talking to Matt Taylor […]

Matt: Taxonomist

I’m really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which I think represents a new way we might build things in the future. First, the problem: My WordPress site has 5,600+ posts going back decades, and I had some categories that were old and I didn’t really […]