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 […]

Open Channels FM: FAIR Package Management for TYPO3

Key figures from the FAIR TYPO3 hackathon discuss the platform-agnostic FAIR protocol, its integration with TYPO3, and advancements in digital goods distribution across multiple systems.​ 

WordPress.org blog: From AI to Open Source at WordCamp Asia 2026

April 9-11, 2026 | Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai, India WordCamp Asia 2026 brings the WordPress community to Mumbai, India, from April 9 to 11, with a schedule shaped around artificial intelligence, enterprise WordPress, developer workflows, product strategy, and open source collaboration. For attendees planning their time, the program offers a useful view of the […]