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There’s a pattern in tech where people mock the setup cost of automation without accounting for the return. I spent a day building a Grunt-based WordPress bootstrapper in 2013. Fortune 500 companies are still running code built on that foundation today.
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After 8 years away from WordPress, returning to WordCamp US revealed a stale hosting ecosystem. Here’s why I built Displace CLI to bring modern Kubernetes infrastructure to WordPress developers.
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A year ago, I migrated my site to a self-hosted NUC cluster, defying industry skepticism about home hosting. Using a WordPress stack with Varnish and Cloudflare, I optimized performance and security, achieving over 30% traffic caching.
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Automattic faces a cease-and-desist letter over alleged trademark violations concerning WP Fusion Lite. But it really does look like their use could be classified as “fair use.” If not, any WordPress site using the .org repo is also in violation …
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The WordPress.org team has forked the Advanced Custom Fields plugin amidst a legal dispute with WP Engine, raising concerns about user awareness and security updates. Were they right to do so? It’s complicated, but likely yes.
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Yeah … the inside track of WordPress is a mess right now. I’m sure we all have opinions, so I figured I should log mine in as well.
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After nearly a decade out of WordPress, I visited WordCamp US and met with several hosts. TLDR: the state of WordPress hosting is stale.
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In 2024 I finally migrated my WordPress blog (among other projects) from the cloud to a self-hosted Linux machine in my home office. All without exposing my private network to the world! Come join me on this journey as I explain my approach to owning my work and my own network.
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I’ve not yet been able to wrap my head around the current buzz around “headless” WordPress sites….
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After using WordPress’ new editor for a month, here are some of the pros and cons I see as a writer using the platform.