Join us LIVE in about 45 mins for the 'This Week in #WordPress' show. It's fun, and we'd love your comments! Starts at 2pm UK time.
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Join Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Marcus Burnette, Steve Burge.

#WPLDNf="/hashtag/WPLDN" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#WPLDN – November 2025

#WPLDN is a meetup for WordPress enthusiasts where attendees enjoy pizza and drinks while learning from experts. Recent speakers Graham Armfield and Rhys Wynne discussed HTML accessibility advancements and Rhys' freelancing experiences. We're seeking 2026 sponsors and invite…

447 – Simplifying WordPress event calendars and ticketing with Jonathan Jernigan of Pie Calendar

In this episode, Nathan Wrigley chats with Jonathan Jernigan about Pie Calendar, a simple-yet-powerful WordPress event calendar plugin. They discuss the plugin’s evolution
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Black Friday savings

On the verge of Black Friday 2025, discover how I plan to save big by buying nothing! Ingenious.

Midi Meets CSS out now!
@beyondtellerrand.com 🤘🏻

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RSS 2.0, the antidote to enshitification.

I have a new oven. I'm going to guarantee that this is the least interesting thing that you'll read today!

This Week in WordPress #356

In this episode, I'm joined by Taco Verdonschot, Jonathan Bossenger, Birgit Pauli-Haack to discuss WordPress 6.9, including new blocks, performance improvements, accessibility updates, and upcoming live events to help users prepare for the
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Join us LIVE for the 'This Week in #WordPress' show. It's fun, and we'd love your comments! Starts at 2pm UK time.
https://wpbuilds.com/live
Join Nathan Wrigley, Taco Verdonschot, Birgit Pauli-Haack, Jonathan Bossenger.

All known PHP 8.5 incompatibilities in WordPress Core have been fixed for the @wordpress.org 6.9 release scheduled for December 2. This release will have "beta support" for PHP 8.5, which is just the label applied to PHP versions with less than 10% adoptions across all WP sites.

I have a few spots available for upcoming WP Tavern podcast episodes if anyone would like to come on. It's not a chance to promote a product, but a chat about some aspect of #WordPress - blocks, plugins, community, themes, anything really. DMs open. Thank you.

Snow

The UK in winter is not the cold place it was when I was a child. I have memories of frequent snow in the winter. Every year there was some. Many years there was a lot. These days, many years go by in which there is none. Children only see snow on the TV, or on Christmas cards. Last night I…

446 – Inside Checkout Summit: Reviving Human Connections in the WooCommerce and WordPress Community

In this episode, Nathan Wrigley chats with Rodolfo Melogli about the growing isolation in the WooCommerce and WordPress communities due to remote work and AI, and his m
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First time launching a product, and it's a #WordPress plugin called PodcasterPlus Blocks. Still some work to do on the site, but the product is pretty cool! www.podcasterplus.com If you don't get what it does, please reach out, more vids coming soon! Excited! With @danmaby.com

Recycled churches

In the UK, church attendance has been in decline for decades, possibly a century. Almost nobody I know, including myself, go to church for it's intended purpose. Our villages, towns and cities are peppered with thousands of churches. Many of them are very old, expensive to…

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The ubiquity of walking

I'm lucky enough to live in, what we call in the UK, the countryside. There is very little of the UK which does not have the stamp of humanity upon it. Our countryside is composed of farmland, stone walls, managed forest and the like. In other parts of the world you have…

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This Week in WordPress #355

In "This Week in WordPress #355," Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, and Rhys Wynne discuss the Kagi search engine, Michelle's job search, and WordPress updates including 6.9’s new features like collaborative editing and abilities API. The
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Being certain

I've come to the conclusion that in almost every case, certainty is misplaced, unhelpful and sometimes downright harmful. I hate to break it to you, but almost every-single-thing that you hold as immutable truth is either wrong, subject to change or something that you've…

Join us for some WordPress fun, news, updates, banter! This week it’s Michelle Frechette and Rhys Wynne, possibly one other? What's not to love? 2pm (UK time) wpbuilds.com/live/ @michellefrechette.bsky.social @rhys.wales

Have your own presence on the web

A couple of years ago a friend of mine had his Facebook account suspended. No warning or reason given. Repeated attempts to contact their support were ignored. In the end he gave up and just decided not to use that platform any more. A little while later, I had a…

We are all addicted to our devices

This is going to be nothing new to you, because you already know that it's true. You know it's true for you, and almost every person you know. I consider myself lucky to have been born into a world in which there was no mobile technology. No portable computing…

445 – More fun in WordPress: How Nick Hamze uses AI to build unusual WordPress blocks

In this episode, Nathan Wrigley chats with Nick Hamze, a quirky and creative force in the WordPress community. Nick shares his unconventional journey from law school to working at Au
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I love sound, not just music

This might sound (!) strange, but I love music and sounds equally. My favourite sound is without a doubt that of flowing water. Not the heavy crash of a waterfall after rain, rather the sound of a slow moving river or stream moving over rocks. There is no way to…