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Nick Diego
@nickdiego.com
Developer Advocacy at Automattic. WordPress Core Contributor. Plugin Developer.
After many great years in WordPress developer relations, I’ve moved over to product marketing at @wordpress.com. Still working on tools like Studio and Telex, just from a different angle.

Wrote a bit about the shift — and the new Blueprints feature in Studio 1.6.0.

nickdiego.com/wordpress-st...
WordPress Studio, Blueprints, and Product Marketing
After several years in WordPress developer relations, I’ve moved into product marketing at WordPress.com. I’m still working on tools like WordPress Studio, which recently added Blueprints — a new way ...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'm loving this two-week release cadence for Studio by the
@wordpress.com team. You can now connect and sync your
Pressable sites. 💪

Here's the announcement post: pressable.com/changelog/st...
May 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The livestream will begin in two hours! @ryanwelcher.com and I are going to discuss and demo best practices for WordPress plugin development using AI.

Join us 👉 www.youtube.com/live/ZHTMLvy...
How to build incredible WordPress Blocks with Cursor AI
YouTube video by WordPress.com
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March 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Next week, @ryanwelcher.com and I are hosting a live stream on building WordPress blocks (and Editor extensions) with AI.

We’ll share insights from years of our own dev work and show how AI fits into established workflows.

Join us on 3/19 at 5 PM UTC: www.youtube.com/live/ZHTMLvy...
How to build incredible WordPress Blocks with Cursor AI
YouTube video by WordPress.com
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March 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This should be a fun one. AI has fundamentally changed how I approach plugin development.

Join us tomorrow: streamyard.com/watch/xU5BV7...
Looking forward to talking all about WordPress & AI with my pal @nickdiego.com and @vikasprogrammer.bsky.social tomorrow.

Register here: streamyard.com/watch/xU5BV7...
March 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Ticket secured for @pressconf.events. Who else is going?
February 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Reposted by Nick Diego
Join us Monday, 10am PST for a live chat about AI and WordPress - are autonomous agents and no-code tools really about to displace custom WordPress development? w/
@matthewmedeiros.bsky.social

youtube.com/live/NTDpJsd...
Are Matt’s AI Skills Making WordPress Developers Obsolete?
YouTube video by Brian Coords
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January 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is for anyone who's built a WordPress block theme and struggled with an incredibly long theme.json file.

Just get AI to write you a solution. I should have done this months ago 😅

nickdiego.com/stop-strugg...
Stop struggling with cumbersome theme.json files
The theme.json file in a WordPress block theme is often hundreds of lines long and cumbersome to manage. Instead, use AI to simplify things.
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January 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Experimenting with AI-assisted WordPress development is pretty much all I've been doing over the past few weeks.

Currently, Cursor is my platform of choice, and I have put together a little primer on my setup. Curious what everyone else is using...

youtu.be/3_TiyKdPNq4?...
Revolutionize Your WordPress Development with Cursor AI ✨
YouTube video by WordPress.com
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January 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hope to see some of you at Developer Hours tomorrow. This will be the last session of 2024!
As I look back on this year in WordPress, Playground stands out. The team has released an incredible number of enhancements for developers and users alike.

Join me and @ryanwelcher.com next week for the final Developer Hours of 2024, where we’ll recap the highlights: www.meetup.com/learn-wordp...
December 16, 2024 at 6:48 PM
I set a little challenge for myself. Build a WordPress plugin that adds a style variation switcher to the front end of a site using only AI prompts.

After about an hour of prompting, I'm quite pleased with the results. The demo uses the Twenty Twenty-Five theme.

🧵
December 12, 2024 at 5:04 PM
The future vs. the past 😉
Join me and my sworn enemy 😜 @nickdiego.com for the possibly most important match up in human history.

Am I humanity's last hope against our AI overlords? Will I wear the WP shirt again?

Tune in Dec 11 at 4PM UTC to find out!

Go click the 🔔 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjw...
December 10, 2024 at 10:23 PM
As I look back on this year in WordPress, Playground stands out. The team has released an incredible number of enhancements for developers and users alike.

Join me and @ryanwelcher.com next week for the final Developer Hours of 2024, where we’ll recap the highlights: www.meetup.com/learn-wordp...
December 10, 2024 at 4:01 PM
So, what part(s) of my Block Visibility plugin should be added to WordPress?

Share your thoughts here: github.com/WordPress/gu...
Allow users to hide blocks based on various contexts · WordPress gutenberg · Discussion #67661
This discussion explores adding functionality to Gutenberg that allows users to hide block content in different contexts. This idea stems from my Block Visibility plugin. While the plugin offers ex...
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December 6, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Reposted by Nick Diego
Join @nickdiego.com and I tomorrow at 16:00 UTC where we discuss ways to improve your #WordPress development workflows.

Register 👉 www.meetup.com/learn-wordpr...
Developer Hours: Improve your workflows with WordPress development tools, Tue, Dec 3, 2024, 8:00 AM | Meetup
In this session of Developer Hours, we’ll take a deep dive into the advanced usage of tools like create-block and wp-scripts, along with a few others. We’ll focus on solvin
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December 2, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Reposted by Nick Diego
Doesn't look like WordCamp Asia has a BlueSky account yet, so I'm going to share this one here: I'll be doing a Speed Build Challenge with @nickdiego.com at WordCamp Asia 😎

And you might want to keep an eye out for some more announcements coming soon 👀
November 28, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Developer Hours will start in less than 3 hours!

If you build sites with custom fields and post meta, you won't want to miss this one.
Looking forward to Developer Hours next week with Justin Tadlock and @ryanwelcher.bsky.social.

Currently flying back from a team meetup, where we spent the majority of our time experimenting with the Block Bindings API. So many applications...

RSVP on Meetup 👉 meetup.com/learn-wordpr...
Developer Hours: Exploring the Block Bindings API in WordPress 6.7, Tue, Nov 19, 2024, 8:00 AM | Meetup
The Block Bindings API, first introduced in WordPress 6.5, allowed the connection of custom fields (or any data) to Core blocks. However, this was just the beginning. In Wo
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November 19, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Really just started exploring this 🦋 app over the last few days. A delightfully ad-free and improved experience.
November 16, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Looking forward to Developer Hours next week with Justin Tadlock and @ryanwelcher.bsky.social.

Currently flying back from a team meetup, where we spent the majority of our time experimenting with the Block Bindings API. So many applications...

RSVP on Meetup 👉 meetup.com/learn-wordpr...
Developer Hours: Exploring the Block Bindings API in WordPress 6.7, Tue, Nov 19, 2024, 8:00 AM | Meetup
The Block Bindings API, first introduced in WordPress 6.5, allowed the connection of custom fields (or any data) to Core blocks. However, this was just the beginning. In Wo
meetup.com
November 15, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by Nick Diego
While on eyes are on the #WordPress 6.7 release today, some of us already started about what should come next.

I'm really excited about this proposal to improve the templates architecture and behavior in block themes. github.com/WordPress/gu...

Please send the feedback our way. Thank you.
Block Themes and site editor: Refactoring templates · Issue #66950 · WordPress/gutenberg
Description Since the introduction of block themes, the mental model has been that these themes provide interconnected entities (templates, styles, patterns) that the user can edit in the UI. This ...
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November 13, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Congrats to the 780+ contributors who worked on WordPress 6.7! 🎉

wordpress.org/news/2024/11...
WordPress 6.7 “Rollins”
WordPress 6.7, code-named ‘Rollins,’ celebrates legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins and debuts the sleek, versatile Twenty Twenty-Five theme, designed for any blog, any scale. Dive…
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November 13, 2024 at 1:47 PM