Steve Burge
@steveburge.com
Part of a team building WordPress publishing plugins with over 1 million users: PublishPress, Metaslider, TaxoPress, and Logtivity.
Do you need to prevent visitors from accessing some of your site's content?
You can do that now using the Free version of the PublishPress Permissions plugin.
You can do that now using the Free version of the PublishPress Permissions plugin.
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Do you need to prevent visitors from accessing some of your site's content?
You can do that now using the Free version of the PublishPress Permissions plugin.
You can do that now using the Free version of the PublishPress Permissions plugin.
- 4 or 5 times higher conversion rate
- Deals close twice as fast
It's fair to say that Alex Denning came on the PublishPress podcast and was bullish on AI chat as a way to drive sales.
- Deals close twice as fast
It's fair to say that Alex Denning came on the PublishPress podcast and was bullish on AI chat as a way to drive sales.
December 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
- 4 or 5 times higher conversion rate
- Deals close twice as fast
It's fair to say that Alex Denning came on the PublishPress podcast and was bullish on AI chat as a way to drive sales.
- Deals close twice as fast
It's fair to say that Alex Denning came on the PublishPress podcast and was bullish on AI chat as a way to drive sales.
WordPress VIP has a promo out for their collaborative editing feature. Coming to the WordPress core at some point in 2026? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6txE...
Collaborative Editing on WordPress VIP
YouTube video by WordPress VIP
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
WordPress VIP has a promo out for their collaborative editing feature. Coming to the WordPress core at some point in 2026? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6txE...
Have you seen this tree before?
It's the default "Page not found" screen for the Twenty Twenty-Five theme
If a visitor tries to access a post that isn't published or has restricted access, they'll see the tree 🌳
It's the default "Page not found" screen for the Twenty Twenty-Five theme
If a visitor tries to access a post that isn't published or has restricted access, they'll see the tree 🌳
December 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Have you seen this tree before?
It's the default "Page not found" screen for the Twenty Twenty-Five theme
If a visitor tries to access a post that isn't published or has restricted access, they'll see the tree 🌳
It's the default "Page not found" screen for the Twenty Twenty-Five theme
If a visitor tries to access a post that isn't published or has restricted access, they'll see the tree 🌳
What is the best LLM to use for your data?
@alexdenning.bsky.social has spent the last 4 years testing every available model to improve his Falcon AI service.
He believes the LLM landscape has completely changed this year:
@alexdenning.bsky.social has spent the last 4 years testing every available model to improve his Falcon AI service.
He believes the LLM landscape has completely changed this year:
December 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What is the best LLM to use for your data?
@alexdenning.bsky.social has spent the last 4 years testing every available model to improve his Falcon AI service.
He believes the LLM landscape has completely changed this year:
@alexdenning.bsky.social has spent the last 4 years testing every available model to improve his Falcon AI service.
He believes the LLM landscape has completely changed this year:
New in WordPress 6.9, the mystery feature at the bottom of the screen has a label:
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New in WordPress 6.9, the mystery feature at the bottom of the screen has a label:
This is new on the WordPress plugin repo: some of our company accounts such as "PublishPress" are marked as brand accounts and can't reply on the forums.
This is a good move, I think 👍. Support with a human face.
This is a good move, I think 👍. Support with a human face.
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is new on the WordPress plugin repo: some of our company accounts such as "PublishPress" are marked as brand accounts and can't reply on the forums.
This is a good move, I think 👍. Support with a human face.
This is a good move, I think 👍. Support with a human face.
We've just agreed to add our 11th plugin to PublishPress.
One key part of this new plugin will be the ability to share previews of unpublished content. Basically a 2025 version of Public Post Preview.
But you'll be able to share published content too, using QR codes and more.
One key part of this new plugin will be the ability to share previews of unpublished content. Basically a 2025 version of Public Post Preview.
But you'll be able to share published content too, using QR codes and more.
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We've just agreed to add our 11th plugin to PublishPress.
One key part of this new plugin will be the ability to share previews of unpublished content. Basically a 2025 version of Public Post Preview.
But you'll be able to share published content too, using QR codes and more.
One key part of this new plugin will be the ability to share previews of unpublished content. Basically a 2025 version of Public Post Preview.
But you'll be able to share published content too, using QR codes and more.
Alex Denning has been in the WordPress and SEO community for years. Recently, he's been diving deep into AI. Everything changed for him when he opened a very early version of GPT-3 🤯
December 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Alex Denning has been in the WordPress and SEO community for years. Recently, he's been diving deep into AI. Everything changed for him when he opened a very early version of GPT-3 🤯
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This Week in WordPress #357
In "This Week in WordPress Episode 357," Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Steve Burge, and Marcus Burnette cover a playful Cards Against Humanity Black Friday sale, Michelle’s tech award nomination, and the upcoming WordPress 6.9 release
wpbuilds.com/2025/12/02/t...
In "This Week in WordPress Episode 357," Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Steve Burge, and Marcus Burnette cover a playful Cards Against Humanity Black Friday sale, Michelle’s tech award nomination, and the upcoming WordPress 6.9 release
wpbuilds.com/2025/12/02/t...
December 2, 2025 at 7:03 AM
This Week in WordPress #357
In "This Week in WordPress Episode 357," Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Steve Burge, and Marcus Burnette cover a playful Cards Against Humanity Black Friday sale, Michelle’s tech award nomination, and the upcoming WordPress 6.9 release
wpbuilds.com/2025/12/02/t...
In "This Week in WordPress Episode 357," Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Steve Burge, and Marcus Burnette cover a playful Cards Against Humanity Black Friday sale, Michelle’s tech award nomination, and the upcoming WordPress 6.9 release
wpbuilds.com/2025/12/02/t...
I said something on the @wpbuilds.com podcast this morning and aml pretty confident it's true. But maybe I'm wrong?
"Nobody has yet built a successful business on the block editor. It's always an adjacent product (forms, events, eCommerce) that uses the power of blocks."
True? 🤔
"Nobody has yet built a successful business on the block editor. It's always an adjacent product (forms, events, eCommerce) that uses the power of blocks."
True? 🤔
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I said something on the @wpbuilds.com podcast this morning and aml pretty confident it's true. But maybe I'm wrong?
"Nobody has yet built a successful business on the block editor. It's always an adjacent product (forms, events, eCommerce) that uses the power of blocks."
True? 🤔
"Nobody has yet built a successful business on the block editor. It's always an adjacent product (forms, events, eCommerce) that uses the power of blocks."
True? 🤔
I'm hearing from a lot of WordPress developers who aren't happy that their existing customers want the Black Friday deal.
Hot take: why wouldn't they?
I think we have to plan on our current customers seeing and wanting our Black Friday discounts.
Hot take: why wouldn't they?
I think we have to plan on our current customers seeing and wanting our Black Friday discounts.
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I'm hearing from a lot of WordPress developers who aren't happy that their existing customers want the Black Friday deal.
Hot take: why wouldn't they?
I think we have to plan on our current customers seeing and wanting our Black Friday discounts.
Hot take: why wouldn't they?
I think we have to plan on our current customers seeing and wanting our Black Friday discounts.
WordPress 6.9 is going to have a global search feature.
Click Command+K and this search box will appear. It allows to search for content, admin screens, and layouts inside the Site Editor.
Click Command+K and this search box will appear. It allows to search for content, admin screens, and layouts inside the Site Editor.
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
WordPress 6.9 is going to have a global search feature.
Click Command+K and this search box will appear. It allows to search for content, admin screens, and layouts inside the Site Editor.
Click Command+K and this search box will appear. It allows to search for content, admin screens, and layouts inside the Site Editor.
There's several new blocks coming in WordPress 6.9 including a "Terms Query" block.
This is basically taking the same approach as the "Query Loop" block and applying it to terms.
This is basically taking the same approach as the "Query Loop" block and applying it to terms.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
There's several new blocks coming in WordPress 6.9 including a "Terms Query" block.
This is basically taking the same approach as the "Query Loop" block and applying it to terms.
This is basically taking the same approach as the "Query Loop" block and applying it to terms.
TIL: Namecheap is nearly 80% more expensive than Cloudflare for domains
Namecheap: $18.68 per year for .coms
Cloudflare: $10.44 per year for .coms
Namecheap: $18.68 per year for .coms
Cloudflare: $10.44 per year for .coms
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
TIL: Namecheap is nearly 80% more expensive than Cloudflare for domains
Namecheap: $18.68 per year for .coms
Cloudflare: $10.44 per year for .coms
Namecheap: $18.68 per year for .coms
Cloudflare: $10.44 per year for .coms
"Miscellaneousness improvements"
1. What an excellent new word 😆
2. That's absolutely something when your update is simply to show "Black Friday" banners
1. What an excellent new word 😆
2. That's absolutely something when your update is simply to show "Black Friday" banners
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Miscellaneousness improvements"
1. What an excellent new word 😆
2. That's absolutely something when your update is simply to show "Black Friday" banners
1. What an excellent new word 😆
2. That's absolutely something when your update is simply to show "Black Friday" banners
Rodolfo Melogli has built a big following in the WooCommerce world under the "Business Bloomer" name.
But you'll never see him using that name on social media.
Real people > brands.
But you'll never see him using that name on social media.
Real people > brands.
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Rodolfo Melogli has built a big following in the WooCommerce world under the "Business Bloomer" name.
But you'll never see him using that name on social media.
Real people > brands.
But you'll never see him using that name on social media.
Real people > brands.
Do you find yourself writing a group of posts on the same topic?
There's a new version of the PublishPress Series plugin out this week.
It's ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, comic artists. You can help your readers easily navigate through the whole series:
There's a new version of the PublishPress Series plugin out this week.
It's ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, comic artists. You can help your readers easily navigate through the whole series:
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Do you find yourself writing a group of posts on the same topic?
There's a new version of the PublishPress Series plugin out this week.
It's ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, comic artists. You can help your readers easily navigate through the whole series:
There's a new version of the PublishPress Series plugin out this week.
It's ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, comic artists. You can help your readers easily navigate through the whole series:
It took a lot of prompting, but Nano Banana seems to have a good understanding of the PublishPress penguins now.
Initially it got very, very confused by having the 3 penguins overlapping in the original logo.
Initially it got very, very confused by having the 3 penguins overlapping in the original logo.
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It took a lot of prompting, but Nano Banana seems to have a good understanding of the PublishPress penguins now.
Initially it got very, very confused by having the 3 penguins overlapping in the original logo.
Initially it got very, very confused by having the 3 penguins overlapping in the original logo.
Rodolfo Melogli came on the PublishPress podcast and told the story of Checkout Summit.
Rodolfo admires the WooConf events that WooCommerce ran a few years ago.
He wanted a new WooCommerce conference badly enough that one day he sat up and said, "I'll do it!"
Rodolfo admires the WooConf events that WooCommerce ran a few years ago.
He wanted a new WooCommerce conference badly enough that one day he sat up and said, "I'll do it!"
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Rodolfo Melogli came on the PublishPress podcast and told the story of Checkout Summit.
Rodolfo admires the WooConf events that WooCommerce ran a few years ago.
He wanted a new WooCommerce conference badly enough that one day he sat up and said, "I'll do it!"
Rodolfo admires the WooConf events that WooCommerce ran a few years ago.
He wanted a new WooCommerce conference badly enough that one day he sat up and said, "I'll do it!"
WordPress 6.9 is coming in a couple of weeks. One of the new features is that you can hide blocks.
Click the "Hide" link in the block toolbar and that block will disappear from the frontend and from the admin area.
Click the "Hide" link in the block toolbar and that block will disappear from the frontend and from the admin area.
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
WordPress 6.9 is coming in a couple of weeks. One of the new features is that you can hide blocks.
Click the "Hide" link in the block toolbar and that block will disappear from the frontend and from the admin area.
Click the "Hide" link in the block toolbar and that block will disappear from the frontend and from the admin area.
There's a new "Time to Read" block in WordPress 6.9.
You'll see this feature on a ton of news sites.
For example, here's the "Time to Read" info on today's New York Times homepage:
You'll see this feature on a ton of news sites.
For example, here's the "Time to Read" info on today's New York Times homepage:
November 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
There's a new "Time to Read" block in WordPress 6.9.
You'll see this feature on a ton of news sites.
For example, here's the "Time to Read" info on today's New York Times homepage:
You'll see this feature on a ton of news sites.
For example, here's the "Time to Read" info on today's New York Times homepage:
Checkout Summit is a new WooCommerce conference that's taking place in Sicily next April.
Rodolfo Melogli is running the conference. He came on the PublishPress podcast and explained why there's such in-person experiences are so powerful right now:
Rodolfo Melogli is running the conference. He came on the PublishPress podcast and explained why there's such in-person experiences are so powerful right now:
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Checkout Summit is a new WooCommerce conference that's taking place in Sicily next April.
Rodolfo Melogli is running the conference. He came on the PublishPress podcast and explained why there's such in-person experiences are so powerful right now:
Rodolfo Melogli is running the conference. He came on the PublishPress podcast and explained why there's such in-person experiences are so powerful right now:
We helped a customer create a pretty cool WooCommerce workflow for the holidays 🎄🛒.
Anyone creating a product can chose 4 dates:
- When to publish the product
- When to change the product to "Out of stock"
- When to add a "Sale over" tag
- When to unpublish the product
Anyone creating a product can chose 4 dates:
- When to publish the product
- When to change the product to "Out of stock"
- When to add a "Sale over" tag
- When to unpublish the product
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We helped a customer create a pretty cool WooCommerce workflow for the holidays 🎄🛒.
Anyone creating a product can chose 4 dates:
- When to publish the product
- When to change the product to "Out of stock"
- When to add a "Sale over" tag
- When to unpublish the product
Anyone creating a product can chose 4 dates:
- When to publish the product
- When to change the product to "Out of stock"
- When to add a "Sale over" tag
- When to unpublish the product
The new "Notes" feature is ready for WordPress 6.9. Here's a quick intro to how it works:
- Select any block
- Look for the 3-dot icon in the toolbar
- Click "Add note"
- Select any block
- Look for the 3-dot icon in the toolbar
- Click "Add note"
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The new "Notes" feature is ready for WordPress 6.9. Here's a quick intro to how it works:
- Select any block
- Look for the 3-dot icon in the toolbar
- Click "Add note"
- Select any block
- Look for the 3-dot icon in the toolbar
- Click "Add note"