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Dec 01
7 Best WooCommerce Product Feed Plugins Ranked (My Experience)
Growing a WooCommerce store starts with getting your products in front of the right customers, but that part usually takes a lot of time and effort. That’s where product feed plugins help. They automatically sync your store catalog with platforms like Google Shopping, Facebook Marketplace, and price comparison sites, so you can reach people who …
Dec 01
Jonathan Desrosiers: Seven Years a Committer: My WordPress Commit-iversary
Today officially marks 7 years since my first changeset was committed to the WordPress open source project. Within WordPress, a committer is a contributor who has the ability to modify the main WordPress source repository. Since 2004, roughly 117 people have been given commit access, and 111 have made at least one commit. In previous …
Nov 30
Matt: Thanksgiving Sunday
It’s an interesting cultural moment right now: I think Bryan tweeted, many people are watching people catching balls, while others are watching Bryan Johnson tripping balls. Bryan Johnson, of Blueprint fame, is livestreaming taking a heroic dose of mushrooms. It’s been an interesting journey with the journalist Ashlee Vance, Naval Ravikant, David Friedberg, Marc Benioff, …
Nov 30
Gutenberg Times: Gutenberg Changelog #125 – WordPress 6.9, Gutenberg 22.1 and Gutenberg 22.2
The newest episode of the Gutenberg Changelog podcast, #125, features hosts Birgit Pauli-Haack and JC Palmes discussing a major trio of releases: WordPress 6.9, Gutenberg 22.1, and Gutenberg 22.2. JC highlights several exciting features in WordPress 6.9, focusing on significant developer and editor experience improvements, including the full iframe editor, routing, DataViews, the Interactivity API, pattern logic and content-only mode, and the Abilities …
Nov 30
Matt: Werner Predictions
Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon, boldly publishes his 2026 tech predictions. While you’re on his blog, take a moment to enjoy his essay, Development gets better with Age. Werner and I first crossed paths almost 20 years ago at tech conferences like GigaOm’s Structure, LeWeb, Future of Web Apps, O’Reilly Etech, and TheNextWeb. Though we …
Nov 29
Gutenberg Times: Livestreams on WordPress 6.9, WordPress Importer Improved, MCP Adapter and more — Weekend Edition #351
Hi there, In case you celebrated it, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, lots of turkey, sweet potatoes, beans, stuffing, gravy and pumpkin pie. Or any kind of pie really . And lots of love and laughter around your family and friends. I just want to give a huge shoutout to all the …
Nov 29
Matt: SF WordPress Party
We’ve secured an amazing secret venue for State of the Word on Tuesday, but it has limited capacity in terms of people and has a lot of security hurdles to jump through to get in. So to open things up to the community more, we’re going to activate my hacker/maker art warehouse, TinkerTendo, in the …
Nov 28
Matt: Thanksgiving
I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving! To me, the holiday is a reminder to be grateful. A gratitude practice is one of the most surefire ways to improve your happiness, as this study covered by Harvard Health explains. I was part of a leadership coaching cohort with other founders and CEOs, and one …
Nov 27
WPBeginner Spotlight 18: WPChat, Black Friday Highlights & What’s New in WordPress
November has been a busy month across the WordPress ecosystem, with major product launches, platform updates, and new tools for site owners and developers. This edition covers everything from live chat assistants and automation integrations to major acquisitions and WordPress community milestones. Whether you’re running an online store, building digital communities, or managing client sites, …