The cost of building software has drastically decreased. We recently rebuilt Next.js in one week using AI coding agents. But for the past two months our agents have been working on an even more ambitious project: rebuilding the WordPress open source project from the ground up.
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I've been doing WordPress for 15 years. I love it and I'm tired of it at the same time. Not tired in the "I'm moving to Webflow" way. Tired of the lies - the small ones and the big ones. The "free CMS", the "open source community", the "40% of the web" brag. All of it. Here's what's actually going on.
What I will tell you is that, pending their legal claims and litigation against WordPress.org, WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org’s resources.
This is bonkers!
Encouraging visitors to install an Ad-blocker is a nifty idea.
Remember when commenting on blogs and interacting with other commenters was one of the core pieces of enjoying the web? Matthias Pfefferle is making commenting cool again with ActivityPub for WordPress, a plugin that seamlessly connects your WordPress website to the fediverse.
I replicated wordpress.org’s code reference system for my own project.
WordPress Playground makes WordPress instantly accessible for users, learners, extenders, and contributors.
State of the Word is the annual keynote address delivered by the WordPress project’s co-founder, Matt Mullenweg, celebrating the progress of the open source project and offering a glimpse into its future.