Autor: Daniel López

tl;dr: 15 years stuck in the same wp-admin, why don’t you try in playground the new wp-admin experience? WordPress has spent the last fifteen years becoming capable of doing almost everything, yet somehow we have continued interacting with wp-admin in fundamentally the same way: click somewhere, load another screen, go back, open another tab because you do not want to lose the previous one, and after a while end up with ten different WordPress tabs scattered across your browser. I find it quite funny that we all accepted this as completely normal. Today WordPress is used to run stores, publications,…

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Howdy, Before anything else: if you maintain WordPress sites, go update them. WordPress 7.1.2 shipped on September 22 to patch a single critical vulnerability in page template resolution, one that lets an unauthenticated attacker load a chosen PHP file from outside your active theme’s directories. Now let’s move on to better things. Anne McCarthy is auctioning off her framed WordPress release albums, the ones given to release squad members. All the proceeds go to Stimpunks, a nonprofit started by Ryan Boren, who joined the project in 2003 and wrote the plugin system that nearly every site runs on. She calls…

Tonight I started working on some Shortcode processing in WordPress. This is an historically nasty problem because the Shortcode syntax and parsing is wildly dynamic. Shortcode syntax is only technically recognized for shortcodes registered at the time of parsing. This means that there is not a general Shortcode grammar. Whether a shortcode has “content,” meaning whether it expects a closing tag, depends on whether the closing tag exists in the post. This is a problem that has plagued me for years and I have generally just ignored. There’s an open Core issue in Trac for changing some shortcode parsing (#50683),…

A website changelog helps creators document progress, celebrate small wins, showcase evolution, fuel creativity, and build audience trust. It can include updates, humor, and various formats, making it accessible for all.

A reflection on recognizing the right time to move on from creative projects and handling self-doubt.

OPENSTATION · COMMUNITY VOICES Formerly Desktop Mode, now a new way to feel at home in wp-admin. A plugin can accumulate installs. It is rarer for people to describe it as a new way of thinking. As of September 25, 2026, OpenStation, known in its earliest releases as Desktop Mode, has inspired 23 public WordPress.org reviews: 22 five-star and one four-star. OpenStation turns the WordPress admin into a spatial workspace: movable windows, a dock, a taskbar, widgets and virtual desktops. That is the feature list. The feeling is better told by the people who use it. The words that stopped…

Bruce is one of my favorite writers. He packs profoundness. Also honored that he’s an advisor at Automattic, truly one of my idols. His blogs and books rocked my world when I was young.

Cami and Bob talk about adapting to tech changes growing older in the web industry and keeping routines that work.

Examining support systems behind open source, the open web, and everyday life, along with why sustaining these efforts is necessary.