I write about open source, WordPress, community building, AI, and whatever else is on my mind. I prefer long form over punchy takes — if I'm writing something down, it's because I think it's worth more than a sentence.
Haiku 5.5 is better and cheaper than the model my AI Site Chat plugin was using, so I upgraded it. That turned out not to be a one-line change: the new model thinks before it answers, which broke the way my code read the response.
Elementor’s official MCP lets the AI tool you already use build and manage Elementor pages on your WordPress site. Here’s what an MCP actually is, why it matters for WordPress, and how to get started.
The chat on this site has no search index and no vector database. Every question sends my whole site to Claude in one request. Here’s how that works, what it costs, and what I found when I finally measured how big that blob had grown.
Two scanners graded my site on how usable it is by AI agents. The highest-scoring thing I added was a text file saying my site has no login.
WordPress now has two AI systems that point in opposite directions: one where WordPress calls an AI, and one where an AI calls WordPress. Here’s how each actually works as of WordPress 7.1, and why the Abilities API sitting underneath them is the part that matters.
I gave a talk at WordCamp US about whether WordPress is ready for the agentic web. My answer: core has the plumbing, the plugin ecosystem hasn’t shown up yet, and most of the agent-readiness checklist we’re all chasing does nothing at all right now.
Most agent-readiness advice is about helping agents read your site. Here is what it took to let one actually do something: send me a message through my contact form, using the same endpoint the form itself uses.
When Claude and I were working on building this WordPress site, I was really pleasantly surprised when it made the decision to build the content form using native WordPress functionality…
I don’t only want my site to be agent-ready; I also want it to be generally healthy and optimized for the web overall. So I have a monthly process running…
Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal and co-founder of Acquia, built a tool called headers.dev that analyzes the HTTP security headers on any website and gives it a score. I came…