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Discover Maxima Plugins: A Catalogue of WooCommerce Extensions Built for the Block Checkout

Tired of WooCommerce plugins that break when you switch to the block checkout? Maxima Plugins is a catalogue of 30 premium extensions built for today’s WooCommerce, with a private live demo for every plugin so you can try it before… Continue Reading →

Podcast E662 – The 2026 Black Friday WordPress Readiness Check

This week I Talk About Having Your Website Ready For Black Friday 2026 [powerpress]

Cache, CDN, and plugin conflicts: why client changes don’t appear on your WordPress site

Visibility lag is the gap between a change existing in WordPress and that change reaching an end user. The edit is in the database or on disk, but visitors still get the old bytes. It compounds because a WordPress production… Continue Reading →

How AI Threatens WordPress Plugin Businesses, and the 8 Moats That Still Hold

AI makes plugin features cheap to copy. Here are the 10 ways it attacks a WordPress plugin business and the 8 moats that still hold, with a self-test for each. The post “How AI Threatens WordPress Plugin Businesses, and the… Continue Reading →

Podcast E661 – Control What You Can. Let Go of What You Can’t.

This week I Talk About Control What You Can. Let Go of What You Can’t. [powerpress]

Podcast E660 – You Got Paid. Now What?

This week I Talk About What Happens After You Get Paid! [powerpress]

Podcast E659 – Six Months Into My Unplanned Sabbatical

This week I Talk About Six Months Into My Unplanned Sabbatical [powerpress]

Podcast E658 – When Past Clients Come Calling

This week I Talk About When Past Clients Come Calling [powerpress]

Podcast E657 – WordPress Is More Than a Website

This week I Talk About How WordPress Is More Than A Website [powerpress]

Podcast E656– Interview with Elijah Mills

This week I Share My Interview with Elijah Mills [powerpress]

Figma Is Turning Designers Into Plugin Makers

Figma is turning a wild idea into reality: instead of searching for the perfect plugin, you can just ask AI to build it. If this catches on, designers may stop choosing the tools in their software—and start inventing them on… Continue Reading →

Podcast E655 – Listener Q/A

This week I Answer Listener Questions [powerpress]

Planning for the Accessibility Lab Plugin

The Accessibility Lab plugin was announced on August 21st, and now that WordPress 7.1 is wrapped up, it’s time to start scoping out the first features to target for release. For an initial discussion, we’ll meet on Thursday, September 17,… Continue Reading →

Automated security review for plugin releases

We’re launching an automated security review for every plugin release. Before a release is distributed through the WordPress.org update API, it is analyzed for security issues and releases that are considered to pose a potential security risk (either intentional or… Continue Reading →

Podcast E654 – The Next WordPress Job Titles

This week I Talk About The Next WordPress Job Titles [powerpress]

Podcast E653 – Accessibility After Launch

This week I Talk About Accessibility After Launch [powerpress]

Podcast E652 – The WordCampUS 2026 Recap: Good Conversations, Bigger Questions

This week I Share My Recap From WordCampUS 2026 [powerpress]

Podcast E651 – Is Your WordPress Site AI-Ready?

This week I Talk About If Your WordPress Site AI-Ready? [powerpress]

Podcast E650 – 650 Weeks of Showing Up

This week I Share My 650th Episode Retrospective [powerpress]

Podcast E649 – The 2026 WordPress Website Redesign

This week I Talk About The 2026 WordPress Website Redesign [powerpress]

Podcast E648 – AI Plugin Review #1: NovaMira

This week I Dive Into The NovaMira Plugin [powerpress]

Podcast E647– Listener Q/A

This week I Answer Listener Questions [powerpress]

Podcast E646 – Three Months After the Layoff

This week I Share An Update: Three Months After the Layoff [powerpress]

Podcast E645 – Optimizing the Wrong Things

This week I Talk About Optimizing the Wrong Things! [powerpress]

Podcast E644 – Interview with Howard Spaeth

This week I Interview Howard Spaeth [powerpress]

Podcast E643 – Preparing For Black Friday in June!

This week I Convince You To Prepare For Black Friday in June! [powerpress]

Podcast E642 – The 2026 Mid-Year Business Checkup

This week I Talk About The 2026 Mid-Year Business Checkup [powerpress]

Podcast E641 – Pivoting Isn’t Failing

This week I Share How Pivoting Isn’t Failing [powerpress]

Supercharge Your Website Experience with These Essential WordPress Plugins

A truly successful WordPress stack comes down to balance. You need robust hosting, clean code, and plugins that are lightweight and built for a specific purpose. The strongest sites don’t use plugins as a crutch for weak infrastructure. Instead, they… Continue Reading →

Podcast E640 – The Summer Slow Down Myth

This week I Talk About The Summer Slow Down Myth [powerpress]

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