Utsav Ladani

@famousish I have heard that many AI providers give free credits to open source maintainers. Or you can use locally hosted models, but they might not be as efficient as Claude Opus. Or you can use skills like Caveman to reduce token usage. github.com/juliusbrussee/…

Oops, paying the credit cards this month and I spent my entire second job's paycheck on credits trying to make weird and wacky WordPress stuff. I either need to slow down or find a way to get free credits :) .

@chubes4 Sounds very useful, I will give it try as well.

Thanks! Hope it works well for you. Homeboy is a Rust CLI for devops. I use it for release automation, changelogs, and lots of other things. Saves me a lot of time and tokens over manually telling my AI to do things. Also makes the workflows repeatable. github.com/Extra-Chill/ho…

Introducing Static Site Importer Takes raw HTML templates, converts to custom block theme that works in the Site Editor You can now vibe code a WordPress site using static HTML Uses Block Format Bridge under the hood. github.com/chubes4/static…

@retlehs Thanks

@3Utsav github.com/roots/vite-plu…

Using ACF made sense in 2019 but it doesn't mesh with modern WordPress development. I just inherited a site that heavily uses ACF and it's a complete mess. - Use 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜⁠/⁠𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍 with 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜⁠/⁠𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 for modern WordPress settings (𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍 is the successor to 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝𝚜, been using it all week and it's great — no more webpack) - Native blocks are more powerful with a better, modern UX. You can use dynamic server rendered blocks where it makes sense, and WordPress 7.0's PHP block registration can replace most ACF blocks - Use the Block Locking API so clients can't break the layouts you build - Use extended-cpts for CPT/taxonomy management ACF repeaters and flexible layouts aren't the way. InnerBlocks + nested native blocks do this with a better UX. Build some boilerplates using 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜⁠/⁠𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 for settings pages (ACF settings pages look out of place compared to this), native blocks, etc. and let agents use them to produce better interfaces quickly I've been doing this for years on hybrid themes and haven't looked back (not using FSE, it's not the right setup for the designs I work on) "But ACF is faster" — not anymore. Agents close the gap, and reviewing their diffs helps you see what modern WP actually looks like.

@retlehs Oh, that's great. Could you please share your vite setup?

The lack of HMR is unfortunate and it makes the WordPress DX look awful in comparison to more modern frameworks 🙈 Every time I use Astro/Next.js/etc. I'm saying to myself "this is sooooo good" For block styling at least, we have a Vite plugin that gives you HMR on editor styles when working on the theme level

@tetsuaki_hamano Nice, I am also thinking about building an email builder using Gutenberg.

Weekend experiment: I'm creating a tool in Tauri that allows editing Markdown data via a block editor. In other words, it's a Markdown version of "gutenberg-everywhere," which was experimented with somewhere before. I'll do a bit more vibecoding to see if it works.

Check out my plugin MachStyle to speed up your site with smarter style loading. It helps your pages feel faster by loading critical styles first and delaying selected non-critical CSS. wordpress.org/plugins/mach-s…

WordPress[.]org approved my plugin 🎉

Submitted my CSS optimization plugin to WordPress Org. It's a simple, lightweight, superfast plugin to optimize CSS loading for your WordPress site. It's useful for sites that have many plugins and bloated pages with many CSS styles. Will share detail techniques soon

@tetsuaki_hamano Take care dude

今まで持病らしきものは全く無かったのですが、先日ついに、左目が緑内障の初期と診断され、点眼を始める事になりました😱😱😱 40歳以上の約20人に1人が発症するらしいので珍しい病気ではないのですが、進行しないように気をつけないと。。

Most WP sites load 200kb+ of unused CSS. It kills UX and PageSpeed. I've stopped manual bloat hunting. I use AI to audit the DOM and find redundant styles. AI shouldn't just write blogs. It should fix architecture. What do you think?

@devagrawal09 Isn't it seems like RxJS??

The Effect-ification of the typescript ecosystem has begun

@chrislema @bymilesai @BuildWithOllie Those are great product and their builders too. I am also trying to solve content writing using AI assistant for WordPress. coowriterai.com

Good news - @bymilesai & @BuildWithOllie are both doing incredible things with AI and design for WordPress! chrislema.com/ai-can-design-…

@famousish May be go with self hosted playground?

Who can I convince to put a fun domain on playground.wordpress.net? It's an integral part of my world but I just want the domain to be a bit more fun.

@riadbenguella Yup, that's the diff. I forgot to clarify. 😅

@3Utsav I feel these are two separate things. You're building a AI tool embedded within WP, they're building an AI native platform to draft and publish content

Curious how this goes. I’m following

@apeatling My composer failed due to this

error connecting to api.github.com 🫠

Hey, I have launched my first product on @producthunt CooWriter AI - WordPress AI Assistant with Iterative Content Refinement Check it out and upvote it if you find it interesting. Link in the first comment.