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@marcusdburnette Just follow the WordPress mantra... there will be a third party plugin to solve this or contribute yourself... 😆

When #WordPress 7.0 comes out, will people trust using the AI Connectors? Since the APIs cost money, what if I install a plugin that uses the Connector for thousands of API calls and I don't realize until I get the bill? How do we keep that from happening?

@KatieKeithBarn2 Your developer is now concerned for their job going forward 😂

My most ambitious Claude Code project so far - I fed it one of our existing free plugins and one of our premium plugins, and asked it to create a free version of the premium plugin for WordPress.org. I told it which features to include and which to grey out with upgrade links. It did a good job, and surprisingly my developer confirmed that it it's good and meets the .org guidelines with just a few small changes 🚀 We'd been considering whether to release free versions of more of our plugins because .org might be a good backup distribution channel given the drop in sales that we've had from Google Organic. However I'd been concerned about the amount of development time required, so this will really help.

@taylorotwell Great changes, please add the ability to deposit funds!

Huge improvements to Laravel Cloud usage dashboard are live. ☁️

@thespacedmonkey We got real time collaboration before we got a useful navigation block. Wild time to be in the WP eco-system.

In WordPress 7.0, Real time collaboration is on be default. Do you think this is the right call? Saw ticket requesting it off by default, not sure how I feel about it. core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64845

@KatieKeithBarn2 Congratulations Katie! What an achievement, you should be so proud!

A double milestone this month: 10 years since we launched our first plugin, and $10 million in lifetime sales 🍾🍾 None of it would have happened without the awesome people who bought, reviewed, and supported us over the years 🙏

@alexdotgs Congratulations Alex!

Codecourse was acquired late last year. I'll be forever grateful to everyone who signed up, supported it, and shaped what it became. Over 10 years of building, teaching, and learning alongside an incredible community. I'm not done though. Excited to focus on what developer education looks like in the AI era. P.S. I'm no longer involved in its direction or output in any way going forward.

Glad we moved away from WP Job Manager a few years ago! Thankfully, those who still use this legacy plugin can now download a patch for the vulnerability that has been in the wild for the past few months 🤯 If you need help with a recruitment website, DMs open 👍

@andrewhoyer We do exactly this for “competition” style websites. Look for an plugin that offers a wallet system. Just change the terminology of the wallet to points.

Hey Woocommerce big brains, I need your help with a "credits" system. Think arcade: You buy 25 credits. Pinball takes 1 credit to play, TMNT takes 2 credits. How can this be applied in Woocommerce? I want to have a suite of products that can be purchased with varying numbers of credits (effectively a $0 purchase, using previously purchased credits). I also want a couple of products that sell credits. Does anything exist that does this, or can an existing plugin or feature be modified to achieve the idea?

@ktross @taylorotwell @LaraconEU @samsappenfield1 They’ll take you through the Mc Donald’s drive through. No McFlurry and you’ve only got 20 minutes… and no it’s not in the Lambo.

@taylorotwell @LaraconEU @samsappenfield1 Is there a $30,000 / month dinner? 😎

Coming to @LaraconEU and spending more than $30,000 / year on AWS? We're having a special dinner on March 3rd to talk enterprise Laravel, Cloud, and scalability. Come chat with the Laravel team and peers running Laravel at scale. DM @samsappenfield1 to get on the list.

With code being quicker to write and more accessible do we really want a #WordPress block editor? I actually find what was a mostly pleasant experiance a very frustrating one in 2026. I feel like I'm wasting so much time updating block editor styles clicking through interfaces.

@wp_acf I’m confused. It says I have a lifetime licence, but it’s inactive? There’s no UI controls to refresh or reactive the licence… So what’s the solution here? Why isn’t the licence active if you know it’s stored in the config file?

Hey Sam, sorry to hear you're having issues. Those limitations are actually a feature! When you define the license key in code, clients or site admins can't do those things and you don't need to interact with the UI if you're automating site creation. What isn't working for you with that method? Please reach out to our support team for further help if needed - advancedcustomfields.com/contact/

Has this @wp_acf feature ever worked for anyone? The most frustrating part is you can't revoke or re-enter the *valid* key from the admin.

@KatieKeithBarn2 Given the size of Shopify have you been surprised by how complex adding some features have been compared to how relatively easy it would be to do in WordPress?

#ShopifyDiary 266: Asked my developer to spec a "proper" Hide Price Until Login feature for our B2B app, where prices aren't even visible in the page source. Turns out it's extremely complex and would work very differently depending on theme type, which would be confusing for merchants. No other apps fully solve this either, so for v1 we'll hide prices with JavaScript and clearly document the limitation with custom code and support for different theme types. Not ideal, but it feels like the most pragmatic trade-off for a relatively minor feature in a complex app.

Is there a reason why the WordPress accordion block icon doesn't use the "standard" up/down arrow/caret or a plus/minus icon?

@chazza Sounds like a cool project, does this mean AToBeach is on hold for now, and is the bug.io no longer for sale?

It's been a while since I last launched anything, so I'm finally building something I've wanted for a long time! Bug​.io - Error tracking for game servers. Link below :)

@KatieKeithBarn2 Makes total sense, thanks!

Historical reasons (tens of thousands of customers on EDD subscriptions who would need upgrading) plus the opportunity cost of doing that work instead of working on our products. What would be the business benefit of switching now we've already customized EDD to work the way we need?

@KatieKeithBarn2 @heymantle Personally we almost exclusively find all apps using the app store. It’s a much more robust directory supporting payments for developers which means you don’t need to search outside of this space.

#ShopifyDiary 235: Looked at the source of our app installs in @heymantle. Almost all of them come from the App Store, not from our blog content - which is unsettling because content marketing works so well for our WordPress plugins. I’m planning Q1 2026 content now and need to decide whether it’s worth continuing to invest in content for the app.

@ezsmith397 Have you tried template locking? Sounds like it wouod help address this issue? Lock a CPT design but allow the client to still edit the content. New posts would start with a complete and locked template.

I love a good WordPress snippet, one that gets used a ton here on site builds does this: disables Block Editor for certain post types. Usually when we're building out a custom post type, it's a cleaner experience for content editing to revert to the "classic editor". Since CPTs are usually pulled into dynamic templates, we want the content to be bare-bones and not have any design associated with it so we can control that in the template or design layer only. (See screenshots for snippet and example of how our "review" editor looks once block editor is disabled)

@vikasprogrammer Great feature!!!

MCP can be now enabled for any InstaWP site with just click of a button. youtube.com/watch?v=N4GIew…