Birgit Pauli-Haack

I guess it's time to make an EventKoi vs TEC comparison page? I should've done it months ago, but now it seems even more urgent... Btw, we have a TEC importer where you can import your TEC events into EventKoi!

The power of @WordPress is its ability to run anywhere. 🌍 This is a great example of how the block editor can be reimagined for seamless knowledge management. Excited to see where this alpha goes!

Phoenix is calling, and so is the WordPress community. WordCamp US 2026 tickets are now available for August 16–19. Join four days of learning, contribution, showcases, sessions, workshops, and connection. Get your ticket: us.wordcamp.org/2026/tickets/

WordPress runs anywhere. Why doesn't your knowledge base? Meet #Cortext (alpha): an OSS KB in #WordPress, built with my colleague Miguel Fonseca for #RadicalSpeedMonth. Pages, collections, blocks. Self-host, SaaS, or locally in Playground. What would actually make you switch?

✨ I built a new @WordPress Gutenberg block! It’s called "AI Prompt": a native WP block for showing AI prompts in tutorials/docs/blog posts, without iframes or code-block awkwardness! → github.com/f/ai-prompt

The WordPress Developer Blog has a new guide on writing end-to-end (E2E) tests with Playwright. It covers setup with wp-env, testing block variations and patterns, and verifying front-end output using the REST API. developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=6048

During #RadicalSpeedMonth at @automattic, I wondered what a personal agent dashboard in my browser would look like, and then built it. This is the story of how Concilium came to be. jonathanbossenger.com/2026/05/introd…

After a week and a half in Europe, looking at many many small WordPress sites for restaurants, landmarks, etc, I can finally understand why multilingual in WordPress is so important.

How we prompt AI is very different in 2026 than 2022 when ChatGPT came out. I'm teaching a new course, AI Prompting for Everyone, to help you become an AI power user — whatever your current skill level. It covers skills that apply across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other AI tools. How to use deep research mode for well-researched reports on complex questions. How to give AI the right context, including more documents and images than most people realize you can provide. When to ask AI to think hard for several minutes on important decisions like what car to buy, what to study, or what job to take. And how to use AI to generate images, analyze data, and build simple games and websites. I also cover intuitions about how these models work under the hood, so you know when to trust an answer and when not to. Along the way, you'll see flying squirrels, a creativity test, some of my old family photos, and fireworks. Join me at deeplearning.ai/courses/ai-pro…

WordCamp Europe 2026 includes an education track with sessions on contributor onboarding, the WP Credits program, university partnerships, and WordPress-powered AI tutors. The panel features WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard. wp.me/pgyJ7n-26L

FINAL CALL: Speaker applications for #WCKampala2026 close TODAY! Don't let imposter syndrome silence your story. Whether you’re a dev, designer, or business owner, your journey matters. Apply now: kampala.wordcamp.org/2026/call-for-… @WordPressKLA

WordPress publishing scored a huge win this week. The Ankler covers entertainment stories and were one of the biggest publishers on Substack They left Substack for the freedom of their own WordPress platform.

WP Presence API FTW! We're working on a suite of editorial workflow tools and the new Presence API just made possible my favorite new feature. When a user enters the editor (or in Presence API terminology a "room") after a few seconds we add them as a "watcher", so in the status board, calendar, and dashboard widget they can track the workflow status of just the content you're involved in. And, of course, watchers receive email or Slack notifications as an post moves through the pipeline.

A UI for managing Custom Post Types in Gutenberg, very cool! github.com/WordPress/gute…

Week 2 of @automattic #RadicalSpeedMonth is underway and I'm bringing podcast tools to @wordpressdotcom. Here's a quick demo of progress so far. The goal is to make it as easy to start a podcast as a blog and newsletter, while keeping ownership of your data.

Very cool Radical Speed Month project from @oandregal and @DeveloperJorge...with its own X account to boot! 💨

@WordPress @Anthropic Try it today: wordpress.com/blog/2026/04/2…

@WordPress Under the hood: @Anthropic’s Claude Code as the foundation—then the WordPress-specific layer that general agents are missing, and the local dev tools from WordPress Studio. The result is vibe coding that knows WordPress deeply and ships to prod when you ask.

General AI coding agents can write excellent code, but there are some things they just can’t do: 👉 Spin up a local @WordPress environment 👉 Validate block markup against the real WordPress editor 👉 Screenshot the result to check their own work and iterate it 👉 Build with WordPress best practices baked in But guess what? We built one that can. 💪 Studio Code is now free in beta!

WordPress 7.0, the first major release of 2026, has a new shipping date: May 20, 2026. The extra few weeks are worth it for what’s shipping (if everything goes as planned): - Real-time collaboration - two users editing the same post simultaneously, Google Docs-style. - Abilities API + MCP Adapter - plugins declare their capabilities; AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini discover and call them through MCP - so most of WordPress becomes scriptable by AI agents out of the box. - WP AI Client - connect your site to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google once via the new Connectors screen. Every compatible plugin uses the same credentials, so no more managing API keys per plugin, and you get AI features powered by your own token balance. - Block editor + FSE improvements - PHP-only blocks (no JS required), server-side block generation, new Breadcrumbs and Icons blocks, pattern overrides for custom blocks. - Admin redesign - DataViews, command palette, modernized wp-admin. Glad that WordPress is building on open AI infrastructure - as an open-source, self-hosted technology, it has a good chance of becoming the standard for AI-generated websites - combining AI superpowers with WP-driven flexibility, battle-tested infrastructure, plugins library and community. Looking forward to 7.0!