Patrick Posner

My "Year in Review" post will probably take until January, but to give you a glimpse: I travelled almost 80.000 km (50.000 miles).

A lot of people are talking about the @KadenceWP and @LiquidWeb reorganization that was unveiled recently. Here's a mini pod with some quick thoughts.

@jamesckemp WHAT?!

Anyone else planning to see Limp Bizkit while in Kraków for #WCEU? I just booked my tickets 😁

@jjack_arturo @learnwithmattc @theandreboso @itsolelehmann Sure, I'm game and no worries, happens to the best of us! I just came back from a year of travelling and slowly starting to adjust to German reality again, haha 😅

@patrickposner_ @learnwithmattc @theandreboso @itsolelehmann @patrickposner_ we should get together too! I totally meant to message and then had a bunch of life crises and forgot 🤦‍♂️

I was wondering what are the best tech cities in Europe right now. Based on what I see online I’d probably say Stockholm, Paris and…? Where is the cool stuff happening right now? I really hope to see a future when people don’t feel the need to move to the US.

@jjack_arturo @learnwithmattc @theandreboso @itsolelehmann Haha, I was about to offer the same, but Jack already beat me to it!

@learnwithmattc @theandreboso @itsolelehmann Berlin is about as cool as it gets. Drop me a line if you’re ever in the area, happy to show you around 🙂

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@jason_coleman @pmproplugin 100% We are doing the same with Static Studio - it's just so nice to be able to ship those things right away and send a notification rather than having people stuck with some bug or outdated code.

Here's one reason we're trying to get all of our paying @pmproplugin customers onto our own managed hosting. We find a bug in the custom code handling downgrades on our own site. Flint is the name of our AI agent. (paraphrased) Me: Flint, we have this bug. What is causing it? Fix it. Flint: Found it. Fixed. Me: Check if any of our published snippets make similar mistakes. Flint: Found 3. One is critical. Want me to create PRs for them? Me: Yes. Then find customers on our hosting using those snippets. Flint: PRs made. Looking... Verified clean. None of our hosted customers are running code with that bug. I did find this one customer running an outdated version of an EMS integration. Want me to contact them about that?

@learnwithmattc @roandevries I'm on the photo team at WCEU, and I'll get you a new profile photo, haha😄

I've taken some photos at #CheckoutSummit but the all suck. Instead, thanks a ton to @roandevries for taking these amazing shots that show you how unique and inspiring this conference really is. @N03/albums/72177720333269993/with/55225476274" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">flickr.com/photos/1985207…

@AdmireTheWeb @setaryapp @WordPress You will fix the alignment, right? RIGHT? 😅

Solid week on @setaryapp this week opening the flood gates for @wordpress data sources! Manage all your sites data from ONE login! Come at me MCP.

@pootlepress I'm adding Google Page Speed reports to our @SimplyStaticWP Studio dashboard:

I'm declaring today, world non AI day. If you are working on anything non AI related drop it here. #nonaiday

@VitoPeleg @joyofwp Hey @VitoPeleg, would you be open to sharing some ballpark numbers for partners in a DM? We would love to participate (@SimplyStaticWP), but I have the feeling that it is not in our budget, haha😅

Thanks for sharing @joyofwp 🙂 We’re putting the finishing touches on the agenda. Totally agree. Speaker lineup is stellar! 🤘

@nicolaiklemke @tizxyz Haha, I'm gonna steal that idea for @SimplyStaticWP as well 😂

keeping it real since 2023 @tizxyz

@uglyrobot Much better approach, honestly. We just shipped native support for that in @SimplyStaticWP today, and people are busy generating all those md files alongside their HTML pages now 😅 Our infrastructure wasn't that happy, but our customers are 100%.

Why haven't you made your website natively return markdown for AI agents? Forget LLMS.txt

@ianmisner @Press__Conf 😅 How about WCEU?

@patrickposner_ @Press__Conf So you're handling Checkout Summit then, right?

best one of these kinds of events I've ever been to. even if you didn't come to @Press__Conf this year, you should be planning for next already

@DerekAshauer @ianmisner @Press__Conf True, but I just came back from the US! They could have run this event in November/December, and I would have happily joined!😛

@patrickposner_ @ianmisner @Press__Conf Excuses! Plenty of people from even further away were there 😝

@parvezvai Might want to look into @SimplyStaticWP instead - same benefits as Astro, zero need to rebuild the entire site.

#WPDiary 07: Saturday morning, woke up finding WPSubsription website got hacked! Now replacing WP site with AstroJS. lets see how fast i can replace and deploy with Claude code...

@PeakZebra @JustinFerriman @_ashleypeacock Not exactly. We intercept the request on the edge level before it even reaches WP (or the server) - similar to a firewall and check it (comparing expected params with send requests, strip anything else, compare CORS, etc.), and only if nothing gets flagged, we forward it to WP.

@patrickposner_ @JustinFerriman @_ashleypeacock ...plugins that may have exploitable bugs and that also have access to every aspect of the WordPress server. No? Again, I think people are too quick to say plugins = gaping security holes in WordPress, but a static front end doesn't change the nature of interactive plugins in wp.

Let's take a closer look into EmDash, the new framework from Cloudflare that's inspired by WordPress Here's a breakdown of what EmDash is and does: 🚧 A New Framework for the Agentic Era - Built from scratch on Astro 6 and TypeScript (no WordPress code) - Uses Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and more to scale to zero, a truly serverless CMS - Alternatively, it can run on any Node.js platform (there are some constraints around sandboxing) - Ships with a WordPress importer, high-complexity layouts may require more work 🛡️ Solving the Plugin Problem - Aims to solve the fact 96% of WP vulnerabilities come from plugins - Each plugin is sandboxed in a Dynamic Worker - They have no direct DB access and must use Workers RPC to request specific data - Capability-based security, plugins only get what they ask for upfront - Auth is pluggable, with Passkeys being the default 🤖 Built for the Agentic Future - Designed as a truly AI-native CMS - Supports the x402 protocol, allowing you to charge AI bots for access to your content - Comes with a built-in MCP server, CLI and Agent Skills for agents to easily manage your site Fancy taking EmDash for a spin? Create your own by running npm create emdash@latest

@wesbos @syntaxfm Uh, would love that: simplystatic.com

What are you working on? Send me your project. OSS, Paid, whatever. We're doing a @syntaxfm Syntax Highlight and we will review and/or roast your projects

@JustinFerriman @PeakZebra @_ashleypeacock The "magic" here is the proxy. Justin's site runs on Simply Static Studio, which can do a lot that Simply Static, as a plugin, can't. One of those things is our proxy, which handles spam removal, security, and forwarding AJAX requests, and more on a fully static site.

@PeakZebra @_ashleypeacock That's a good question for @patrickposner_

@theandreboso We are making WordPress static (no security issues, better performance, zero maintenance): simplystatic.com

@patrickposner_ What’s the product? Keep experimenting with social too!

If you’re a solo bootstrapped founder looking to grow your product you either hire a creator, partner with a creator or become a creator. The choice is yours but almost all of the successful products I’ve seen lately grew through content by picking one of these.