Stuart Duff

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WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” is here. 🎷 This major release introduces foundational AI tools, a refreshed admin experience, expanded design controls, new blocks, and powerful developer APIs. Explore what’s new, update when you’re ready, and start building with WordPress 7.0 today. wordpress.org/news/2026/05/w…

How I Use TDD With AI Coding Tools to Build WordPress and WooCommerce Plugins. stuartduff.com/how-i-use-tdd-…

Did someone say “bulk editing”? 👀 As the last part of the new Product Management POC, we’ve been exploring how bulk editing should work inside the quick edit experience:

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Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

The Cost of Code Is Not Heading to Zero — It's About to Get Expensive stuartduff.com/ai-code-cost-n…

@theo @MattReinholz Haha the fact I even considered your screenshot to be real for a split second shows where we are with Anthropic 😂

To prevent "programmatic use", Claude Code may now request webcam access to assure user is present when prompting

Our friends at @jetpack have been adding some really cool @WooCommerce-specific features to Jetpack Search (woocommerce.com/products/jetpa…). Should land in the next release, and will super-power on-site search for Woo stores.

@mikemcalister @raquel__karina Awesome news and love that you're now contributing ❤️

Quick update! There is a refresh to the site in motion and now I’m on the WCUS web team to help out however I can. ✌️ Thanks to @raquel__karina for getting me connected! Contribution > Complaining

How I Built a WordPress Block Theme Using Google Stitch, Claude Code, and WordPress Studio stuartduff.com/building-wordp…

Mark Cuban: They’re just shitting away that money. 😂 Personally, for me it kinda seems that way at the moment and has done for a while! youtu.be/lSTYM66sMis

GitLab Employees Face Layoffs Limbo. Read the Memo. - Business Insider businessinsider.com/gitlab-layoffs…

@jamesckemp Claude overkill 😔

Looks like that's the end of iconicwp.com - what a ride it was!

@BFTrick Thanks, I was going to go with just a post title and the content “Do more, or any marketing”, but decided to expand a little more. 😜

@stuartduff Nice! I cheekily thought the answer was just “Marketing” but it was a whole lot more. Good stuff.

Why Your #WooCommerce Store Is Not Selling stuartduff.com/woocommerce-st…

@jameskoster @SethRubenstein 🔥❤️

One of the most interesting things about treating the WordPress Dashboard as a primary navigation surface – with richer, click-into-the-work widgets – is the recipes we can build and share for different site types. Four early examples 👇

Last week I began exploring some high-level prototypes for future of the WordPress admin. Not just a sidebar redesign, a rethink of the whole shell. How you move, multitask, and get things done across the product. Here's what's in it 🧵

Three Surprises From a Shopify Migration - Patrick's Programming Blog speakinginbytes.com/2025/12/surpri…

An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark facto... youtu.be/wc8FBhQtdsA?si…