Tony Cosentino

Very common practice from my experience, they tried this crap with a long term client of mine demanding moving them to a 4x higher plan so I moved them to wpstaq.com who migrated 2 very large sites within a few hours. It's auto update system is so cool too. ( I was not paid to say this, I just think they are a great alternative)

Careful #Wordpress family! @wpengine has been giving out scary emails about website performance tied to 500 errors only to get your in a meeting to talk about what the websites are used for an future ambition. In that meeting they say that we need another meeting but with an Eng review. How is it that they bring up huge issues without eng originally, then they don't bring it up during the initial call? Do not engage with these emails! This is a huge waste of time and smells like they're looking for something. cc @photomatt

Excellent post Joost for anyone, even us luddites still obsessed with WordPress 🫣. Killer checklist possibilities. One thing you might want to edit is the comment about WebP: 'Because social platforms don’t reliably support modern formats yet.' as the post you link to now shows all platforms support WebP - 'However, changed from June 2024, you can now safely use WebP everywhere.' I know AVIF is still unreliable but most people I talk to are only interested ion WebP and might freak out as a lot use it now as the go to for images.

In 2008, I wrote WordPress SEO: the definitive guide. It became one of the most-linked SEO articles on the internet and laid the groundwork for what eventually became Yoast SEO. 1/3

Sorry that your work has impacted your family Sam, so glad it wasn't worse. I want to thank you for bringing AI to all of us and not gate keeping it which people like Demis Hassabis would have preferred to do so he can get Nobel prizes instead of allowing anyone to have the capability to achieve something like that for humanity. OpenAI choosing the opposite path and sharing AI with the world and letting the world users advance it with real world data is a gift that hasn't gone unnoticed by me. That approach has forced the hand of Google to share some of its AI capabilities but they still gatekeep far too much I suspect. All the very best from my family to yours.

I wrote this early this morning and I wasn't sure if I would actually publish it, but here it is: blog.samaltman.com/2279512

Sounds ominous, is the next project a form plugin or a crypto coin? Who knows. I suggest if you need a free alternative to relocate to @ws_form actually has more features anyway and it saves entries in the free version.

If you apply this guys theories to LLM plans and their token limit manipulation its very enlightening. Thanks again Jonathan for sharing this.

@jonathandenwood Brilliant guy, thanks so much for sharing this one Jonathan.

Here is a great interview with Cory Doctorow, and his thoughts on Big Tech and their collective hatred of the open web. youtube.com/watch?v=rzddF1… #amzon #enshittification #corydoctorow

I've already been heavily using WordPress Studio for most development lately. This is going to make it so that I need even fewer tools. Everything I need is just bundled together. developer.wordpress.com/studio/

It's important to remember techies online are generally in a "bubble". Every single person I see stating "just use AI to build static website" has the technical knowledge to do so. The vast majority of people online do not.

‘EmDash is a an interesting project with real architectural advantages. But for the overwhelming majority of people who need websites, it doesn’t (yet) offer the features that translate to practical real-world outcomes: themes you can install in a click, plugins that handle the hard stuff, a community with years of solved problems, and a content editor that non-technical people can actually use.’

@WPTutz No problemo.

@TheWPGuy Thank you. 👍

A really level headed look by Paul from @WPTutz the actual backend and how much of a threat this is (or isn't)

I actually appreciate you doing this @bcherny . As a Max account holder who just uses Claude the normal way with claude code, desktop and Web version I always have tokens left over daily and weekly and it felt like my spare tokens were subsidising users who Max out their Max accounts constantly which then causes outages when I actually want to do something. Using open claw via api makes people think more about the tokens rather than burning through them like there's no tomorrow.

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.

This 👇

Yawn. Let me know when EmDash gets 43% of the internet. I’m gonna keep building on the CMS that has 20 years of bug-fixes, market saturation, and UI familiarity. Enjoy your debugging tho #WordPress

🔥 "It’s all built on open source and web standards. You can run it anywhere; there’s no lock-in. That’s why we do what we do. It’s really hard. You can come after our users, but please don’t claim to be our spiritual successor without understanding our spirit." - @photomatt ma.tt/2026/04/emdash…

WordPress runs on shared hosting for $3/month, supports multilingual sites, has 55K+ plugins, and a global support community. EmDash requires Node.js, TypeScript knowledge, and Cloudflare Workers. These are not competing for the same users.

Feels like someone vibe coded WordPress from 2015. This only makes me prefer WordPress more as a CMS.

I find the EmDash project and reactions around it fascinating on so many fronts. 1) The UX of WordPress that many folks in our community want to change seems to be quite functional IMO and now a company like Cloudflare when had the option to build from scratch still opted for simplicity. This should be a good reminder for us that change for the sake of change isn't always good. Familiar UX is an advantage. 2) Open source and governance are nuanced topics. Celebrating and hoping for open governance from a publicly traded company is an amusing display of naivety. 3) Cloudflare has distribution but not as a place folks think about to build a website. What makes WordPress good is that you can enter the ecosystem from a small independent host in a specific region of the world who uses WebPros or another 1 click install WP flow control panel. Each host around the world are effectively resellers of WordPress because it helps them grow & retain customers. It will be interesting to see whether GoDaddy, Hostinger, etc will be keen to enable 1 click installs of EmDash. Right now that's not possible because CF has a vendor lock in. Without this, I don't see this project gaining fast traction. Right now, this is equal to Wix for Developers. 4) Open source is sometimes good marketing. The plugin sandboxing only works on Cloudflare. That's a vendor lock in. 5) The folks who are technical enough to use this are already doing that with Claude Code. They don't need plugins ... They can vibe code, learn things don't always work, keep spending time .. or smart ones end up plugging a SaaS form builder, Shopify for eCom, etc because they are proven system of records. ^^ This "none" CMS category is a bigger threat to WP IMO than any CMS. 6) It's easy to dig on WordPress plugin security. Bugs & security issues happens in all software. Cloudflare itself pushes out botched updates that takes a good portion of the internet down at least several times a year. Nonetheless, I am keen to watch from the sidelines and see how it goes :)

I think @photomatt nailed it in this post. EmDash CMS is rolling back to a 2018 text editor with AI integration (which literally every cms will have by the end of the year anyway) and a vendor lock in stack. I also think it’s NOT the new spiritual successor to WordPress.

Thank you for this thought experiment Jamie. I had to come back to it a second time to really think about the questions you were posing. I am now imagining a sky filled with bits like a drone swarm that moves and takes shape momentarily for a task then morphe again into something different. The though of a whole collection of website content eg blog posts, products, pages in a more binary state that assemble and display depending on the viewer really opens my mind to the future with AI making things more fluid and dynamic and I see WordPress as the perfect vessel to contain these mini universes.