Blog
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PHPVerse 2026
My slides, speaker notes, and all resources from PHPVerse 2026. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gFA-_yi8UA7aKyEnev37vdEgg9SaOZWl-tZQkpXg4ws/edit?usp=sharing Recording: WordPress is dead, long live WordPress! Before I dive in, I need to take you back to the year I learned PHP and started to take it more seriously as a career path. It was 2004, the year Gmail launched, the most…
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WordCamp Europe 2026
Slides, code, and resources from my WordCamp Europe 2026 workshop. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KXfGLZvAByjKxgOPGgHg3Twdcwx9-zZuFxhPwJRgDlk/edit?usp=sharing GitHub repository: https://github.com/wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo Recording: Resources:
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WordCamp Vienna 2026
My WordCamp Vienna 2026 workshop and talk slides and demo plugins: Build your first AI-Powered WordPress plugin WP AI Workshop Demo plugin WordPress 🤝 AI: A Tour of the Core AI Projects Writing style post generator plugin
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How I built and deployed a custom WordPress block theme using AI
A step-by-step walkthrough of building and deploying a custom WordPress block theme using Claude, MCP tools, and WordPress Studio — including every prompt, tool, and skill used.
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A year of progress: AI agentic coding and the Cosmic Defender experiment
In March 2024 I tried to build a 3D space shooter game using AI in just a few prompts. It was a disaster. A year later, I tried again with Claude Code — and it actually worked.
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Globally ignore .DS_Store files in Git
If you’re a macOS developer working with Git, you’ve probably encountered .DS_Store files appearing in your commit history. These system files are created by macOS to store folder-specific metadata, usually related to images, and they have no place in your version control. While you could add .DS_Store to each project’s .gitignore file, there’s a better…
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Why I’ve settled on GitHub Copilot when building my personal projects
2025 was the year I tested every AI agent I could find and eventually settled back to using GitHub Copilot for building personal projects.
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Expanding AI model access for WordPress sites with OpenRouter: 400+ Models in One Provider
A few days ago, I shared my experiments with local, open-source AI models using Ollama and the WP AI Client. While Ollama offers a fantastic solution for running local models and accessing cloud-based open source options, I found myself wanting easier access to a broader range of commercial and proprietary models as well. That’s when…
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I’m curating the WordPress.com Dev & Deploy newsletter
Do you want to get WordPress development-focused news, curated by me, in your inbox every week? Well, now you can!
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Experimenting with local open source AI models using Ollama and the WP AI Client
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time digging into the WordPress AI Client and PHP AI Client as part of my research for a blog post on the WordPress Developer blog. While working on my demo code for the post, I wondered if it would be possible to use these clients with local AI…
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Weekend updates to my WordPress apps
I had some free time this past weekend (a rare occurrence), so I was able to spend a little time adding features to my WordPress development utilities.
