Brian Coords,
Developer & Educator

• Podcast Appearances

  January 7, 2026

  🔗 On WooCommerce’s Challenges and Innovations in a Changing WordPress Landscape at WPTavern

  In this episode, Nathan Wrigley interviews Brian Coords, Developer Advocate at WooCommerce, about his career path, WooCommerce’s recent rebranding, and its approach to developer relations.

• Podcast Appearances

  December 19, 2025

  🔗 On Teaching English, Tattoos, and Building Community at WooCommerce on Seriously, BUD?

  In this episode of Seriously, Bud, Brian Coords shares his journey from English teacher to WordPress developer advocate at WooCommerce. Brian talks about raising five kids, playing guitar at home, discovering WordPress by accident, building community through writing and developer relations, and how tattoos, storytelling, and friendship all shape his life and work.

• Tutorials

  December 3, 2025

  Building a Woo Product Category Image Block with WordPress 6.9

  Let’s extend some WordPress 6.9 features for WooCommerce, including the Block Bindings API for integrating data into templates and the Terms Query Loop block for showcasing taxonomy terms.

• Newsletter

  December 2, 2025

  RSS Readers Still Exist?

  I built an RSS reader using new WordPress components. Because people still need RSS readers, right?

• Newsletter

  October 6, 2025

  Open Source is a Tradeoff

  How should we build and advocate for changes inside an open source community?

• Newsletter

  September 15, 2025

  Are you down with MCP?

  How I learned to stop worrying and love the MCP craze. And a few interesting links.

• Tutorials

  August 20, 2025

  How to hide WooCommerce block patterns

  A quick code snippet to unregister the block patterns provided in WooCommerce.

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