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Hi, I’m Brian Coords and I’m helping WordPress developers and agencies make the transition into the new era of the Block Editor.
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Is WordPress 6.7 Good? With Matt Medeiros at The WP Minute
In this episode, Matt and I talk about WordPress 6.7, some of our favorite features, the 2025 block theme, and then we go on a long tangent about using AI to learn coding or to even replace developers entirely.
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Full Site Editing and Ollie with Mike McAlister
Mike tells me about his extensive journey in the WordPress ecosystem, from a designer to a product builder with OllieWP. We cover the importance of design in WordPress themes, the shift towards full site editing, the value of patterns and pattern libraries, responsive design controls, and more.
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Reacting to the TechCrunch Disrupt Connie Loizos interview with Matt Mullenweg
In this episode of the WP Minute, Brian and Matt Medeiros unpack the Disrupt 2024 exclusive Connie Loizos interview with Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic.
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Add custom CSS and JavaScript to any WordPress block
We’re adding custom CSS and JavaScript files to WordPress core blocks. Modify any block.json with simple PHP to load your own custom CSS and JavaScript.
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Local WordPress with Herd, DBngin, and WP-CLI
Local WordPress development made easy with Laravel Herd and DBngin. We’ll use wp-cli to download, install, and manage a local WordPress environment in just a few minutes. Relevant Links Full Transcript AI-Generated and unedited as of yet Okay, so recently I’ve been messing around with Larival Herd, which is a tool for kind of local…
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Speed Up Dynamic Data with WordPress Object Cache | WP Agency Summit
Recent appearance at the WP Agency Summit where I discuss the power of object caching in WordPress. We talk about how object cache can speed up the retrieval of dynamic data and improve site performance.