How We Rescued 3,684 Blogs During the Typepad Shutdown
A few months back, a long-time blogger reached out in a panic. He’d been writing on Typepad since 2004—nearly two decades of thoughts, family photos,…
Category: Core Updates
Why the WordPress Plugins Team Name Change Matters for Your Site
I had a client reach out last week, absolutely fuming. He’d tried to submit a custom integration plugin to the directory, and it got bounced…
Why WordPress Development is About to Break Your CSS
I had a client call last week. Total nightmare. They’d spent months manually overriding heading sizes using a pile of !important tags because the Gutenberg…
WordPress 6.9 Release Management: Why the First 24 Hours Matter
A long-term client called me late on the 10th. “Ahmad,” he says, “I see WordPress 6.9 is finally out. My dashboard is begging me to…
Why Gutenberg Typography Management Just Got Much Easier
Last month, I was sitting on a call with a client’s marketing lead who was absolutely fed up. They’d moved to a block theme, which…
Why the 2026 WordPress Release Schedule is a Wake-up Call
Last month, a long-term client of mine—running a high-volume WooCommerce store—hit me with a weird question. They were worried that WordPress was “slowing down” because…
WordPress AI Roadmap: What State of the Word 2025 Means for You
I had a client last month—a high-volume WooCommerce shop—who was convinced they needed a custom “agentic AI” layer. They wanted an AI that could actually…
WooCommerce Stability and PHP Compatibility: Why Version 10.3.6 Matters
I got a frantic call last week from a shop owner running a high-volume apparel store. Their checkout was randomly throwing 500 errors. No pattern,…
Don’t Wait for the January WordPress Maintenance Release
Last week, I got a call from a client running a high-volume WooCommerce store. They’d just updated to the latest version, and suddenly, their custom…
How to Handle WordPress Performance Optimization Without Breaking Your CSS
I had a client last week—big WooCommerce store, about 15k products—complaining that their Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) scores were “in the red” despite using every…