How WordPress Real-Time Collaboration Will Change Your Workflow
I once worked with a massive newsroom client where the editorial team was constantly at each other’s throats. They had fifteen editors trying to polish…
Category: Core Updates
Why the WordPress 7.0 Roadmap Matters for Your Business
Last month, a long-time client called me in a minor panic. They run a news site with about fifteen editors, and their biggest headache was…
Handling WordPress Core Update Regressions and Planning for 7.0
I had a client call me last week, frantic because their custom editor blocks started behaving like ghosts right after the WordPress 6.9 update. This…
What the WordPress 6.9 Release Cycle Means for Your Site’s Future
A long-term client called me last week, sounding like he’d just seen a ghost. He’d seen the news about the WordPress 6.9 release cycle wrapping…
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,…
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…