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The silence is deafening: Google’s “agentic” future leaves the WordPress economy behind

Google just announced a massive shift in how the internet shops, and the biggest platform on the web wasn’t even in the room.

The Tailwind paradox: the high price of “enough”

The news hit the developer community like a cold bucket of water. Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS, recently announced that he had to lay off 75% of his

From installation to integration: Making plugins “agent-ready”

In my last post, I discussed why a design system is the “visual rail” AI needs. But the “Architect” I’ve been describing doesn’t just care about how a site look

Vibe coding is a trap: why WordPress needs a design system NOW

In my last post, I argued that WordPress needs to become a “Base AI”: a structured foundation that AI can understand and build upon. Before that, I wrote about

The generalization tax: why WordPress is still the smart architectural base

In my previous post, I discussed the demise of code copyright and mentioned what Dries referred to as the generalization tax. This had me thinking more about wh

The death of Code Copyright (and the rise of the Architect)

We are witnessing a strange paradox in software development. Thanks to AI code generation, more open source code is being created today than ever before. Yet, s

A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web

In December, I wrote about the state of leadership in the WordPress ecosystem. I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of transparen

Innovation in WordPress: a look at plugin development

Recent observations have highlighted a significant surge in new plugin submissions to the WordPress repository, as noted in this post. We also know that Automat

The unintended consequences of making SEO “for everyone”

At Yoast, we had one mission: make SEO easier. For a long time, SEO for everyone was Yoast’s tagline, and we meant it. We helped millions of people optimize the

Build websites like it’s 2005 (and win in 2025)

Last week was a whirlwind, first diving deep into AI and WordPress while working with the WP CLI as MCP host team at Cloudfest, then heading off to SMX Munich f

Redirect-By HTTP headers

One of the things one runs into when you’re doing large migrations (between domains, or within a domain) is that you run into redirects that go “wrong”. A syste

WordPress comments, cookies and caching

This post explains how WordPress uses comment cookies and why that is detrimental to your site’s caching. It then shows you how to fix this.