WordPress.com Is Now Available in Stripe Projects
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Starting today, developers and their AI agents can provision a complete WordPress.com site, register a[…]
 
#WordPress #WordPresscom #StripeProjects

https://www.wpnews.io/wordpress-com-is-now-available-in-stripe-projects/

“Radical Speed Month is a creative experiment led by developers, designers, marketers, and many others across the Automattic team to build, ship, and test WordPress.com features faster.”

With absolutely NO regard for the impact on customers or the support ‘happiness engineers’

#wordpresscom #automattic

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wpcommaven/116494257420573586

A reminder to anyone hosted on #WordPresscom using Colourlovers backgrounds in the Customizer.

They're going away.

You've only got another 10 days or so. (Mine have already disappeared!)

Introducing Write: a new way to post, built for writers
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One page. A blinking cursor. The formatting you need and nothing you don’t. That’s Write:[…]
 
#WordPress #WordPresscom #Writeeditor

https://www.wpnews.io/introducing-write-a-new-way-to-post-built-for-writers/

Turn Your Blog Posts Into Podcast Episodes
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Some readers love settling in with a post. Others catch up while walking, commuting, cooking,[…]
 
#WordPress #WordPresscom

https://www.wpnews.io/turn-your-blog-posts-into-podcast-episodes/

Building Landing Pages with AI

We had a special month at Automattic that ended last Friday. For a full month, we could form groups of two people and work on whatever we liked, as long as we are in a pair.

I chose 4 projects and ended up working on 3 of them, discarding the 4th – couldn’t get to it. First was the new Writing Prompts, which was relatively low-tech (on the surface) but pretty cool. Seeing people respond to blogging prompts that were my idea is melting my soul.

The second project was around building a way to assemble good looking landing pages with AI quickly.

A landing page on WordPress.com is a page that tells a story, highlights a feature, or shows something so it’s discoverable. For example, a colleague runs a program that gives paid plans to students. Another wants to show how WordPress.com compares to a competitor. They write content, the content is then designed, and then the design is turned to an actual page by an engineer.

Landing pages

My team is sometimes responsible for the implementation of these. I didn’t like this type of front-end work and avoided it. A few months ago, we were in a situation in which the demand for new landing pages was high, and the resources for implementing them low, so I was “shoot, if I have to make these, let’s at least offload as much possible to AI”. The first round resulted into something like a vibe-coding flow, the benefit of which was that the work moved from the WordPress editor to Claude Code. But it was still too technical, and required a design (usually in the shape of a Figma document).

My colleague Jordan Hiller came up with the idea to give sense to Claude Code by providing it with a library of pre-designed, ready to use, empty sections that can be filled with text and images, depending on the needs. The technology behind it is Gutenberg Block Patterns. They’ve been around for awhile and can also be used from the editor or the wp cli. However, we expect the usage through a Claude skill to be the primary way to use this work because it doesn’t require expertise when making more advanced tweaks.

It’s an internal tool project. Something to make our lives easier, replace an annoying process with a faster one. The faster process lets you maintain the pages better, update more frequently, apply best practices sooner. Essentially, do more and stay on top of the change requests or avoid them altogether by letting the person who requests the change do it on their own.

Is that going to result into anything you’ll notice? Probably not. But if we’ve done our job well, the new landing pages will be built and updated faster, will load faster, and the colleagues who come up with the content will take the control from engineering.

Oh no, not again! (Said the bowl of petunias)

More #WordPresscom Classic Editor/Classic Block mashup. #forumlife

Some days I just want to stick my head in a bucketful of Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters.

#towelday #h2g2 #hitchhikersguide

Your WordPress Site — From RSS Feed to Social Account
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Radical Speed Month is over, and the Reader’s new Social section is now live. Your[…]
 
#WordPress #Tools #WordPresscom #ActivityPub #Reader #RSS #socialmedia

https://www.wpnews.io/your-wordpress-site-from-rss-feed-to-social-account/

Your WordPress Site — From RSS Feed to Social Account

https://activitypub.blog/2026/05/22/your-wordpress-site-from-rss-feed-to-social-account/

Oh, ein ausfall!

Es sieht so aus, als wären heute vormittag sämtliche websites bei wordpress.com ausgefallen, und ich weiß nicht, wann das aufhört. Teile des administrazjons-bäckends funkzjonierten noch. Statt eines hinweises auf die technischen probleme bei wordpress.com gab es den folgenden launigen reklamehinweis auf der startseite:

Das ist ganz genau mein humor während einer vollständigen unerreichbarkeit für den größten teil der leserys. 😁️

Der zugriff über TOR ist weiterhin problemlos möglich. Wenn dieser text erscheint, habe ich ihn über TOR gepostet. Es handelt sich nicht um ein DNS-problem, sondern das routing funkzjoniert nicht. Da hilft es also nicht, einen anderen DNS-sörver einzustellen. Die IP zur domäjhn wird korrekt aufgelöst. TOR verwendet eine andere form des routings, und das hilft.

Ob es sich hier um eine zensurmaßnahme oder um altmodisches technisches versagen nach einem konfigurazjonsfuckup handelt, weiß ich noch nicht genau. Einige aufrufe von traceroute zeigen mir, dass das routing unmittelbar nach dem IP-bereich von vodafone beim großen US-amerikanischen netzwerkdienstleister lumen endet. Ich mag hier jetzt nicht ganz viel kommandozeilenkram reinkopieren, wer daran interessiert ist, weiß sicherlich selbst, wie man das herausbekommt.

Will Donald Trump jetzt etwa zölle für datenpakete?

Nachtrag 13:55 uhr: inzwischen geht es wieder, wenn auch mit einer gewissen behäbigkeit…