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You Don’t Need a Full App Stack to Build an App-Like Experience
Some developers think they need to ditch WordPress for Vue, Laravel, or Next.js to build “real apps.” But most of what people call “apps” comes down to a few behaviors: Guess what?WordPress can do all of that. (And so can Vue, and Laravel, and Next.js). Right now. No need to migrate your whole stack just…
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Shifting Toward a Creator Platform Core
Over the past couple of months I’ve been neck-deep in PeakZebra’s product work—refining PZForms, testing microsite workflows, and building out the managed WordPress stack that will eventually underpin everything. But as often happens when you’re talking to customers, exploring integrations, and shipping features, a bigger pattern started to emerge. Thank god for that, by the…
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The Future of WordPress Is Adaptive
What we used to call “responsive design” was all about screen size.Now, “responsive” should mean adaptive to context—not just devices. And all of that is achievable in WordPress. Adaptivity isn’t about complexity—it’s about relevance.The right interface for the right person at the right moment. Design isn’t static anymore. Your site shouldn’t be either. So how?…
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WordPress as a Runtime, Not Just a CMS
So, sure: WordPress is a CMS. I think it’s sometimes the answer given as a defense against the cynical question: “What’s WordPress still good for these days?” It’s a pretty great CMS, honestly. But what if we don’t focus on the CMS aspect so much. I think there are more imaginative ways to think about…
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What it takes just to get the product out the door
It’s horrifying to think about the number of times I’ve thought (and said out loud) that I was within three weeks of having the first sales of PeakZebra. It’s taken forever, literally forever, and there are reasons for this, some of them good, some of them stemming from deep-seated psychological shortcomings. My therapist long ago…
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Block-based Forms
Old-style WordPress forms packages do a lot of things, but then again, they really don’t do a lot of things you’d think would be really obvious. One thing you can’t really do these days is build forms directly using ordinary WordPress blocks. Now, there are a good half-dozen prominent forms packages in the WordPress community…
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That Opening Keynote at WCUS 2024
Ah WordCamp! The event opened on a Thursday and by Friday late afternoon Matt Mullenweg had driven a wedge into the WordPress community that still remains to be sorted out. Eventually, I got past the drama aspect of the event and started thinking about the content, and one thing that stuck in my mind was…
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Airtable things
Since the stuff I’m building these days has similarities to some of the things Airtable does, I figured why not build a version of the request queue I’ve built with PeakZebra, only with Airtable. TLDR: Throw in all the AI you want, once you’re past just storing everything in a single sheet, it’s pretty easy…
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More Cursor Programming in WordPress
I just spent about thirty minutes creating a couple of functions. I can’t really say I wrote them; it was almost entirely done by AI. I think it’s a nice example of ways in which Cursor and AI can really shine, so I thought I’d spend a couple minutes walking through how it went. PeakZebra…
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The Creator Business
I think the creator business is probably a little confused about itself, about where the edges of what’s a creator business can be found, but that’s fine. What I like about the general concept is how most creators have some important web and online needs in common. Most other businesses have at least some parts…
