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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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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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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…
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Headless WordPress and why it matters
You know there’s headless WordPress, but may not be clear on how you’d make it happen. Or, more importantly, why you’d make it happen. What is headless WordPress? Let’s start with a quick rundown of what makes a WordPress site headless, why the naming in this case is exactly backwards, and just generally get ourselves…
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Blockchain in WordPress in 2022
If you land in certain corners of the Twittersphere, you’ll find yourself surrounded by people who are wildly enthusiastic believers in the power of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) to change the relationship between creators and consumers. By extension, they are at least a little enthusiastic about cryptocurrency as a means to an end, though they are…
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Theft Revisited: What Gatsby JS Should Steal from WordPress in 2022
A long, long year ago, it seemed prudent to bring up a few things that worked well in WordPress that were missing in Gatsbyjs. For instance, one-click exchangeable Gatsby js themes. Some, but not many, of those holes have been filled in various ways, but others remain (and probably will remain). But time has pushed…
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Creator Coins: What Are They and What Do They Offer?
All on my very own I started thinking that a genuinely new angle on book publishing might be offering crypto coins related to the book. Or possibly the author. It turns out these things already exist and they are called creator coins. As usual, the internet was a bit ahead of me on this (though…
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what is a static site generator?
There are lots of static site generators (SSGs) out there these days, coupled to a lot of different headless content management systems (CMSs), using various development frameworks, running with various templating languages, and making life seem a lot more complicated than it probably needs to be. But you may still be scratching your head and…
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On WordPress and Static Site GENERATOR THEMES
In WordPress, you can get lots of potential looks and (to some extent) behaviors just by installing a “WordPress Theme” and activating it within the admin panel of your WordPress instance. This site, PeakZebra, for instance, is running the Extra theme, made by ElegantThemes. It’s based on their Divi page-builder franchise, with page builders being…
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Gatsby rolls out functions, “shifts left”
Gatsby (the company) held a “summer camp” online earlier today and used the occasion to push the new “functions” capability into general availability. Functions is interesting in and of itself, but equally interesting was the way that Gatsby, and product director Dustin Schau (@SchauDustin ) in particular, were talking about what the rollout meant for…
