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The Web Remembers Who We Are: Building XFN for WordPress in 2025
Here’s something I’ve been thinking about: we’ve spent the last fifteen years building elaborate platforms to tell the internet who our friends are, what we’re eating, and which former classmates we’d rather avoid. We handed our social graphs to corporations, who promptly monetized them, sold them, and occasionally leaked them. And the whole time, buried…
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Post Formats for Block Themes: My First WordPress Plugin After 11 Years
Post formats for block themes have been missing since Full Site Editing launched, and I finally built the solution. I’ve been contributing to WordPress training since 2014. I wrote lesson plans for Learn.WordPress.org. I teach people how to build with WordPress. I’ve spent over a decade helping others create plugins and extend WordPress. But I’d…
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DoTheWoo: From WordPress to Drupal, Insights and Innovations with Malcolm Peralty
In this episode of “Open Talk on Open Source,” I interview Malcolm Peralty, who shares his journey from WordPress to Drupal and his insights into the evolving landscape of open-source content management systems. The discussion covers Malcolm’s extensive experience in both communities, his transition to Acquia, and the future of Drupal, including its Starshot initiative.…
