Alright, this time, I'm early - enjoy my #WCEU recap: patrickposner.com/blog/wceu-…

I've been quietly building TWO game-changer features over here for @BuildWithOllie. ➡️ One adds a powerful new vector to Ollie for builders ➡️ The other radically rethinks the entire WordPress experience If you see @patrickposner_ at @WCEurope he may give you some clues!

Search & Filter is a 100% independent WordPress plugin business. I've been quietly building it for over 10 years and never really shared the story, here it is: Around 2014 I was running a small agency in London with my business partner. He kept pushing WordPress. Like a lot of devs back then, I had it in my head that it wasn't a "serious" platform, so I resisted. He wore me down eventually, and then it clicked. One of our first complex projects needed a filtering system, and nothing decent existed. So I built a small plugin and shared it for free on the .org repo. Feature requests started coming in. I couldn't keep up. Then the agency hit a rough patch. Work dried up and I was genuinely running out of money. I spent four months building a Pro version. My business partner tried to talk me out of it - said the moment I launched, I'd be committed to supporting customers for at least a year - it was "too risky". The month I launched, it made my rent. Which I otherwise couldn't have paid. He's been telling me ever since that ignoring him was the best thing I could have done (I remind him whenever I get the chance). It was easier back then. A solo dev could ship a useful plugin, do no marketing, and find an audience. The WordPress space rewarded the work itself. Not sure that's still true. I know my approach isn't the popular one. Pieter Levels and a lot of people I respect preach "build 100 businesses." Find what works, move on. I've done the opposite. Found one thing, kept pushing it for 10 years - not sure that's what I'll keep doing. I'm spending a lot of time on AI now. Playing with the tools, building infrastructure around them, building internal stuff for my team to see what holds up as a product. So I'm going to start writing about it. The build, the decisions, what works, what doesn't. 10 years in and I feel like I'm starting over. Same business, very different landscape. In the photo I'm in the Netherlands for the month. Trying new things. Feels like the right time.

WordPress 7.0 just dropped! This is a huge release with foundational work that will change the course of the platform. The AI infrastructure alone is a game changer, but there's a whole lot more. I've put together a full video breakdown along with a highlights thread below. 👉

A lot of people are talking about the @KadenceWP and @LiquidWeb reorganization that was unveiled recently. Here's a mini pod with some quick thoughts.

Most WordPress builders don’t need more noise. They need sharper judgment, better workflows, and a deeper understanding of how WordPress actually works. That’s why I’m building The Guild: a practical membership for serious WordPress developers, agencies, and builders. Coming soon: remkusdevries.com/announcing…

New post up: I spent some time playing with EmDash, the new CMS from Astro/Cloudflare. I decided to focus on what makes Astro so compelling, and what the WordPress product can learn from where Cloudflare seems to think CMS systems are heading. briancoords.com/emdash-first…

We just relaunched olliewp.com with a small brand refresh and a refocus on where we're going. 🎨 Ollie has been in constant evolution since its inception, and now we're boldly moving into the next era and bringing everyone with us.

I don't tweet often... but I felt the need to give a shoutout to @patrickposner_ for @SimplyStaticWP. Holy sh*t is it good. Honestly, I'm never running #WordPress on a "normal" host again. Static versions are safer, faster, and just plain better.

I built Yoast SEO. I ran my blog on WordPress for years. Then yesterday I moved it to static HTML. Everything that matters, SEO, search, schema, is still there. What I dropped was the overhead. Do you actually need a CMS? For quite some sites: no. joost.blog/do-you-need-a-cms…

Today I launched something I couldn't be more proud of. Veils of Fate: Tales of Eldermoor, a browser-based RPG built around choice, consequence, and a world I've been dying to share with you! Play it free now veilsoffate.com/

Episode 29: How to Get Startup Ideas in 2026, OpenClaw Business Opportunities, Londonmaxxing, and more Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7oS… Transistor FM: napkinmath.fm/29 YouTube: Coming soon!

🚨 Huge day for Ollie — we just released an eCommerce pattern collection and a whole suite of designs, blocks, and templates for WooCommerce. Beautiful eCommerce made simple. Check it out here and watch the video in the thread below: 🛍️ olliewp.com/ollie-for-woocom…

Here is the human-first, scale later product service I am trying to see if it's needed. It is suited for e-commerce business owners who don't want to lose sleep over broken checkouts, especially after new features/updates. tryupcheckout.com/

Smart Sync saves you tons of times and hundreds of clicks per day by auto applying style changes to dozens of items at once. Get Smart Sync today by becoming an Ollie Pro member! olliewp.com/pro

Competitor: We're making bashing Simply Static our entire marketing strategy and focusing only on the free plugin. We: Publish an honest comparison page with our SaaS offering. Them: CEASE AND DESIST. Tells you when a tiny design agency has its own General Counsel 😘

2025 was a profitable, but strange year for my plugin business. I share numbers & events in our Year in Review.✍️ We did an atypical thing and decreased some prices 😊 studiowombat.com/blog/wombat…

My "Year in Review" post will probably take until January, but to give you a glimpse: I travelled almost 80.000 km (50.000 miles).

Hey look at that, we just crossed 5,000 @BuildWithOllie users. We're not quite at the moon yet, but we're on our way. 🛹➡️🌝

Human Made has always been such a huge inspiration. I finally got to meet @tomwillmot and @joe_hoyle at PressConf — super smart dudes. When they said they were going to use Ollie to rebuild their site, I thought no way. Well, they actually did it! 🤯 humanmade.com/full-site-edit…