Blog
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Adding an MCP Server to the WordPress Core Development Environment
How I’ve enabled Claude Code to access all abilities registered with the Abilities API via MCP in the wordpress-develop environment.
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Post Date Block: Published & Modified
Development of a WordPress plugin which appends the modified date to the Post Date block when it is different from the published date.
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Would Jesus have found refuge in the United States?
When Mary and Joseph fled Judea to protect Jesus from Herod, would they have been welcomed as refugees in America if he had been born today?
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WordPress 6.9 Performance Landings
Celebrating the performance improvements in the latest release, and reflecting on the effort to make it happen.
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Joining WP Engine
I’ve joined WP Engine to contribute full time to WordPress core, continuing the performance work I started while at Google.
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The Site Speed Frontier with Performance Lab and Beyond
Analysis of the LCP impact for optimizations featured by the Performance Lab plugin and proposed for WordPress core. Presented at WCUS 2025.
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Web Performance Milestone
A couple months ago, this blog reached a web performance milestone which I shared on LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, Twitter: For the first time ever, I’ve just seen my blog appear in field metrics from CrUX (Chrome UX Report), albeit in desktop only and for the origin not an individual URL. Baby steps. In any case,…
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Instant Back/Forward Navigations in WordPress
The new Instant Back/Forward plugin enables instant navigations in the browser history via the bfcache, particularly while logged in.
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Eliminating Layout Shifts in the Video Block
Like the rest of the internet, I’ve been awestruck by the quality of Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator (even with audio). As you’ve seen from my posts, the American bison 🦬 is my favorite animal (aside from my cat of course). Also, perhaps I’ve watched too many videos from the Mustache Farmer, but I…
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Improve LCP by Deprioritizing Script Modules from the Interactivity API
Adding a fetchpriority of low to script modules and moving them from the head to the footer can improve LCP by >9%! I’ve written plugins you can use to implement this now while waiting for them to land in WordPress core.