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I sat down with Carole Olinger, lead organizer for the 2026 CloudFest Hackathon and WP Summit day and Mark Weisbrod, CEO from Greyd.

We talk about the value of the WP Summit Day at the upcoming CloudFest next month, and why you should really consider going.

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Curious about the challenges and opportunities in the modern web landscape? Join us as we chat with @jonoalderson about technical SEO, WordPress innovations, and navigating the future with AI. It's a must-listen episode for anyone in web development!
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Excited to share a chat with @elliottrichmond on "Within WordPress." We dive into his journey from web development to a pandemic pizza business success! 🍕

Curious about full-site editing, AI in coding, and more? Tune in for insights and laughs.
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Last Friday, the very first Within WordPress newsletter of 2026 was published. And it was absolutely chock-full of interesting WordPress news.

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I Created The Course I Wish Existed 10 Years Ago After 20+ years of working with WordPress, building, optimizing, securing, scaling, and fixing sites others gave up on, I’ve finally put everything I know about performance into one course. It’s called Make WordPress Fast. And today, the prelaunch is open. This is the first course I’ve ever released, and I didn’t want it to be […]

I created the course I wish existed 10 years ago
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Summer recess is over! The Within WordPress newsletter drops this Friday, andas well as two podcasts today.

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Magic Mike Strikes Again, Roadmap to 6.9, Ramblings Reintroduced This is a long newsletter. There were so many interesting things to share, and I felt like sharing them! Feels like everyone’s pumping out stuff right before their summer breaks, or something. I did as well, btw, as I wrote about ​Custom Database Tables in WordPress, and when to use them​. And, with well over […]

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The latest Within WordPress newsletter is out and about! We talk about:
⬩Magic @mikemcalister's menu solutions
⬩WP Roadmap to 6.9
⬩PHP API Client
and so much more.

Stories: @jameswlepage @elemontor @Hostinger @austinginder @learnwithmattc @jeffstar @kinsta @getnitropack @felixarntz @dlxplugins +

A New WordPress Dashboard, Remote Data Blocks & Migrating Legacy WP and much more in the 166th newsletter.

Mentioning @weston.ruter.net @jono.id @jonathandesrosiers.com and more!

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Why WS Form Stands Out: A Conversation with Founder Mark Westguard Join us in this engaging episode as we welcome Mark Westguard, founder of WS Form, a powerful WordPress form plugin. Mark takes us through his journey from running an agency since 1996 to transitioning into product development with WS Form. He shares insights on the plugin’s evolution over the past seven years, highlighting its unique […]

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Our latest podcast recording is with Mark @westguard from @ws_form – perhaps the most complex problem-solving WordPress form solution out there? Join us in a conversation about how Mark went from an agency to a powerhouse plugin builder.

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The Future of AI for WordPress.org with James LePage In this episode of 'Within WordPress,' the focus is on AI's evolving role within the WordPress ecosystem. Host engages in a detailed conversation with James ...

WordPress.org AI Make team was announced this week with James LePage as its co-lead. Learn all about the future of AI for WordPress . org

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Security & Pro Dev Courses, Thread Block + New Performance Insights We’ve done a ton of for our next big feature inside Scanfully, called Priority Pages (more on that below). So, this week was a very productive one, as I managed to also collect a lot of interesting bits for this week’s newsletter as well. Hope you enjoy, and do forward this email to your friends […]

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The latest Within WordPress newsletter:

🛡️ A new security course by Tim Nash
🎓 Dev course with real-world WordPress relevance by Kaspars Dambis
🧵 A block-based thread plugin by Bunty
📊 Hardening GitHub Actions

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Within WordPress – Selective Speculative Loading, ThemeSwitcher, and Composable WordPress It’s been two weeks without an edition of the Within WordPress newsletter. It has also been one week since I gave my talk at PressConf in Tempe, Arizona. And yes, these two facts are related 😅. I had planned to do at least one, but things just went differently. I’ve given the most raw and […]

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This week in Within WordPress:

🧠 What would happen if you could play with how speculative WP is?
🎛️ Theme switching in a fun plugin, it's right here!
🧩 The rise of composable WordPress architectures
🧪 Plus: @mattmedeiros vibe coding experiment

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Email Marketing Tips, Strategies, and Insights with Omnisend's Tadas Pukas In this insightful episode, we dive deep into the world of email marketing with Tadas from Omnisend. We discuss the importance of flexibility, the critical role of data, and how Omnisend helps e-commerce businesses thrive. Tadas sheds light on the core functionalities of Omnisend, including capturing customer data, automation, segmentation, and personalized messaging. We also […]

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Most people do email marketing wrong.

This episode with Omnisend’s Tadas Pukas lays out what right looks like:

✔️ Personalization that goes beyond {first_name}
✔️ Recovering lost sales with behavioral flows
✔️ Automations that run smarter, not just more often

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Only after identifying and understanding the layers involved in hosting can you address performance (and security) from start to finish!

Mastering WordPress Development: Insights from Milana Cap on WP-CLI, Interactivity API, and More Join us for an engaging episode of ‘Within WordPress,’ where we talk to Milana Cap, a well-known figure in the WordPress community. In this episode, Milana shares her journey, insights, and tips on various advanced WordPress topics such as WP-CLI, Interactivity API, and HTML API. From her unique approach to presentations to her thoughts on […]

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What’s it like to build tools used by WordPress core, and teach them to the world?

In this episode, @milana-cap.bsky.social shares:

• Advanced WP-CLI workflows
• Where the Interactivity API fits
• Why contributing still shapes her dev approach

Revolutionizing WordPress Development with Kevin Geary In this episode of ‘Within WordPress,’ I sit down with Kevin Geary, CEO of Digital Gravy, to discuss the future of WordPress development. Kevin introduces ‘Etch,’ a new visual development environment that integrates coding and design, geared towards professionals and aspiring professionals. We explore the limitations of current page builders, the importance of a unified […]

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A new podcast just dropped with Kevin Geary, and here’s what you’ll walk away with:
✅ Understanding why design principles matter
✅ How I became a believer of #EtchWP 's potential
✅ How Kevin will revolutionize WordPress development.

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Building the Web: Wes Tatters’ Journey from Early Internet Days to Innovating WordPress Hosting Discover how Wes Tatters transformed WordPress hosting with Rapyd Cloud and learn about the challenges of high-traffic sites.

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Wes Tatters was part of the beginning of the internet, part of the very first days of JavaScript.

Chances are high you've read his books when you were on the internet in the 90s. Learn all about Wes and his latest venture rapyd.cloud in the latest podcast:

Can anyone know too much about all the different layers of caching? Of course not, so that's why you'll love checking out the podcast episode with @paloukas.bsky.social.

We talk performance, caching, and generally dive deep into optimizing strategies.

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Our next guest is @derekashauer.bsky.social. We talked about his ConversionWP project, and generally all things WordPress.

So, if you're curious how you can master conversions in WordPress, do check out this podcast. Here you go: withinwp.com/podcast/mas...