Category: Industry Updates

What’s going on around the interwebs

  • A.I. Night at San Diego Meetup

    A.I. Night at San Diego Meetup

    The newly resurgent San Diego WordPress Meetup is starting to find its rhythm. With our third in-person meetup packed out and in the books, 2026 is off to a strong start. Local Meetup organizer and newly minted Jetpack lead, Devin Walker, leveraged some clout and opportunity to bring in a few Automattician heavy hitters. The…

  • State of The Word 2025

    State of The Word 2025

    The WordPress community’s highly anticipated State of the Word event will be livestreamed from San Francisco in a few hours. WordPress and Automattic co-founder, Matt Mullenweg will deliver the main address. One of the highlights already known to drop will be the latest core release 6.9, although yet to be named. No doubt, the AI…

  • The Agentic Web and WordPress Meetup

    The Agentic Web and WordPress Meetup

    Something I love about the WordPress community are the meetups and WordCamps. However, the last WordPress event I attended was my local WordCamp San Diego in 2017. And it had been some months before then, that I had attended my last local WordPress Meetup. I had found our local WordPress meetup group very educational, and…

  • Great Article on LLMs

    Great Article on LLMs

    If your brand isn’t appearing in these AI responses, you’re becoming invisible to an increasingly important segment of your audience. LLM visibility … LLM Visibility: What It Is and How to Optimize for It I was testing out the ‘reblog’ feature of the Jetpack app Reader, to see how it would post. The Reader is…

  • The Week in WP – 07.11.25

    The Week in WP – 07.11.25

    Wherein I cover news of interest happening in WordPress World

  • SEO: Rotting eggs in a basket

    SEO: Rotting eggs in a basket

    What does SEO have to do with rotting eggs?

  • Google Wants Businesses to Get Their Own Websites

    Google Wants Businesses to Get Their Own Websites

    Google has shut down it’s free Business Profile/Websites product. Tells businesses to get their own website by June 10, 2024 or customers may not know what happened to them.