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Astro & Claude
After seventeen years on WordPress, I rebuilt my blog as a static site using Astro and Claude — and I had no idea what either of them were a week ago.
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The Hiatus is Over
The author announces a return to the WordPress ecosystem after a hiatus, focusing on the FAIR Package Manager project -- a decentralized and federated plugin and theme distribution system built on the ATProto protocol that reached MVP and launched at the Alt Ctrl Org Conference during WCEU 2025 in Basel.
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Git Updater Lite
Git Updater Lite is a lightweight composer library that lets WordPress plugin and theme developers distribute updates outside of wp.org by pairing with a Git Updater-based Update API Server, offloading data-gathering to the server and keeping the embedded updater minimal.
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Setting up WordPress local docker environment for Apple Silicon
A step-by-step checklist for standing up the official wordpress-develop Docker environment on Apple Silicon, covering Homebrew, git, Docker, nvm, npm, docker-compose overrides, and shortcut commands for initializing, cleaning up, running PHPUnit tests, and applying Trac patches.
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Git Remote Updater, the Personal Remote Management System
Git Remote Updater is a WordPress plugin that serves as a personal remote management system, letting developers push Git Updater-managed plugin and theme updates to multiple sites with a single click via REST API webhooks, organized either by repository or by site.
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WP Core Development with Local Lightning
Step-by-step instructions for setting up a WordPress core development environment using Local Lightning on macOS, covering both the core.git and develop.git repositories, PHPUnit, patch application, npm build tooling, and Apple Silicon-specific notes for nvm and Node.
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Translations Updater and Easy Digital Downloads
The Translations Updater Composer library integrates with Easy Digital Downloads Software Licensing to provide decoupled language pack updates for EDD-licensed plugins and themes by adding just two extra entries to the existing EDD SL configuration array.
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Translations Updater
Translations Updater is a Composer library that brings decoupled language pack updating to plugins and themes hosted outside of WordPress.org, letting developers maintain a separate public translations repository and distribute only the locale files a site actually needs.
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Install a Zipfile with GitHub Updater
GitHub Updater gained the ability to install plugins and themes directly from a local zipfile path or remote URI, treating the zipfile as just another git host type in the Remote Install workflow to solve build-process dependency issues.