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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 06/09/2026

The End of Oak Street was the second best Jurassic Park movie but also the best Ewan McGregor movie

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 02/05/2026

opened laptop to do one thing. three hours later i have learned a lot about something else

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Simon Harper @srhdesign.co.uk · 25/02/2026

🚨 Issue 196 of "Loop WP" is out now! This week in my newsletter about WooCommerce and WordPress: 10k WooCommerce sites analysed: 87% still use Classic checkout, just 13% Blocks. Why is adoption lagging despite higher conversions? Full newsletter below. 👇

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Issue #196 Loop WP

10k WooCommerce sites analysed: 87% still use Classic checkout, just 13% Blocks. Why is adoption lagging despite higher conversions?

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 31/01/2026

Ottawa didn't need to do all this but it's probably good they did engage.ottawa.ca/name-the-plow

engage.ottawa.ca

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 13/01/2026

how many berries can seven kids even eat

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 12/01/2026

Learning just enough about coffee to ruin every cup you didn't make yourself. The curse of marginal competence

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 12/01/2026

The trick to podcast hosting seems to be asking questions you genuinely want answered and hoping nobody notices you're learning in real time

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 11/01/2026

Audited our Rental Products docs today. Found three things I was certain we'd documented. We had not. The confidence with which I was wrong was kinda impressive

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 11/01/2026

Nothing builds confidence in a feature like testing it forty or fifty times

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 11/01/2026

honestly love that it has a Wikipedia page

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 10/01/2026

Current chess skill level: can see the mistake three moves after I make it.

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 10/01/2026

what year would that even be happening

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 10/01/2026

really quick go listen to the entire. Cheers theme song you have definitely never heard the whole. Cheers, theme song

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 10/01/2026

I'm never going to forget this idea and I'm not happy about that

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 09/01/2026

oh man so much better than what I'm doing

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 09/01/2026

hey so are you supposed to get worse at chess if you play more games

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 09/01/2026

are you even allowed to commit to a bit unless it's for content anymore

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 09/01/2026

LEGO announced Smart Bricks with embedded chips, speakers, and accelerometers, presumably so your kids can build something more useful than anything you're working on

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 08/01/2026

What nobody's talking about re: AI automation. The bottleneck was never "can we do this task." It was "do we have someone who cares enough to think it through." That part hasn't changed.

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 08/01/2026

incredible. Nathan's Famous holding a lot of power in Chicago

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 08/01/2026

Name one reason other than "being a parent" that would get you this email subject line

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 07/01/2026

The funniest thing about "automation anxiety" is that most of us spent the last decade begging our tools to just work. Now they do and we're not sure how to feel about it.

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 07/01/2026

It being Rental Products for WooCommerce, of course

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 07/01/2026

It's good at car rentals as it's treated conceptually as an in person pickup/dropoff rental We do have an ongoing tracker for how often people need us to better accommodate bookings for things like services or homes/Airbnb style things but Bookings tends to do decent at those ones

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 07/01/2026

periodically posting this throughout 2026 because I'm a big baby who will be ashamed to not keep it up if you guys know: I used to run a 10k every day. I averaged under 5k steps a day last year. I'm taking fitness very seriously this year.

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 07/01/2026

There's beginner chess, where you lose and don't know why. Then intermediate chess, where you lose and know exactly why. I'm told there's a third stage

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 06/01/2026

'the hunt for red october' would be more appropriate

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 06/01/2026

I use it as a blog now

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 06/01/2026

apparently immediately

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 06/01/2026

my kids keep asking me about the 1900s and it's honestly more upsetting that they don't seem to think they're making fun of me

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 06/01/2026

WooCommerce powers millions stores and people still call it "just a plugin." It's the most flexible ecommerce platform on the planet running on the most flexible CMS on the planet. The ceiling is literally whatever you can build.

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 05/01/2026

Your checkout should load faster than your customer can change their mind.

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 05/01/2026

there's something funny about admitting you don't understand your own documentation. anyways working on some docs updates today

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 05/01/2026

90% of "WooCommerce rental plugins" are appointment plugins wearing a costume. Rentals aren't appointments. You ship things. People keep them for days. They ship them back. The logistics are completely different.

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 04/01/2026

Just documented our Account Funds refund flow. The fancy coupons plugin ecosystem is pretty big so we've gone another way with it.

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 04/01/2026

Refunds are lose-lose. Customer waits 5-7 business days, you lose the sale forever. Store credit is win-win. Instant for them, retained revenue for you. As long as your customers come back regularly.

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 03/01/2026

every project ends with you understanding the problem well enough to solve it completely differently than the way you did

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 02/01/2026

working the failures of capitalism into all my commit messages from now on

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 02/01/2026

the real productivity hack is convincing yourself that reorganizing your system counts

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 08/12/2025

Incredibly interesting to get this type of content (Anthropic’s philosopher answers your questions) from the people who are actually responsible for making the thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9aG...

youtube.com

Anthropic’s philosopher answers your questions

YouTube video by Anthropic

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 18/11/2025

thinking about becoming a chess guy. a guy who is really into chess.

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 12/11/2025

there's too many twitters. i dont know how to keep up with all the twitters

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Simon Harper @srhdesign.co.uk · 05/11/2025

🎉 "Loop WP", Issue 182 is out now! This week in WooCommerce and WordPress: Dynamic Product Accordions. Build smarter WooCommerce product pages using ACF and Elementor accordions. Hide empty rows, streamline templates, and improve UX. Read the full newsletter below. 👇

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Issue #182 Loop WP

Dynamic Product Accordions. Build smarter WooCommerce product pages using ACF and Elementor accordions. Hide empty rows, streamline templates, and improve UX.

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 08/11/2025

trying to explain the difference between dropshipping and white labelling to somebody who learned both terms from me just now and I am struggling more than you'd think

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 02/11/2025

what am I supposed to do!

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 02/11/2025

I just want the rock hat

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Ian Misner @ianmisner.com · 02/11/2025

say more! this is wisdom

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · 31/10/2025

Yesterday I chatted with @ianmisner.com about what makes a checkout page convert and what to think about ahead of Black Friday. He gave a lot of good advice, including this one about maximizing those new customer relationships:

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