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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 05/09/2026

Pretty cool to see your WordPress site as a connector in the Claude mobile app. It is a streamable-http MCP server by Agent Pilot plugin combined with OAuth Pilot for seamless auth. Also works with the official MCP-adapter feature plugin.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 04/09/2026

With Agent Pilot you can create and manage agent skills in WordPress (just like blog posts) and publish them as standard Agent Plugins. Now with OAuth Pilot you get one-click authentication for all the MCP clients (Claude, ChatGPT, etc). No more application passwords!

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 24/08/2026

During the weekend I built a contextual search tool for a photo library with 42k images across 2.8k galleries. The results are amazing!

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 10/08/2026

Trying out Agent Pilot WordPress plugin prototype to self-host host AI skills. Let's you manage and publish agent skills without having to figure out Git or GitHub.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 05/08/2026

What would be your preferred interface for creating agent skills in WordPress? a) all front-matter fields in the editor area (ACF-style), or b) all front-matter fields in the sidebar panel?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 22/07/2026

Check your AI tool memories (under ~/.codex/memories and ~/.claude/projects). I find that most of them are actually polluting the context and not helping.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 22/05/2026

The Jetpack monorepo is 767MB 🐡 Mostly because of the tracked build files (roughly 360MB) which are not even part of the current work tree.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/05/2026

Would you trust AI to run this? Will it actually apply those single quotes when running it? It created the ~ directory itself during previous runs so it is trying to clean up.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 17/05/2026

Appears that the site stylesheet does support dark mode but the body text is invisible.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 24/02/2026

The Connectors screen in WP 7.0 would really benefit from encrypted options unless we want to expose those API keys to anyone with access to wp-admin/options.php

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 23/02/2026

ChatGPT wouldn't do it, Claude wouldn't do it. Eventually tried Perplexity and it was able to generate notes with correct code snippets from my WordPress course videos. Amazing since it didn't have to invent anything -- just capture everything I said and include the relevant code snippets.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 20/02/2026

To enable it, add this configuration to .vscode/launch.json file.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 20/02/2026

WordPress block development with breakpoint debugging for JS is a life-changer! So is PHP breakpoints, to be honest. Instead of hunting for the correct file in the browser console, you just add breakpoints in VS Code and it automatically stops JS at that point to show you the full state.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 16/02/2026

When can we reasonably expect all macOS apps to use the correct squircle radius? I can't believe VSCode and Google Chrome are still different from the Finder or any of the built-in apps...

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 15/02/2026

Be sure to check out the included library of shortcuts and automations for inspiration. Here is the "Record Coding" automation that I built.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 15/02/2026

I can't believe I'm discovering the Apple Shortcuts just now. In one click it can now get my computer ready for screen recording -- it opens VS Code, web browser + recording app, and resizes the windows to fit a specific aspect ratio. The app is bundled with every Mac and iPhone since 2021.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 04/02/2026

Can AI help optimize your landing pages from actual user session data? We enabled user session recording using PostHog (which uses rrweb behind the scenes), and drove Meta ads to the page. Then used AI to extract those 36k+ events into a single file and asked it to analyze the results.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 22/01/2026

Turns out that building a "Clear formatting" feature for the WordPress block editor is more difficult than I imagined. Many blocks have the inner content as part of the `content` attribute but things get difficult with RichText, for example. Do you have a solution for this?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 06/12/2025

Add logging to my kitchen-sink WordPress plugin with handlers for error_log() and Query Monitor. Nice to have info/debug level data while developing and warnings+ on PROD. How are you handling this in your plugins?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 04/12/2025

Did you know that HTTP3 is already supported by 92% of browsers and can offer 10-20% performance improvements (mostly to LCP) especially for mobile users? Nginx added support for HTTP/3 two years ago in version 1.25.0 so it is available in most recent Linux distributions.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 02/12/2025

Did you know there is a way to check the historic web vitals for your sites from actual user data? Try it out here: cruxvis.withgoogle.com

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 28/11/2025

Has anyone had luck registering for AliExpress API access? Getting auto-rejected and not sure what to try next.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 23/11/2025

The #FAIR plugin for WP doesn’t like iOS Safari. Probably an outdated regex on user agent?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/11/2025

Turns out HTTP Host headers can have a trailing dot (totally valid too) and nginx will happily forward it to php-fpm making $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] have a trailing dot which then fails all WP multisite domain lookups... First time seeing this on a fresh nginx + php 8.4 setup.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/11/2025

How do you profile PHPStan runs for performance issues? It appears to be spawning a child process even if maximumNumberOfProcesses is set 1 which makes the core logic invisible to XDebug profiler.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/11/2025

Trying out the new VS Code fork from Google. Requires Google login to actually use it... not sure I like this direction.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 18/11/2025

Feels like half the web is down now...

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 15/11/2025

Version 3.0.0 of the Minit plugin for WordPress now defers the script bundle by default and uses this trick to support scripts with "after" logic (which require the parent to be loaded). Learn more here: github.com/kasparsd/minit

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 13/11/2025

Has anyone seen WP add ?_t=... to image URLs? Couldn't find anything in the codebase where this is happening. This is causing WP to fail at generating the srcsets.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 12/11/2025

Everyone on Twitter now... The whole re-auth flow is completely broken. I'm using the correct key and it still goes into this infinite loop.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 27/10/2025

Did you know that *.wpenv.net (all subdomains) point to 127.0.0.1? Use it for local development and avoid editing hosts file or setting up custom NS resolver.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 08/09/2025

Turns out you can still do that if the birthday is 18+. Only the kids accounts enforce gmail usage because of family link requirements/compatability. Probably similar to how workspace accounts can’t pay for youtube premium.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 03/09/2025

First time seeing my blog mentioned in a Google AI overview. Remember hearing in a few recent interviews with Sundar Pichai that they're now adjusting the AI Overview placement to improve source attribution.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 30/08/2025

GitHub web UI is getting slower every week! Doing code reviews is a pain now. Use the GitHub Pull Request extension for VSCode to do them right in your editor -- leave inline comments, explore commit history, etc.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 29/08/2025

Sharing my recent numbers not to brag but to get feedback. I find it hard to make technical content engaging. What are the one or two things that have helped you get consistent replies and shares?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 29/08/2025

So many of the AI crawlers don't use JS-enabled browsers so you need to access raw HTTP access logs to see the actual requests. The problem is that most of this data is terminated at your CDN level and you might never know the true amount of referrals and crawlers. Attached is OpenAI traffic.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 28/08/2025

Has anyone built a WordPress version of Writebook for publishing books and manuals online? Here is the link: once.com/writebook

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 28/08/2025

This is the amount of auth credentials Google expects you to pass for a simple API fetch from Google Analytics, for example. There is no way to do it with a simple API key string. Wow!

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 26/08/2025

The combined WordPress documentation markdown files for LLMs now include the WP-CLI documentation!

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 26/08/2025

Which user capability should have access to this post meta inspector modal in WordPress? Possibly with an option to edit fields directly.

Modal window showing all post meta fields and their values in the WordPress block editor.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 25/08/2025

Today I learned about Mermaid diagrams which are created from plain text. Turns out even GitHub markdown supports them and LLMs are great at generating them. Checkout this GitHub issue for an example: github.com/fairpm/fair-...

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 24/08/2025

While researching the FAIR protocol implementation, played around with some ideas for the project logo.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 15/08/2025

Ever wanted to track and find blocks, images or links across your WordPress content? With Asset Pilot you can do it all!

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 11/08/2025

What's your mental model of the WordPress block kitchen?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 29/06/2025

Over the weekend I vibe-coded a fix for the #xhprof PHP profiler extension which was SEGFAULTING due to a memory issue on shutdown. You can now safely exclude function names from profiling! I hope this gets merged and released with the PHP 8.4 support fixes that have landed already.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/06/2025

I can't believe I missed the ActivityPub plugin documentation in the Help tab of the plugin settings. I wonder if these help tabs should be open by default when users visit the settings for the first time.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 18/06/2025

Windows devs -- do you use a package manager like Chocolatey or Scoop to install your tools and software? Many students of the Modern WordPress Fast Track course are on Windows and I want to make sure my recommendations work across all OSes.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 07/06/2025

Wow, that's all taken up by the dynamic wallpaper videos 😅

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 06/06/2025

Is there a WordPress plugin that shows a confirmation prompt when updating a published post? Attached is what I had in mind based on the dialog used by the full side editor when making site-wide changes.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 04/06/2025

The first module of the Modern WordPress Fast Track course is now live! It covers the web fundamentals from the perspective of a full-stack WordPress developer -- everything from IP packets and TCP to DNS and HTTP!

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