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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 25/09/2026

If WordPress is your business, you should be in this room. Running an agency, growing a plugin business, or building websites for clients comes with decisions you shouldn’t have to figure out alone. Who better to compare notes with than people facing the same challenges?

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 22/09/2026

Real talk. It's easy to bitch and moan about the number of WordPress security releases we've seen over the past few months. I get it. Updating and checking sites takes time, especially when you're responsible for dozens (100s?) of them.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 10/09/2026

Migrated a WooCommerce + Membership site from generic PHP hosting to a highly specialized WordPress hoster. Every single performance metric improved dramatically. In fact, the site is 2.4 times faster now. And mind you, this was comparing uncached tests, before optimization!

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 10/09/2026

Fell down the stairs yesterday. Body was already hurting from intense workout the day before, so now even more. Needless to say, I did not want to go to the gym today. But you know what? I went anyway.

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PressConf @pressconf.events · 08/09/2026

267.5 kg. That’s what @remkusdevries.com can deadlift. And when it comes to WordPress, he’s been lifting the ecosystem up for 20 years.💪 Performance specialist. Product strategist. Co-founder of WordCamp Europe, & now one of our first speakers at PressConf Europe. pressconf.events/speakers/rem...

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 09/09/2026

Inside the Within WordPress Guild, Charles asked an interesting question on my article on Modern WordPress Queries. He asked whether the improvements made for WordPress's internal queries have now made the choice between custom fields and taxonomies an easier one.

Text discussing the differences between custom fields and taxonomies in WordPress, emphasizing data modeling for queries.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 08/09/2026

This has been months in the making, but I'm beyond excited to have our new @Scanfullyapp feature for WooCommerce close to beta release:

Barry's been cooking: Scanfully user interface displaying testing statuses for a cart feature, with indicators for starting up, adding to cart, and checking the cart.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 08/09/2026

Connecting AI to WordPress is easy. The permission model is where the risk starts. Can it create drafts, publish posts, install plugins, or run PHP? All four can sit behind the same MCP URL. These are the questions to answer before production: remkusdevries.com/your-ai-age...

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 01/09/2026

The difference between adding an MCP server to Codex versus Cursor is too big of a difference in this day and age of AI. Strongly in favor of Cursor. I mean.. wtf

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 01/09/2026

So apparently my camera makes a sound when it stops recording because the disk is full. It's just a shame I didn't hear that happen 2 minutes into a 45-minute recording session for 4 videos 🫠

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 26/08/2026

Time for Query Optimization! If you've written a plugin for WordPress or any other code, it's time to examine if you're still writing your queries in the most optimized way.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 25/08/2026

If you reach out to me because you want to "collaborate", but you only want me to join your affiliate program... that's NOT collaborating, is it?

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 25/08/2026

Very cool! @omnisend.bsky.social just improved their onboarding offer for the next 5 weeks: up to 35% off! They sponsor my @withinwp.com NL, but more importantly, I actually use Omnisend myself. If you’re looking for email marketing and automation for Woo, I highly recommend them. remk.us/omnisend

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 25/08/2026

When you and your partner are so in sync about the future of Scanfully.com, that you start vibing the same way in other things as well. #twinning

Barry and Remkus, both wearing matching blue striped shirts, smile at the camera during a video call. One has headphones, the other a microphone.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 24/08/2026

There's days where my output is twice as high as normal because of how I use AI within WordPress, and then there's days like today... Four hours spent, resulting in 50+ failed attempts... Does this happen to you to? How often?

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 19/08/2026

Having an off day, so I thought I'd have Spotify DJ serve me up some "carry you through it" music. First song it played: Fade to Black. Uhm, maybe not today, Spotify 😕

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 18/08/2026

For my list of Modules for my Cloudflare for WordPress course, do I continue with A or B after the first 3 Modules in Full? 🤔

Draft modules outline for a Cloudflare for WordPress course, detailing caching strategies and optimization techniques.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 17/08/2026

One of the downsides of speaking a minority language (#Frysk / #Frisian) is that no app can talk back to me in my native tongue, which has always been kind of a bummer. But now, with some AIs, I can just start a conversation in Frisian and it will reply in Frisian. Kind of amazing.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 12/08/2026

WordPress 7.0.4 is out and it fixes how malicious code could pose as a PNG and get executed. More details in @patchstackapp excellent explainer: patchstack.com/articles/wh...

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 12/08/2026

Do you still use child themes in your WordPress builds? New video: Do you still need a child theme in modern WordPress? youtu.be/dlh_eP3AOSU

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 07/08/2026

I'm in the middle of recording my Cloudflare for WordPress course, and from time to time I'm building something with Codex to test things. Big things. So, yeah... this man is cooking! 🧑‍🍳

A grid of Cloudflare icons in orange, with one distinct blue icon, likely representing a course on Cloudflare for WordPress.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 05/08/2026

Is 4614 words enough to describe what goes into modern WordPress Query Performance and what changed? Asking for a friend, ofc.

Screenshot of my upcoming article with 4614 words and a 24-minute read time about Modern WordPress Query Performance and what changed.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 05/08/2026

People who, instead of clicking on your message and hitting edit to fix your typo, follow up with the correct spelling of your typo... Who hurt you?

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 03/08/2026

One thing I find myself doing after my holiday break is unfollowing, unsubscribing and deleting posts a lot. I guess I needed some kind of cleanse. How often do you consciously clean up your "inbox"?

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 31/07/2026

Lifehack: for every 5 minutes of doom scrolling , promise yourself to do 15 minutes of working out. If that don’t fix your problems, I don’t know what would.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 23/07/2026

I think we’ve made WooCommerce (and WordPress) performance too small. We really have. We keep talking about speed, Core Web Vitals, and TTFB, and those are super important, but there's so much more that goes into a performant WooCommerce site.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 22/07/2026

If your site only feels fast when cached, you need to know that. Not because caching is bad, no, caching is essential. But uncached requests reveal the raw cost of the application. Your Admin, WooCommerce Checkout, or Logged-in flows.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 20/07/2026

Responsive images in WordPress are not an advanced optimization. I mean, they are often seen as such, but they are part of the foundation.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 20/07/2026

Frontend performance is not about making the browser faster, it is about making the browser do less work, less often.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 17/07/2026

Images inside your WordPress site are not just about file size. Many optimization tricks out there focus solely on "watch out for the size", but don't really explain why... Well, here's why; they affect: - Bytes transferred. - Decode cost. - Render timing. - Largest Contentful Paint.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 16/07/2026

WordPress doesn’t have a plugin problem. It has a “we installed this before we understood the problem” problem. I am less impressed by adding things. I am impressed by removing the wrong things, and wanting to find the actual cause. That’s what this video is about: youtu.be/hclFuxjODfY...

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 16/07/2026

Let's talk about Fonts. Fonts feel like design, right? But in the browser, they behave like infrastructure. They affect text visibility, they affect layout, they affect line breaks. And the can cause invisible text and layout shift.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 15/07/2026

You'd be surprised how many times I see this: two optimization plugins doing the same job. It should be obvious they are not twice as effective.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 15/07/2026

A problem I see a lot: most over-optimized WordPress sites are not actually optimized. They are tangled. A mess of criss-cross behavior. One plugin delays JavaScript, another defers JavaScript, and then a a third preloads scripts.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 14/07/2026

Have you heard about "the Edge"? The non-U2 version? The edge is a layer that lives in front of your site. It's a place in your stack that allows for requests to never reach WordPress at all.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 14/07/2026

I got a lot of reactions, comments, and DMs to my "The WordPress Conference We Need Next" blog post so I decided to turn it into a video, addressing the entire angle of why this is needed. Watch it and let me know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqL...

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 14/07/2026

Implementing HTML caching for your WordPress site is powerful because it creates a fast path. The first request pays the full WordPress cost, and the next visitor gets the finished response.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 13/07/2026

A cached WordPress page can still create dynamic server load, did you know that? Yeah.. the HTML might come from the edge instantly, but then JavaScript fires background calls.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 13/07/2026

A CDN (at the Edge) for your WordPress site is not an optional extra anymore, it is part of the modern WordPress performance stack. For these simple four reasons: - It reduces distance. - It absorbs static asset delivery. - It can serve HTML at the edge.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 10/07/2026

Most slow WordPress sites are not slow because of one huge mistake. They are slow because of small architectural costs that compound. It's one of these things, right? It's a little too much autoload, a few global scripts, some unnecessary API calls.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 09/07/2026

A WordPress plugin that loads everywhere is a WorsePress plugin. It's asking WordPress to do blind work without any smartness.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 09/07/2026

The Hooks inside WordPress are not just extension points. You should, instead, see them as moments in time. The earlier a hook runs, the less context WordPress has. This means expensive logic on early hooks can run everywhere, whether the request needs it or not.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 08/07/2026

Slow queries are not just a WordPress database problems. They happen there, sure, but they are user experience problems if you really think about it. Because every slow query delays the response, every repeated query adds pressure, and every unindexed query makes MySQL work harder than needed.

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 08/07/2026

Your WordPress database is not a storage box. It is, in fact, a part of the performance path. Every request asks it questions. For things like Posts, Metadata, Options, Users, Terms, Settings, and Plugin data, for instance.

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CSS-Tricks* @css-tricks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property! We recently got the shape() function and corner-shape property. What else could we possibly need as far as making shapes in CSS? Let me tell you: the... css-tricks.com/get-ready-for-the-po…

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Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property!

We recently got the shape() function and corner-shape property. What else could we possibly need as far as making shapes in CSS? Let me tell you: the border-shape property!

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