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

I’ll be speaking, and I’d love to see you in the room. Bring the questions you’re wrestling with and make time for the conversations between sessions. Join me at PressConf Europe → pressconf.events/locations/b...

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PressConf EU 2026 | WordPress Conference Barcelona

Join PressConf EU in Barcelona, 27–30 October 2026, for candid talks and high-value connections with leaders driving the WordPress economy.

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

And here’s the thing: the sessions aren’t streamed or recorded. That gives speakers room to be candid, and it means you can’t save this one to watch later. You have to be there.

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

PressConf Europe brings WordPress founders, agency owners, developers, and product teams together in Barcelona, October 27–30. It’s a chance to talk openly about building a business in this industry, learn from people doing the work, and meet potential collaborators face to face.

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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

If you're building your own alternative, who's doing that work six months after launch?

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

A working website can still be a vulnerable website. Fewer public security reports don't automatically mean fewer security problems. Personally, I want people looking for flaws in the software I use, and people committed to fixing what they find. I'm glad WordPress has that community.

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

And “I'll just build it with AI” doesn't get you out of any of this. Neither does switching CMSs or writing everything yourself. Whatever you build still needs security review and ongoing maintenance.

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

That's a sign of a healthy community. It doesn't make the vulnerabilities any less serious, or put WordPress above criticism. It does give us a response we can examine and fixes we can apply.

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

But those releases also mean people are finding vulnerabilities, reporting them, and doing the work to fix them. Researchers and maintainers are taking responsibility for software that millions of people depend on.

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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

You get what you pay for folks, always. This is more expensive, but the UX of the site is vastly improved. Transformed from annoying to a joy to work with.

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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

1. You can't read 2. You weren't looking for a way to collaborate.

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

When I then let you know there options for sponsor slots for my Within WordPress newsletter, and you reply with "we don't do upfront payments. and that it's a firm policy across the board"... all you've done is demonstrate two things:

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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

Yeah, I’ve had days like that as well. I guess this is more about using a tool that is meant to increase your productivity and it explicitly does not.

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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

I’d need huge volume to that page before A/B testing means anything useful, so that’s not really an option. I think I’ll just go with option A.

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

It will make the page infinitely longer, tho 😓

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

So... an explainer per lesson?

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

The context is you’ve landed on the course page for Cloudflare for WordPress and that you’d learn what there is to learn

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

I’m torn because presenting all Modules like A will add more scrolls to the whole page, but I think it looks a lot better....

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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

Oh, and if you don't, I’m especially curious where you draw the line between keeping something as a Site Editor customization, moving it into theme files, or putting it somewhere else entirely.

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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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