Roan and I are on our way to Schiphol to fly to NYC. From there we’ll roadtrip to Phoenix, AZ for PressConf. Wonderful father and son trip.

You should too, the going to PressConf part, if WordPress is part of your daily life. You’ll have so much to learn from others who on the same journey!

Remkus stands smiling beside bold text discussing the performance impact of WordPress page builders, conveying a serious tone.

Are page builders bad for performance in WordPress?

Let's talk about the brutal truth: remkusdevries.com/wordpress-p...

Remkus stands smiling beside bold text discussing the performance impact of WordPress page builders, conveying a serious tone.

Are page builders bad for performance in WordPress?

Let's talk about the brutal truth: remkusdevries.com/wordpress-p...

WordPress Page Builders and Performance (The Brutal Truth) Page builders promise speed, but usually not the kind that matters most. They promise faster development, faster editing, and faster iteration. They make it easier to launch pages without waiting on a developer. They give marketers, designers, and site owners more control over layout and presentation. That convenience is real, and pretending otherwise would be […]

I got a little wordy on Performance with WordPress + Page Builders 😅

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Scanfully 1.7 now supports shareable reports for clients When we released Scanfully 1.6, we knew the number one feedback we’d be getting would be “can I send these reports to my clients, please”. And they were right to ask, but we needed a little bit more time building that 😅. But… it’s here now! This 1.7 release is mainly adding this: you can […]

custom request headers
activity log date filtering
timezone + date preferences
automatic initial scans

scanfully.com/scanfully-1...

Scanfully 1.7 is out.

The biggest change: shareable public reports for broken links and broken media scans.

You can now send clients a direct report link without giving them dashboard access.

Less explaining.
Less screenshotting.
Faster approvals.

Also included:

Why WordPress Agencies Need to Be in Rooms Like This If you work with WordPress, especially at an agency level, most of your time is spent in the same circle.Clients.Your team.Maybe a few other developers.But t...

Let's talk about it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWS...

Bubbles are real in all contexts, but especially in WordPress. Which is why is super important you go out of your way to have conversations outside that bubble at tech events.

CloudFest is one such example.

Why WordPress Agencies Need to Be in Rooms Like This If you work with WordPress, especially at an agency level, most of your time is spent in the same circle.Clients.Your team.Maybe a few other developers.But t...

So many WordPress people over the past weeks have asked me if they should go to the @CloudFest WP Summit... or not.

So I created a video explaining why they absolutely should.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWS...

Create Block Themes with Miles, Ollie <3 Woo, WP Sudo, and much more! That was an interesting week, wasn’t it? Three WordPress updates in the span of 24 hours. I don’t think we’ve ever seen this before. Now, it’s easy to be negative about this, but let’s consider the hard work that’s going into these releases. Security fixes need top priority. It’s just then very unfortunate it introduces […]

The Within WordPress newsletter is out. Featuring byMiles.ai, WP Sudo, and Olliewp.com and much more!

withinwp.com/newsletter/...

My biggest frustration working with AI is its loss of memory in the same thread/chat. Doesn't matter if we're talking Grok, Claude or ChatGPT.

Anyone have a fix for this yet other than "read thru this chat before replying"?

Funeral Dermot Kennedy · Funeral · Song · 2026

🎶 "I'm thankful for the darkness. Everything that let me see. So much beauty in the storm" – @DermotKennedy

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Title focuses on managing third-party scripts without disrupting marketing and analytics. Background is a gradient blue.

Updated this article: "How to Control Third-Party Scripts Without Breaking Marketing and Analytics"

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Issue #198 Loop WP AI agents are the next customer type. Use this WooCommerce checklist to improve data hygiene, schema, and operational precision for agentic commerce.

3️⃣ This week's Top 3 Links from "Loop WP", Issue 198:

1) Two Trends Shaping WooCommerce - creativethemes.com/blocksy/blog...

2) Control WordPress with your own MCP - kinsta.com/blog/mcp-ser...

3) Response Headers - remkusdevries.com/response-hea...

Read the full newsletter below. 👇

Speculation rules prerender until script origin trial  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers Learn about the new prerender until script option for the Speculation Rules API, now available in origin trial.

Check out “prerender until script.” It’s a new option the Chrome team is testing for the Speculation Rules API, and you can play with it now via an origin trial!

developer.chrome.com/blog/preren...

If you’ve made it past Module 2 of my Make WordPress Fast course, you’ve learned all about Preload, Prefetch, and Preconnect. But... it looks like we’ll see a fourth option soon. If you think prefetch isn’t enough, but prerender is too risky for your site...

I don’t think I’ve ever deployed so many hotfixes for sites as I did yesterday…

Your site has updated to WordPress 6.9.2
Your site has updated to WordPress 6.9.2
Your site has updated to WordPress 6.9.2
Your site has updated to WordPress 6.9.3
Your site has updated to WordPress 6.9.3
Your site has updated to WordPress 6.9.3
Your site has updated to WordPress 6.9.4
Your site...

Dashboard displays broken media report with three total issues, including three external items. A shareable link option is visible.

Love the positive feedback we've received with our Broken Media, Broken Links monitors alongside our Scanfully.com WordPress Activity Log.

Next up is turning the reports into shareable reports.

This short answer stops all commercially motivated message (spam) I receive in my DMs:

Zero interest.

Let Down Radiohead · OK Computer · Song · 1997

"One day I'm gonna grow wings..." 🎶
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Response headers from a web server showing status code 200 OK, cache settings, content type, and HTTP request details.

Do you know what can ruin a perfectly set up cache strategy for your WordPress site? Response Headers is what.

Let's talk about them remkusdevries.com/response-he...

I know all the API things coming to WordPress 7.0 is the fashionable thing to gush over, but I still very much appreciate the REST API.

And optimizing it for performance and scalability. Maybe you do as well?

remkusdevries.com/optimizing-...

Happy to announce I'll be speaking at the WP Summit Day at CloudFest next month. You'll never guess what I'll be talking about:

www.cloudfest.com/event/agend...

Yeah, I don’t need Codex to also be an editor 🙃

Cheers!

I'm in the market for a new office chair. I'm looking for:
- one that works for a tall man (193cm/6'4")
- thicker than average seat cushion
- armrests
and all the other comforts, ofc.

What's your best recommendation?

This is a first. Client requested a funky custom RSS feed for their dashboard. All I had was the required format, but you could barely call it an RSS feed.

Fed it all into Codex, gave it the requirements of the feed, internal caching needed, etc, and it nailed it in one shot. Zero changes needed.

We hated it - Omnisend

One more reason I love hooking my clients up with Omnisend because they now handle the entire migration for brands moving to their platform.

If you hvae Woo (or just WP) clients stuck on Mailchimp, go check them out: your.omnisend.com/remkus

I keep seeing WooCommerce site owner who've clearly outgrown their email tools, but they stay because migration feels risky.

Simpley because the switch sounds like weeks of chaos, broken automations, and revenue dips. So they tolerate a setup that no longer fits.