Tomorrow.

How to add additional fields easily to your WooCommerce checkout block to collect information for your customers. Tom (from WooCommerce) explains how to add additional fields to the WooCommerce Checkout block, showing how to hook into its filters and keep your customizations

I can't believe that WooCommerce is free! You can literally sell millions of dollars worth of products without paying a dime other than credit card fees.

I hope more writers will consider hosting their words on an open source platform and not falling for the fake 'network effects' of a social network pretending to be a CMS. Great breakdown of the differences here: wordpress.com/blog/2025/07/2…

The WordPress Roadmap to 6.9 is packed! The evolution of WordPress continues... make.wordpress.org/core/2025/07/2… via WordPress

As more laws like the UKs Online Safety Act roll out across the world, relying on connection location to serve relevant content isn't going to be reliable anymore given everyone will be using VPNs.

🚨 Loop WP, Issue 170 (my newsletter about WordPress) is out now! The UK’s Online Safety Act shakes up local content in a VPN-first world, plus Remote Data Blocks in WordPress and Elementor’s Ally accessibility plugin. Read the full issue now. 👇 newsletter.loopwp.com/p/issue-170-lo…

This is by far the greatest Premier League edit I have ever seen. 🎥: JunjaCreates

As more people adopt VPN usage because of sweeping national mandates. More irrelevant ads, content and currencies will be served to users which companies are paying for. I'm interested to see what/if anything happens. codebytom.blog/2025/08/12/loc…

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People are using LLMs to write more posts faster, without realising the real time saved comes from how quickly people are understanding what you're saying. Use AI to write less, not more.

Write less, not more: Where time is really saved with AI assisted writing by tom (Can't remember if I shared this already) codebytom.blog/2025/09/24/wri…

It finally happened. I've got a giant merge conflict and both sides were vibe coded and I don't recognize either. Now I'm vibe merging the conflicts too

Nothing compares.

Questionable Advice: Can Engineering Productivity Be Measured? charity.wtf/2020/07/07/que…

Want to work on WordPress at Google? Site Kit (5M+ websites! 📈) is looking for an engineering lead. This is a key role bridging the WordPress ecosystem with Google's engineering (Search, AI, Ads). While I'm not on the team, happy to answer questions!

After 5 years, today is my last day at Automattic. Gunna miss this place. codebytom.blog/2025/10/31/fiv…

The EU weaponizes people’s strong emotions about child protection to push mass surveillance and censorship. Their surveillance law proposals conveniently exempted EU officials from having their own messages scanned — and David’s post helps explain why.

Some of the biggest companies in the world use Django, but the project's budget is comparable to a single bay-area engineer's salary. If your company uses Django, please ask them to donate! It's a great way to say thanks, and really helps keep the framework going.

i can finally see my tailwind classes without scrolling..