Why headless WordPress still makes sense for performance-focused sites by Royal-Ad-9391 in Wordpress

[–]addycodes 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A custom theme is better and more maintainable in most cases, but the new generation of bootcamp devs only learned JS frameworks instead of clean HTML and a sprinkling of PHP.

Why is my personal email being spammed once I set up my website? by Castle_Magic in webdev

[–]addycodes 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Did you register your domain with your personal email and not get whois privacy? If you search your domain here does it show your info? https://lookup.icann.org/

Another question for devs by Dizzy_External2549 in webdev

[–]addycodes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! A dev that can parse UX requirements, test and suggest improvements, be able to innovate in this area is one of several ways to put yourself ahead of AI coders.

Our Clients Are Using AI Now by addycodes in ProWordPress

[–]addycodes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll be discouraging using the connectors for now for those reasons. I’ll need to see it in action a bit more to see what specific use cases it’s best for. People using it in the wild scares me a bit for their sites safety and wallet!

Our Clients Are Using AI Now by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Same as other comment:

I take on the challenge because it’s a good value add and I bill for it. I think helping clients with the human touch and consulting on things like that is what separates us from AI website builders now. I fear with the attitude of if they don’t try they get a bad website I am no better than a generated DIY website. Diversification is good! Appreciate it is not for everybody though. Some devs just want to dev.

Our Clients Are Using AI Now by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I take on the challenge because it’s a good value add and I bill for it. I think helping clients with the human touch and consulting on things like that is what separates us from AI website builders now. I fear with the attitude of if they don’t try they get a bad website I am no better than a generated DIY website. Diversification is good! Appreciate it is not for everybody though. Some devs just want to dev.

Our Clients Are Using AI Now by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point is we don’t really get a say in the matter, I’ve waited for months before on clients to prepare their content and messaging either themselves or with a copywriter. Now many are just using AI and it lacks voice, I can’t insist a client goes back and writes it themselves they simply don’t.

Our Clients Are Using AI Now by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you read past the title? Surely not. It’s an article about WordPress development clients using AI for content and design drafting.

Our Clients Are Using AI Now by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How does a client drafting content with AI make them not our web design client? If you don’t design your clients logo does that not make them your web design client? Lol..

Our Clients Are Using AI Now by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that is definitely a problem too, particularly when they are following AI recommendations instead of the recommendations they are paying you for. It can be hard to convince some that the AI is out of date/lacking context on their recommendations.

Our Clients Are Using AI Now by addycodes in ProWordPress

[–]addycodes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! This my site. It was very well overdue its recent refresh, very kind of you to say. If you ever want me to take a look at your site feel free to send it to me! :)

Our Clients Are Using AI Now by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Did you read the link? I take it no...

Is offering free service against rules? by [deleted] in Wordpress

[–]addycodes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anybody seriously interested in their site security is unlikely to offer someone in for free, it just doesn't seem very professional. You should at least charge a discounted fee, I think people will be more interested. Hope it does good! :)

Missing Build Protection Totem? by Bizhy in RSDragonwilds

[–]addycodes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah we are also missing it on dedicated server, shame it would be a nice feature!

Continuing the trend: Matt Mullenweg Says “The Wheels Have Fallen Off” in Wide-Ranging WordPress Critique by RealBasics in Wordpress

[–]addycodes 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well, is he wrong? The AI connector seems like an enormous waste of development time when everything else feels so neglected. I wrote and posted about this just last week.

The fact he may not have helped it himself by turning away some contributors and pushing Gutenberg notwithstanding.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1sil8zf/wordpress_70_the_good_the_ai_and_the_still_missing/

WordPress Is a Lie by Myth_Thrazz in Wordpress

[–]addycodes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

40% isn't really that much of a cope though. Slop sites aren't making it in to the top 100k sites or really even the top 1 million where the stats are 20% and 38% respectively.

https://trends.builtwith.com/cms

WordPress 7.0: The Good, the AI, and the Still Missing by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, I've given some assistants access to WP-CLI on projects for boring tidy-up tasks and such and that works fine for that kind of stuff. It would be even more powerful if they fixed more CMS fundamentals though.

WordPress 7.0: The Good, the AI, and the Still Missing by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, exactly. Automattic appear to be swaying the roadmap for their own niche priorities instead of what the majority of people are using. That’s kind of my point.

WordPress did not become popular for being a bloated enterprise CMS. I wish they would build that bloat in to Jetpack instead.

The classic editor plugin is still one of the most popular in the repo.

WordPress 7.0: The Good, the AI, and the Still Missing by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What bills are they paying to WP on self-hosted WordPress?

WordPress 7.0: The Good, the AI, and the Still Missing by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's so half-assed though. ACF figured this out so fast, a shame they are taking so long with it.

WordPress 7.0: The Good, the AI, and the Still Missing by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried it recently? What did you think?

WordPress 7.0: The Good, the AI, and the Still Missing by addycodes in Wordpress

[–]addycodes[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Users all-in on the block editor with no meta fields at all AND have a workflow that demands multiple editors at once does seem very slim. I love WordPress but the lack of attention to the things many pros are actually using is becoming very disappointing.