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WordPress developer and educator, father to 5 free-range children Writing 👉 briancoords.com Video 👉 youtube.com/@BrianCoords Podcast 👉 webmasters.fm

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Dec 16

Leveling up your WordPress developer skills? Feels like a great time to sign up for my free video series, 7 Tools for Modern WordPress Development.

One video in your inbox every day for a week, plus a few bonuses at the end.

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7 Tools for Modern WordPress Development - Brian Coords

Free Video Series 7 Tools for Modern WordPress Development One video every day. Seven days. Learn the tools that advanced WordPress developers are using every day. Hi, I’m Brian Coords and I’m helping...

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Develop with Woo @developer.woocommerce.com · 21h

Call for testing:

WooCommerce 10.3 includes a beta version of the WooCommerce MCP integration. Chat with your Woo store and let us know how it goes!

Full testing instructions on the dev blog👇
developer.woocommerce.com?p=8769181

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · 3d

You can watch the full episode on YouTube or listen in your podcast app of choice:

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Optimizing Woo Checkout for Black Friday ft. Ian Misner - Webmasters.FM

In this conversation, Ian Misner discusses his work with Kestrel and the importance of checkout processes in e-commerce, particularly through their product CheckoutWC. He highlights the features that ...

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · 3d

Yesterday I chatted with @ianmisner.com about what makes a checkout page convert and what to think about ahead of Black Friday.

He gave a lot of good advice, including this one about maximizing those new customer relationships:

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Pocket Casts @pocketcasts.com · 4d

@ariellethisandthat.bsky.social listens to over five hours of podcasts a day — so she knows what makes a great podcast player.

Check out why she chooses Pocket Casts to support her passion for podcasts and her work in the industry:

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · 4d

🎙️ Fresh podcast episode with Ian Misner of Kestrel.

We talk about optimizing checkout ahead of Black Friday, growing your store long-term, and a bit of pontificating about extensibility for developers.

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Optimizing Woo Checkout for Black Friday ft. Ian Misner - Webmasters.FM

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · 6d

Stop being a coward and release these on a normal podcast feed so I can listen on 5x speed while walking my dog!

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Eric Karkovack @karks.com · 20d

Big announcement! 🛎️ I teamed up with @thewpminute.com to create a free course aimed at #WordPress freelancers and agencies. It's called "WordPress Hosting Decoded" and will help you make the right hosting choices for your clients (with no sales pitches). Get started: thewpminute.com/course/wordp...

WordPress Hosting Decoded – The WP Minute

Learn how to select the best web host for your clients with our comprehensive course. Enhance your skills in hosting, performance, security, and WordPress integration.

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · 26d

🎙️Just published on the podcast: @nickdiego.com takes me behind the scenes of Studio, the open source local development app from @wordpress.com

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WordPress Studio Gets Good for Local Development ft. Nick Diego - Webmasters.FM

Nick Diego joins the show to talk about WordPress Studio and building an open source local development tool at WordPress.com.

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · 28d

Open Source is a Tradeoff

How should we build and advocate for changes inside an open source community?

Open Source is a Tradeoff

How should we build and advocate for changes inside an open source community?

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Oct 1

My first video up on the Woo YouTube channel:

Develop with Woo @developer.woocommerce.com · Oct 1

Have you seen the updates to Product Collections in WooCommerce 10.2?

We cover the new carousel layout, taxonomy filters, and cross-sells collection over on our YouTube 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7GR...

Level up your Product Collections | WooCommerce 10.2

YouTube video by WooCommerce

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Sep 25

Finally had time to watch the @dannysullivan.bsky.social talk from #WCUS - if you haven't seen it, it's a good one.

wordpress.tv/2025/09/03/h...

How (and why!) Google Search keeps evolving

Learn about how Google Search is using the latest technologies to better meet and serve user expectations and connect searchers with high-quality content on the open web.

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Sep 23

Very cool! We just shipped product carousels in Woo core. You can customize all the product blocks, but the carousel settings itself are pretty minimal, so I’m betting you can offer more than core.

Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Sep 22

Took some prompt engineering but Telex was able to make me an animated bouncing-DVD screensaver WordPress block. For.. you know.. reasons.

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Sep 15

Are you down with MCP?

How I learned to stop worrying and love the MCP craze. And a few interesting links.

Are you down with MCP?

How I learned to stop worrying and love the MCP craze. And a few interesting links.

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Sep 10

Ahh it's my face!

WordPress @wordpress.org · Sep 10

What made WordCamp US unforgettable? The people. 💙

Take a look back at the smiles, stories, and connections that made Portland so special in “The Faces of #WCUS 2025” from Blue Ivory.

👉 Watch now: vimeo.com/1115270711

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The Faces of WordCamp US 2025

Highlights from WordCamp US 2025 ( #WCUS ) in Portland, Oregon!

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Sep 8

Yeah just keep cranking up my FOMO Ross.

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Ryan Welcher @ryanwelcher.com · Sep 7

ChatGPT asked @bph , @jon_bossenger , @briancoords and myself the hard question about the future of #WordPress and AI in the Creators Studio at @WordCampUS.

👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4B...

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Sep 4

My thoughts on how AI is going to affect WordPress agencies -

A short excerpt from an upcoming conversation with @ryanwelcher.com @bph.social and @jonathanbossenger.com

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Sep 1

Hate to say it but the future of shopping is not “tell an AI agent what you want and it figures out and buys it for you from a shady site that ships the wrong thing”

It’s “use a trusted app/site with great customer support that has the largest selection of goods and ships today”

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Aug 21

There's also the separate filter for "should_load_remote_block_patterns" that disables the pattern library from dotorg, so I guess there's a few things to consider.

Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Aug 21

Yeah I was looking and WordPress core uses 'add_theme_support' to declare block patterns. Perhaps we open an issue requesting we add this to the WooCommerce 'theme_support' as a setting: developer.woocommerce.com/docs/theming...

Classic theme development handbook | WooCommerce developer docs

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Aug 20

A quick code snippet since someone asked me: How to hide the default WooCommerce block patterns from the pattern inserter.

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How to hide WooCommerce block patterns - Brian Coords

A quick code snippet to unregister the block patterns provided in WooCommerce.

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The Repository @therepository.email · Aug 19

Built in just two weeks with the help of AI, the plugin introduces block-based mobile and dropdown menus, tackling a long-standing gap in WordPress site building.

Ollie’s New Menu Designer Brings Intuitive Menu Creation to the Block Editor

Built in just two weeks with the help of AI, the plugin introduces block-based mobile and dropdown menus, tackling a long-standing gap in WordPress site building.

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Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Aug 15

Wait what?!

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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wrote a review of ChatGPT 5 for the company newsletter. aboard.com/desperately-...

Desperately Seeking Software: Paul Ford reviews ChatGPT 5

If you want to be a true platform for the future, you have to actually make the thing work.

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