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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · 26d

After many great years in WordPress developer relations, I’ve moved over to product marketing at @wordpress.com. Still working on tools like Studio and Telex, just from a different angle.

Wrote a bit about the shift — and the new Blueprints feature in Studio 1.6.0.

nickdiego.com/wordpress-st...

WordPress Studio, Blueprints, and Product Marketing

After several years in WordPress developer relations, I’ve moved into product marketing at WordPress.com. I’m still working on tools like WordPress Studio, which recently added Blueprints — a new way ...

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · May 29

I'm loving this two-week release cadence for Studio by the
@wordpress.com team. You can now connect and sync your
Pressable sites. 💪

Here's the announcement post: pressable.com/changelog/st...

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Apr 24

🤞

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Mar 31

Any ideas @briancoords.com?

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Mar 19

The livestream will begin in two hours! @ryanwelcher.com and I are going to discuss and demo best practices for WordPress plugin development using AI.

Join us 👉 www.youtube.com/live/ZHTMLvy...

How to build incredible WordPress Blocks with Cursor AI

YouTube video by WordPress.com

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Mar 12

Next week, @ryanwelcher.com and I are hosting a live stream on building WordPress blocks (and Editor extensions) with AI.

We’ll share insights from years of our own dev work and show how AI fits into established workflows.

Join us on 3/19 at 5 PM UTC: www.youtube.com/live/ZHTMLvy...

How to build incredible WordPress Blocks with Cursor AI

YouTube video by WordPress.com

www.youtube.com

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Mar 11

This should be a fun one. AI has fundamentally changed how I approach plugin development.

Join us tomorrow: streamyard.com/watch/xU5BV7...

Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Mar 11

Looking forward to talking all about WordPress & AI with my pal @nickdiego.com and @vikasprogrammer.bsky.social tomorrow.

Register here: streamyard.com/watch/xU5BV7...

Building WordPress Plugins with Al with Nick and Brian! 12th Mar Wednesday 9 PM IST / 3:30 PM UTC

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Feb 6

Ticket secured for @pressconf.events. Who else is going?

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Jan 25

Hopefully it works from here on out 🤞

Reposted by Nick Diego

Brian Coords @briancoords.com · Jan 25

Join us Monday, 10am PST for a live chat about AI and WordPress - are autonomous agents and no-code tools really about to displace custom WordPress development? w/
@matthewmedeiros.bsky.social

youtube.com/live/NTDpJsd...

Are Matt’s AI Skills Making WordPress Developers Obsolete?

YouTube video by Brian Coords

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Jan 25

Hmm. It's working for me on a clean install of WordPress with the Twenty Twenty-Five theme. 🤔

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Jan 25

Yup, exactly. Cursor just did this on its own, but I like it. No need to break out parts and templates.

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Jan 24

Yeah, it’s interesting. I haven’t used create-block in months. I just get Cursor to scaffold the block directly.

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Jan 24

Oh wait, I think I can just tell Cursor to apply the schema in .cursorrules, so the hints are actually coming from Cursor, but based on the schema 🤔

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Jan 24

I didn't think about that, but I'll ask Cursor if it has any ideas. 😆

But in all seriousness, the main file is still validated, and any errors are displayed in Cursor like they would in VS Code. Good enough for me right now.

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Jan 24

This is for anyone who's built a WordPress block theme and struggled with an incredibly long theme.json file.

Just get AI to write you a solution. I should have done this months ago 😅

nickdiego.com/stop-strugg...

Stop struggling with cumbersome theme.json files

The theme.json file in a WordPress block theme is often hundreds of lines long and cumbersome to manage. Instead, use AI to simplify things.

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Jan 24

Thanks for the kind words Kyle 🙏

Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Jan 21

Interesting. I haven't tried Windsurf yet.

Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Jan 21

Experimenting with AI-assisted WordPress development is pretty much all I've been doing over the past few weeks.

Currently, Cursor is my platform of choice, and I have put together a little primer on my setup. Curious what everyone else is using...

youtu.be/3_TiyKdPNq4?...

Revolutionize Your WordPress Development with Cursor AI ✨

YouTube video by WordPress.com

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Dec 16

Hope to see some of you at Developer Hours tomorrow. This will be the last session of 2024!

Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Dec 10

As I look back on this year in WordPress, Playground stands out. The team has released an incredible number of enhancements for developers and users alike.

Join me and @ryanwelcher.com next week for the final Developer Hours of 2024, where we’ll recap the highlights: www.meetup.com/learn-wordp...

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Dec 14

I used Cursor, which can use a variety LLMs. For this experiment, it was set to Claude.

Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Dec 12

Here's some additional information about my approach and the resulting code.

nickdiego.com/building-a-...

Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Dec 12

I set a little challenge for myself. Build a WordPress plugin that adds a style variation switcher to the front end of a site using only AI prompts.

After about an hour of prompting, I'm quite pleased with the results. The demo uses the Twenty Twenty-Five theme.

🧵

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Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Dec 10

😂

Nick Diego @nickdiego.com · Dec 10

The future vs. the past 😉

Ryan Welcher @ryanwelcher.com · Dec 10

Join me and my sworn enemy 😜 @nickdiego.com for the possibly most important match up in human history.

Am I humanity's last hope against our AI overlords? Will I wear the WP shirt again?

Tune in Dec 11 at 4PM UTC to find out!

Go click the 🔔 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjw...

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