Brian Coords
@briancoords.com
WordPress developer and educator, father to 5 free-range children
Writing 👉 briancoords.com
Video 👉 youtube.com/@BrianCoords
Podcast 👉 webmasters.fm
Writing 👉 briancoords.com
Video 👉 youtube.com/@BrianCoords
Podcast 👉 webmasters.fm
WordPress 6.9 includes a killer new feature for WooCommerce stores: Term Query Loop.
Showcase your product categories&brands on your landing pages or mega menus.
And thanks to Block Bindings API I spun up a "Product Category Image" block with minimal code:
www.briancoords.com/building-a-w...
Showcase your product categories&brands on your landing pages or mega menus.
And thanks to Block Bindings API I spun up a "Product Category Image" block with minimal code:
www.briancoords.com/building-a-w...
December 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
WordPress 6.9 includes a killer new feature for WooCommerce stores: Term Query Loop.
Showcase your product categories&brands on your landing pages or mega menus.
And thanks to Block Bindings API I spun up a "Product Category Image" block with minimal code:
www.briancoords.com/building-a-w...
Showcase your product categories&brands on your landing pages or mega menus.
And thanks to Block Bindings API I spun up a "Product Category Image" block with minimal code:
www.briancoords.com/building-a-w...
I built an RSS Reader that sits in your WordPress dashboard. It uses the DataViews for a modern WP look and feel.
It's still in beta but try it out!
github.com/bacoords/feeds
It's still in beta but try it out!
github.com/bacoords/feeds
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I built an RSS Reader that sits in your WordPress dashboard. It uses the DataViews for a modern WP look and feel.
It's still in beta but try it out!
github.com/bacoords/feeds
It's still in beta but try it out!
github.com/bacoords/feeds
Thanks to the help of many smarter devs at Woo, our "create-woo-extension" tool is finally working again.
There's still a bunch of scaffolding work to do, but getting the dependencies updated and the install & build running was a huge milestone here.
There's still a bunch of scaffolding work to do, but getting the dependencies updated and the install & build running was a huge milestone here.
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Thanks to the help of many smarter devs at Woo, our "create-woo-extension" tool is finally working again.
There's still a bunch of scaffolding work to do, but getting the dependencies updated and the install & build running was a huge milestone here.
There's still a bunch of scaffolding work to do, but getting the dependencies updated and the install & build running was a huge milestone here.
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:
He gave a lot of good advice, including this one about maximizing those new customer relationships:
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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:
He gave a lot of good advice, including this one about maximizing those new customer relationships:
Took some prompt engineering but Telex was able to make me an animated bouncing-DVD screensaver WordPress block. For.. you know.. reasons.
September 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Took some prompt engineering but Telex was able to make me an animated bouncing-DVD screensaver WordPress block. For.. you know.. reasons.
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
A short excerpt from an upcoming conversation with @ryanwelcher.com @bph.social and @jonathanbossenger.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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
A short excerpt from an upcoming conversation with @ryanwelcher.com @bph.social and @jonathanbossenger.com
Playing with the WordPress Playground CLI and Woo's Smooth Generator to build full Woo demo stores in seconds.
(Next step: how can I push this into WordPress Studio for local development 🤔?)
(Next step: how can I push this into WordPress Studio for local development 🤔?)
August 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Playing with the WordPress Playground CLI and Woo's Smooth Generator to build full Woo demo stores in seconds.
(Next step: how can I push this into WordPress Studio for local development 🤔?)
(Next step: how can I push this into WordPress Studio for local development 🤔?)
I sat down with @craylor.link to chat about his path to success on YouTube.
This conversation is a great mix of learning about the process and about the person. Here's a short clip, but find webmasters.fm in your podcast app for the whole episode.
This conversation is a great mix of learning about the process and about the person. Here's a short clip, but find webmasters.fm in your podcast app for the whole episode.
June 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I sat down with @craylor.link to chat about his path to success on YouTube.
This conversation is a great mix of learning about the process and about the person. Here's a short clip, but find webmasters.fm in your podcast app for the whole episode.
This conversation is a great mix of learning about the process and about the person. Here's a short clip, but find webmasters.fm in your podcast app for the whole episode.
Wrapping up a wonderful week in Lisbon with the Woo Developer Advocacy team, focused mostly on super-powering our developer docs. We have some amazing things coming but if you have any thoughts on what you need from our dev docs, please share.
May 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Wrapping up a wonderful week in Lisbon with the Woo Developer Advocacy team, focused mostly on super-powering our developer docs. We have some amazing things coming but if you have any thoughts on what you need from our dev docs, please share.
Nice! I found that we do have an experimental WooCommerce MCP in progress. Pretty neat stuff...
April 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Nice! I found that we do have an experimental WooCommerce MCP in progress. Pretty neat stuff...
Looking forward to talking all about WordPress & AI with my pal @nickdiego.com and @vikasprogrammer.bsky.social tomorrow.
Register here: streamyard.com/watch/xU5BV7...
Register here: streamyard.com/watch/xU5BV7...
March 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Looking forward to talking all about WordPress & AI with my pal @nickdiego.com and @vikasprogrammer.bsky.social tomorrow.
Register here: streamyard.com/watch/xU5BV7...
Register here: streamyard.com/watch/xU5BV7...
Love seeing this WordPress plugin which is nothing but a shortcode and custom block but feels like it needs a top-level admin menu item to show a very basic instructions page and sub-items full of CTAs to other products/services.
January 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Love seeing this WordPress plugin which is nothing but a shortcode and custom block but feels like it needs a top-level admin menu item to show a very basic instructions page and sub-items full of CTAs to other products/services.
If you're interested in hearing how the GenerateBlocks team is building tools that make developers love Gutenberg, here's a great example of @iansvoboda.com talking about how they added ACF support in query loops.
January 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If you're interested in hearing how the GenerateBlocks team is building tools that make developers love Gutenberg, here's a great example of @iansvoboda.com talking about how they added ACF support in query loops.
Seeing people post negative temperatures wondering how you survive. Meanwhile it’s a warm sunbathing and weed-pulling day with this little guy.
January 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Seeing people post negative temperatures wondering how you survive. Meanwhile it’s a warm sunbathing and weed-pulling day with this little guy.
And another one - a quick block style to force the new Grid group block to stack on mobile. Not perfect but solves like 90% of the ways I want to use the grid block.
January 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
And another one - a quick block style to force the new Grid group block to stack on mobile. Not perfect but solves like 90% of the ways I want to use the grid block.
It's not fancy or glamorous but this code snippet solves a huge pain point for me in Gutenberg. Reverse the column flow on desktop, let it stack correctly on mobile. Super handy for repeatable image/text combos where you want to alternate the visual order on desktop.
January 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It's not fancy or glamorous but this code snippet solves a huge pain point for me in Gutenberg. Reverse the column flow on desktop, let it stack correctly on mobile. Super handy for repeatable image/text combos where you want to alternate the visual order on desktop.
Elementor adding an accessibility overlay widget ahead of the new EU regulations hitting this year? 🤔
January 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Elementor adding an accessibility overlay widget ahead of the new EU regulations hitting this year? 🤔
Pointed Raycast at a folder with some simple bash scripts in it. They become commands you can run with Raycast (using comments in the header for the name, etc.).
So handy, even simple things like "Open this exact file with this app" can become a command.
So handy, even simple things like "Open this exact file with this app" can become a command.
January 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Pointed Raycast at a folder with some simple bash scripts in it. They become commands you can run with Raycast (using comments in the header for the name, etc.).
So handy, even simple things like "Open this exact file with this app" can become a command.
So handy, even simple things like "Open this exact file with this app" can become a command.
For some reason I can't save posts with emojis unless I enable this chunk of code on my site (filtering the post content to run through wp_encode_emoji). Wondering if anyone knows why this might be 🤔
(this is one of like three recent bugs on my site that have been stumping me)
(this is one of like three recent bugs on my site that have been stumping me)
January 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
For some reason I can't save posts with emojis unless I enable this chunk of code on my site (filtering the post content to run through wp_encode_emoji). Wondering if anyone knows why this might be 🤔
(this is one of like three recent bugs on my site that have been stumping me)
(this is one of like three recent bugs on my site that have been stumping me)
Example - a very simple agent via N8n who can answer questions about my past blog posts and fetch relevant text (all using the WP Rest API).
This is infinitely harder when your content is inside a black box.
This is infinitely harder when your content is inside a black box.
January 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Example - a very simple agent via N8n who can answer questions about my past blog posts and fetch relevant text (all using the WP Rest API).
This is infinitely harder when your content is inside a black box.
This is infinitely harder when your content is inside a black box.
Automate the application password and username process! You can ask for their WordPress URL and then send them to an screen that lets them authorize you (send you back the credentials via the URL)
January 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Automate the application password and username process! You can ask for their WordPress URL and then send them to an screen that lets them authorize you (send you back the credentials via the URL)
Another cool Python/Streamlit thing - creating your own custom dashboards to view data.
I've been wanting a central place to check pod/video/newsletter stats. With a few lines of code I can grab data from the WP REST API. Here's a few iterations playing with its ability to generate tables/charts:
I've been wanting a central place to check pod/video/newsletter stats. With a few lines of code I can grab data from the WP REST API. Here's a few iterations playing with its ability to generate tables/charts:
January 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Another cool Python/Streamlit thing - creating your own custom dashboards to view data.
I've been wanting a central place to check pod/video/newsletter stats. With a few lines of code I can grab data from the WP REST API. Here's a few iterations playing with its ability to generate tables/charts:
I've been wanting a central place to check pod/video/newsletter stats. With a few lines of code I can grab data from the WP REST API. Here's a few iterations playing with its ability to generate tables/charts:
Wow. Good thing I don't turn 40 until 2026.
January 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Wow. Good thing I don't turn 40 until 2026.
I recently wrote a python script to help me aggregate any links I shared in Bluesky.
I just added Streamlit and with about 5 lines of code I have a little app/UI for my script that I can run (instead of just running in the terminal). Neat!
I just added Streamlit and with about 5 lines of code I have a little app/UI for my script that I can run (instead of just running in the terminal). Neat!
January 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I recently wrote a python script to help me aggregate any links I shared in Bluesky.
I just added Streamlit and with about 5 lines of code I have a little app/UI for my script that I can run (instead of just running in the terminal). Neat!
I just added Streamlit and with about 5 lines of code I have a little app/UI for my script that I can run (instead of just running in the terminal). Neat!