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WordPress Speculative Loading: What It Does and How to Configure It

Your WordPress site can load pages before visitors even click. Learn how speculative loading works, what WordPress 6.8 turned on, and how to tune it! The post WordPress Speculative Loading: What It Does and How to Configure It appeared first on Themeisle Blog.

What WordPress AI Really Builds: 9 Prompts, 9 Unedited Results, and What the Good Ones Have in Common

For this post, I decided to use the Section Generator in the free Otter Blocks plugin. I built nine sections of a WordPress site with it, but instead of endlessly prompting until I got it «just right,» I relied on a single prompt. Then I took a screenshot of what that prompt produced so I

Open Channels FM: Scaling Security WordPress Reinvents Protection and Apache Bolsters Infrastructure While Zephyr Expands Ecosystem

WordPress, Apache, and Zephyr adapt to AI-driven security and infrastructure demands shaping the future of open source at scale.

How to Connect Cursor to WordPress With MCP (Developer’s Setup)

Wire Cursor (or any MCP client) to WordPress with scoped tokens: 243 tools for posts, media, WooCommerce, and analytics, plus an audit trail for every action.

Open Channels FM: Navigating Founder-Led Sales in Today’s Market

Founder-led sales focus on authentic outreach and relationship building, prioritizing genuine engagement in communities over cold pitches, fostering trust, and recognizing that not every prospect is a good fit.

How to Manage Your WordPress Website with ChatGPT or Claude

You can manage a WordPress site with ChatGPT or Claude using WPVibe. It’s a free plugin that connects both AI tools directly to your site. We tested it by connecting Claude to our demo travel site and giving it real tasks. Within a few minutes,… Read More » The post How to Manage Your WordPress Website

bbPress: bbPress 2.6.17 is out!

bbPress 2.6.17 is a security and maintenance release with broad improvements to permissions, private content, subscriptions, moderation workflows, and forum counts. Everyone running bbPress should update as soon as possible. (You may notice 2.6.17 release follows 2.6.15. Well, I found a SQL bug right after 2.6.16 was tagged and I didn’t want to wait to

How to Track AI Referral Traffic in GA4 (ChatGPT, Perplexity & More)

ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude send you visitors that GA4 mislabels. Isolate your AI referral traffic with one regex and a custom channel group! The post How to Track AI Referral Traffic in GA4 (ChatGPT, Perplexity & More) appeared first on Themeisle Blog.

Open Channels FM: Open Stacks, Federation, and the Changing Landscape of Software

Hosts Robert Jacobi and Dave Lockie have a conversation about AI impacts, open source priorities, data privacy, and emerging alternative network technologies