@dhansonwp

WordPress evangelist at Automattic. Rhetorician. No-code builder. Building on the open web, without writing a line of code.

Joined May 2022
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I've been working on something similar. I love the flexibility of @SpacefastHQ , so I'll probably test my family photo app concept with this headless WordPress approach.
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@fkadevOct 7
I bought a camera last week and now f.camera is my photo album! 📷 Every @SpacefastHQ space is a @WordPress site. Grok @Bot uploads photos from my camera or iPhone! 🤯 I love the theme my agent built. Post-its, hidden postcards, a shutter animation! 👇
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Today's ai phrase that is bothering me big time: That landed. We can do better.
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@jangroOct 2
Testing @SpacefastHQ agent-native deploys... Custom domains, built-in database, auth, storage, cron, and email? Served on the same infrastructure as WordPress.com and Tumblr. Free/cheap, for now. 🤯 This is kind of huge. It's like a super easy Vercel.
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For five years, I imagined my sabbatical would be the most extravagant trip of our lives. Instead, I rebuilt stairs, restored windows, built furniture, and barely looked at a screen. It was exactly the reset I needed. Thank you, @Automattic and @photomatt. This is a special gift.
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The sabbatical I thought I would have became something entirely different. I wrote about the projects, the reset, and what three months away from the screen taught me: derekhanson.blog/what-i-buil…

What I built away from the screen

For five years, my family and I imagined what we would do with three months off. We talked about a European vacation. We talked about a cross-country road trip. We pictured the most extravagant adv…

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WordPress post templates inherit a lot of old habits. Social share buttons are one of them. If the row doesn’t serve the reader, select the block, open the menu, and delete it.
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Read the whole post derekhanson.blog/nobody-clic…

Nobody clicks your share buttons

I don’t click share buttons. I never have. When I find something worth sharing, I tap the share icon in Chrome on my phone. That’s it. On my desktop I click the little link icon in Arc&…

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My first @jetpack PR coming soon.
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If you want to see a history of web design in one place, go read this amazing post by @zeldman. zeldman.com/2026/06/04/remem…

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Remembrance of zeldman.coms past - Design

Look back in anchor tags: a partial review of my site’s 31-year visual history before diving into the new design.

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23 looks good on WordPress. 🎂 Since May 27, 2003, WordPress has been blogging, building, publishing, shipping, translating, theming, plugin-ing, and making the web a little more wonderfully weird. Happy birthday, WordPress. 💙
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I had a feature idea for WordPress. Instead of filing an issue and waiting, I used Codex to build the implementation myself and submitted a PR to Gutenberg. Product person. Not a developer. You can do this too.
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Read about it here. derekhanson.blog/gutenberg-p…

From product idea to Gutenberg PR in a weekend

I built my first Gutenberg PR from a product idea I had already tested in Opa.blog. The code still has to pass review, but the bigger shift is already clear: AI coding agents can help product peopl…

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I submitted my first PR to #gutenberg. AI is so incredible that a non-developer like me can contribute to @WordPress. What a time to be alive.
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There’s a lot of noise around AI right now, so I’m curious... If I asked you to list the AI products, tools, or features you know @automattic / @wordpressdotcom currently offers, what would you say? No cheating or looking things up 😅 I’m trying to get a sense of what people in the WordPress community are actually aware of today.
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I really love the way @claudeai is talking to me today. We're definitely in sync with each other.
🤖 Made with AI
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Wow! This is really impressive. I love the creativity here, and the honest storytelling.
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@wordpressdotcomMay 19

I Am Not a Robot

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I had really great success with @claudeai Design this week. Tip: Work on an individual component. This is just one card for a dashboard. I went through five revisions, but they were all minor and new features. I could’ve rolled with v2 if I wanted, but I dialed it in.
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I'm really excited about this feature I just shipped to the early build of Opa. Are you looking for a simple way to publish freely? That's what we're working on. #radicalspeedmonth #rsm
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This is sad, but quite true. This is how you see longstanding, beloved brands consolidated and diminished.
Jeff@jeffr0May 13
So I guess @photomatt had a point. Private Equity in the WordPress ecosystem blows.
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Agentation for coding sessions is a MASSIVE cheat code. Giving targeted, visual feedback on things your building with Claude makes the process so much easier, fun even.
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