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In this episode, host Matthias Pfefferle chats with software engineer Will Norris, discussing his extensive contributions to open standards, federated identity, and open source, particularly within the WordPress ecosystem and the evolution of decentralized social networking.

The shoemaker’s children go barefoot or, as we say in French, Les cordonniers sont toujours les plus mal chaussés. That’s been me for years. As a developer working on WordPress, I’ve long neglected the design of my site. This ends today.

We’ve recently released a new tool called Studio Code, think of it as Claude Code but tailored for WordPress. A tool you can install by running npm -g install wp-studio and invoke using studio code locally. Or you can try directly using npx wp-studio code. I took this as an opportunity to see what it’s capable of, and oh boy! I’m mind-blown 🤯

It took me:

1 tiny prompt to pull the site locally

1 main redesign prompt and 3 or 4 follow-up prompts to get everything redesigned and sorted out.

1 last tiny prompt to push the site online

The whole process lasted about a couple of hours during the weekend, while watching yet another Sinner-Alcarazmatch on TV.

(Ok, I’m lying a bit. The push didn’t work the first time because I had discovered a bug that had since been fixed.)

There are a lot of things that made the experience so enjoyable for me. I can see myself switching how I work with WordPress sites entirely to this process:

All it took to get access to all my remote sites was to login to WP.com prompted by the tool itself.

I didn’t have to think much or configure anything. I didn’t have to install any MCP, or provide any specific instructions. It just worked.

I really enjoyed the feeling of freedom it gives you to iterate on your designs, content, and explore wild ideas. It feels like everything is possible, your ideas are the limit.

I really enjoyed the safety net of the local development. I can change anything, break whatever I want, yet it’sstill local and won’t impact my live site until I decide.

I literally just said “push my site back to riad.blog” and that was it.

Nonetheless, the tool still has some rough edges, but we’re shipping early and iterating fast. We want you to test it and please share any feedback you have with us. We have a lot of ideas and you can also bring your own, it’s all Open Source.

I forgot, what do you think about my new design? I wanted something minimal but gives you a small “hacker” feeling. Don’t be too harsh on me.

Real-time collaboration in WordPress enhances team efficiency by allowing simultaneous editing, though initial limitations exist. Future improvements aim for smoother, scalable experiences.

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I’ve just released Media Picker for Immich on the WordPress.org plugin directory. It connects WordPress to a self-hosted Immich server so you can browse, search, and insert your photos and videos into posts without copying files around.

Immich

I run Immich at home. It’s where my photos now live. They’re organised, searchable, with facial recognition and AI search. My WordPress uploads directory is where photos used to go, and the two never talked to each other. This plugin fixes that.

How it works

Point the plugin at your Immich server and give it an API key. You can set a site-wide key or let each user configure their own to connect to their own Immich account.

If the site-wide key is blank, each user adds their own key on their profile page. All Immich API calls happen server-side.

Two ways to add media

Once configured, an Immich tab appears in two places.

The first is the Media Library grid. Switch to the Immich view and you can search, filter by person, and either Use or Copy assets into WordPress.

Use creates a virtual attachment. Nothing is copied; WordPress proxies the media from Immich on demand and caches it locally on first request. Your uploads directory stays lean.

Copy downloads the original file into wp-content/uploads/ as a normal attachment.

The same tab shows up in the “Select or Upload Media” dialog inside the post editor, so you can pull an Immich photo straight into a post without leaving the editor.

A few details worth mentioning

Videos work too. Proxied videos stream with seek support.

Lightbox. Proxied Immich images in posts open a full-resolution lightbox on click.

Local cache. Proxied media is cached to wp-content/cache/immich/ after the first fetch. Optional cleanup with a configurable lifetime.

Your server stays private. Immich only needs to be reachable from WordPress — not from the public internet. Visitors never connect to Immich directly.

When images are copied over, virtually or otherwise, you can insert them into a post like any other image, which also includes adding them to galleries in posts.

Get it

Install it from the WordPress plugin directory or search for “media picker for Immich” in the plugins page in WordPress.

Feedback and bug reports are welcome. Development is done on GitHub here.

#Immich #WordPress #WordPressplugin

WordCamp Asia 2026 brought the global WordPress community to Mumbai, India, from April 9–11, gathering contributors, organizers, sponsors, speakers, and attendees at the Jio World Convention Centre for three days of learning, collaboration, and community. With 2,281 attendees, the event reflected the scale of the WordPress community and the strong turnout throughout the event.

The event unfolded across Contributor Day and two conference days, with a program that moved from technical sessions and workshops to hallway conversations, shared meals, and joyful moments of connection across the venue. From first-time attendees to longtime contributors, WordCamp Asia 2026 reflected the breadth of the WordPress ecosystem and the many ways people shaped and sustained it.

WordPress is not a company. It is a shared commitment to keeping the web open.Mary Hubbard, Executive Director, WordPress

Throughout the event, WordCamp Asia 2026 balanced formal programming with the conversations happening around it. Sessions and workshops set the pace, while morning networking, tea breaks, lunch, the family photo, the sponsor’s raffle, and the after party in Jasmine Hall helped make the event feel welcoming, social, and connected.

How WordCamp Asia 2026 Took Shape

Bringing together contribution, practical learning, and forward-looking conversation in one shared program. Across Contributor Day and the conference sessions that followed, attendees moved between hands-on work, technical talks, workshops, and broader discussions about AI, education, enterprise, community growth, and the open web.

The result was a WordCamp that felt expansive without losing its sense of connection. Different rooms with topics as themes, helping different audiences, and different forms of participation all fed into the same larger picture: a community actively building what comes next for WordPress as a feeling that something bigger was happening: not just a schedule being delivered, but a community showing up for one another and for the future of WordPress.

Contributor Day: Building WordPress Together

Contributor Day opened WordCamp Asia 2026 with one of the clearest expressions of what makes the project special: people coming together to move WordPress forward by working on it. More than 1,500 participants joined 38 table leads across more than 20 contribution tables, creating a day that was expansive in scale and grounded in real work. For some, it was a return to familiar teams and longtime collaborators. For others, it was the beginning of their contributor journey.

The day moved between structured learning and hands-on participation. Alongside contributor sessions, attendees joined workshops, visited the Open Source Library, took part in YouthCamp, and attended The Making of a WordPress Release: Conversations with Past Release Squad Members, a featured panel that added depth and perspective to the work of building and sustaining WordPress.

What made Contributor Day stand out was not only the number of people in the room, but the range of ways they could take part. Workshops created space for skill-building. YouthCamp brought younger participants into the experience and widened the event’s reach in a meaningful way. The day felt welcoming, energetic, and full of possibility.

By the end, the impact was already visible across teams. Polyglots contributors suggested more than 7,000 strings and reviewed 3,200 of them. Photo contributors uploaded 76 images. The Test team worked on more than 20 tickets, and 55 contributors joined Training. Those numbers told only part of the story, but they pointed to what Contributor Day continued to do so well: turn a large gathering into shared work that strengthened the project in real time.

Conference Sessions Take Shape

Across the conference days, WordCamp Asia 2026 covered a wide range of topics, from technical development and hands-on workshops to business strategy and the open web. Sessions took place across the Foundation, Growth, and Enterprise tracks, with workshops running alongside the main program.

One of the opening sessions was James LePage’s WordPress and AI, which introduced a theme that appeared throughout the conference: how WordPress is responding to changes in AI, publishing, and developer workflows. That topic continued in later sessions focused on AI-driven development, autonomous testing, plugin maintenance, and automation.

Later that morning, a fireside chat with Mary Hubbard and Shilpa Shah shifted the focus toward trust, security, and the longer-term questions shaping open source publishing. Coming early in the program, the conversation gave the conference an important center of gravity, pairing technical change with questions of stewardship, resilience, and what people needed from WordPress as the web continued to evolve. Rather than pulling away from the event’s technical momentum, it deepened it, bringing a human perspective to the pace of change and reminding the audience that progress in open source is not only about what gets built, but about how communities guide, challenge, and sustain that work over time.

From there, the conference widened into a program that balanced developer-focused talks with sessions on the Interactivity API, the HTML API, AI-driven development workflows, education initiatives, observability, automation, and startup strategy. On the final day, those threads continued through talks on WP translation, community building, WordPress Playground, data engineering, enterprise WordPress, and journalism on the open web.

Together, the two conference days made clear that WordCamp Asia 2026 was designed not for one kind of attendee, but for many. Developers, founders, marketers, contributors, organizers, and people finding their place in WordPress for the first time all found something that spoke directly to their work and interests. The breadth of the program was striking, but so was the feeling that these conversations mattered now.

Building What Comes Next

WordCamp Asia 2026 closed with reflections from Mary Hubbard, following an opening announcement from Chenda Ngak that WordCamp India will join the calendar in 2027 as the fourth flagship WordPress event.

Mary’s remarks tied together several threads that had already surfaced throughout the event: India’s long-standing role in the WordPress project, the growth of programs like Campus Connect and WordPress Credits, the energy of YouthCamp, and the significance of WordPress 7.0. One of the clearest ideas in the session was that WordPress is entering a new phase shaped by real-time collaboration, AI infrastructure, and global contributor growth. That framing gave the closing session a strong sense of direction without losing sight of the community work that made it possible.

The session then shifted into a panel discussion about the current state of WordPress and where the project is headed next. Peter Wilson and Sergey Biryukov joined Hubbard on stage, while audience questions brought the conversation back to many of the themes that had shaped the event across all three days. Even from afar, Ma.tt Mullenweg remained part of the discussion, following along remotely and sending written responses during the live Q&A.

Those questions touched on contributor growth, AI, plugins, local communities, product direction, and the long-term health of the open web. What stood out was how often the answers returned to the same core idea: WordPress continues to grow through open discussion, shared responsibility, and the people who keep showing up to build it together.

A Lasting Momentum

Over three days in Mumbai, WordCamp Asia 2026 brought together contribution, learning, and community. From Contributor Day through the closing keynote, the event balanced hands-on work with bigger conversations about publishing, technology, education, and the open web.

The event also created space for many kinds of participation. Some attendees contributed to Core, Training, Polyglots, Photos, and other teams. Others came for the conference program, workshops, or the chance to reconnect with collaborators and meet new people. Across session rooms, tea breaks, shared meals, sponsor hall conversations, and the after party, the community side of the event remained just as important as the formal program.

Thank you to the organizers, volunteers, speakers, sponsors, attendees, and everyone who joined online. WordCamp Asia 2026 was a reminder that WordPress continues to grow through the people who show up to contribute and build together.

There is still more to look forward to this year. The community will gather again at WordCamp Europe 2026 in Kraków, Poland from June 4–6, followed by WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona from August 16–19.

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