• Alex Standiford

    I often just need to spin up a quick WordPress install to test something very, very specific, and then tear it down when I’m done.

    So I had AI whip up a little utility for me. It loads a fresh WP install in your /tmp directory, and has a way to quickly remove the install when you’re done (but of course if you don’t it’ll just go away because it’s in tmp.)

    Nothing too flashy, and obviously built specifically for my use-case, but I figured I’d share it publicly just in case it would be useful to someone else.

    https://github.com/alexstandiford/wp-fresh

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  • How to Choose a WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin

    How to Choose a WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin

    Most WooCommerce affiliate plugins share the same architecture. The architectural choice matters more than the plugin choice, and one option has no structural ceiling.

  • Solid Affiliate WooCommerce Plugin Setup Guide

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    What Solid Affiliate setup actually involves before you buy, including the the wizard, the post-wizard configuration, and how the same setup looks in a composition-based alternative.

  • Alex Standiford

    Is anyone actually leveraging and consuming the WordPress Abilities API? If so, how? I want to understand the benefits for consumers before I go implementing something for it into Siren (Please boost for reach)

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    WordPress isn’t dying. It’s disaggregating

    The plugin sales data is real, but it’s being read as a market-death signal when it’s something else. Here’s the bet I’m making on what’s actually happening.

  • Alex Standiford

    So, I’ve been working toward making Siren as both a WP plugin and a SaaS. That’s been built into the DNA of how it’s set up since the beginning. I’m finally starting to get to create a single set of front-end components that works both in WordPress and in the SaaS. Loving this.

  • Alex Standiford

    My biggest takeaway to the release of Emdash is that WordPress needs to start taking headless a lot more seriously. It’s API surface and even a potential GraphQL surface would really benefit from a polish, but also the ability to set it up in a next JS stack easily, perhaps with Docker or something.

  • Better Async Support in WordPress With PHPNomad + Action Scheduler

    What’s Changed A sore spot in WordPress is background tasks. Yes, it’s been solved several times, but to this day, there’s still a fair bit of scaffolding that goes just into making it possible to do. That’s why I’m so excited that I’ve published a new update to PHPNomad’s WordPress integration to finally leverage the […]

  • Alex Standiford

    I’m officially starting to offer building custom MCP protocols to my clients 😱. So grateful that WordPress did the lifting with the abilities API.

  • Alex Standiford

    Already making use of the notes feature in WordPress. When I do batches of pages, I like to build a template page that can be copied and re-used. Using notes to add intent behind each section.

    This allows my copywriters to see where I was going with sections direct in the editor.

Alex
Alex
@alex@www.alexstandiford.com

Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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