Mio is fun, playful, and surprisingly advanced from a technical point of view. We’ve put a lot of love into creating Mio. Nuria came up with the original idea, and the rest of the team brought her to life with…
We are working on one of the biggest updates we have ever built: AI Agents as WordPress Users. This idea has been around for a long time. We actually started working on it quite a while ago, but we decided…
The WICG HTML in Canvas proposal lets you draw real, live, styled HTML directly into a <canvas>. No screenshots, no html2canvas, no invisible DOM overlay that you have to keep in sync by hand. All of this is implemented behind…
We’re excited to announce Desktop Mode 0.9.6! This is another huge release, packed with new features, UX improvements, performance optimizations, and bug fixes. This version also celebrates our amazing open source contributors. Many of the improvements in this release come…
Desktop Mode needed an initial proof of concept. As I mentioned before, I had never published a serious plugin in the WordPress repository. I had built a few small custom plugins for friends and family, but never anything that I…
It was a morning in April, and everything looked like it was going to be a normal day. I would keep working on internal tools at Automattic, because my current role is Applied AI Engineer. We build internal tools that…
And through all of that, wp-admin still looks pretty much the same as it did back in 2013. Did nobody stop to think this was overdue for a change? That’s where Automattic‘s Radical Speed Month comes in, an idea championed…