Surely you’ve seen OpenAI’s new feature that was introduced last week by now? The ability to create standalone GPTs on any subject you feed it–quite literally–was bound to ignite lots of WordPress related GPTs. So, this edition of
Let’s jump right in, shall we?
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Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- David Gwyer created a GPT that functions as a
Block Editor Assistant for WordPress . You can ask it questions conversational style on the entire Gutenberg block editor handbook.
- Jamie Marsland, the man that
just can’t stop dreaming about me , created a Website Copy Enhancer . A GPT that advises on website copy using marketing frameworks.
He also created a
- One of my favorite Matt’s in WordPress shared his
WordPress Professional GPT . Learn from over 350 interviews of WordPress Professionals from the Matt Report & WP Minute+ Podcasts.
- Aaron Edwards built a custom GPT that
references all 9000 pages of WordPress documentation . Definitely over 9000 level, this one.
- Hendrik Luehrsen created a custom GPT called
Ze WP Repo Assistant . Yes, it’s apparently a GPT with a thick German accent. But it knows a lot about the WordPress repo, so give it a try, m’kay?! 😄
- The latest “
What’s new for developers ” has been published on the WordPress Developer blog. You’ll want to read up what the changes are!
- Calvin Alkan
shared a very helpful resource for code testing procedures. It’s a feature flag system called Darkly . More insight can be found in this article .
- WordPress 6.4 disables attachment pages by default now, but it still doesn’t account for slug conflicts. Here’s a
solution for that .
- We’re slowly seeing two versions of WordPress in our Dashboards. An old one, and a new one. So, how to handle this transitional period with any custom settings screens you’re building now? Well, Brian Coords
has some thoughts on the matter .
- Brian also posted a neat trick that
filters the WordPress Social Link block giving you one central place settings page for your entire site. NEAT!
🚀 Performance
- Query Monitor saw a neat new assertions feature which allows you to see alerts to unexpected conditions in your WordPress code.
Read all about it here . What’s new in WCAG 2.2 . Shared something similar recently, but it bears repeating.
My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:
The best Front-end optimization plugin Cleaning up WordPress + script manager Cloud based performance optimizations
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- Small but good reminder that WordPress has been automatically scaling your large images back to 2560px. And
how to disable that if that’s hurting you.
Some of my favorite WordPress tools:
- The
most versatile and accessible form solution for WordPress - LocalWP, the
easiest to use local dev solution
💡 Interesting Finds
- Another GPT I discovered that’s worth sharing with you is the
Stoic Sage GPT. - Combine :has() and trig functions to select previous siblings and
create an Apple-style OS dock with CSS . - CSS text-wrap: pretty. Opt-in optimized text wrapping,
for beauty over speed .
You’ll want to add that to your all your paragraphs, I’m sure!
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