Interviews, notes and occasional deep dives on WordPress, hosting, AI and engineering practice, by Marco Chiesi.
No code, no wp-admin, no control panel: how my site was built, filled and debugged over a weekend by an agent, and why most of its 1,499 tool calls went on things I did not need.
22 min read
WordCamp US ran Contributor Day as a hackathon. Five of us spent it teaching the block editor to expose its own actions as WebMCP tools, so an agent can edit a post live in the browser.
5 min read
Three days, eight people from eight countries, and a WordPress plugin that writes WordPress plugins — how the AI-Powered Plugin Builder came together at CloudFest Hackathon 2026, and where it ended up.
5 min read
A small Markdown file at your site root telling AI tools what matters on it. What the format asks for, how Hostinger Tools generates it in one click, and why nobody should oversell it yet.
6 min read
Three days at Europa-Park turning WordPress into an MCP server and WP-CLI into an MCP host — and a reminder of why competing companies giving their work away still produces the best software.
3 min read
Twenty years in the industry condensed into one conversation: how childhood curiosity became a career, what balancing technical and managerial work really looks like, and why finishing what you start matters.
8 min read
Ohia and I joined Maciej Nowak to talk through what it actually takes to organise WordCamp Europe — remote coordination, visas, suppliers, and the volunteers who make it happen.
5 min read
On leadership style, measuring the success of technical initiatives, and what aspiring technology leaders actually need — for LearnWoo’s Expert Speaks series.
9 min read
How I got into WordPress, how Black Studio works, and why the community matters — an interview for the Cloudways blog.
9 min read
On building BlackRay, moving to WordPress, and the story behind Black Studio TinyMCE Widget — an interview for the BionicWP blog.
7 min read
The Italian, full-length version of the Grunt talk: automating the repetitive parts of WordPress plugin and theme development so you can spend attention on the parts that matter.
1 min read
Interfaces have spent decades getting friendlier, and yet the command line remains irreplaceable for some jobs. A practical tour of WP-CLI for people who do not consider themselves developers.
1 min read