I've been building products for over a decade—from theme shops and CoBlocks (acquired) to shaping large-scale WordPress products at GoDaddy and now at Automattic.
Currently focused on publishing tools and where AI fits in the creative process at WordPress.com. More about me.
2026
2025
2024
- WordPress 6.7
- The official WordPress 6.7 release video
- Meet Kanso, my best blogging theme yet
- You don’t need a flashy redesign
- WordPress 6.6
- Practical contentment
- Shaping WordPress: Style Variations, Speed Challenges & WordCamps
- I made 720 WordPress theme styles
- My Run in the WordPress Speed Challenge
- Shaping WordPress: Zoom Out & New Blocks
- Ask Me Anything About WordPress
- A new block: Dark Mode Toggle
- Shaping WordPress: AI, Colors & Typography
- WordPress & Iteration
- Wait…did WordPress development get good?!
- Shaping WordPress: Section Styles and Interoperable Theme Styles
- WordPress 6.5
- Composing with patterns
- WordPress Theme Composition and Interoperability
- A new block: Cards
- Let’s build more blocks
- Automattic, one year later
2023
2022
2021
- The pattern block
- Using a fluid type scale in block themes
- On growth and parting ways
- Publishing checklists with the todo block
- Standardizing theme.json color slugs
- Standardizing theme.json spacing sizes
- I made a todo list block
- Adding block style variations with javascript
- How to build WordPress block templates
- Publishing blocks to the block directory
- How to build WordPress block plugins
- A block for markdown comments
2020
2019
2018
- Winning an Automattic Design Award
- Better onboarding for WordPress themes
- Tabor and Gutenberg + WordPress 5.0
- Introducing Block Gallery
- Block Unit Test
- CoBlocks 1.0
- The ultimate guide to WordPress color palettes
- The Future of WordPress Themes
- Deploying the Block Editor
- Running a Successful Product
- Merlin WP, a release candidate
- Ulysses & Tabor
- A space for blocks
- My first WordPress.org theme