Daniel Post

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standard.site support is coming to Autoblue later today!

Making some improvements to Autoblue over the weekend. I've somewhat neglected it (sorry!) but seeing how many still use and like it gives me a lot of encouragement and motivation to keep working on it. Starting with some bug fixes and CPT support. Feature requests are always welcomed!

I've been trying out Laravel for a few apps this year, and it's so good. The DX is great. But WP is my baby and I can't keep myself away from it.

It's so nice how WordPress just keeps shipping great updates. Loads of improvements in the first two months of the year, and full steam ahead on AI as well.

My main goal: shipping more and shipping faster. Code is no longer the bottleneck it used to be, and while it's a bit scary I'm also enjoying this new reality.

I've been spending time this week next to client projects to building a new super simple time tracker called Tide. Will be launching it soon, aim is to replace Harvest for my personal use.

For context: I've been using Harvest for YEARS, paying for it almost mindlessly. All I really use is time tracking and invoicing, and with the PE acquisition I don't expect it to get any better. I'd also like to add an MCP server, so I can tell my OpenClaw "hey, add 3 hours to project X for task Y"

Weekend project: a minimal Harvest clone with clients, projects and time tracking. I just can't still these days 😂

I haven't been very active on here lately, but I'm planning to change that. I miss having some real interactions on socials. I've been dipping my toes outside of WP and seeing what else is out there, taking my experience from Autoblue and turning it into a social scheduler SaaS.

Everyone is building AI agents right now, and I'm dabbling a bit as well. Is there a clear favorite so far or not really?

I'm playing around with Laravel and it's actually so incredibly well set up for AI-assisted development. There's some really good tools, official packages for almost everything, and with Laravel being extremely idiomatic the AI is really good at implementing it all.

Autoblue 1.0 is out, officially out of beta and now with support for self-hosted PDS instances! 🎊 Next up: improving the comments block

I ran into an issue where my local WordPress installation using Herd wasn't generating thumbnails for PDF files. This is how I fixed it.

And here's the result—a polished file upload UI that looks like it came straight from WordPress core. Another step closer to releasing the Document Hub extension for Better Loop. 🤞🏼

I always always always want my plugins to feel like they belong in WordPress. It's very important to me that they feel like a native extension of WP itself. If that means designing custom icons in the same style for the Document Hub extension, then that's what I'll do 😅

How hard is it to build a loop with multiple filters working together in Better Loop? Watch me design and build a loop for a recipe page in less than two minutes 😎

Trying something new: live demos for Better Loop, showcasing the plugin through a made-up website. Next step is creating a Playground blueprint so you can click around the admin and play with it! betterloopwp.com/demo-magazine/

Better Loop 1.2 is out! With a new Buttons filter block, more color options and a custom post template block. I'm experimenting with an "interactive" changelog, with live demos so you can try out all new features right from the changelog: betterloopwp.com/changelog/v1...

For those of you using a filtering plugin (FacetWP, Search & Filter etc), what are some must-haves for you personally? What's something currently missing that you would love to have?

You can check it out here (the cards linking to each doc item are built using Better Loop): betterloopwp.com/docs/

Interactivity API, Block Bindings, an AI team, View Transitions... there's actually so much cool stuff happening for WordPress right now.

this plugin is awesome and you should totally check it out

I've been writing a lot of documentation for Better Loop, and playing around with the ACF and WooCommerce integrations. It's shaping up great. betterloopwp.com/docs/

Pretty happy with how this is shaping up!

You can safely give normal users so much power with the WordPress block editor. @sethrubenstein.info is the lead developer at the Pew Research Center. Check out his demo of how they empower ordinary users to update their site's busy homepage ⬇️

I’ve started writing the docs for Better Loop and it’s surprisingly fun?? Yeah it’s hard but it’s also very rewarding—really cool to see something I made take shape, and it helps me to spot bugs and missing features. First draft will be out in the next few days 🦉

I haven’t yet launched it officially, but Better Loop is now available! I truly think it’ll be a super useful plugin for anyone using the block editor. There’s loads more to come, and I’d love to answer any questions you might have! Also very open to implementing requests whenever possible 🙏🏼

Apparently em dashes are now a sign of text written by AI? You will never take my em dashes away from me 😤

I really really need to redo my personal website—I have a bunch of really cool projects from the past ~2 years that I should be showing off and talking about! Right now there's nothing other than me promising I know what I'm doing 😅

I'm so confused by Autoblue's SEO and would love some advice. When searching for "autoblue", autoblue.co pops up as the first result. However, search for something like "bluesky for wordpress" and Autoblue is nowhere to be found, even though a few articles reviewing Autoblue pop up (!) 😵‍💫

I'm building the Autoblue Premium add-on right now. Price will be $5/month, or $50/year. Initially it'll have support for multiple accounts, as well as priority support, and over time more and more premium features will be added (without the price changing).

I've recently moved all my projects from DeployHQ to GitHub Actions, and wrote a little bit about how I did it!