In the beginning of today’s Etch livestream we saw a glimpse of a future feature, publishing directly to a static site, no WordPress hosting needed. Site building unleashed. Congrats to the Etch team. They continue to build quickly and innovate.

Continuing on the theme of how the ecosystem is changing due to the prevalence of AI, this article presents the situation from the perspective of the User Experience designer. The expectation now is that the designer’s deliverables will include production ready prototypes.

They have restarted the beta testing phase to account for the need for hosting providers to test different collaboration options.

For years WordPress com floundered in trying to get their message out. This supposed comparison video does a good job of keeping it interesting while highlighting their services and advantages. See Craylor’s attempts to get a $500 site from WordPress com, Fiverr, and Craigslist.

Paul C does a walk-through showing how to use Novamira Pro with Bricks.

Site backup and migration is a new feature of ASE Pro. In this video I do a walk-through showing the options and demo a typical backup and migration. Backups are essential for every site. It is awesome that this has been added to ASE Pro.

Here is an interesting take on the impact of AI for agencies and freelancers. Jake Goldman is the founder of 10up and a partner at Fueled. He argues that today we can do more faster with AI and our pricing will need to reflect that. Over time competition will force prices down or deliverables up.

Before creating their own ecommerce solution the WP Manage Ninja team used Easy Digital Downloads. They just released a beta plugin for EDD to FluentCart migration.

In this article Kim Coleman, one of the founders of Paid Membership Pro, acknowledges the changes taking place in the WordPress ecosystem and embraces focusing on solutions, rather than plugins.