WordPress doesn’t have a plugin problem. It has a “we installed this before we understood the problem” problem. I am less impressed by adding things. I am impressed by removing the wrong things, and wanting to find the actual cause. That’s what this video is about: youtu.be/hclFuxjODfY...

I got a lot of reactions, comments, and DMs to my "The WordPress Conference We Need Next" blog post so I decided to turn it into a video, addressing the entire angle of why this is needed. Watch it and let me know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqL...

Yesterday it was 37ºC here in the Netherlands, and lots of people complained about how hot it was. But I'm a survivor of the 2015 #WCEU in Sevilla, which recorded 47ºC, so I, like a champion, just shrugged it off yesterday.

I've been busy preparing my Cloudflare for WordPress course and revisited a note I had saved about an AI-related Cloudflare announcement that seemed trivial. But I don't think it is trivial. I think it is/was the beginning of something big, so I wrote about it: remkusdevries.com/cloudflare-...

The award for best #WCEU booth goes to @Patchstack this year.

We've been super busy improving Scanfully this year, so I thought it'd be good to highlight how the last four releases help you keep your WordPress sites as healthy as can be. remkusdevries.com/four-big-up...

We’re excited to ship our next monitoring service: DNS Monitoring. No more guessing what changed. Lots o

I really like the changes done to our WordPress(.)org profiles. The years are off by more than a decade for me, though. First WordCamp I organized (and attended 😅) was in 2009, for instance, not 2017.

I spoke at WordCamp Slovenia last Saturday on what most people are still getting wrong about performance. I turned that talk and the conversations after into a TL;DR blog post: remkusdevries.com/wordpress-p...

I think I've finalized the curriculum for Cloudflare for WordPress, the next @withinwp.com course. What would you be missing if this was the curriculum?

This is the 2nd blog post about what stood out at #PressConf (as well as #CheckoutSummit) to me: AI Isn’t Coming for WordPress. It’s Moving Into the Business Model. remkusdevries.com/ai-is-movin...

Introducing: Email Deliverability Monitoring for WordPress. Your site can call wp_mail(). Your SMTP plugin can accept the email. WordPress can show no errors. And the email still may not reach the inbox.

Many conversations and presentations at #PressConf were about where we are as a WordPress Community. And what the path forward is... It boils down to "It's time to level up". Let me explain: remkusdevries.com/its-time-to...

Roan and I are on our way to Schiphol to fly to NYC. From there we’ll roadtrip to Phoenix, AZ for PressConf. Wonderful father and son trip. You should too, the going to PressConf part, if WordPress is part of your daily life. You’ll have so much to learn from others who on the same journey!

Are page builders bad for performance in WordPress? Let's talk about the brutal truth: remkusdevries.com/wordpress-p...

Scanfully 1.7 is out. The biggest change: shareable public reports for broken links and broken media scans. You can now send clients a direct report link without giving them dashboard access. Less explaining. Less screenshotting. Faster approvals. Also included:

Bubbles are real in all contexts, but especially in WordPress. Which is why is super important you go out of your way to have conversations outside that bubble at tech events. CloudFest is one such example.

Updated this article: "How to Control Third-Party Scripts Without Breaking Marketing and Analytics" remkusdevries.com/how-to-cont...

Love the positive feedback we've received with our Broken Media, Broken Links monitors alongside our Scanfully.com WordPress Activity Log. Next up is turning the reports into shareable reports.

Do you know what can ruin a perfectly set up cache strategy for your WordPress site? Response Headers is what. Let's talk about them remkusdevries.com/response-he...

I know all the API things coming to WordPress 7.0 is the fashionable thing to gush over, but I still very much appreciate the REST API. And optimizing it for performance and scalability. Maybe you do as well? remkusdevries.com/optimizing-...

Happy to announce I'll be speaking at the WP Summit Day at CloudFest next month. You'll never guess what I'll be talking about: www.cloudfest.com/event/agend...

Something has been shifting in my WordPress Agency work for years, and it finally has a name. remkusdevries.com/a-new-direc...

YouTube embeds break more often than most site owners realize. A video gets deleted, set to private, restricted, etc. We help you get in control, though. Our Broken Media monitoring scans your site for all kinds of media, YouTube embeds being one. More: scanfully.com/how-to-find...

We released our Broken Media Monitor in the Scanfully dashboard yesterday. In short: Say goodbye to YouTube videos that are no longer working, tweets being deleted without you knowing, missing images, etc etc.

Let's talk misconceptions about Cloudflare's free vs APO remkusdevries.com/why-cloudfl...

Very excited to see @Scanfully.com's third core feature close to release! We now have a hosted WordPress Activity Log, Broken Links scanner, and *almost* a Broken Media scanner on top of the uptime monitoring and site health features. 2025 may have been slow, but 2026 is on 🔥

This is a good reminder I'm in a bubble. I see a nice looking WooCommerce theme, I check out the demo and then I see the Lighthouse scores 😭. Look, it don't have to be a perfect 100 everywhere, but 90 should be your minimal goal everywhere. Certainly for a demo...

Got an awesome father and son roadtrip season ahead with @roandevries. We'll be traveling to #CloudFest (Germany), #PressConf (from NYC to PHX), and then #CheckoutSummit in Sicily... And that's just until April. We got #WCEU in Kraków, Poland in June as well.

Chatty is being direct. I'm a fan.