Kaspars Dambis
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Building WordPress courses and enterprise-ready tools at @WPelevator. Previously Director of Systems Engineering @XWP. Blogging since 2007.
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Joined December 2008
First time seeing my blog mentioned in a Google AI overview. Remember hearing in a few recent interviews with Sundar Pichai that they're now adjusting the AI Overview placement to improve source attribution.
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Good news: semantic markup works!.
Why XML?. Claude was trained on structured, XML-heavy data like documentation, code, and datasets. So when you use XML tags in your prompts, you’re literally speaking its native language. The result? Sharper, cleaner, and more controllable outputs. (Anthropic says that XML tag
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RT @mitchellh: GitHub feels like a product that isn't used by the people that work there. That can't POSSIBLY be true, I know. I just hit i….
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Would love to have conventional comments support, though. Get the extension here:
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Extension for Visual Studio Code - Pull Request and Issue Provider for GitHub
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GitHub web UI is getting slower every week! Doing code reviews is a pain now. Use the GitHub Pull Request extension for VSCode to do them right in your editor -- leave inline comments, explore commit history, etc.
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Sharing my recent numbers not to brag but to get feedback. I find it hard to make technical content engaging. What are the one or two things that have helped you get consistent replies and shares?
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So many of the AI crawlers don't use JS-enabled browsers so you need to access raw HTTP access logs to see the actual requests. The problem is that most of this data is terminated at your CDN level and you might never know the true amount of referrals and crawlers. For example,
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Here is the link:
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Instantly publish your own books on the web for free, no publisher required.
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Has anyone built a WordPress version of Writebook for publishing books and manuals online?
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RT @SRHDesign: This week's Top 3 Links from Loop WP, Issue 172:. 1) Web Font Loading - 2) Notes on FAIR Package Ma….
newsletter.loopwp.com
From security lessons with the FAIR package manager to a hosting shakeup. A look at WCUS 2025 to Event Koi LTD offer...it's a big week!
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This is the amount of auth credentials Google expects you to pass for a simple API fetch from Google Analytics, for example. There is no way to do it with a simple API key string. Wow!
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RT @SRHDesign: 🚨 Loop WP, Issue 172 is out now! From security lessons with the FAIR package manager to a hosting shakeup. A look at WCUS 20….
newsletter.loopwp.com
From security lessons with the FAIR package manager to a hosting shakeup. A look at WCUS 2025 to Event Koi LTD offer...it's a big week!
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Today I learned about the @buttondown newsletter platform. They have a great blog too with very insightful articles like this one:
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The combined WordPress documentation markdown files for LLMs now include the WP-CLI documentation!
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Microsoft login between all their apps and core Windows is a joke. And Steam games with their dedicated launchers and accounts are next in line.
Yesterday evening I tried to play Minecraft multiplayer with my 8 yr old. Single worst computing experience I've had in a long time thanks to the whole Microsoft account management. I naively thought "let me create a new account for her, switch her out of my account, use that—.
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Most WordPress plugins get abandoned not because nobody uses them but because the dev burns out. Paying for plugins isn't about features, it's about sustainability of reliable solutions.
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Which user capability should have access to this post meta inspector modal in WordPress? Possibly with an option to edit fields directly.
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Today I learned about Mermaid diagrams which are created from plain text. Turns out even GitHub markdown supports them and LLMs are great at generating them.
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