Naweed Chougle

Senior Technical Content Writer at rtCamp | Building @eBookCrafter, a WordPress plugin to help turn posts into eBooks.

[Naweed Chougle @N_Chougle]

@lesley_pizza The 'active installs' number is known to reflect a range. (source:
https://t.co/JoHcZyk6P7)

But I'm not sure why it should fluctuate wildly. It could be related to how the count is established.

[Naweed Chougle @N_Chougle]

Hmm. That's progress. 👏🏼

[Naweed Chougle @N_Chougle]

@PineDigitalCo I first use a notepad and pen to gather my thoughts and create an outline. Next, I go to Google Docs if I'm collaborating with coworkers, or straight to the Block Editor if I'm writing alone.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

Claude Opus 4.8 is out today. It's our strongest coding model yet: up on SWE-bench Pro (from 64.3 to 69.2) and noticeably more honest about its own work. It tells you when it's unsure and catches its own bugs instead of declaring victory early. Same price as 4.7.

[rtCamp @rtCamp]

🚀 Heading to @WCEurope 2026?

Join the rtCamp team in Kraków to explore what we’re building, share ideas, and talk all things WordPress.

📍 See you there!

[WordPress @WordPress]

23 looks good on WordPress. 🎂

Since May 27, 2003, WordPress has been blogging, building, publishing, shipping, translating, theming, plugin-ing, and making the web a little more wonderfully weird.

Happy birthday, WordPress. 💙

[The Boring Marketer @boringmarketer]

Anthropic is paying $320,000 for a copywriter. What does this tell you?

- Copy is one of the most valuable pieces of demand gen
- Generally AI is bad at copy
- Copy is about understanding people

[WordPress @WordPress]

WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” is here. 🎷

This major release introduces foundational AI tools, a refreshed admin experience, expanded design controls, new blocks, and powerful developer APIs.

Explore what’s new, update when you’re ready, and start building with WordPress 7.0 today. https://t.co/0aF3CG0WOt

[James LePage @jameswlepage]

Great post by @felixarntz https://t.co/7WoDz0UVTG

[Mike McAlister @mikemcalister]

Quick update! There is a refresh to the site in motion and now I’m on the WCUS web team to help out however I can. ✌️

Thanks to @raquel__karina for getting me connected!

Contribution > Complaining

[Naweed Chougle @N_Chougle]

@natmiletic Did you try this?

[Naweed Chougle @N_Chougle]

Do you remember when you joined X? #MyXAnniversary

[Jamie Marsland - Head of WordPress YouTube ❤️ @pootlepress]

This was just merged into Gutenberg trunk, and it’s a much bigger deal than it looks 👇

WordPress is getting a native UI to create custom post types.

No code. No plugins.
Just:
Settings → Post Types → Add

That might sound small… it’s not.

Custom post types go from “developer feature” → “everyday user feature”

Which means:
• Better structured content from day one
• Easier onboarding
• Less plugin dependency
• A cleaner foundation for AI to understand your site

And this is just the start.

Post types → taxonomies → …you can probably guess what comes next

You can see where this is heading…

WordPress is becoming a powerful content modelling system 👀

[Rayhan Arif @rayhanarif07]

Every “leaving WordPress” post I come across seems to point to Astro. But when I dig a little deeper, I often don’t see any prior conversations or context showing those people were actually using WordPress in the first place.

To me, it starts to feel less organic and more like a coordinated narrative almost like a well-planned negative campaign against WordPress. It even makes me wonder whether some companies might be incentivizing this kind of messaging for their own business gains.

I could be wrong, but that’s honestly the impression I’ve been getting.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Keep using AI for everything.

I'm serious. Don't change a thing.

Just know what researchers found when they studied 666 people across multiple age groups and measured the relationship between AI tool usage and critical thinking ability.

Significant negative correlation.

The more frequently someone relied on AI tools, the weaker their independent reasoning became. Younger users showed the highest AI dependence and the lowest critical thinking scores.

The paper: "AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking"
MDPI Societies, January 2025.

The irony is precise.

The people using AI most aggressively to appear smarter are the ones quietly losing the ability to think without it.

There's a version of AI use that makes you sharper. You use it to challenge your thinking, pressure-test your reasoning, find gaps in your argument.

And there's the version most people use. Outsource the thinking entirely. Accept the output. Move on.

One builds you.

The other slowly replaces you.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Taking notes by hand leads to better greater conceptual understanding and retention than typing.

[Alex Standiford @AlexStandiford]

Is anyone actually leveraging and consuming the WordPress Abilities API? If so, how? I want to understand the benefits for consumers before I go implementing something for it into @sirenaffiliates (Please boost for reach)

[Samay @Samaytwt]

Unpopular opinion: "AI makes everyone a developer" is true the same way "cameras makes everyone a photographer"

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

We’ve been looking into recent reports around Claude Code quality issues, and just published a post-mortem on what we found.

[docbhooshan @docbhooshanNo1]

@X @Support My account @docbhooshan was hacked. Password reset fails. Likely username/email changed. Ticket-
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