Luke Patterson

Product Lead | Search, Recommendations, Managed VectorDB @wpengine

@lukepatterson.bsky.social

[WP Engine @wpengine]

Start building for what’s next. ⏭️

This year’s DE{CODE} Developer track is packed with deep dives into the tools and architectures that will help you build for both human visitors and AI agents.

From the future of ACF to the unmatched flexibility of Headless, here’s a preview of what we’re bringing to the stage.

Register now: https://t.co/FItWGQu4y3

[WP Engine @wpengine]

We've acquired WPackagist.

If you use Composer to manage WordPress plugins and themes, you probably already know it. Now it's part of the WP Engine family.

WPackagist enables developers to install and manage WordPress plugins and themes using Composer, the PHP dependency manager. Millions of requests every week with thousands of developers relying on it daily.

It's essential infrastructure for modern development on WordPress software.

WPackagist joins Local, ACF, WP Migrate, and WP Offload Media in our developer tools lineup.

We believe that ensuring the stability and reliability of critical developer infrastructure is essential to the WordPress ecosystem.

Big thanks to @outlandish for building and maintaining @wpackagist for over a decade. We're proud to carry it forward.

Read more: https://t.co/CyKmTbpTzA

[WP Engine @wpengine]

Ready to elevate your editorial operations with a purpose-built, unified platform?

Introducing WP Engine Newsroom: The New Platform for Editorial Excellence.

Learn more: https://t.co/Dbo43iaATy

[WP Engine @wpengine]

We're excited to announce that WP Engine has acquired Big Bite, a leading enterprise agency recognized for developing advanced editorial tools that significantly enhance how global brands and media organizations create and share digital content.

Big Bite’s publishing expertise has helped transform the digital ecosystems of some of the world’s biggest media brands, including The Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Metro, and Macworld. Today’s announcement demonstrates WP Engine’s commitment to serve publishers with products that enable them.

Read more: https://t.co/1WDoaPMfBm

[Brian Gardner @bgardner]

Excited to share the news and welcome @TweetyThierry to @wpengine as VP of AI Products. 🙌

[WP Engine @wpengine]

We’re introducing MCP for Smart Search AI, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects agents, LLMs, and AI systems of all kinds to your real-time website content.

It’s a foundational shift that ensures AI answers are always grounded in truth, not yesterday’s stale scraped data.

Read more about how MCP redefines what’s possible in the age of AI: https://t.co/GC6thS3moA

[Liam @lgladdy]

Exciting things happening in the AI space happening at @wpengine at the moment…

Can’t wait to show you what I’ve been working on! 👀

[Advanced Custom Fields @wp_acf]

🚀 Good news! We've extended the 2025 ACF Annual Survey. If you haven't had a chance to share your feedback yet, you've got more time!

https://t.co/0cgr9ZFOJ5

[WP Engine @wpengine]

See our new AI Toolkit in action! 🚀 @fran_the_dev created a how-to guide that uses WP Engine’s AI Toolkit, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and Google Gemini to deliver accurate and contextually relevant responses in a chatbot within Next.js App Router. https://t.co/jVoLLkC4sn

[WP Engine @wpengine]

Did you know 60% of your visitors are heading straight for your search bar? 🕵️ Don't let a clunky search send them packing. Introducing Smart Search + AI Recommendations: https://t.co/a2eXruWDtX

[WP Engine @wpengine]

Announcing WP Engine Failover, our latest disaster recovery solution!
This new solution is built for mission-critical industries and eliminates downtime by transferring traffic to an alternate data center in the event of an outage.

Learn more about our new enterprise-grade solution here: https://t.co/J8jDBzUDUp

[Rich Tabor @richtabor]

what do you expect an AI assistant in WordPress should be able to do?

[WP Engine @wpengine]

Learn how you can improve the correctness of the code AI code editors like Cursor and Windsurf generate for headless WordPress projects using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
https://t.co/C67SvBeZJd

[Fran Agulto🧗🏽‍♂️🤓 ⚛️ @fran_the_dev]

A week from now, mark your calendars and join me, Shane Daly, and @lapatte31 for some stoked-out headless WP Chatbot speed coding with @GeminiApp !

https://t.co/7dU1bLU0zQ

[WP Engine Builders @wpebuilders]

A reminder that a week from now, @fran_the_dev , @lapatte31, and Shane Daly are going to create a chatbot in headless WP with the @GeminiApp and possibly break the world record for speed coding!

Save your seat here!
https://t.co/2h8IRNHAgZ

[WP Engine Builders @wpebuilders]

@fran_the_dev, @lapatte31 and Shane Daly are going live in 2 weeks to show you how to build a chatbot in headless WP with @wpengine 's AI toolkit, @GeminiApp API, and RAG!

Save your seat below!
https://t.co/2h8IRNHAgZ

[Fran Agulto🧗🏽‍♂️🤓 ⚛️ @fran_the_dev]

Get stoked with me, my main dudes @lapatte31 and Shane Daly in 2 weeks as we break the speed record in building a chatbot in headless WP with @wpengine 's AI toolkit, @GeminiApp API, and RAG!

You can save your seat here!
👇
https://t.co/7dU1bLU0zQ

[Luke Patterson @lapatte31]

R-A-G. Simple as 1-2-3.

[Luke Patterson @lapatte31]

@bdurette @WindAddict Of course German has an excellent word for this: "Bürokratenwut."

Literally: bureaucrat rage

[Jason Cohen @asmartbear]

In a stack-rank of the most important goals of a business, you don’t expect to see “fun.”

But fun translates to engagement, energy, happiness, and working more because you want to.

i.e. productivity

More tips:

https://t.co/JPAkZ8dZ3l