Darren Ethier

What you follow affects how you lead. Married. Father of 4. Engineering Director @automattic. Adventure is life.

[Automattic @automattic]

We’re in! 🔒The internet should be safe for everyone, especially kids. That's why Automattic is officially joining the Tech Coalition–60-plus companies united against online child exploitation.

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

The refreshed WP mercentile store is pretty slick! I love the aesthetic.
https://t.co/nlPEjTSqI7

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

Outcome from my #radicalspeedmonth work, it was a fun one. https://t.co/GSkCVTMsy4

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

I agree!

[Brian Coords 💻 @briancoords]

Color swatches coming to Woo core.

(I may be biased but I think the Woo team has been killing Radical Speed Month by hitting so many good, long-standing feature requests).

[Tung Du @dinhtungdu]

@aljullu added swatches to Add to Cart + Options block at the end of #radicalspeedmonth

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

One important component in various things we are doing as a part of making WooCommerce releases more reliable. It's difficult, but needed.
https://t.co/JkSE1NSy8m

[Matías Ventura @matias_ventura]

WordPress 7 is out! Congratulations to everyone that contributed to this release. It takes a village.

[Luigi Teschio @gigitux]

Did someone say “bulk editing”? 👀

As the last part of the new Product Management POC, we’ve been exploring how bulk editing should work inside the quick edit experience:

[Chris Huber @chubes4]

New experiment: WordPress Site Generator 🤖

https://t.co/a9AvajnDeM

Fully autonomous 4 agent loop generating Playground Blueprints for WooCommerce and WordPress sites at scale from static HTML

1. Idea Generator - Posts ideas as GitHub issues
2. Designer - Creates website design specs from GitHub issues
3. Static Site Generator - Generates static HTML websites from design specs
4. Homeboy produces Playground Blueprint, adds PR comment with static import quality stats
5. PHP Transformer Iterator - opens PRs upstream in the HTML -> Blocks pipeline to improve quality

Playground URLs load each imported site in the browser as real block themes

Do we need to teach our agents block markup, or just perfect the HTML to Blocks pipeline?

[Gary Murray @garysmurray]

Standard reports show numbers. WooCommerce for Claude’s prebuilt workflows connect them.

Run a slash command to get a guided AI review of your store’s revenue, products, customers, refunds, channels, payments, shipping, tax, and catalogue health.

https://t.co/FvyqnHcoFD

[Rich Tabor @richtabor]

WooCommerce for Claude is really shaping up.

[Matías Ventura @matias_ventura]

My speed month project: what if WordPress was an OS you interact with in an open canvas... The canvas holds the objects (posts, pages, media, etc) organized to your needs and taste.

[Brian Coords 💻 @briancoords]

Getting excited about the potential for the WordPress MCP Adaptor. When I ask what it can do on my site, I start seeing my most important plugins show up.

[Beau @beaulebens]

Our friends at @jetpack have been adding some really cool @WooCommerce-specific features to Jetpack Search (https://t.co/aHtsdykIYy). Should land in the next release, and will super-power on-site search for Woo stores.

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

My refreshed blog: https://t.co/2Ilxty5A4w

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

I can confidently say I had the most fun I've ever had working on my own blog while using `studio code`. What a time to be alive.

"Pull my website from production"
...talk with the agent, use `/annotate` to point out what changes I want made, try and throw away things that don't feel right, generate images, search my local system...
"Push to production"

Done.

https://t.co/DMhKA0Ezbp

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

I'm not sure what you are asking about, but for now WooCommerce Core will ship with basic abilities. We will likely expand on it in the future, but other more workflow type abilities will surface elsewhere (like https://t.co/swtCPjSHpN).

Something else that is being worked on is a skill for implementing abilities in the Woo context that should make it easier for folks to use agents to add more bespoke things for their context (and yes, build on top of what was just released).

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

We learned from the initial implementation of Abilities for WooCommerce and this iteration applies those learnings: https://t.co/4WWi1WRc6v

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

Uncomfortable retrospection... https://t.co/5UpdKML4oz

[Brian Coords 💻 @briancoords]

I've never been more excited for WooCommerce. Here's a few of the PRs you can check out and features you can give feedback on in the Woo repo 🧵