Remkus de Vries

Bringing clarity to WordPress builders and companies at the intersection of performance, tooling, strategy & education.

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👨🏼‍💻@Within_WP

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

If you’re serious about delivering fast WordPress sites , or just tired of fighting performance without a clear roadmap, this is the course you’ve been waiting for.

Let’s make WordPress fast.
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[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

@twigpress @raquel__karina @Press__Conf My man.

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

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[Raquel 🤸🏻‍♀️ @raquel__karina]

Guess who responded to their @Press__Conf VIP Dinner invitation this way?

#PressConfEU

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

@raquel__karina @twigpress @Press__Conf Since when is this kind of naming and shaming acceptable?! 🤔

[Within WordPress @Within_WP]

WP Shipyard lets an administrator configure another installed theme against live content while visitors keep seeing the active theme. The preview stays in one browser until activation.

It isn't an isolated staging copy: posts, media and plugin data are shared. Content edits affect the live site.

https://t.co/MsnvrWn0AB

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

@tom_beek Nou dat doet onze Gurbe al 😅

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

Doing some more Grok Bot work today. I built a Grok bot that tracks everything we've ordered and are still waiting on, from emails we forward to a dedicated Grok inbox.

It's on a Cloudflare Pages site, protected by Cloudflare Access for everyone in the house.

I only had to tell it what I wanted. It created, connected, and deployed everything to Cloudflare Pages in one go.

What a time to be alive.

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

Having a bunch of Grok @bot s working in tandem, discussing who needs to do what and in what sequence in one chat is a sight to be seen.

Took me a little while to see what I could automate with bots beyond the basic stuff, but I've unchained myself this week, so to say.

Feels a bit like magic, ngl.

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

@kylekane Piping the delivery emails into the same bot.

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

@The_HumanLayer Yup! Especially for those “this will take a few months to get delivered” type orders!

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

@Joshua_WD Yeah, it’s the first one we voted on to have fixed. It’s a PITA not knowing where we are with orders!

[Within WordPress @Within_WP]

FluentCommunity 2.10's Pages for Spaces gives welcome guides, rules and resources a dedicated tab. Useful when reference material keeps disappearing into the discussion feed. Pro required.

https://t.co/WAxj2mV88i

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

@ihm185 @bot Right? I get a lot of joy watching them and going all Hanibal.

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

Having a bunch of Grok @bot s working in tandem, discussing who needs to do what and in what sequence in one chat is a sight to be seen.

Took me a little while to see what I could automate with bots beyond the basic stuff, but I've unchained myself this week, so to say.

Feels a bit like magic, ngl.

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

@stevemarkperry Hmm, yes it is. And it’s a new low, I guess.

[Xaver @xaver_]

Thanks for the mention @remkusdevries 🙌

[Within WordPress @Within_WP]

What a week. WPZOOM has adopted WPBruiser, CaptainCore Helper adds breached-password checks, and SnapShots saves a WordPress development site so you can restore it in one click.

This, and much more in this week’s Within WordPress:
https://t.co/xbGSJuPp6O

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

What a week, indeed

[Within WordPress @Within_WP]

What a week. WPZOOM has adopted WPBruiser, CaptainCore Helper adds breached-password checks, and SnapShots saves a WordPress development site so you can restore it in one click.

This, and much more in this week’s Within WordPress:
https://t.co/xbGSJuPp6O

[PressConf @Press__Conf]

Community is at the heart of PressConf, and we’re happy to have @greyd_suite and Within WP supporting us as community partners.

Thank you for helping bring people together around the WordPress ecosystem and making our first European edition possible.

We’re grateful to have you as part of the PressConf Europe community. See you soon in Barcelona! 🌴

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

Hey WordPress friend!

I publish a weekly newsletter about WordPress and its tools + strong focus on Performance and Security. Check it out 👉🏻

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[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

What is the best way to track what users do on your WordPress site?

For me, an activity log should show who did what and when, with enough detail to investigate a change.

When several people manage a site, that history helps you review everyday work and understand unexpected changes.

We've rebuilt Scanfully's activity log with much more detail about WordPress user activity.

You can track users being created, deleted, or given a different role. For users with elevated permissions, we also record successful logins, password changes, email changes, and application-password activity.

That includes application passwords being created, revoked, or used for the first time. Login events include the IP address and browser.

This sits alongside content edits, plugin updates, and changes to key settings. Search and the Who filter help you find changes made by a particular person.

And because the activity log sits alongside uptime and performance monitoring in https://t.co/3iMmgiCaMW, you can review changes around a problem.

A role change you weren't expecting, a plugin update, or an edited page gives you something concrete to investigate.

If you use Scanfully, open a site's Activity screen and filter by the person whose work you want to review.

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

@bradvin @bot It's a lot of fun seeing them work together towards a goal and then have a separate bot help every single one to improve what they're doing and to better process the feedback from the human in the loop for their future actions.

[Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries]

@pootlepress @bot Nice.

Good example I've got running now: One group of bots has access to a specific Obsidian vault and I've made one bot responsible for the order inside that vault. And it's doing that pefectly by talking to all the other bots that put things in that vault.