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Dave Foy
@davefoy.com
Online educator and course creator. Bricks builder is my jam. https://www.davefoy.com
The ability to send emails in timed batches (for better deliverability) AND to be able to pause sending to make changes to the email is one of many killer features of Bento. Developer Jesse Hanley has made an amazing thing. bentonow.com
Pleased to announce I'm the proud recipient of the Grand Prize of Clarity™, a highly coveted award in the world of online course structuring. 🏆 It's taken me a week of metaphorically bashing my head against my desk with this tricky little bugger. But I've got there.
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The answer is yes. Yes, it does. Nodding along furiously with @jonathandot.bsky.social's every word. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nLq...
Does WordPress Need a Radical Rethink in 2025 - Response to @jamiewp and @BrianCoords
YouTube video by Jonathan Jernigan
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One thing I love about being a barfly is getting @theadminbar.com's excellent newsletter a day early. theadminbar.com/barfly-membe...
Barfly
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Fun fact: I once made an online course in TV chef Jamie Oliver's apartment.
I could listen to Joshua Redman all day every day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqBE...
Joshua Redman: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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'Foy's Friday Five' #2 is winging its way to subscribers. app.bentonow.com/share/6Xv3z2... This week featuring THE Douglas Adams. Get on it for #3 👉 www.davefoy.com/newsletter/
I'm absolutely down for this from @matthewmedeiros.bsky.social www.cmsminute.com/why-cms-minu...
Why CMS Minute?
A bit of background about me: I started a WordPress agency back in 2007. I didn't know anything about the WordPress community, how to find clients, or where to recruit talent. Back then, WordPress wa...
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Happy hump day! 🐪 Building on the positivity of last week's "Loop WP" (my newsletter about #WordPress) Issue #142 will be dropping later today as we look at The WP Community Collective. Feel free to subscribe below. 👇
Loop WP
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Major new release of Advanced Themer just landed - v3.0! 🎉 Shit ton of new features, improvements, and rewritten code. advancedthemer.com/changelogs/
Changelogs
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Catch @briancoords.com and @matthewmedeiros.bsky.social chatting live TODAY about whether AI is making WP developers obsolete. www.youtube.com/live/NTDpJsd...
Are Matt’s AI Skills Making WordPress Developers Obsolete?
YouTube video by Brian Coords
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"So, if I don't like the block editor for developing pages, and I also don't like the block editor for writing. What's its purpose?" Thoughtful musings from @danmaby.com with a surprising outcome. www.danmaby.com/posts/2025/0...
Writing with the WordPress Block Editor
I appreciate the block editor is a tool. And every tool is only as good as the craftsperson using it.
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I started a new thing for my email list today: Foy's Friday Five 🎉 Here's FFF #1: app.bentonow.com/share/b5ZMGe... Today's features @westguard.co.uk, @matthewmedeiros.bsky.social, and others I'm not sure are on Bluesky or not. Want next week's FFF? Get on it here: www.davefoy.com/newsletter/
Introducing Foy's Friday FiveIntroducing Foy's Friday Five
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Plenty of things about the modern world concern and confuse me, but none more so than the baffling resurgence of the mullet 'hairstyle.'
Cancelled Netflix. It's way tipped over into quantity over quality. Been highly enjoying evenings reading, listening to music, playing chess with my wife, playing guitar/sax.
Bricks 1.12 was released today. bricksbuilder.io/release/bric... Do you use Advanced Themer? If so, don't update to Bricks 1.12 yet. Wait for the forthcoming AT 3.0 to be released in the next week or so before updating.
Bricks 1.12
Components (experimental) Components, probably the biggest missing building blocks in Bricks, are now available as an experimental feature in Bricks 1.12. Components allow you create reusable and cust...
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Still awake at 1am last night, couldn't sleep. Before I knew it, I'd availed Apple of their offer of 3 free months of Apple Arcade and was 2 hours into a depraved Solitaire binge.
Happy Hump Day! 🐪 My newsletter about #WordPress, Loop WP drops later today and will help you get over that hump. Feel free to subscribe below. 👇
Loop WP
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I'm at the "just bought a shitload of domain names" stage of a new project for 2025 and I'm obviously very excited. ("Obviously" cos obviously the hard work hasn't begun yet.)
A selector like :nth-of-type(odd) might look intimidating for anyone newer to CSS... but it's not that complicated and it's extremely powerful. In this week's video I show you how I used it to help refactor my client's page to make it unbreakable for their content editors! youtu.be/2oiTYXZZB_E?...
Making Layouts UNBREAKABLE! Using nth-of-type to solve this annoying problem!
YouTube video by The Admin Bar
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Finally got round to watching Wim Wenders' Perfect Days last night. A film about the power of being present. I'm still thinking and talking about it this morning. Refreshing and thought provoking.
Nazi salute or not, Elon knows exactly what he's doing. Even playing with that horrific imagery is unforgivable.
I'm often asked why I offer parity pricing for my courses. So here it is: www.davefoy.com/parity-prici...
I've noticed if I call the gym "the f-ing gym" I'm much more likely to go.
Join us LIVE in about 90 mins for the 'This Week in #WordPress' show. It's fun, and we'd love your comments! Starts at 2pm UK time. wpbuilds.com/live Join Nathan Wrigley, Taco Verdonshot, Nicky Bulmer, and Corey Maass.
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Watch us LIVE over at WP Builds. Something WordPress related coming your way!
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