What you follow affects how you lead. Married. Father of 4. Engineering Director @automattic. Adventure is life.
Ontario, Canada
Joined March 2007
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Darren Ethier retweeted
Been wanting to start a newsletter but it seems overwhelming? Just ask your favorite AI. Get a website, add your subscribers, and even send the email. Only from @wordpressdotcom.
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We implemented limiting contributions from people with read only access to the WooCommerce monorepo back in July because we were seeing a huge influx of AI generated PRs that impacted our ability to meaningfully review and move forward work. Attention is the new scarce thing, and we had to have some control on what we could give attention to. However, we did have some concern about the impact on contributions from non-maintainers because we value those contributions. It's a strength of Open Source. With the assistance of Claude I dug into some data and here's some results.
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BTW, spacefast.com is awesome. Just launched this week and y'all really need to point your agent at it for hosting what you build.
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Darren Ethier retweeted
Working on a Woo store build and oh man times have changed since my agency days.
The development speed I'm seeing with Studio + Codex + Purple block theme is insane.
Darren Ethier retweeted
WooCommerce 11.3 is live. More block style options, structured data improvements, over 1,000 bug fixes and enhancements.
developer.woocommerce.com/20…
Darren Ethier retweeted
New feature and collaboration.
Spacefast is finally launching publicly. @batuhan and his team were kind enough to let us beta test it, and the whole thing went smoother than we could’ve hoped, from migrating our pages to getting them live.
We are moving SoundBoost to @SpacefastHQ and this video is a gift to this collaboration.
(Yeah, we also wanted to see @photomatt slice doner kebap in a fictional video)
Darren Ethier retweeted
WordPress Studio 2.2 ✨
your workspace, now with the tools you reach for, right up top.
✓ tabs: browser, admin, design, emails
✓ connectors for @claudeai code, @ChatGPT, @cursor_ai & @grok build
✓ 1.6x faster preview uploads on @wordpressdotcom
✓ chromium dev tools
✓ see all mail sent in the email log
✓ show/hide the admin bar
✓ annotate by selecting a region
✓ run /start & /stop from chat
✓ start sites via macOS Spotlight
✓ fullscreen any view
Darren Ethier retweeted
WordPress Studio 2.2.0 is out, with one feature so many of you asked for: an email log 📬
Every email your local site sends now shows up in Studio.
You asked, we finally delivered. Expect much faster turnarounds on your requests from here on.
wordpress.studio
This is cool!
Pretty cool feature in @jetpack 16.4, you can record a video right inside WordPress via @VideoPress .
A nifty little record button is under Jetpack > VideoPress. Pick a filter, trim the awkward first three seconds, upload. No screen-recorder app, no export step.
Works from the VideoPress block too.
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I use this multiple times through the week and it's the slickest option for agent -> publish flow I've tried. If you haven't tried it yet, give it a try!
@SpacefastHQ is open to everyone today.
Make something with the AI you already use, then ask it to put your work on Spacefast. A link comes back right in the chat.
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Darren Ethier retweeted
Small but useful: you can now trim VideoPress videos without leaving WordPress.
Cut the awkward start. Cut the bit where you reach for the stop button.
Part of Jetpack 16.4 👇
jetpack.com/resources/jetpac…
I'm super proud of how our engineering team has been ramping up how we use AI defensively to proactively make WooCommerce (and other Woo products) more secure against the swarms that are coming.
developer.woocommerce.com/20…
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It's that time of year already!
Apple Pay, Google Pay, and pay-later are already in your WooPayments settings.
Over Black Friday weekend 2025, 1 in 5 WooPayments orders came through Apple Pay or Google Pay.
Switch them on in Payments > Settings.
Get set up before Black Friday: woocommerce.com/bfcm-payment…
ALT A checkout screen displaying payment options: Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna, Affirm, and Afterpay.
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Darren Ethier retweeted
WooCommerce has new admin menu icons, ready for the icon design refresh coming to WordPress 7.2. Are your plugins ready?
github.com/woocommerce/wooco…
Darren Ethier retweeted
Studio has become one my main drivers for WP related work and the latest design is wonderful.
Agents can easily leverage it, creating multiple sites on the fly with worktrees to work concurrently on various PRs and plugins, automating routine bug hunts, quality reviews, etc.
a new WordPress Studio
a modern WordPress workspace for a modern WordPress workflow.
✓ all new workspace
✓ agent + live preview
✓ bring your own agent (more soon!)
✓ pinned sites & chats
✓ annotations
✓ customize the ui to taste
✓ sharing & publishing
✓ mcp for claude / codex / cursor
✓ DESIGN.md
✓ command palette
✓ WordPress skills & commands
✓ mac, windows, linux (free download, open source)
Darren Ethier retweeted
WooCommerce 11.2.2 has been released with a number of updates focused on security. We strongly recommend updating to the latest release. developer.woocommerce.com/?p…
a new WordPress Studio
a modern WordPress workspace for a modern WordPress workflow.
✓ all new workspace
✓ agent + live preview
✓ bring your own agent (more soon!)
✓ pinned sites & chats
✓ annotations
✓ customize the ui to taste
✓ sharing & publishing
✓ mcp for claude / codex / cursor
✓ DESIGN.md
✓ command palette
✓ WordPress skills & commands
✓ mac, windows, linux (free download, open source)
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