WordPress Autoloaded Options: Find and Fix wp_options Bloat
Every page load makes WordPress reread all autoloaded wp_options rows, even junk from deleted plugins. Check yours with one safe SQL query and clean it up. The post WordPress Autoloaded Options: Find and Fix wp_options Bloat appeared first on Themeisle Blog.
Open Channels FM: Open Source Economics, LibreOffice, and Swiss Digital Sovereignty
Shifting budgets and tech priorities drive change for open source events software and government infrastructure.
Matt: OmFest: A Celebration of Curiosity, Connection, and the Future

OmFest is coming together quite nicely! The new website is beautiful and highlights some of the experiences available throughout the day. I think Om would be very impressed by the attendee list. We’re doing it at the Swedish American Hall, the same venue as the first WordCamp, where Om, of course, spoke about Blogs and […]
Matt: Mirene
It’s official in SF Standard: Stewart Brand sells his seaworthy Sausalito houseboat to tech CEO. Ahoy!
WordPress Speculative Loading: What It Does and How to Configure It
Your WordPress site can load pages before visitors even click. Learn how speculative loading works, what WordPress 6.8 turned on, and how to tune it! The post WordPress Speculative Loading: What It Does and How to Configure It appeared first on Themeisle Blog.
What WordPress AI Really Builds: 9 Prompts, 9 Unedited Results, and What the Good Ones Have in Common
For this post, I decided to use the Section Generator in the free Otter Blocks plugin. I built nine sections of a WordPress site with it, but instead of endlessly prompting until I got it “just right,” I relied on a single prompt. Then I took a screenshot of what that prompt produced so I […]
Open Channels FM: Scaling Security WordPress Reinvents Protection and Apache Bolsters Infrastructure While Zephyr Expands Ecosystem
WordPress, Apache, and Zephyr adapt to AI-driven security and infrastructure demands shaping the future of open source at scale.
How to Track AI Referral Traffic in GA4 (ChatGPT, Perplexity & More)
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude send you visitors that GA4 mislabels. Isolate your AI referral traffic with one regex and a custom channel group! The post How to Track AI Referral Traffic in GA4 (ChatGPT, Perplexity & More) appeared first on Themeisle Blog.
Open Channels FM: The Cost of Convenience How AI Agents and Security Initiatives Challenge Control
AI agents handle daily tasks and IBM and Red Hat invest billions in open source software security.
Open Channels FM: Open Stacks, Federation, and the Changing Landscape of Software
Hosts Robert Jacobi and Dave Lockie have a conversation about AI impacts, open source priorities, data privacy, and emerging alternative network technologies