Scripting News: Friday, April 3, 2026
WordPress could have an active developer community creating writing tools for WordPress users. I also want WordPress to form the foundation of a new social network, one that supports all the writing features of the web. With really nice user interfaces for people to choose from. That's a new ecosystem. It may form around ChatGPT and Claude etc. Or it could start with WordPress. I think I can get this bootstrapped, but I need people to work with. That's the summary of what I'm about at this point in 2026. #
Feature request for WordPress. If an item doesn't have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of "singular" posts, ie posts without titles. This is what I see on the Posts page. #
Does EmDash have a feed reader built in??#
Suggestion for feed reader devs. Put a Check Now button on the page for a single feed. It shouldn't overburden your system because it's just doing an HTTP read and a little parsing. Not much more work than reloading a page in the browser. The benefit is you can see a current view of the news according to a specific feed without waiting. Makes the web roughly instantaneous for every feed, even ones that don't support rssCloud. FeedLand has such a button. #
- Things are changing a lot. Huge flow of ideas, and some catching up to do. Mind bombs in every direction.#
- Last night while watching sports I learned via ChatGPT about MCP. #
- Here's what it can do and people *are* using it for this#
- You could turn ChatGPT into an easy editor for WordPress posts.#
- Just as I have developed the habit of getting it to create a handoff.md file when I'm done with a session, I could write something with ChatGPT helping, I don't ever do that myself but i might, if it were easy. and when I'm ready to publish, I'd say "Please publish this on my daveverse site now." I might specify a category or two, or set defaults, it's good at that stuff. I've taught Claude to write code in my style, so I can maintain it (to answer Aral Balkan's question on Mastodon).#
- We create little hierarchies everywhere we go. #
- So many places. I have no room for new ones, yet I have to make room because there are people there I want to work with. Now I have to manage it. #
- If an alien came to Earth and asked why we don't just create a way for a little hierarchy in one place to appear where ever you want it. #
- It's not out of reach, it would take two or three developers with enough imaginative users to get the ball rolling. #
- Write down the features you'd have to support, concisely and simply, and provide conventions for making those hierarchies accessible through a very simple format, in JSON or XML or anything isomorphic, and then we start building. #
- And start releasing apps that work together. That's what I want to do. #
- WordLand is supposed to be the first such app. But maybe I need to go even simpler for example code. Thinking about it.#
- This is something we can and should research. #
- Let's give one of the ai apps a fairly good idea for an app we want to use, and help it -- not by coding, just by answering questions about how it will work, and Iterating over the product until it works like we want it. Sometihng simple, like perhaps a text editor for Mastodon. Something that isn't squished in a tiny little text box, and has icons for bold, underline, links, etc. It could be useful. #
- Then let's look at the code with an open mind. I think i've given it enough examples of good maintainable code that I could get it to produce maintainable code. #
- This was in reply to a Mastodon post by Aral Balkan. #
Linkblog items for the day
The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish. projects.propublica.org
Matt Mullenweg on EmDash, the supposed 'spiritual successor' of WordPress. ma.tt
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