Rick Hurst Full-Stack Developer in Bristol, UK

Every other post on LinkedIn these days seems to be along the lines of “WordPress is dead – I vibe-coded a website in 10 minutes”.

I’ve avoided “weighing in” on the subject of coding with AI, but after seeing people either dismiss AI tooling entirely or throw themselves at it without any structure, it felt appropriate to create a course to help.

As a developer deeply interested in the evolution of WordPress, I’m excited to share some insights into a new educational resource now available for free on VIP Learn: the Enterprise Block Editor course.

A while ago, I wrote about minimal campervan conversions – i.e. what is the least you can do to call your van a campervan?

If you’re a developer working with WordPress and you’ve ever thought, “admin-ajax is clunky, and I need more control”, or “why would I use thw WordPress REST API when GraphQL exists”, then you’ll want to check this out.

Fifteen years ago, I sat under an awning at a Devon campsite, juggling cables, adapters, a 20Ah Halfords-branded lead acid power pack, and an ageing MacBook that would wheeze its way through two hours of work – on a good day.

Following four years of helping WordPress VIP customers scaling their Enterprise WordPress sites and applications, I made a move to the WordPress VIP Learning and Credentialling team.

After working mainly freelance for the past decade or so, I started 2020 with career development on my mind.

I usually rely on a wired ethernet connection in my home office, enabled by a powerline adapter running through the mains wiring to the house, where the other end connects to one of the ethernet sockets on an Airport.

Back in 2010 I started writing about “Remote Working”, initially on this blog, then split off into a separate “Rick on the Road” blog, written using my own (now abandoned) database-less blog software, which I called “eatStatic”.