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How We’re Bringing Generative AI to WordPress, Without External Cloud APIs

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Following our post covering the latest innovations with ClassifAI—our AI-powered WordPress plugin—I’ve published an article on LinkedIn exploring how self-hosted AI models can open up new possibilities for WordPress-powered websites.

Here’s an excerpt from the full article:

I realized that integrating Ollama into our AI plugin ClassifAI could unlock something special: bringing the power of generative AI to WordPress on our terms. No cloud fees, no data leaving the site – just WordPress and AI working together in a more private, flexible way.

If you’re interested in how we built this integration, and what this could suggest about the future of AI for open source platforms like WordPress, you can read the full article on LinkedIn.

Preparing for EAA: Streamline Compliance with PDF Accessibility Checker by Fueled+10up

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The European Accessibility Act (EAA), set to take effect on June 28, 2025, is a significant step toward digital inclusivity, requiring websites and digital documents—including PDFs—to meet strict accessibility standards. However, auditing PDFs for compliance at scale is no small feat, especially for enterprises and other organizations managing hundreds or thousands of files across multiple domains.

To help our clients address this challenge, we developed the PDF Accessibility Checker—a handful of scripts that integrate with the WordPress command line interface (CLI), Adobe’s PDF Accessibility Checker API, and Google Sheets to automate PDF accessibility audits. I’m pleased to share that we’ve now open sourced this tool.

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Building Monitor: The Tech Behind Our Website Health Monitoring Tool

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Following up on my post introducing Monitor, I’ve published an article on LinkedIn that digs into some of the bigger technical and data management decisions our team made while architecting the site monitoring platform we built to reliably and efficiently monitor our clients’ websites.

Here’s the opening from the full article:

Building Monitor, our website health monitoring tool, was a fulfilling challenge that required thoughtful engineering choices under real-world constraints. As technical leaders in enterprise caliber CMS and product development, we know that picking the proper CMS backbone, UI framework, and data strategy can make or break a project. In the case of Monitor – a platform watching hundreds of websites – we had to carefully balance scalability, flexibility, and performance at every layer.

I wanted to share how and why we chose our tech stack, including Payload CMS as the backend, Google’s Material UI for the front-end, and share a little about our data polling and management approach, which keeps Monitor timely and efficient.

If you’re interested in how and why we chose the architecture and platforms behind Monitor—or just love a good technical deep dive—you can read the full article on LinkedIn.

Nineteen 10uppers Contribute to WordPress 6.7

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WordPress released version 6.7 earlier this month, introducing the new default Twenty Twenty-Five Theme and greater design flexibility. Nineteen 10uppers contributed to the release, code-named “Rollins”.

This release brings more out-of-the-box design freedom than ever before, with new features such as:

  • A pared-down, flexible Twenty Twenty-Five Theme that is built to grow with your unique needs;
  • Customized font sizes with fluid typography to ensure responsive fonts no matter the size;
  • The ability to zoom out when editing content, to look at your site from a different perspective;
  • Code-free dynamic content by easily linking blocks to custom fields.

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TechCrunch Relaunches in Partnership with 10up

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Last week, TechCrunch launched a ground-up rebuild — a sleeker, easier-to-navigate, and more performant experience for the renowned tech newsroom.

The relaunch journey began behind-the-scenes earlier this year, when we upgraded their WordPress-powered backend to the block-based “Gutenberg” editor. In the months since, we worked alongside TechCrunch and its design partners to finish reimagining and building TechCrunch’s new reader experience.

Having personally been a part of multiple redesigns and upgrades with TechCrunch over more than a decade, it was a pleasure to see our team launch one of their biggest upgrades to this day. I’m grateful for the shout out and recognition of our work – and the wider set of teams we collaborated with – as part of the announcement story.

If you’re interested in learning how 10up can help your organization reach its digital goals, get in touch.

Sixteen 10uppers Contribute to WordPress 6.6

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Earlier this month, WordPress released version 6.6, “Dorsey”, bringing more design freedom and a more efficient user experience. Sixteen 10uppers contributed to Dorsey, a reflection of 10up’s commitment to giving back to the open web.

The most notable improvements to come from WordPress 6.6 include:

  • The introduction of Section Styles gives the ability to override all the styles of a section, including nested elements & blocks.
  • A new Grid Block that brings more flexibility when laying out content.
  • An auto-update option for installed plugins — with the ability to roll back to previous versions if necessary.
  • The ability to have a negative value into custom spacing for margins, giving editors greater creative control.
  • The power to customize or override content in each instance of a synced pattern, while keeping consistent style and layout across them.
  • The introduction of a side-by-side layout for pages in the Site Editor with page preview capabilities.

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I am proud to have been a mentor in the Second Cohort (2024 Q1) WordPress Contributor Mentorship, a six-week program that strengthens the contributor process for WordPress. I was one of 28 mentors who supported 52 mentees in extensive learning and contribution to WordPress Core and the latest 6.5 release in real-time.

Director of Open Source Initiatives Jeff Paul also served as a part of the WordPress Contributor Working Group, which manages the program.

If you’re interested in learning more about 10up’s leadership in the WordPress community, and how our expertise can help your organization reach its digital goals, get in touch.

Fourteen 10uppers Contribute to WordPress 6.5

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Earlier this month, WordPress released version 6.5, “Regina”, bringing significant editorial experience improvements, including the much-anticipated Font Library. Fourteen 10uppers contributed to Regina, a reflection of 10up’s commitment to giving back to the open web.

WordPress 6.5 empowers site and content managers with several editorial experience enhancements, including:

  • A brand new Font Library, enabling typography management directly in the Site Editor.
  • A smoother, more controlled drag & drop experience when rearranging blocks in the list view.
  • The introduction of Data Views to better organize data in pages, templates, patterns, and template parts — editors can choose between a table or grid view, and easily make bulk changes.
  • A more in-depth revisions feature, providing editor names, time stamps, and short descriptions of work done on all content.

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