Eric Karkovack

AI has quickly become a key tool for the modern web. Developers, web hosts, and site owners are adopting it to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and serve customers (we can...

Should clients pay less when agencies use AI? Learn why faster WordPress development still depends on expertise, testing, planning, and clear communication about results.

This edition of The WP Minute’s member meetup focuses on best practices for your vibe coding projects. GridPane’s Patrick Gallagher joined Eric and Matt to discuss the good, bad, and ugly of vibe coding plugins and apps with AI. Patrick shows off a slide deck he generated from a single…

Struggling to keep WordPress project notes up to date? We take a look at how AI can document code changes, explain features, store key details, and help build a system for ongoing project records.

It’s fair to wonder how AI is impacting WordPress. Are people switching to AI-based solutions in massive numbers? This week’s episode of The WP Minute+ podcast examines the role AI is (and isn’t) playing in WordPress market share shifts. Matt chats with Within WordPress’ Remkus de Vries about the pressure…

Browser-based apps can now handle serious design, editing, and productivity work. We take a look at their convenience, collaboration benefits, privacy risks, and where desktop tools still make sense.

There’s a narrative surrounding WooCommerce that it can’t scale as well as proprietary eCommerce platforms like Shopify. This episode of The WP Minute+ podcast aims to debunk that notion. Urumi AI CEO and co-founder Vedanshu Jain joined Eric to discuss the challenges and best practices for using Woo at scale.…

Are agencies still relevant in the age of AI? On this episode of The WP Minute+ podcast, Matt Medeiros and Cory Miller unpack the tension between AI, WordPress, and the future of agency work. They discuss why agencies still matter, how AI is changing client expectations, and how Hosting.com’s new…

AI makes it easier to recreate parts of SaaS apps, but building a useful tool takes more than generated code. This article covers scope, integrations, data ownership, and maintenance.

This episode of The WP Minute’s Agency Action podcast explores a core agency question: is it better to pursue fewer, higher-value clients or more, lower-value clients with recurring revenue? Kurt and Toby compare both models using real examples from their own agencies, then widen the conversation into leadership, client fit,…

Are you stuck inside the WordPress bubble? In this episode of The WP Minute+ podcast, Eric talks with Maciek Palmowski, organizer of CMS Conf, about why CMS communities benefit from looking outside their own ecosystem. Maciek explains how working at Kinsta and expanding into application hosting helped push him to…

Website handoffs between developers can get awkward. Learn how to stay professional, get paid before transferring assets, and share logins, licenses, and access without creating risk.

Our July 2026 WP Minute Member Meetup was dedicated to all things WooCommerce. Developer Advocate Brian Coords joined us to demonstrate a variety of new and experimental features. He also shared Woo’s plan to address the existing backlog of bugs and other issues. The goal is to produce a stable…

If you could go back in time, what would you do differently? That’s the question Kurt and Toby tackle on this episode of The WP Minute’s Agency Action podcast. The guys recall services they shouldn’t have sold and the boundaries they didn’t create. The good news is that these lessons…

On this episode of The WP Minute+ podcast, Matt is joined by Jared Rethman, creator of WPSignal, a tool that adds real-time infrastructure to WordPress. It started as an idea for powering Google Docs-style collaborative editing. But Jared shares how this technology can transform WordPress development and what it means…

Are you tired of long, unproductive meetings that feel like a waste of time? Things don’t have to be this way! On this episode of The WP Minute’s Agency Action podcast, Kurt and Toby explore tips and techniques for making meetings that work for everyone. It’s not as hard as…

The web hosting industry is changing rapidly. On this episode of The WP Minute+ podcast, Matt is joined by ScalaHosting CTO Vlad Georgiev. Vlad shares thoughts on the evolving role of hosting companies, the implications of AI in software development, and the significance of maintaining a solid grasp of programming…

Not every WordPress project is worth taking. Learn how to weigh low budget work against future revenue, portfolio value, nonprofit goals, and the real cost of your time.

WordPress 7.0 adds responsive Block Visibility controls for the Block Editor. Learn how to create separate desktop and mobile blocks, hide each one by device, and test the result.

AI search is changing how people reach websites. This article shows how to make WordPress more AEO friendly with robots.txt, sitemaps, agent readiness checks, Markdown output, and helpful resources.