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WordPress Brasil Meetup Online #2: WordCamp Europe 2026 Special

On 27 June 2026 we had the second WordPress Brasil Meetup Online, which was focused on bringing together people from the Brazilian and Portuguese communities who went to WordCamp Europe 2026 to share a little bit about their experience. The idea came up before WCEU, and during the event I talked with some people about…
WordPress Brasil Meetup Online #1: WordPress 7.0 release party

Since WordCamp Brasil 2025 and my participation in the 45th WordPress Meetup Belo Horizonte, the idea of organizing an online meetup to bring together the entire Brazilian community stuck with me. So after aligning on the best way to create this meetup, I started the process to apply as a meetup organizer, and on May…
How to fix PHP not showing updated code from a symlinked folder (LocalWP and others)

The problem was caused by OPcache and can happen on Linux, macOS, or Windows.
I published my first blog post on WordPress using Claude Code

I used Claude Code to write, edit, translate, and publish a post.
How to use WordPress with MCP and Claude Code

You decided to try to use WordPress with MCP and Claude Code. But where do you start? This was not a straightforward answer as I was initially expecting, so I decided to document this process to help myself in the future and others that are trying to achieve the same thing. 1. Requirements 2. WordPress…
45th WordPress Meetup Belo Horizonte: Q&A on Newsletter and Blog Content Creation

On February 25, 2026, I participated in the online event 45th WordPress Meetup Belo Horizonte. It was an incredible experience, where I got to talk for more than two hours with people from all over Brazil about creating content for newsletters and blogs. Since I talked about a lot of interesting things, I wanted to…
WP-CLI: force output to a specific language (locale)

WP-CLI uses the same locale as the WordPress installation, so if you deal with multiple locales, it might be tricky to follow the output. Luckily, the official documentation shows how to set a specific locale. Here’s a quick summary, plus an important caveat I found: 1. Create a file called force-locale.php and set your desired…
Automatically log in to WordPress as an admin for local testing

I made a simple plugin with AI’s help that I use locally, so I don’t have to log in as administrator every time I reset a WordPress site to run tests. The initial plugin code had the credentials hard-coded, but before sharing it, I changed it to fetch the first admin user from the database.…
How to quickly reset WordPress and still keep themes plus some plugins

I use LocalWP to run WordPress locally, and I made a command to reset a site while keeping the themes and some plugins so I can quickly run various tests. For the script above, I used the steps from my previous guides about removing files (except certain subfolders) and using the trash command. I’ve added…
How to remove all files in a directory except specific subfolders in Zsh (Linux or Mac)

I’ve shared how to remove all files in a directory except specific subfolders in Bash, but unfortunately, this command doesn’t work for Zsh. After some tweaking, I was able to reproduce the same behavior, which is to remove everything inside wp-content/plugins/, except folders starting with dk- or exactly named auto-login, and index.php: Dry run Here’s…
MailPoet (WordPress Plugin) is not working on Firefox

When I opened MailPoet in the WordPress Dashboard using Firefox, nothing was showing, and the solution was so unexpected I had to share it.
How to remove all files in a directory except specific subfolders in Bash

Today I Learned how to delete all contents of a folder except specific subfolders using Bash.