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Emily Rapport
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Front End Designer/Owner at Always Open Design, painter of urban landscapes (she/her)
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This Week in WordPress #365

This episode with Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Marc Benzakein, Rhys Wynne explores the renewed importance of blogging and owning your content in 2026, discusses WordPress's educational initiatives and their overlapping complexities,
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February 10, 2026 at 7:02 AM
eatpaintchic.bsky.social
This week, I dive into Section Styles in WordPress themes - a flexible way to present different types of content and maintain design consistency. A very handy tool for your #WordPress theming tool-kit. alwaysopen.design/understandin...
Understanding WordPress Section Styles - Always Open Design
WordPress Section Styles are an extension of block style variations. Create flexible, user-friendly, consistent designs with Section Styles.
alwaysopen.design
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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karks.com
My #WordPress peeps, are you looking for something to do on a quiet Sunday? You can join me over at @thewpminute.com for free! You'll gain access to our Slack channel and our free courses (a new one is dropping soon 👀). thewpminute.com/membership/
Join the WP Minute Membership - The WP Minute
A Place for WordPress Professionals The WP Minute helps a broad audience of WordPress freelancers, agency owners, product makers, and stakeholders throughout the WordPress economy. There's a spot for ...
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February 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
eatpaintchic.bsky.social
Many #WordPress side-quests while trying to document my classic theme to block theme migration, the latest explores Block Variations and Block Styles - similar, but different: alwaysopen.design/block-style-...
WordPress Block Styles and Variations - Always Open Design
Block style variations are a big improvement, allowing site editors to choose and apply options visually from the block editor's style panel.
alwaysopen.design
February 7, 2026 at 11:33 PM
eatpaintchic.bsky.social
Made the feed… thanks to @wordpress.org and @heropress.bsky.social for supporting all of the different pathways to community and professional development.
wordpress.org WordPress @wordpress.org · 12d
From art to web design, Emily’s journey shows how creativity and community shape a career. WordPress turned her passion into a flexible, inclusive path where continuous learning is key.

Read her story: heropress.com/essays/how-art-...

#HeroPress
How Art School Led Me To Web Design
Emily Rapport from Jamestown, NY writes about how her desire to share her art led her into a career as a WordPress developer.
heropress.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:34 PM
eatpaintchic.bsky.social
Walking to the store much easier today (went Sunday while it was still snowing), sidewalks cleared - it looks like 2 feet of snow all around. Jamestown, NY - lots of snow!
January 28, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Part 2 from my block theme development exercise - migrating an existing website to a new design is always a challenge, but I did learn a few things about how block spacing actually works in #WordPress - alwaysopen.design/block-theme-...
Block Theme Development, Part 2: Page Templates and Custom Styles - Always Open Design
Focusing on building out page templates, enabling custom functionality, and making custom style adjustments in block themes.
alwaysopen.design
January 28, 2026 at 6:17 PM
eatpaintchic.bsky.social
@topher1kenobe.bsky.social kindly invited me to contribute my #WordPress story to HeroPress, a site dedicated to sharing the stories of and connecting people in WordPress. Check it out: heropress.com/essays/how-a...
How Art School Led Me To Web Design
Emily Rapport from Jamestown, NY writes about how her desire to share her art led her into a career as a WordPress developer.
heropress.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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wfmu.bsky.social
Today on WFMU: On Observations of Deviance w/David Mittleman (Give the Drummer Radio stream), Öppet Archives: Swedish Free Jazz Round Table. Öppet is a historically important series of albums focused on Swedish creative improvised music of the 1960s and 1970s (7 p.m. ET).
January 24, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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archive.org
Before the Hays Code slammed the door, Hollywood told bolder stories. Morocco (1930), now in the public domain, preserves a fleeting vision of a Hollywood before the hammer of the censor fell.

Learn why pre-Code films still matter ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2026/01/20/i...
Split image: movie poster for "Morocco" with illustrated images of stars Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich on the left; on the right, a black-and-white film scene with Dietrich wearing a tuxedo seated on a rail before an audience.
January 22, 2026 at 9:30 PM
eatpaintchic.bsky.social
Complete! “Forest,” oil/canvas, 36x44” - maybe this title will change - from a scene earlier this Fall that I photographed at the Audubon Community Nature Center. #OilPainting #LandscapePainting #JamestownNY
January 19, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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rosswintle.uk
“Like ‘slop’ text, images & videos, the ability to create small, personal apps and websites with LLMs is fascinating. But I don't believe it's ultimately good for the creators or for the users.”

rosswintle.uk/2026/01/trus...

I've been writing this all weekend. Longer than I thought it would be.
Trust me: You don't want to make little personal apps... especially not like that! - Ross Wintle
Like "slop" text, images and videos, the ability to create apps and websites is fascinating. But I don't believe it's ultimately good for the creators or for the users.
rosswintle.uk
January 18, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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I’m not supposed to work on the weekends but this isn’t client work so it’s okay (bargaining). Read about how your humanity is required when writing with AI: alwaysopen.design/ai-writing-f...
Writing content for humans with AI - Always Open Design
Writing with AI promises to save time and make tasks easier but humans still need to provide good input, apply critical judgment, and edit ruthlessly.
alwaysopen.design
January 18, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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archive.org
JUST ADDED: Can't make it to the Internet Archive for our Public Domain Film Remix Contest screening party? Join the LIVESTREAM to watch the winning films and honorable mentions!

LIVE from the Internet Archive
January 21 @ 7pm PT
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/1980757251...
Public Domain Film Remix Screening Party January 21 @ 7pm PT
January 17, 2026 at 1:46 AM
eatpaintchic.bsky.social
Started a short series on migrating a real life website with a custom classic #WordPress theme to a block theme, first installment: alwaysopen.design/block-theme-...
Block Theme Development Series - Classic to Block - Always Open Design
Follow a real WordPress block theme development project. We start with choosing to build from scratch or using a theme, and setting up the structure.
alwaysopen.design
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Discover top jobs in digital accessibility, including web accessibility, ARIA, WCAG, Section 508, ADA compliance, and more. Join the A11y community with roles on a11yjobs.com.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Painting tree limbs like figures. I may need a better ventilation system (it’s cold with the window open) … still in progress. A scene from the Audubon Community Nature Center this past fall. #OilPainting #LandscapePainting #JamestownNY
Saturated landscape painting, fallen green in an autumnal forest
January 11, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Shameless self-promotion: I’ve reissued my “Paintings Delilah’s” catalog, collected works from 2004 - 2017. Portraits of night life, clientele, and most importantly the folks behind the bar! #DelilahsChicago #Punks #OilPainting
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Catalog cover shows two young women in conversation in a pink bar
January 6, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Good read:
anildash.com Anil Dash @anildash.com · Jan 5
The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:09 AM
eatpaintchic.bsky.social
A little more progress on this forest scene (oil/canvas, 36x44”) - #wip
A forest, two fallen trees surrounded by plants and ferns, sun filters through turning leaves a glowing green-gold in the distance - work in progress
January 4, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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karks.com
If your goal for 2026 is to survive 2026, there's no shame in that. That counts for something.
January 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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topher1kenobe.bsky.social
Remember when I posted that lots of plugins doesn't make #WordPress slow? I've now made a video about it! The answer is the same, it doesn't, so you don't HAVE to go watch the video, but if you could go like and subscribe that would be super awesome.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvB-...
Do many plugins make WordPress slow? (No!)
YouTube video by Topher DeRosia
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January 2, 2026 at 8:14 PM
eatpaintchic.bsky.social
Started an oil painting this week, the first in too long. I am not ready to return to work on Monday and I feel that unpleasant, internal pressure to “get ahead” by working over the next few days. This year must be different else what be the purpose of it all? She said rhetorically.
Two large fallen trees in a forest bisect the foreground, red-purple shadows and detritus, green foliage reaches up into a splash of sun… maybe, it’s in progress.
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Back porch, watercolor/yupo, 9x12” - #Watercolor #LandscapePainting #JamestownNY
A blanket of fresh snow covers a neighbors back porch - a bright cadmium yellow shovel leans against the pale, buttercup yellow house, green city garbage cans, an old window, various bins line the back porch, bright spots of color against the new snow.
December 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Finished reading, “I am Not Sidney Poitier,” by Percival Everett - I like the way he writes and the mixture of high art (literature, philosophy) and low (slapstick, puns) and a heap of satirical reflections make for a good read.
December 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM