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Author: <span>Daniel Iser</span>

Why Etch Is My Leading WordPress Stack for the Next Three Years

What a matched Bricks, Etch, and FSE benchmark changed about my WordPress platform strategy—and why Etch is now the default for new custom builds.

I Built the Same WordPress Page With AI in Bricks, Etch, and Gutenberg

A hands-on comparison of Bricks, Etch, and WordPress FSE for AI-assisted page building, atomic edits, frontend performance, portability, and long-term maintainability.

Bricks vs Etch vs Gutenberg Performance: Same Page, Very Different Output

Five-run WordPress performance comparison of a matched landing page built natively in Bricks, Etch, and Gutenberg FSE.

Can You Add Etch to an Existing WordPress FSE Site Without Rebuilding Everything?

A hands-on FSE-to-Etch migration test covering block preservation, visual parity, passthrough editing, rollback, and an incremental rebuild strategy.

Which WordPress Builder Is Actually Best for AI Agents?

Etch Connector, Block MCP, and Bricks AI Abilities compared on discovery, atomic edits, revisions, storage, and safe WordPress maintenance.

Living on the Edge with T3 Code: Faster, Cooler, Ahead of Main

How we run a patched T3 Code Alpha: lower background CPU, longer battery life, our own workflow customizations, and selected unmerged media fixes.

Printing a Pyramid Theory: A Buildable Giza Construction Model

A story about turning a speculative top-down pyramid construction idea into a printable STL kit, a browser animation, and a physical way to argue with the geometry.

Connect multiple WordPress sites to Claude with one MCP server

I run more than one WordPress site: Popup Maker, Content Control, two storefronts, and this blog. Working with all of them through Claude Code and MCPs, you quickly drown in tools. I've been connecting each one with the Abilities API and the MCP Adapter plugin. Plugins register "abilities", which the adapter exposes as MCP tools,&hellip;

Enable wp_body_open for Bricks Builder

Bricks builder by default doesn't support wp_body_open hook. This breaks quite a few plugins such as tag managers and analytics etc. Quick solution is to hook in to the bricks_body action, and make a simple call to wp_body_open() add_action( 'bricks_body', function () { wp_body_open(); }, 11 );

Fully Remove Snap from Ubuntu 22.04

List &amp; Remove all snap packages snap list Remove everything you find in the list, starting with non-canonical packages. The following should work on a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04. sudo snap remove –purge firefox sudo snap remove –purge gnome-3-38-2004 sudo snap remove –purge gnome-42-2204 sudo snap remove –purge gtk-common-themes sudo snap remove –purge snapd-desktop-integration&hellip;