This week starts with streamlining everything: fewer sites, fewer tools, fewer subscriptions. From there we get into SpaceFast. Will talked with founder Batuhan İçöz, and Ryan pushes back on whether SpaceFast actually leads people back to WordPress.

We also get into a prediction about the WP Engine lawsuit that ends with WordPress.org as a link in the footer, big agencies shrinking while one person runs dozens of agents, and whether PRs and branches still matter in agent workflows. Will walks through how he runs about 30 Grokbots across clients, and Ryan shares what seven months of teaching himself development has looked like.

In this episode:

• Streamlining the business and helping yourself first
• Is SpaceFast really WordPress?
• A quiet WordPress week and "just hit update"
• Elementor to FSE conversions, and live site vs staging
• Why WordPress wins in the long run
• The WP Engine lawsuit prediction
• Big agencies shrinking and one person with 40 agents
• CLI vs dashboards, and are PRs dead?
• Billing clients for tokens
• How Will runs 30 Grokbots
• Novamira HQ, InstaWP Studio, and skills changing how we scope work
• Next week: plugins becoming skills

Chapters:
0:00 Cold open: live site or staging?
0:14 Intro
0:32 How was your week: streamlining everything
5:23 Agencies struggling and helping yourself first
7:51 Batuhan, SpaceFast, and the bigger picture
9:05 A quiet WordPress week: just hit update
10:55 Getting back into WordPress conversations
12:09 The viral "we don't believe in WordPress" post
12:38 Is SpaceFast really WordPress?
17:08 SpaceFast vs headless WordPress
19:56 Retiring WEP Turned Up for Pine Digital
21:08 Elementor to FSE conversions
26:51 Live site or staging?
28:36 Why WordPress wins in the long run
31:40 The WP Engine lawsuit prediction
34:28 Big agencies shrinking, 40 agents each
37:14 CLI vs dashboards and computer use
40:07 Are PRs and branches dead?
41:20 Ryan's first seven months as a developer
44:43 Billing clients for tokens
45:54 The OpenClaw saga
49:39 How Will runs 30 Grokbots
56:48 What we're building: Novamira HQ and more
1:00:11 InstaWP Studio and hosting
1:01:57 Skills change SOPs and pricing
1:03:23 Coding from the phone and AI 2.0
1:06:59 Next week: plugins becoming skills

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