Introducing WPFilters: The Easiest Way to Add Advanced Search Filtering to WordPress
Ever looked at the search filters on Amazon or Airbnb and wished you could make the content on your own website just as easily discoverable? Imagine if your visitors could simply click a few options in the search filter, like…
Developer Diary: Kingdomino, and the Transition from Physical Play to Digital
by MattMeeple By Niek Corstjens, senior game designer at Meeple Corp, a video game studio that adapts board games for digital play Digital Always Starts with the Physical Pauline Detraz requires little to no introduction given her notable work on…
Matt: Cloudflare CMS Stats
Cloudflare released their Radar report for 2025, one fun stat was they analyzed the top 5,000 domains, and it had some interesting results for website technologies. Open Source tech came in at 47% for WordPress and 4.7% for Drupal, which…
7 Best WooCommerce Sliding Side Cart Plugins (I Tested 13)
Cart abandonment is one of the most frustrating challenges for any online store owner. You’ve done the hard work to attract shoppers, but many still leave before completing their purchases. One common reason? Shoppers get annoyed when they have to…
Get a Job in Morty Sorty Magic Shop, and Welcome Inka and Markus Brand for an Encore…of Encore
by W. Eric Martin Early 2026 releases from German publisher Schmidt Spiele have started appearing on retail sites, but the company hasn’t posted its own info yet, so let’s summarize the offerings for now while we wait for rulebooks, something…
Matt: Nex Playground
The Wall Street Journal has a fun article about the Nex Playground, The Hottest Toy of the Year Is Made by a Tech Startup You’ve Never Heard Of. I think this is the first time one of Audrey Capital’s companies…
Designer Diary: Asteria
by Augusto Rocha Asteria is the result of my admiration for big games in small boxes, such as Innovation by Carl Chudyk and Homeworlds by John Cooper. The ability to make interesting decisions in an ever-expanding game of strategy using…
Matt: Apple iWeb
The new X/Twitter algorithim is hard to predict, but I’ve had one go viral with over a million views now, a quote-tweet of a cool demo video of Apple’s website builder from 2009, with themes and blog support and everything….
Bomb Captain Flip, Shatter Leviathan Wilds, Proliferate Confluences, and Shimmer in Heat
by W. Eric Martin I post expansion round-ups every so often, and these posts feel like expansions on what I normally do, that is, largely of interest only to those who have seen the original posts. I guess that’s just…
Matt: Winter Fun
The colors here have now gone blue for winter, and snow has started, thanks to the excellent Snow Fall plugin. I also wanted to congratulate Wealthfront on their IPO. Many on their team have been friends or advisors over the…
