WordPress Archives - Thomas McMahon

2/7/2026

Creating my new WordPress theme with Ai

I decided to give Claude.AI a shot at creating a new WordPress theme for my site. The promise of AI-assisted development is tempting, so I...

11/20/2025

Cleaning Up Your WordPress Media Library

If you’ve been running a WordPress site for a while, you’ve probably noticed your media library has gotten messy. Since WordPress doesn’t automatically delete media...

6/23/2025

AI’s not taking my software developer job… yet.

AI is everywhere. Every time you download an app, login to a site, or buy a product, they’re all talking about how AI is being...

4/8/2022

Don’t tell me WordPress is slow. Improve your code.

There’s a lot of push for headless WordPress, or converting over to static site generators. Whereas they are nice, and they have their place, they’re...

7/2/2020

TwisterMc BeaverBuilder Modules Fixed & New Additions

Imagine my surprise when I went to use my BeaverBuilder modules plugin and things were completely broken. Not sure what went wrong but the code...

7/1/2020

GiveWP Beaver Builder Modules

If you’re running Beaver Builder and have GiveWP for donations, there’s a great plugin to integrate the two. BB Connect for Give Donations adds three...

2/5/2020

How to import a site into Local when the import fails.

I’ve been using Local by Flywheel for years now and I love it. It’s a great environment for spinning up & developing WordPress sites. Better...

10/2/2019

Photo a Day Challenge

On January 1st I started a photo a day challenge and you can see my photos over at stormwp.wordpress.com. I’m not following any sort of...

8/27/2018

Back to the Future – WordCamp Minneapolis St Paul 2018 Presentation #wcmsp

Here’s the presentation deck from my WordCamp Minneapolis St Paul 2018 presentation. Below is the text version that pretty much covers what I said. We often...