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- How to Transform Still Images Into Live Videos for Free With the Latest AI Toolsby Martin Dubovic on April 14, 2025 at 12:18 pm
The latest advancements in AI art have taken over the internet. It seems like many people are enjoying the ability to instantly make their vision come to life. One thing that hasn’t gotten as much attention is that you can take AI-generated images (or any images for that matter) and transform them into videos. In this quick guide, I’m going to show you just how you can do it.
- WordPress Shifts to Only One Major Release in 2025: What to Expectby Martin Dubovic on April 11, 2025 at 11:09 am
During the last week of March, nearly 30 WordPress core committers, project leaders, and team members gathered to discuss WordPress’ release schedule. According to the meeting notes, the conversation was prompted by organizations reducing their contribution hours to the WordPress project. Ultimately, project leadership decided that WordPress 6.8 will be the only major release of 2025. In this post, we’ll talk about what the implications of this are for your site(s) and how you can stay up to date in this new once-per-year world.
- Automattic Lays Off 281 People Across 90 Countries: The Web Reactsby Martin Dubovic on April 4, 2025 at 1:38 pm
On Tuesday, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sent ripples throughout the WordPress community with a blog post announcing the layoff of 281 employees – representing 16% of Automattic’s workforce.
- I Lived 5 Minutes From the Ghibli Museum and Here’s My Thoughts on the Ghibli AI Trendby Martin Dubovic on March 31, 2025 at 10:22 am
Back in 2018 I spent some time in the city of Mitaka – which happens to be where the Ghibli Museum is located. I walked by it several times a week and have fond memories from there. When the internet became flooded with Ghibli style art last week after OpenAI released their newest AI image generator, my reaction was probably more visceral than most people’s. After spending some time Ghibli-ficating myself, reading others’ opinions, and having a few days to reflect on it all, here are my thoughts.
- 15+ Best WordPress Themes of 2025 – Multipurpose, Mobile-Ready, and Beautifulby Karol K on March 27, 2025 at 10:53 am
Most WordPress theme lists bore me. So I made one that’s actually useful. This post covers 15+ WordPress themes that real users love, backed by solid ratings, and good numbers of “active installations.” I picked only themes people genuinely like, not just ones that look good on demos.