Nick Diego

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I’m Nick—a Product Marketing Manager at Automattic, WordPress Core contributor, and hobby web developer. This site’s dedicated to my current WordPress projects and explorations into related technologies. Have a look around.

Posts

Everything from WordPress tutorials and AI experiments to web development resources and personal updates.

  • WordPress Studio, Blueprints, and Product Marketing

    After several years in WordPress developer relations, I’ve moved into product marketing at WordPress.com. I’m still working on tools like WordPress Studio, which recently added Blueprints — a new way to quickly spin up consistent, shareable local WordPress sites.

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    Speed building a carousel block

    While I lost to Jessica Lyschik during the Speed Build Challenge at WordCamp Asia, I was pleasantly surprised with the carousel block I built using AI. After the competition, I spent another hour working on it. Here’s the result.

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    30,000 and counting

    Two of my WordPress plugins have reached 30,000 active users. Block Visibility hit this milestone at the end of November 2024, and just last week, the Icon Block followed suit. Seeing these numbers grow is both exciting and humbling.

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