<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>ReDock · Notes from the dock</title><description>Ship notes, deep dives, and honest engineering from ReDock: the free agentic local dev dock for macOS and Windows (MCP, WordPress, n8n, Remotion, Cloudflare deploys).</description><link>https://tryredock.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Bulk update WordPress plugins on multiple sites and read the failures properly</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/bulk-update-wordpress-plugins-multiple-sites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/bulk-update-wordpress-plugins-multiple-sites/</guid><description>Bulk update WordPress plugins across multiple sites as one job, with a snapshot before each update, a per-site reason on every failure, and a retry that only runs the failures.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Connect Claude to your live WordPress sites, with rules it cannot talk its way 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system.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Local WordPress development on Windows: a site in about a minute, no XAMPP and no Docker</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/local-wordpress-development-windows/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/local-wordpress-development-windows/</guid><description>A WordPress site on Windows 10 or 11 in about a minute with the free ReDock desktop app: a trusted https://name.test address, PHP and MySQL you never install, and wp-admin signed in with one click.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to manage multiple WordPress sites from one dashboard</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/manage-multiple-wordpress-sites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/manage-multiple-wordpress-sites/</guid><description>Manage multiple WordPress sites from one dashboard: connect them with a single plugin, read them live, and run an update across all of them as one job.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cursor WordPress MCP: work on a client&apos;s live site from your editor, approved for that one site</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/manage-wordpress-sites-with-cursor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/manage-wordpress-sites-with-cursor/</guid><description>Connect Cursor to WordPress through ReDock Web&apos;s MCP door: one address in mcp.json, a consent screen that can grant a single client&apos;s site, and every change Cursor makes recorded under its name.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How an agency can onboard a client&apos;s WordPress sites in bulk, with no passwords</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/onboard-client-wordpress-sites-in-bulk/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/onboard-client-wordpress-sites-in-bulk/</guid><description>Onboard WordPress sites for a new client by pasting their list into ReDock Web: every site gets a short code of its own, connects itself, and lands under the client&apos;s group.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ReDock pinpoints: name a place on a client&apos;s site once, and the AI finds it on every site</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/pinpoints-named-places-on-client-sites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/pinpoints-named-places-on-client-sites/</guid><description>A ReDock pinpoint is a name, your note and the exact places it means across client sites, so an AI app asked for the-pro-price edits that block on every site and never the lookalike beside it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Publish posts to multiple WordPress sites: what one dashboard can honestly do</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/publish-content-across-wordpress-sites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/publish-content-across-wordpress-sites/</guid><description>ReDock Web does not copy one post onto many sites: it publishes, unpublishes, trashes and restores the posts already on each client site by list, and puts an older revision back when an edit goes wrong.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Run n8n locally on Windows or Mac: one click, a trusted address, and a webhook that reaches it</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/run-n8n-locally-windows-mac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/run-n8n-locally-windows-mac/</guid><description>n8n on your own computer in about a minute with the free ReDock desktop app: a site at a trusted https address, its output in the window, and a public webhook address for as long as a service needs to call it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Safe WordPress plugin updates: what happens when one breaks the site</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/safe-wordpress-plugin-updates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/safe-wordpress-plugin-updates/</guid><description>Safe WordPress plugin updates look at the site before the update and again afterwards, and put a site back to its snapshot when a page that was working comes back broken.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Share localhost with a client from Windows: a quick link, a named link, and the stop button</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/share-a-local-site-from-windows/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/share-a-local-site-from-windows/</guid><description>Put a site running on your Windows PC on a public https address in one click with the free ReDock desktop app: an unlisted quick link with no account, a named redock.xyz link that keeps its name, and a stop that always works.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SSO for a WordPress agency: company sign-in for the workspace your clients&apos; sites live in</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/single-sign-on-wordpress-agency-workspace/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/single-sign-on-wordpress-agency-workspace/</guid><description>Single sign-on for a WordPress agency&apos;s ReDock Web workspace: connect any OpenID Connect provider, prove your domain with a DNS record, then require it, with the owner&apos;s own password kept as the way back in.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SSL certificate expiry monitoring for sites you did not set up</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/ssl-certificate-expiry-monitoring-client-sites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/ssl-certificate-expiry-monitoring-client-sites/</guid><description>SSL certificate expiry monitoring that reads the certificate a site actually serves, counts the days left, and says when the name on it does not cover the address.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trusted local HTTPS: how the .test addresses and the certificate work, and why the browser shows a lock</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/trusted-local-https-name-test/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/trusted-local-https-name-test/</guid><description>Why https://name.test shows a real padlock on your own computer: a private certificate authority made at first launch, a certificate per site signed by it, Caddy serving them, and .test resolving only on your machine.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Update WordPress core on multiple sites, with a backup rule that refuses before anything breaks</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/update-wordpress-core-multiple-sites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/update-wordpress-core-multiple-sites/</guid><description>ReDock Web updates WordPress core on multiple sites as one job that refuses any site without a full backup from the last day, shows what visitors saw before and after, and never puts a site back on its own.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A WordPress activity log that can answer for a person, a job or an AI</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-activity-log-agencies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-activity-log-agencies/</guid><description>A WordPress activity log across every client site, with who did it, which tool, how it ended and the refusals, filterable and exportable as CSV or JSON.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A WordPress management API token for your agency&apos;s own scripts</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-api-tokens-for-agency-scripts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-api-tokens-for-agency-scripts/</guid><description>A WordPress management API token in ReDock Web lets your own scripts reach client sites at a level you choose, for one site or every site, and stops working on its very next call once you revoke it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WordPress core file integrity check: what it proves, and what it misses</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-core-file-integrity-check/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-core-file-integrity-check/</guid><description>A WordPress core file integrity check compares every core file with the checksum WordPress.org published for that exact version, and names anything changed or never shipped.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WordPress cron not running: the real causes, and how to see it from outside</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-cron-not-running/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-cron-not-running/</guid><description>WordPress cron not running is rarely a broken daemon. The four causes worth checking first, and how to spot a stalled schedule across a whole estate.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WordPress management data retention: how long the records live, taking them with you, and deleting with a trail</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-data-retention-export-deletion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-data-retention-export-deletion/</guid><description>Data retention in ReDock Web is three dials you set, for how long each site keeps its own log and how long ReDock keeps its records, beside one download of everything held and deletion that keeps the audit trail.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WordPress database cleanup across multiple sites: count first, then delete</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-database-cleanup-multiple-sites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-database-cleanup-multiple-sites/</guid><description>A WordPress database cleanup in ReDock Web counts seven kinds of leftover rows on every site you name before it deletes anything, counts again before it clears, and skips any site whose numbers moved.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WordPress email not sending: work out which half is broken</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-email-not-sending-check/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-email-not-sending-check/</guid><description>WordPress email not sending is two faults wearing one symptom. How to tell whether the site failed to hand the message over or the receiver refused it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The WordPress maintenance report a client will actually read</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-maintenance-report/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-maintenance-report/</guid><description>Build a monthly WordPress maintenance report from records made as the work happened, put your own name and colours on it, and send the client their own copy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WordPress PHP end of life: find the client sites still on it, and move them this month</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-php-end-of-life/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-php-end-of-life/</guid><description>When a PHP version reaches end of life it stops getting security fixes, and ReDock Web names every client WordPress site still running one, with the date support ended, and counts down before the date arrives.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WordPress plugin rollback: getting the previous version back after an update breaks something</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-rollback-previous-version/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-rollback-previous-version/</guid><description>A WordPress plugin rollback in ReDock Web puts the version you had back in one press from the snapshot taken before every update, or rolls to any version wordpress.org still publishes.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WordPress plugin update failed? Read each site&apos;s reason, fix that, and retry only the failures</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-update-failed-retry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-update-failed-retry/</guid><description>When a WordPress plugin update fails across client sites, ReDock Web gives every site its own sentence saying why, and one button that runs the job again on only the sites that did not finish.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WordPress two factor authentication across multiple sites, without a plugin on each</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-two-factor-multiple-sites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-two-factor-multiple-sites/</guid><description>Turn on WordPress two factor authentication across multiple sites from one dashboard, with six hardening protections, and get told when one is switched off elsewhere.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WordPress uptime monitoring when you answer for other people&apos;s sites</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-uptime-monitoring-agencies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/wordpress-uptime-monitoring-agencies/</guid><description>WordPress uptime monitoring that visits each site from outside on your own interval, says why a site is not answering, and measures the month against the target you promised a client.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI with no API key: a local model that can actually do things</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/ai-without-api-key/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/ai-without-api-key/</guid><description>A local model with no key is usually a chat box. Give it real tools and it creates sites and edits WordPress instead, with the tools carrying the correctness.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI edits your WordPress site: one block change, one element change, both shown</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/ai-wordpress-editor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/ai-wordpress-editor/</guid><description>An AI editor is only as good as the layer it writes through. Blocks on Gutenberg, elements on Elementor, one change each, with the receipt and the undo.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Auto-generate product demo videos from your changelog</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/auto-product-demo-videos/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/auto-product-demo-videos/</guid><description>A changelog is structured data and a demo video is a repeatable format. Map one onto the other and one template renders a consistent video per release.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Claude Desktop and your sites: connecting an MCP server that can ship</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/claude-desktop-mcp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/claude-desktop-mcp/</guid><description>Connect Claude Desktop to ReDock&apos;s MCP server and it can create local sites, author WordPress, share a preview and deploy. Connect the web door too and it reaches your live sites.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Claude MCP tutorial: build and publish a website by chatting</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/claude-mcp-tutorial/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/claude-mcp-tutorial/</guid><description>Connect Claude to ReDock&apos;s MCP server and take a website from nothing to a public URL in one conversation, with no terminal and no config file surgery.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Let Claude write your launch video: agent-driven Remotion scenes</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/claude-remotion-scenes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/claude-remotion-scenes/</guid><description>Describe the video, let an agent write the scene code, and render an exact file on your own machine. The agent drafts, the renderer draws, nothing is synthesised.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Claude versus a local model for agent work: an honest comparison</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/claude-vs-local-llm/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/claude-vs-local-llm/</guid><description>Claude is stronger at deep reasoning. A local model is private, free and offline, and good enough at picking tool calls. Use both, matched to the task.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cursor and MCP: letting your editor&apos;s agent run real websites</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/cursor-mcp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/cursor-mcp/</guid><description>Point Cursor at ReDock on 127.0.0.1:47200 and its agent can create, run, author and deploy real local sites without leaving the editor. Add the web door for live client sites.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Attach a domain you own to a Cloudflare deploy, from the app rather than a dashboard</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/custom-domain-cloudflare-deploy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/custom-domain-cloudflare-deploy/</guid><description>Put your own domain in front of a free Cloudflare deploy without hand-editing DNS. One custom domain at a time, attached from inside the app, on every plan.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deploy to Cloudflare&apos;s free tier: the honest guide, and the one-click version</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/deploy-cloudflare-workers-free/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/deploy-cloudflare-workers-free/</guid><description>What Cloudflare&apos;s free tier actually covers for a static site, and how to connect an account, build and deploy from one window with the hash and duration reported back.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to deploy a website for free: no credit card, no server, no pipeline</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/deploy-website-for-free/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/deploy-website-for-free/</guid><description>Build the site on your own computer, then push the built output to a free edge tier in one click, with the commit hash and the real duration reported back.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Docker for local web dev: when it is overkill and what is lighter</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/docker-alternative-local-dev/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/docker-alternative-local-dev/</guid><description>Docker earns its keep on parity and reproducibility. For running one site on your own machine it is a team-scale tool doing solo-scale work.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Easy hosting for side projects: from a folder to a real address to the world</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/easy-hosting-side-projects/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/easy-hosting-side-projects/</guid><description>The easiest hosting for a side project is none until you need it. Run it locally at https://name.test, share it over a link when somebody asks, deploy it when it is real.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Easy MCP setup: zero config, no terminal, no JSON files</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/easy-mcp-setup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/easy-mcp-setup/</guid><description>Easy MCP setup means pointing a client at a server that is already running. ReDock serves its whole surface at 127.0.0.1:47200, with a one-click connector or one line to paste.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Elementor vs Gutenberg in the AI era: how an agent edits each one</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/elementor-vs-gutenberg-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/elementor-vs-gutenberg-ai/</guid><description>Agents can drive both builders now. Gutenberg through blocks and an HTML anchor, Elementor through its element tree and each element&apos;s own id. Here is how each works.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Free AI video with Remotion: video as code, rendered on your own machine</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/free-ai-video-remotion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/free-ai-video-remotion/</guid><description>Remotion draws video from code, so an agent writes the scenes and the renderer draws them exactly. Nothing is synthesised. The Studio runs on macOS.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A free AI website builder that runs offline: agent, local model, real WordPress</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/free-ai-website-builder-offline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/free-ai-website-builder-offline/</guid><description>The agent, the model and the site all run on your own machine, so you can build a real WordPress site with no account, no key and no connection.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Free hosting that is actually your own computer: local sites behind a real link</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/free-hosting-your-mac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/free-hosting-your-mac/</guid><description>The cheapest host you will find is the machine you already own. Run real sites locally, then give one a public HTTPS address over a Cloudflare tunnel.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Free MCP server: give Claude real tools on your computer in five minutes</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/free-mcp-server/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/free-mcp-server/</guid><description>ReDock is a free MCP server for macOS and Windows: Claude gets tools to create local sites, write WordPress content, share a preview and deploy, with no terminal and no API key.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Free social media scheduler: build your own with n8n in an afternoon</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/free-social-media-scheduler/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/free-social-media-scheduler/</guid><description>A scheduler is a queue, a clock and a node per destination. Build one on your own computer with n8n, let an agent fill the queue, and keep the posting deterministic.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Free staging environments: stop paying for preview hosting</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/free-staging-environments/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/free-staging-environments/</guid><description>Staging is just letting somebody see the site before it ships. Run it locally behind a real HTTPS link, or deploy the built output to a free edge tier.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A free website with a real URL in ten minutes: quick links explained</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/free-website-real-url/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/free-website-real-url/</guid><description>Give a site running on your own computer a public HTTPS address without deploying anything. Unlimited unlisted links, plus three named ones that keep their name.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Build it locally, show the client, then look after the live site</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/freelancer-demo-client-sites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/freelancer-demo-client-sites/</guid><description>The build is the easy part. Here is the whole arc: a local site, a named review link that does not change, and what happens after the client says yes.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gutenberg MCP: how an AI writes real block content, not HTML soup</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/gutenberg-mcp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/gutenberg-mcp/</guid><description>Block-native MCP tools let an agent read a page as blocks, patch one, and check the rendered result, so what it writes stays editable in wp-admin.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Headless WordPress with Astro: the free, fast way to ship a WP-backed site</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/headless-wordpress-astro/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/headless-wordpress-astro/</guid><description>Keep WordPress as the editor and render the front end with Astro. Both halves run on your own computer, each on its own trusted https://name.test address.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Laravel Herd versus ReDock: PHP-first against agent-first</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/laravel-herd-vs-redock/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/laravel-herd-vs-redock/</guid><description>Herd is fast and deep in one lane. ReDock spans several stacks and lets an agent drive them. If you live in Laravel, Herd is probably the better fit.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Local models on an 8 GB Mac: what fits, and what it can actually do</title><link>https://tryredock.com/blog/local-llm-8gb-mac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tryredock.com/blog/local-llm-8gb-mac/</guid><description>Memory is the hard constraint. 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