Using Grok Bot to Recover Websites While I Sleep + 2026 Year-End Review

This month, Austin Ginder will show how he uses Grok Bot, a team of AI routines, to watch and repair WordPress sites overnight. Every 30 minutes, a down-site watcher checks for outages, connects over SSH and works out what broke. When the cause is bad code, it fixes it and writes up what it changed. In its first nine days it patched about a dozen live sites, mostly while Austin was asleep.

What we'll cover:

• How the watcher sorts an outage: fixable, not ours, or hands off
• The fix order: update, roll back, patch, and deactivate only as a last resort
• Real fixes from the past month, including PHP 8 fatals, a Gravity Forms class change and a disabled PHP function
• The steps after every fix: back up, purge cache, confirm the site loads, and log the change
• Reviewing security signals the same way: an overnight run covered 226 findings across 206 sites
• The guardrails, what it still gets wrong, and why it runs on Austin's Mac for now

After the talk we'll do a year-end review. We'll look back at what we covered in 2026, share what changed in our own WordPress work this year, and collect ideas for topics and speakers for 2027.

This is our last meetup of the year. We're skipping December and will be back on the regular schedule (third Thursday) on January 21, 2027.

Pizza 🍕 and introductions at 7pm.

🗒️ About our location

• Free parking in lot off of market street. See here for directions to The Candy Factory, Warehouse D.