Between April 5 and April 18, 2026 we shipped six Jetonomy releases. Almost every improvement came from a problem we hit first on our own community at community.wbcomdesigns.com. Here's what got better, and why.
People search "why is WordPress so hard to use" hundreds of times a month. An honest founder take on the Gutenberg learning curve, FSE complexity, AI-assisted builders like ZipWP and 10Web, and why 2026 is finally the turning point for site owners, frontend devs, and agency teams.
Claude Opus 4.7 dropped two days ago. I put it to work on real WordPress plugin code immediately. Here is what changed versus 4.6, the prompt patterns that worked for WP codebases, the tokenizer cost surprise, and whether it is worth the switch.
Headless WordPress is having a moment — payloadcms trending on GitHub, search demand for headless CMS climbing, Next.js front-ends everywhere. But if you are thinking about putting a headless front-end in front of a BuddyPress community, you need to understand the real state of the REST API before you commit to it.
WooCommerce 10.7 is marketed as a performance release. I ran TTFB, LCP, and cart-to-checkout benchmarks on a real BuddyX + WooCommerce store before and after upgrading. Here are the numbers and what actually got faster.
The WordPress core team announced @wordpress/build — the next generation of WordPress plugin build tooling. Here is what changes vs @wordpress/scripts, the actual migration path for a real plugin, the gotchas you will hit, and when it is worth doing now versus waiting.
Most communities die in the first week. Here is the hour-by-hour, day-by-day onboarding playbook we use to turn new members into people who stay past month one.
A week after shipping the free WP Career Board plugin, the Pro version is live. A founder-voice retrospective on what the first week of feedback taught me, and why this plugin is one piece of a much bigger ecosystem bet at Wbcom.
The real WordPress plugin security problem is not zero-days, it is the abandoned plugins, the opaque ownership changes, the CVEs that sit unpatched for months, and the incentive structure that keeps agency-client relationships vulnerable.
90% of every meaningful conversation at WordCamp Asia 2026 was about the same thing — AI. Not the excited kind. The anxious kind. Here's what I heard from agency founders, what it means for WordPress developers, and what to do about it starting today.
The trick with CLAUDE.md is not a bigger file. It's smaller, layered knowledge across four contexts: rules in CLAUDE.md, facts in memory, procedures in skills, tools in MCP servers. A practical guide for WordPress developers running Claude Code.
The European Accessibility Act is in full force and WordPress site owners are behind. This is a founder-level guide to what accessibility actually requires, why it matters beyond compliance, and the practical steps to audit and fix your site in 2026.