Claude Opus 5.5 for WordPress Plugin Work: What We Know
What Anthropic’s docs say about Claude Opus 5.5, how our team routes plugin work between Opus and Sonnet, what changes for API users, and a ten-ticket test you …
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Claude Code Skills That Stay Small: What Goes in SKILL.md, What Goes in references/, and Why Oversized Skills Hurt
How a Claude Code skill actually loads, what belongs in SKILL.md versus references, how to write a description that triggers, why oversized skills hurt after co…
EDD Software Licensing Checks Were Loading Our Store: How We Are Moving Them to a Cloudflare Worker
Every customer site that runs one of our Pro plugins asks our store the same three questions all day. How we found out what that was costing us, what we changed…
Headless WordPress With 2,000+ Posts: Why We Stopped Rebuilding the Whole Site on Every Publish
We moved four headless WordPress sites from rebuilding on every publish to rendering the blog on request from a Workers KV cache. Why, how it works, what bit us…
Agent Tools Are the New Place Secrets Leak: How We Keep Tokens Out of MCP Configs, Logs and Chat
Three October 2026 reports showed the same pattern: AI agent tooling leaks credentials sideways. Where secrets escape in an agent setup, the rules we run, and a…
One Signed Endpoint, Not Twelve Integrations: Let Make, Zapier and n8n Sell Into WordPress
Why we stopped building one integration per store: Learnomy 2.1.2 and BuddyNext 1.2.5 let Make, Zapier and n8n sell courses and membership plans through one sig…
Premium Plugin Updates Not Showing in WordPress? What Broke in Ours and How to Check Yours
Why premium plugin updates can stop showing in WordPress with no warning, what broke in WB Gamification and Learnomy Pro, the fix, and how to check your own sit…
We Shipped Our First EmDash Plugin: What We Learned
Listora is our first plugin on the EmDash registry. How the port from WordPress went, how publishing works, what broke, and what is still not ready.…
Plugin Revenue Is Down Everywhere: Run This Test
Plugin revenue is down across platforms, not only WordPress. Split new-customer revenue from renewals to see where each product really stands.…
Cloudflare Acquires Deno: What Changes on Workers
Cloudflare acquires Deno: Deno Deploy closes in six months, Workers stays the same, and self-hosting is promised. What agencies should check and tell clients.…
What Makes a WordPress Agency Profitable: Two Numbers
Two numbers decide whether a WordPress agency is profitable: a $5,000 average project and 25% recurring revenue. The 2026 survey data and a one-hour test.…
Claude Code and Git Across 100+ Repos: Worktrees, Clean Commits and Release Rules
Six real Claude Code and Git incidents from a 100+ repo agency, with the hook, setting or habit that stops each one from happening again.…