Is WordPress Really Open Source? What That Means for Developers and Agencies
A developer and agency perspective on what WordPress open source actually means — GPL freedoms, what the 2024 governance dispute exposed, and why WordPress stay…
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Claude’s 1M Context Window and WordPress: What Actually Changes for Developers
Anthropic made 1M token context generally available. Here is what that concretely changes for WordPress plugin developers — cross-plugin conflict analysis, full…
Claude Code for WordPress: How I Cut My Token Usage by 37%
My Claude Code bill hit $160 before I realized 37% of tokens were pure overhead — not bad responses, just bad habits. Here is every specific change I made, scop…
MCP Servers for WordPress Developers: The Tools I Actually Use Every Day
I manage over 100 WordPress plugins. Here are the MCP servers that actually changed how I work — filesystem, GitHub, local database, Playwright — with real setu…
Working 16 Hours a Day and Still Feeling Behind in AI
I work 16 hours a day including weekends. I love what I am building. And I still feel like AI is moving faster than I can keep up. Here is my honest take.…
What Shipped This Week: SnipShare, WB Member Wiki, an Astro Store, and What’s Coming Next
It’s been one of those weeks where a lot of things that have been in progress for a while all came together at once. … Read more…
Monthly Reflection: What February Taught Me About Building Better Products
What I learned in February while building WP Vanguard: the assumption that kept slowing me down, shipping less but better, reading usage data carefully, saying …
WordPress Coding Standards: Why I Enforce WPCS on Every Project
How enforcing WPCS across 100+ WordPress plugins prevents security vulnerabilities, speeds up code review, and makes codebases maintainable for years. Practical…
Visual Regression Testing for WordPress – Why I Never Ship Without It
How I use BackstopJS and Playwright screenshots to catch visual bugs before they reach production. A practical guide to visual regression testing for WordPress …
The AI Backlash Is Coming and I Think That’s Healthy
I’ve spent the last two years deeply embedded in AI tooling, building with it, writing about why Claude Code stuck in my workflow, rethinking … Read more…
How I Use AI to Run Product, Strategy, and Execution While My Team Handles Development
I still have a team. Let me get that out of the way because the AI narrative these days makes it sound like everyone … Read more…
I Built an MCP Server That Migrates WordPress Sites to Astro – Here Is What I Learned
I have been building WordPress sites, plugins, and themes for over a decade. Our agency manages more than a dozen sites with thousands of … Read more…