Micro Jobs Are Dead. Here’s What Replaces Them.
The $500 WordPress gigs are getting automated. The future belongs to developers who think like enterprise architects and execute with AI speed.…
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Everyone’s Quitting Software Dev. I Just Rebuilt My Entire Product Line.
While Reddit debates quitting software development, I discarded our entire old addon library and rebuilt from scratch with AI. Here’s what actually happen…
bbPress vs wpForo vs Jetonomy: The Past, The Present, and The Future of WordPress Communities
A hands-on comparison of bbPress, wpForo, and Jetonomy from someone who has built WordPress communities with all three — features, performance, BuddyPress integ…
WordPress vs Webflow in 2026: An Agency Owner’s Honest Comparison
An honest, experience-based comparison of WordPress and Webflow from an agency owner who has built with both — covering pricing, lock-in, customization, and whe…
WordPress vs Astro in 2026: What You’re Actually Trading When You Go Static
We are in the middle of converting store.wbcomdesigns.com to Astro. So I am not writing this from a position of theory or fear. I … Read more…
What I Include in My WordPress Maintenance Retainers (and What I Charge)
What actually goes into a WordPress maintenance retainer — plugin conflicts, server differences, security monitoring, and how I price the work honestly. Real nu…
How I Built a Private AI Assistant for WordPress That Never Sends Data to OpenAI
How I built WP Private AI — an open-source proof of concept that runs an AI chat assistant entirely on your own server using Ollama and llama3.1:8b, with zero d…
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…
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.…