The Block Design Contract: Tokens, Primitives, and the Same-Family Rule
The four architectural boundaries, the 3-layer token model, the six component primitives, and the same-family rule that holds 100+ products coherent. Part 2 of …
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Shipping and Maintaining Gutenberg Blocks at Portfolio Scale
Deprecations done right, the five drift patterns we catch most, the ux-audit.sh and wp-plugin-qa MCP gates, and the 22-item implementation checklist. Part 3 of …
The Block-Quality Foundation: How We Ship Gutenberg Blocks That Last
The five-file anatomy, the first seven commands, and the contract every production Gutenberg block ships with. Part 1 of the foundation we use at Wbcom Designs.…
The 10x Developer Is Back (And It’s Not a Myth Anymore in 2026)
The 10x developer claim is back in 2026 – not as a talent myth, but as an infrastructure reality. What the original 1968 data said, where the multiplier i…
Open-Sourcing Your AI Workflow: The Case for Publishing Your MCP Servers
The case for publishing your MCP servers: what you give away (code), what you keep (knowledge), and the brand and ecosystem flywheel that open-sourcing your wor…
What AI Handles for Developers, and Where Human Judgment Still Wins
A practical accounting of the AI-developer division of labor: what AI handles reliably, where it struggles, and where human judgment is structurally required &#…
The Future of WordPress Agencies in 2027: Seven Predictions From the Trenches
Seven predictions about the structural future of WordPress agencies in 2027 — with confidence levels. From solo-agency parity to MCP infrastructure, compliance …
Custom AI Agents for WordPress Plugin Development: A Full Repo Tour
A detailed walkthrough of six custom Claude agents used daily at Wbcom Designs for WordPress plugin development: wp-builder, wp-fixer, wp-releaser, wp-verifier,…
Inside a Blog Publishing MCP: The Architecture That Powers AI-Native Content Ops
A detailed walkthrough of the MCP server architecture behind Wbcom Designs’s 13-site WordPress publishing operation: 16-step pipeline, quality enforcement…
AI-Assisted WPCS + PHPStan + WCAG: A Pre-Commit Stack for 2026
A practical guide to the three-tool pre-commit quality stack used at Wbcom Designs: WPCS for WordPress coding standards, PHPStan for static analysis, and automa…
Why WordPress Feels Hard, and What Actually Flattens the Curve in 2026
WordPress is hard for specific, diagnosable reasons: the block editor learning curve, plugin decision fatigue, hosting setup friction, and theme paradigm fragme…
Why Nobody Has Vibecoded a Real Photoshop Yet: The Founder Lesson About Productized Depth vs LLM Thinness
Four years into the LLM era, nobody has shipped a real Photoshop competitor using AI coding. This is not a failure of ambition. It is a structural lesson about …