Silent Failures in WordPress Production: 15 Annotated Incidents
Production WordPress fails quietly: Action Scheduler loops, Redis crashes, Cloudflare rules wiped silently, stale cache leaking user data. 15 annotated incident…
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AI Didn’t Make Engineering Easier – It Moved the Hard Parts
AI compressed the boilerplate, the syntax lookup, and the refactor mechanics. It did not compress the architectural judgment, the code review signal, or the deb…
Claude Code as an Agency Team Member: Workflows That Stick
Claude Code is not autocomplete and not a chatbot. At Wbcom Designs, after running it across plugin development, support triage, content pipelines, and multi-si…
Pre-Production Plugin Testing: A Workflow That Holds Up at Agency Scale
A 4-stage gate for testing plugin updates across a WordPress agency portfolio: local sandbox, staging clone, canary deploy, and full rollout. Covers wp-env, PHP…
The Multi-Site SEO Stack: GSC + GA4 + SpyFu Through MCP
Running SEO across 10+ WordPress sites without a unified interface turns into tab soup. This walkthrough covers how to connect GSC, GA4, and SpyFu through MCP, …
Why the Builder Crowd Switched From ChatGPT to Claude
The indie founder and dev segment has been migrating from ChatGPT to Claude. This post tracks what changed: model quality on coding tasks, MCP ecosystem adoptio…
WordPress Management at Scale: The 100-Site Tool Stack
Running 100 WordPress sites requires a tool stack that compounds over time. Here is how to layer hosting, update orchestration, monitoring, backups, WP-CLI auto…
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 …
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…