Don’t Blame the Car for the Accident: AI Code Quality Is a Driver Problem
Last week, I was reviewing a pull request from one of my developers. The code was clean. The naming conventions were solid. The structure … Read more…
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The Duct Tape Phase: Why Your Profitable Business Still Feels Like Chaos
I was scrolling Reddit the other night – it was late, the kind of hour where you should be sleeping but your brain won’t … Read more…
MIT Tested 41 AI Models on 11,000 Real Tasks: The ‘Good Enough’ Problem Is Real, and I See It Every Day
I use AI every single day. Not casually – deeply. I run over 100 WordPress plugins, manage multiple websites, handle customer support triage, write … Rea…
Why I Only Do WordPress Even Though AI Lets Me Do Everything
A few weeks ago, one of my project managers asked me a question I’ve heard at least a dozen times in the last year. … Read more…
March Was Massive. April Will Be Bigger.
Three new plugins shipped. Two major updates released. 30 product pages live. And April is just getting started.…
Jetonomy 1.2.0: Private Topics, BuddyPress Integration, Polls, and 5 LMS Adapters
Two months, two major releases. Jetonomy went from a clean bbPress replacement to a full community discussion platform with BuddyPress group forums, private top…
Why I Built WPMediaVerse: The Missing Media Layer for WordPress Communities
After a decade building BuddyPress plugins, the one request that never stopped was proper media sharing. rtMedia died. MediaPress stayed small. BuddyBoss locked…
Why I Built WP Sell Services: The Future of Online Service Marketplaces on WordPress
The tools for selling services online haven’t kept up with how people work. WP Sell Services is a purpose-built service marketplace plugin for WordPress &…
When Off-the-Shelf Community Plugins Don’t Cut It: How to Decide on Custom
I have spent over a decade building WordPress community platforms. More than a hundred plugins shipped under the Wbcom Designs banner. I have worked … Re…
WP Astro MCP v3.0: Headless WordPress Gets an Astro Frontend
WP Astro MCP v3.0 ships a setup wizard, wp-astro-bridge WordPress plugin, webhook auto-rebuild, and draft preview. One command to add a headless Astro frontend …
Something Is Happening in the WordPress World, and We’re All Building the Same Thing
Multiple developers, independently, are converging on the same architecture for WordPress’s future — TypeScript, Astro, MCP, and edge deployment. Here’s what we…
WordPress 7.0 AI Connectors: Pros, Cons, and What the Ecosystem Needs to Get Right
WordPress 7.0 AI Connectors: The Biggest Shift Since Gutenberg When WordPress announced native AI connector APIs for version 7.0, the developer community split …