We Shipped Our First EmDash Plugin: What We Learned
Listora is our first plugin on the EmDash registry. How the port from WordPress went, how publishing works, what broke, and what is still not ready.…
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Business & Agency
Agency life, client stories, team management, and business insights from running a WordPress agency.
Plugin Revenue Is Down Everywhere: Run This Test
Plugin revenue is down across platforms, not only WordPress. Split new-customer revenue from renewals to see where each product really stands.…
Cloudflare Acquires Deno: What Changes on Workers
Cloudflare acquires Deno: Deno Deploy closes in six months, Workers stays the same, and self-hosting is promised. What agencies should check and tell clients.…
What Makes a WordPress Agency Profitable: Two Numbers
Two numbers decide whether a WordPress agency is profitable: a $5,000 average project and 25% recurring revenue. The 2026 survey data and a one-hour test.…
Claude Code and Git Across 100+ Repos: Worktrees, Clean Commits and Release Rules
Six real Claude Code and Git incidents from a 100+ repo agency, with the hook, setting or habit that stops each one from happening again.…
MCP Servers Change Under You: How We Pin, Test and Watch Them
An MCP server is a dependency that changes without telling you. Six real incidents from our agency, and the pin, test and watch rules we keep now.…
When Agents Write the Code, What Is the Developer’s Job?
When agents write most of the code, the job becomes deciding, checking and owning. Here is how we design the work so people do not become tired reviewers.…
Should You Let AI Crawlers In, Block Them, or Charge Them?
For small content sites: let search and answer crawlers in, think harder about training bots, and treat charging as an experiment. Here is the reasoning.…
How We Update Five Live Sites Without Breaking Them
How we update five live sites without breaking them: a fixed order, a restore point at every step, and an automatic gate, shown with our EmDash 1.1.0 upgrade.…
Can AI Replace a Website Maintenance Retainer?
Can AI replace a website maintenance retainer? What our agents handle across WordPress, Astro, EmDash and Laravel, and what still needs a person.…
26 Releases in Four Days: What Our Release Gates Caught
How a small team and AI agents shipped 26 release packages in four days, which release gates caught real bugs, and which problems still got through.…
Should You Submit a Plugin to WordPress.org in 2026? A Complete Guide
Should a new plugin vendor still submit to WordPress.org in 2026? The queue numbers, the Free and Pro rules, the security gate on every release, and how we run …