After WordCamp Asia 2026: The AI Conversation Nobody Was Prepared For
90% of every meaningful conversation at WordCamp Asia 2026 was about the same thing — AI. Not the excited kind. The anxious kind. Here’s what I heard from…
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Business & Agency
Agency life, client stories, team management, and business insights from running a WordPress agency.
WordPress Accessibility in 2026: The Essential Guide for Site Owners
The European Accessibility Act is in full force and WordPress site owners are behind. This is a founder-level guide to what accessibility actually requires, why…
Why I Built a Free WordPress Security Scanner
I built WP Vanguard because I got tired of finding out about security problems the wrong way. Here is the founder story behind the free WordPress security scann…
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…
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…
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.…
The Hardest Part of Running a Dev Agency? Getting Your Team to Own Their Work
Half-cooked tasks, zero accountability, staff lacking confidence. An honest look at the daily struggles of building team ownership in a WordPress development ag…
Don’t Build What You Want, Build What the Market Needs: Lessons from Getting Stuck in a Niche
For a long time, I believed that building something you love was enough. I was wrong. This is what we learned the hard way about building what the market needs,…
I Built a WordPress Security Scanner. Today I Am Making It Public.
I have been building a WordPress security scanner for the past year. Today I am making it public. No plugin, no subscriptions, AI-powered explanations. Here is …
AI Will Not Kill Web Development Agencies – It Will Kill Bad Ones
An agency owner’s honest take on how AI is changing web development. The floor went up, the ceiling went up, and half-cooked work dies faster than ever. H…
When a Client Tried to Replace Us with AI
A client of six years wanted to test if AI could replace our dev team. Here is what actually happened over the three months that followed.…