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…
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Business & Agency
Agency life, client stories, team management, and business insights from running a WordPress agency.
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.…
A Bad Hire Cost Me More Than Money
I made a hiring mistake that cost me far more than salary – it drained team morale, client trust, and months of my mental energy.…
Remote Team, Global Clients: How We Run a WordPress Agency Across Time Zones
What it actually looks like to run a distributed WordPress agency with global clients — the time zone math, async communication habits, structured handoffs, cul…
AI Agents Are Changing Everything: What Skills Actually Matter in 2026
The Shift Nobody Prepared For I’ve been building WordPress plugins and community platforms for over 15 years. I’ve seen every major shift in web … Read m…
Build a Private Online Community with WordPress
I have built dozens of private online communities — fitness studios, churches, trade associations, professional guilds. Here is what actually works, and what do…
The Hidden Costs of Running a Community Platform (That Nobody Talks About)
An honest breakdown of hosting, moderation, content creation, maintenance, and email costs that come after building an online community. Budget realistically be…