BuddyNext 1.0.8: The Release Where I Stopped Adding Features
262 commits, and most of them are invisible. Why 1.0.8 is the BuddyNext release I am proudest of: scale that holds, moderation that does not punish good members…
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Eventonomy for Developers: Custom Tables, a 100% REST API, and Seams All the Way Down
Eventonomy is a platform you build on, not a closed box. A developer’s tour of the events plugin I built on custom tables: the eventonomy/v1 REST API, the…
The Complete Picture of BuddyNext: WordPress’s Community Layer, and How Fast It Keeps Growing
I rebuilt community for WordPress from scratch, and the part I did not fully expect is how fast it compounds. Instead of another changelog, here is the whole of…
The complete WordPress platform I wish I had built on ten years ago
A decade of addons taught me I was building pieces of one platform. Here is what that platform looks like now: community in Jetonomy, media in MediaVerse, learn…
I spent a decade inside BuddyPress. Here is why I built BuddyNext.
After more than 60 BuddyPress addons and two community themes, I rebuilt community for WordPress from scratch. This is the honest story of why, and what it took…
Scale Is the Feature: Why I Built Learnomy
A founder note on the bet behind Learnomy. Most WordPress LMS plugins demo beautifully and break the moment your academy grows, because they are built on the wr…
Why Every Learning Community Needs Video Tracking
A founder note on what we are building with MediaShield, and why video tracking belongs in every learning community and LMS, not as a nice-to-have but as a must…
WB Gamification: One Free Engine, Ten Integrations, Every Site You Run
A founder’s look at WB Gamification: why we built one free engine instead of paid add-ons, what you get, the 10 built-in integrations, and the cross-site …
Jetonomy 1.3.8: FluentCommunity Integration, Space Moderation, and a Friendlier Forum
Jetonomy 1.3.8 is the release where the forum starts feeling like a community. Space-level moderation, front-end member role management, a deep FluentCommunity …
The First 7 Days of a New Community: How We Onboard Members That Stay
Most communities die in the first week. Here is the hour-by-hour, day-by-day onboarding playbook we use to turn new members into people who stay past month one.…
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…
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…