The App Is Close. Your Site Is Already Most of It.
Four products added mobile app sign-in in 48 hours. The app we are close to shipping is not a separate product: it is your site, your members, your branding, re…
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Product Updates
Release announcements, changelogs, and feature updates for Wbcom Designs products.
New Features in Days, Fixes in Hours: What a Fast Cycle Actually Looks Like
Four days after a release week that was almost entirely fixes, we shipped 23 more. This time most of it was new features, and one bug report reached eight produ…
Five Releases in a Week, and Almost None of It Was Features
Our team shipped five product releases this week. Almost none of it was features. Here is what real money, currencies and timezones taught us.…
Twelve Products, One Vendor: What Building the Whole Stack In-House Actually Buys You
Most WordPress platforms are assembled from five or six vendors who have never spoken to each other. We spent the last two years building every layer ourselves.…
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…
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…
Learnomy for Developers: The Hooks, REST API, and Extension Seams Behind 1.4.0
Learnomy is a platform you build on, not a closed box. A developer’s tour of what 1.4.0 opens up: the question-type registry, the content-standards bridge…
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…
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…
From One Blog to a 12-Site Network: What WP Astro MCP Can Do
WP Astro MCP turns any WordPress site into a fast Astro frontend while WordPress stays the CMS. 57 tools, multi-site, GitHub publishing, live sync. Open source.…
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 …