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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Product Updates
Release announcements, changelogs, and feature updates for Wbcom Designs products.
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 …
Shrink Uploads, Serve WebP, Move Media to S3
WPMediaVerse 1.3.0 ships image optimization on every upload, WebP and AVIF support across the whole frontend, cloud storage migration tools, FULLTEXT search at …
What You Can Now Do on Your WP Career Board
Post a job in one scroll. Hire without bouncing between tabs. Filter candidates by salary, by who is open to work, by who is hiring. Run boards inside your Budd…
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 …
WB Ad Manager Pro 1.5.0: five Site Modes and a full membership state machine
WB Ad Manager Pro 1.5.0 is a major upgrade. Five Site Modes, a complete membership state machine, a 3-step setup wizard, direct messaging on classifieds, and 30…