WB Ad Manager: the WordPress ad plugin that replaces three
WordPress ad plugin that ships affiliate link cloaking, ad rotation, and a classifieds marketplace in one install. Free on WordPress.org, Pro adds the advertise…
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Jetonomy 1.3.0 to 1.3.5: What We Improved in Three Weeks
Between April 5 and April 18, 2026 we shipped six Jetonomy releases. Almost every improvement came from a problem we hit first on our own community at community…
Claude Opus 4.7 for WordPress Plugin Development: 48-Hour Field Report
Claude Opus 4.7 dropped two days ago. I put it to work on real WordPress plugin code immediately. Here is what changed versus 4.6, the prompt patterns that work…
Why Headless BuddyPress Isn’t Production-Ready (Yet): A Look at v1’s Gaps and v2’s Stall
Headless WordPress is having a moment — payloadcms trending on GitHub, search demand for headless CMS climbing, Next.js front-ends everywhere. But if you are th…
WooCommerce 10.7 Performance: What Changed, How to Measure It, and What to Expect on a Real BuddyX Store
WooCommerce 10.7 is marketed as a performance release. I ran TTFB, LCP, and cart-to-checkout benchmarks on a real BuddyX + WooCommerce store before and after up…
Migrating from @wordpress/scripts to @wordpress/build: A Plugin Author’s Real Diff
The WordPress core team announced @wordpress/build — the next generation of WordPress plugin build tooling. Here is what changes vs @wordpress/scripts, the actu…
WP Career Board Pro: A New Essential Ecosystem Launch
A week after shipping the free WP Career Board plugin, the Pro version is live. A founder-voice retrospective on what the first week of feedback taught me, and …
CLAUDE.md for WordPress Developers: Why Layered Knowledge Beats a Bigger File
The trick with CLAUDE.md is not a bigger file. It’s smaller, layered knowledge across four contexts: rules in CLAUDE.md, facts in memory, procedures in sk…
Building WP Career Board: A Block-Native Job Board With Zero Third-Party Dependencies
Why I built a WordPress job board from scratch using Gutenberg blocks and the Interactivity API — no jQuery, no shortcodes, no page reloads. The architecture de…
Don’t Blame the Car for the Accident: AI Code Quality Is a Driver Problem
Last week, I was reviewing a pull request from one of my developers. The code was clean. The naming conventions were solid. The structure … Read more…
The Duct Tape Phase: Why Your Profitable Business Still Feels Like Chaos
I was scrolling Reddit the other night – it was late, the kind of hour where you should be sleeping but your brain won’t … Read more…
MIT Tested 41 AI Models on 11,000 Real Tasks: The ‘Good Enough’ Problem Is Real, and I See It Every Day
I use AI every single day. Not casually – deeply. I run over 100 WordPress plugins, manage multiple websites, handle customer support triage, write … Rea…