Why I Built WPMediaVerse: The Missing Media Layer for WordPress Communities
After a decade building BuddyPress plugins, the one request that never stopped was proper media sharing. rtMedia died. MediaPress stayed small. BuddyBoss locked…
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Why I Built WP Sell Services: The Future of Online Service Marketplaces on WordPress
The tools for selling services online haven’t kept up with how people work. WP Sell Services is a purpose-built service marketplace plugin for WordPress &…
When Off-the-Shelf Community Plugins Don’t Cut It: How to Decide on Custom
I have spent over a decade building WordPress community platforms. More than a hundred plugins shipped under the Wbcom Designs banner. I have worked … Re…
WP Astro MCP v3.0: Headless WordPress Gets an Astro Frontend
WP Astro MCP v3.0 ships a setup wizard, wp-astro-bridge WordPress plugin, webhook auto-rebuild, and draft preview. One command to add a headless Astro frontend …
Something Is Happening in the WordPress World, and We’re All Building the Same Thing
Multiple developers, independently, are converging on the same architecture for WordPress’s future — TypeScript, Astro, MCP, and edge deployment. Here’s what we…
WordPress 7.0 AI Connectors: Pros, Cons, and What the Ecosystem Needs to Get Right
WordPress 7.0 AI Connectors: The Biggest Shift Since Gutenberg When WordPress announced native AI connector APIs for version 7.0, the developer community split …
My WordPress Development Setup in 2026: VS Code, AI, and Local Tools
Why I’m Sharing My Setup Every few months, someone asks me what my development environment looks like. And every time, I realize my answer … Read more…
50+ Community Projects Later: What Actually Makes Them Succeed
Why I’m Writing This After 50+ Projects When someone asks me what I do, the honest answer has changed over the years. Early on, … Read more…
Introducing Jetonomy: A New WordPress Forum Plugin Built for Scale
Jetonomy is a free, open-source WordPress forum plugin with dedicated database tables, trust levels for self-moderation, Q&A spaces, idea voting, and 61+ R…
Stop Specializing. Master Everything. AI Makes It Possible.
The ‘specialize in one stack’ advice is dead. AI collapsed the learning curve. Now you master everything because you can — and because you have to.…
Micro Jobs Are Dead. Here’s What Replaces Them.
The $500 WordPress gigs are getting automated. The future belongs to developers who think like enterprise architects and execute with AI speed.…
Everyone’s Quitting Software Dev. I Just Rebuilt My Entire Product Line.
While Reddit debates quitting software development, I discarded our entire old addon library and rebuilt from scratch with AI. Here’s what actually happen…