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…
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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…
Silent Failures in WordPress Production: 15 Annotated Incidents
Production WordPress fails quietly: Action Scheduler loops, Redis crashes, Cloudflare rules wiped silently, stale cache leaking user data. 15 annotated incident…
Pre-Production Plugin Testing: A Workflow That Holds Up at Agency Scale
A 4-stage gate for testing plugin updates across a WordPress agency portfolio: local sandbox, staging clone, canary deploy, and full rollout. Covers wp-env, PHP…
WordPress Management at Scale: The 100-Site Tool Stack
Running 100 WordPress sites requires a tool stack that compounds over time. Here is how to layer hosting, update orchestration, monitoring, backups, WP-CLI auto…
Custom AI Agents for WordPress Plugin Development: A Full Repo Tour
A detailed walkthrough of six custom Claude agents used daily at Wbcom Designs for WordPress plugin development: wp-builder, wp-fixer, wp-releaser, wp-verifier,…
AI-Assisted WPCS + PHPStan + WCAG: A Pre-Commit Stack for 2026
A practical guide to the three-tool pre-commit quality stack used at Wbcom Designs: WPCS for WordPress coding standards, PHPStan for static analysis, and automa…
Why WordPress Feels Hard, and What Actually Flattens the Curve in 2026
WordPress is hard for specific, diagnosable reasons: the block editor learning curve, plugin decision fatigue, hosting setup friction, and theme paradigm fragme…
Make Your WordPress Site Citable by ChatGPT and Claude: The /llms.txt Playbook
Three production patterns we ship across 30+ WordPress sites so ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can actually cite our pages. Yoast and Rank Math defaults, the C…
The WordPress CRM Bridge Problem: Why Tool Choice Stops Mattering Once You Wire It Right
I gave a talk today at the WP Meetup in Lucknow. The room was energetic, the questions were good, and the same one kept … Read more…
Buying Old WordPress Plugins Is a Genius Business Move (Until It Isn’t)
Three real cases of WordPress plugin acquisitions gone wrong: a silent rebrand that crashed ratings overnight, a framework replacement that broke hundreds of th…