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…
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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…
Project Gutenberg 2026 Status: What Happened to WordPresss Biggest Editor Bet
An honest 2026 status check on Project Gutenberg: what actually shipped across Phases 1 and 2, where Phase 3 collaboration and Phase 4 multilingual actually sta…
What WordPress Development From India Actually Costs (And the Quality You Get)
After 13 years running Wbcom Designs from India, here is the honest version of what WordPress development rates from India actually mean.…
How I Generated 47 WordPress Tests in an Afternoon Using Claude Code: Playwright + PHPUnit for QA Teams
I generated 47 WordPress tests in 4 hours using Claude Code. Here’s the exact Playwright + PHPUnit code it wrote for admin flows, BuddyPress group creatio…