How We Update Five Live Sites Without Breaking Them
How we update five live sites without breaking them: a fixed order, a restore point at every step, and an automatic gate, shown with our EmDash 1.1.0 upgrade.…
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Should You Submit a Plugin to WordPress.org in 2026? A Complete Guide
Should a new plugin vendor still submit to WordPress.org in 2026? The queue numbers, the Free and Pro rules, the security gate on every release, and how we run …
Don’t Marry a Plugin or Theme: Start From Your Business Flow
Stop bending your business to fit a plugin or theme. Map your flow first, use proven products for generic parts, and hire a developer for the gaps and your edge…
We Moved Five WordPress Sites to EmDash the Week 1.0 Shipped
Five of our WordPress content sites now run on EmDash 1.0.1. Here is what the move took, what the upgrade broke, how read replication fixed it, and which sites …
Why Our Free WordPress Plugins Aren’t Crippled on Purpose
Most WordPress plugin companies ship a free version that’s deliberately hobbled. We ship the opposite – full features for free, and you only pay whe…
Why Written Rules Do Not Reliably Govern AI Agents
Why a rule written into an AI agent context often fails to hold, what a new benchmark measures, and how we replaced instructions with enforced gates.…
Three Entry Points Every Data Store Needs
Every custom data store needs three entry points: a frontend, an admin screen and a REST API, all built on one shared service layer instead of three.…
A Bug Report Is a Lead, Not a Spec
A bug report hands you one symptom and two hypotheses. How our team replicates first, fixes the whole class of bug, and verifies before closing it.…
The Big-Site Readiness Checklist: 11 Things I Check Before Any List View Ships
I run this 11-point checklist against every list view we ship, because five rows in a demo will never tell you the truth about how it behaves at 2,000.…
Five Releases in a Week, and Almost None of It Was Features
Our team shipped five product releases this week. Almost none of it was features. Here is what real money, currencies and timezones taught us.…
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…