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…
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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…
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…