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…
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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 creation, Woo…
From Student to Shipping Plugins: Building WordPress With Only Free AI in 2026 (A Solo Developer’s Stack)
I challenged myself to ship 3 WordPress plugins in 6 months using only free AI tools. Here is the exact $0 stack, the day-in-the-life workflow, and what actuall…
AI for Backend WordPress Developers: REST API, Custom Endpoints, and WP-CLI Commands With Claude Opus 4.7
How I use Claude Opus 4.7 to design custom REST endpoints with application password auth, write WP-CLI commands, optimize WordPress database queries, and wire b…
AI for Frontend Developers on WordPress: Ship Gutenberg Blocks 3x Faster With Claude + Copilot in 2026
I’ve been shipping Gutenberg blocks for clients since the early Phase 2 days. Back then, scaffolding a new block meant copying a boilerplate folder, … Read more…
Groq + DeepSeek Free API Stack: How WordPress Developers Can Ship Plugins With $0 Budget
I manage over 100 WordPress plugins. My monthly AI API spend dropped to $0 for 80% of the work after rebuilding my dev workflow around Groq’s free tier (30 req/…
WB Ad Manager Pro 1.5.0: five Site Modes and a full membership state machine
WB Ad Manager Pro 1.5.0 is a major upgrade. Five Site Modes, a complete membership state machine, a 3-step setup wizard, direct messaging on classifieds, and 30…
WB Ad Manager: the WordPress ad plugin that replaces three
WordPress ad plugin that ships affiliate link cloaking, ad rotation, and a classifieds marketplace in one install. Free on WordPress.org, Pro adds the advertise…
Why WordPress Is So Hard to Use (And Why That’s Finally Changing in 2026)
People search “why is WordPress so hard to use” hundreds of times a month. An honest founder take on the Gutenberg learning curve, FSE complexity, AI-assisted b…