A developer reflects on how software development has transformed over the past decade, with faster time-to-market, AI integration, and broader priorities, while asserting that core engineering princip…
A developer used OpenAI Codex and Anthropic's Claude to build a 4,700-line WordPress security plugin in two days, stopping a massive spam attack that had flooded his database with over 39,000 fake use…
SeedProd released version 1.5.1 of WPVibe, an MCP server plugin that lets users safely connect any MCP-compatible AI to their WordPress site for content creation, SEO, and theme editing. The plugin en…
A developer warns that AI-generated PHP code is creating a generation of Laravel operators who lack fundamental PHP knowledge, citing a case where a developer using Claude copied a controller that use…
Syncpen launched a markdown writing app that integrates with AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Cowork, allowing them to read, draft, and propose edits within documents while tracking changes and…
A developer built a utility module to handle HTTP Basic auth credentials for WordPress maintenance tools using Playwright and urllib. The module centralizes credential extraction and encryption, preve…
KaliCart Bridge, a free WooCommerce plugin, makes product catalogs machine-readable for AI shopping agents without requiring an API key or cloud service. It exposes structured REST endpoints and disco…
A developer tested connecting an OpenAI-compatible API to WordPress AI using the Koneek plugin. The test successfully integrated OpenRouter as a provider, enabling WordPress AI features through config…
A developer decided to build a personal website from scratch by hand, writing every line of code without boilerplate, to regain confidence and understand the code that AI tools produce. The developer,…
A developer discovered that Google Analytics 4 (GA4) underreports AI crawler traffic by roughly 9x compared to raw server logs, because most AI agents do not execute JavaScript. To address this, they …
A developer migrated a WordPress site to Cloudflare Pages using AI assistance, with Claude converting XML exports to Markdown and generating migration scripts. The process revealed that 80% of posts c…
A developer spent 18 months building EasyCommerce, an AI-native ecommerce plugin for WordPress that serves as a WooCommerce alternative. The plugin uses dedicated database tables for orders, products,…
A comparison of three WordPress translation plugins—WPML, Polylang, and WeLocale—highlights differences in price, setup time, translation methods, and SEO support. WPML is best for complex sites and a…
Nicolas, the developer behind HikaShop, describes how AI has expanded the range of projects worth starting by lowering the cost of building. Using AI, he built a bridge to port HikaShop to WordPress i…
A developer's comparison of Python and PHP in 2026 concludes that Python is the better choice for beginners and those interested in AI/ML, while PHP remains strong for WordPress, client sites, and Lar…
WordPress developers near-unanimously pushed back on a proposal to merge a Knowledge Custom Post Type into WordPress Core, arguing the feature is out of touch with user needs. The proposal, introduced…
WordPress developers are pushing back against a proposal to integrate a Knowledge Custom Post Type into WordPress Core, arguing the AI-focused feature adds bloat and is not a user priority. The featur…
Microsoft Clarity now flags bot requests that violate a website's robots.txt rules, displaying them as a percentage of total bot activity in its Bot Analytics dashboard. The feature, which must be ena…
Recto launches a one-time $39 tool that finds orphan pages on WordPress and Webflow sites, then automatically links them using existing published phrases. The tool ranks orphans by Google Search Conso…
A developer built a programmatic SEO pipeline using n8n, Claude API, and WordPress REST API, deploying over 200 geo-targeted pages in three days. The pipeline reads input from Google Sheets, generates…