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Vicente G. Reyes5d ago • 4 min read
The Bug That Threw No Errors: How a Repeat-Trial Guard Silently Killed Our Free Trial Funnel
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. The...
#devchallenge#bugsmash#php#wordpress
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Peter Hallander3d ago • 7 min read
I measured 7,032 WordPress plugins to find out how anyone gets their first install
I shipped a plugin to the WordPress.org directory. It got zero installs. That is not a complaint, i...
#wordpress#webdev#opensource#marketing
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Andrea Tasselli2d ago • 5 min read
How AI Website Builders Actually Work Under the Hood (2026)
Most articles about AI website builders are marketing. "Create a website in seconds!" "No code...
#wordpress#ai#architecture#startup
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Armand al-farizy10h ago • 3 min read
Scanning 50,000 WooCommerce Products Without Hitting a PHP Timeout
If you've ever managed a WooCommerce store past a few hundred products, you already know the catalog...
#woocommerce#wordpress#php#webdev
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Notice27 by Kastovia4d ago • 3 min read
What a WooCommerce notice-placement test matrix should actually cover
I work on Notice27, and one lesson from testing notice placement in WooCommerce is that “it appeared...
#showdev#wordpress#woocommerce#testing
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Grounded5d ago • 5 min read
The EU AI Act's chatbot rule started five days ago. My own plugin was breaking it.
I sell a WordPress chatbot plugin. Its default welcome message was: Hello! How can I help you...
#ai#legal#webdev#wordpress
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Văn Tuấn Lê5d ago • 6 min read
How to Give AI Better Evidence: Lessons From a Security Investigation That Almost Failed
Category: My AI Experiments There's a mental model most people use when working with AI: describe.....
#ai#security#wordpress#webdev
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Stanley A.1d ago • 3 min read
Magento APSB26-92 and WordPress 7.0.4: Two Security Releases, Two Opposite Risk Profiles
Two platform security releases landed 24 hours apart (Aug 11–12, 2026): an unauthenticated account.....
#security#webdev#wordpress#devops
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László Tóth14h ago • 3 min read
How I Connected ChatGPT to WordPress Running in WebAssembly with MCP
I wanted people to be able to let an agent make changes in a real CMS without giving it unrestricted...
#wordpress#ai#webdev#mcp
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Joseph Mason22h ago • 3 min read
Master architecture-review
I’m looking for an independent technical review of an MVP architecture and a developer’s proposed...
#n8nbrightdatachallenge#cloudflarechallenge#wordpress#zoho
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Noshi23h ago • 3 min read
I built a WordPress site with AI. What should I check before launch?
The site works. The forms submit. The pages look right. Is it ready to publish? That's usually the....
#wordpress#ai#security#webdev
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Softminal6d ago • 6 min read
We built an all-in-one WordPress image toolkit. Here's the architecture behind it
We want to talk about why most WordPress image plugins exist as separate, single-purpose tools — and...
#architecture#performance#php#wordpress
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Muhammad Medhat3d ago • 10 min read
WordPress Block Themes vs Classic Themes: Should You Switch in 2026?
If you've been developing WordPress websites for several years, there's a good chance you've spent a...
#frontend#php#webdev#wordpress
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Softminal6d ago • 5 min read
Why Most WooCommerce 'B2B' Plugins Break at Checkout (and How We Fixed It)
You know the bug before you've even opened the store. The product page says $12. The cart says...
#wordpress#woocommerce#wholesale#b2b
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Rafał Groń1d ago • 6 min read
I read the docs of 9 WordPress AI search plugins. Three run TF-IDF and four send you a second bill.
"AI search" is not a protected term. Almost every difference that matters is sitting in the plugins'...
#wordpress#ai#webdev#woocommerce
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Grounded4d ago • 4 min read
An Author on your WordPress site can rewrite what your AI chatbot tells every visitor
Retrieval-augmented generation on a WordPress site works like this: index your pages, find the...
#ai#security#wordpress#webdev
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VeloCMS9h ago • 4 min read
What WordPress Got Wrong About Plugins (And What We're Trying)
WordPress's plugin ecosystem is its biggest strength and greatest liability. We're rethinking plugin...
#wordpress#plugins#security#cmsarchitecture
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moxianyu6975-cpu14h ago • 4 min read
Stripe Says Paid, WooCommerce Says Pending: A Safe Reconciliation Checklist
A customer completes checkout. Stripe shows a successful payment, but the WooCommerce order is still...
#opensource#wordpress#woocommerce#stripe
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Muhammad Medhat3d ago • 10 min read
WordPress Block Themes vs Classic Themes: Should You Switch in 2026?
If you've been developing WordPress websites for several years, there's a good chance you've spent a...
#frontend#php#webdev#wordpress
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Grounded6d ago • 6 min read
Um revisor encontrou três critérios WCAG errados no meu plugin de acessibilidade. Fui verificar e encontrei oito.
Eu desenvolvo um scanner de acessibilidade para WordPress. Na semana passada o revisor de um...
#a11y#wcag#webdev#wordpress
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mohamed mouatassim3d ago • 3 min read
Why Google Doesn't Index Some WordPress Pages: A Practical SEO Checklist
If you've published a WordPress page and it still doesn't appear on Google, the problem is not alway...
#seo#wordpress#webdev#analytics
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John15h ago • 4 min read
How I Built a Niche Entertainment Site on WordPress (And What I'd Do Differently)
A couple of years ago I started FandomWatch, a site covering Netflix news and Stranger Things...
#performance#webdev#wordpress
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аЛЕКС ЛИР1d ago • 2 min read
The Client Question That Predicts a Six-Month Project Better Than Any Spec
I run a small WordPress studio — webmaster.co.ua, 18 years, 235+ projects. There's one question I no...
#ai#webdev#programming#wordpress
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Алексей Невостребов5d ago • 3 min read
Auditing a Vendor's "GDPR Compliant" Claim: A Technical Checklist for Devs
If your team is evaluating a third-party AI tool — chatbot, avatar widget, whatever — and the...
#ai#webdev#programming#wordpress
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