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Author: Varun Dubey

Varun Dubey is a WordPress expert, full-stack developer, and co-founder of Wbcom Designs. With 13+ years in web development, he specializes in building online communities, e-learning platforms, and custom CMS solutions. A long-time contributor to the WordPress ecosystem, Varun also shares insights at WordCamps and mentors developers.

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Gutenberg & FSE

April 14, 2026 • Views: 4

@wordpress/build: The Next-Gen Plugin Build Tool Explained

WordPress announced @wordpress/build, the next-generation plugin build tool that replaces @wordpress/scripts. Here is what changes, what stays the same, and how to migrate your plugin when it ships.

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Scaling Your Freelance Biz

April 14, 2026 • Views: 3

Scaling Your WordPress Freelance Business: From Solo to Agency

The operational shifts that separate a solo WordPress freelancer from a functioning agency, productizing services, first-hire decisions, pricing for margin, systems that survive time off, and the trap of hiring before processes exist.

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CMS Ecosystem News

April 14, 2026 • Views: 2

WordPress March 2026 Roundup: AI Agents, WP 7.0 Progress, Community News

The WordPress stories that mattered in March 2026, AI agents writing posts on WordPress.com, WP 7.0 Connectors API and Pattern Overrides, WordCamp Asia fallout, and the plugin ecosystem shifts nobody is talking about.

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React & Vue for CMS

April 14, 2026 • Views: 1

React in WordPress: Building Interactive Blocks and Admin Interfaces

How React actually works inside WordPress, building Gutenberg blocks with @wordpress/scripts, creating admin screens with @wordpress/components, state management with data stores, and when to reach for the Interactivity API instead.

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Proposals & Contracts

April 14, 2026 • Views: 2

WordPress Project Proposals: Templates and Best Practices for Freelancers

How to write WordPress project proposals that win work and prevent scope creep, with a full proposal template, discovery checklist, pricing models, and what to put in the Statement of Work.

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AI in Web Development

April 14, 2026 • Views: 3

AI Code Review for WordPress: Using Claude and Copilot to Audit Plugins

A practical workflow for running AI-assisted code reviews on WordPress plugins using Claude and GitHub Copilot, covering security audits, WPCS compliance, PHPStan integration, prompt patterns that work, and where AI still gets it wrong.

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Deployment Strategies • Dev Workflows

April 14, 2026 • Views: 4

WordPress CI/CD: GitHub Actions for Automated Deployment

A practical CI/CD pipeline for WordPress with GitHub Actions, covering PHPCS linting, PHPUnit tests, SSH-based deployment, WP-CLI remote commands, staging to production promotion, and secrets management.

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Blog

April 11, 2026 • Views: 8

WordPress as a Community CMS: Forum Plugins vs Standalone Platforms in 2026

I’ve architected WordPress community stacks for 8 years. Here’s the honest trade-off matrix between WordPress plugins, Discourse, and hosted SaaS platforms.

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Creating Online Courses

April 10, 2026 • Views: 4

How to Sell Online Courses with WordPress: Complete LearnDash + WooCommerce Guide

Learn how to sell online courses with WordPress using the LearnDash and WooCommerce integration. This complete guide covers course products, subscriptions, certificates, and student dashboard setup.

WordPress Performance Monitoring: New Relic, Datadog and Query Monitor

Monitoring Tools

April 10, 2026 • Views: 3

WordPress Performance Monitoring: New Relic, Datadog and Query Monitor

A practical guide to WordPress performance monitoring tools — New Relic APM setup, Datadog distributed tracing, and Query Monitor slow query identification. Covers transaction tracing, real user monitoring, and alerting thresholds for production WordPress sites.