WPBeginner Spotlight 29: WPVibe Passes 100,000 Users, OptinMonster MCP, and an Urgent PHP Fix
October was the month AI assistants stopped being a side feature in WordPress. You can now…
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15 Reddit Scandals That Changed the Internet Forever
Reddit is one of the web’s biggest experiments in community design: pseudonymous users, volunteer moderators, voting…
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WPBeginner Spotlight 28: WPVibe Hits 50,000 Sites, a New WPForms Dashboard, and Two WordPress Security Updates
September was the month WordPress plugins really started talking to AI assistants in a serious way….
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Beyond Batch: Engineering Enterprise Systems for Real-Time Decisioning
The Batch Processing Problem Batch processing isn’t inherently a disadvantage. It becomes a problem when the…
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MCP vs REST/HTTP API vs Kafka: The Architect’s Guide to Agentic AI Integration
Every major AI vendor now supports the Model Context Protocol. The framing is almost always the…
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How To Set Up an NGINX Reverse Proxy for Node.js, Python & Go Apps
There is a significant difference between an application that runs on localhost:3000 and one that is…
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Students Built 108 Websites in Two Weeks in Bangladesh
In July, students at two campuses in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh, built 108 websites. In eastern Uganda, a…
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WPBeginner Spotlight 27: WordPress 7.1, WPVibe AI Everywhere, and a New Way to Record Your Screen
August was a big month for WordPress. WordPress 7.1 arrived on schedule, and WordCamp US brought…
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How to Monitor AI Models Without Drowning in Alerts
When putting their model into production, every team or organization encounters the same issue. Failures go…
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AI Creates Opportunity While Artists Ship at WordCamp US 2026
WordCamp US (WCUS) 2026 just wrapped up after 4 days at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix,…
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Six Patterns for Building Production-Grade AI Quality Systems
1. Why Most AI QA Tools Fail in Production The pattern is now familiar: a team…
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The 11 Best Website Uptime Monitoring Tools Compared (2026)
Downtime costs money and credibility. For SaaS companies and online businesses, a few minutes offline can…
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WPBeginner Spotlight 26: Form Analytics, More AI Tools, and Smarter SEO Monitoring
The main theme of this month’s WordPress news is measurement. Most of what shipped in July…
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How to Block AI Crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Bytespider) on Your Server in 2026
AI crawlers can consume bandwidth, increase server load, and collect your content without sending visitors back…
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Facebook’s Design Didn’t Evolve—It Regressed
There was a time when using Facebook felt completely effortless. You didn’t think about the interface…
