Varun Dubey · Founder, Wbcom Designs
Plugin engineering.
Enterprise AI.
16 years on WordPress.
Wbcom Designs ships some of the most-used community plugins for WordPress: BuddyX, Reign, Jetonomy, MediaVerse, Learnomy, Listora, WP Career Board. We also ship AI workflows for enterprise teams worldwide.
Every touchpoint your product hits
- 01
Infrastructure
Cloud servers, CDN, edge runtime, observability, cost ops. Cloudways, AWS, Cloudflare, custom deployments.
- 02
Web engineering
WordPress and BuddyPress at the core. Laravel and Astro when the work fits. Headless when it earns it.
- 03
Growth + SEO
Technical SEO, content systems, schema, Core Web Vitals, GSC + GA4. Numbers that move, not vanity metrics.
- 04
Automation
Marketing automation, sales ops, content pipelines, ticket triage. Glue code between everything you already pay for.
- 05
AI in the loop
Custom Claude and OpenAI workflows. RAG, agents, codegen, support deflection. AI as a teammate, not a demo.
What I’m thinking about
- AI & Tools
From One Blog to a 12-Site Network: What WP Astro MCP Can Do
WP Astro MCP turns any WordPress site into a fast Astro frontend while WordPress stays the CMS. 57 tools, multi-site, GitHub publishing, live sync. Open source.…
- Community
WB Gamification: One Free Engine, Ten Integrations, Every Site You Run
A founder’s look at WB Gamification: why we built one free engine instead of paid add-ons, what you get, the 10 built-in integrations, and the cross-site …
- Wbcom Designs
What It Actually Costs to Run a WordPress Plugin Business
A first-person P&L peek from a 13-year WordPress agency shipping plugins like Listora, BuddyX, and Reign. The hosting, AI, support, marketing, and hidden c…
- Wbcom Designs
The WordPress directory plugin I kept failing to recommend, so I built one
An honest note on why I built Listora: a usability-first WordPress directory plugin. The tradeoffs I made on listing types, maps, schema, and the free vs Pro bo…
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What the studio is in this week
- Building Headless vapvarun.com on Astro + Cloudflare Workers
- Writing AI-assisted WordPress + Laravel workflows from a small team
- Thinking about How small dev shops keep an edge over freelance + agency AI tooling