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
- Business & Agency
Twelve Products, One Vendor: What Building the Whole Stack In-House Actually Buys You
Most WordPress platforms are assembled from five or six vendors who have never spoken to each other. We spent the last two years building every layer ourselves.…
- Community
BuddyNext 1.0.8: The Release Where I Stopped Adding Features
262 commits, and most of them are invisible. Why 1.0.8 is the BuddyNext release I am proudest of: scale that holds, moderation that does not punish good members…
- Community
Eventonomy for Developers: Custom Tables, a 100% REST API, and Seams All the Way Down
Eventonomy is a platform you build on, not a closed box. A developer’s tour of the events plugin I built on custom tables: the eventonomy/v1 REST API, the…
- Community
The Complete Picture of BuddyNext: WordPress’s Community Layer, and How Fast It Keeps Growing
I rebuilt community for WordPress from scratch, and the part I did not fully expect is how fast it compounds. Instead of another changelog, here is the whole of…
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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