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
- 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…
- AI & Tools
Learnomy for Developers: The Hooks, REST API, and Extension Seams Behind 1.4.0
Learnomy is a platform you build on, not a closed box. A developer’s tour of what 1.4.0 opens up: the question-type registry, the content-standards bridge…
- Wbcom Designs
Shipping Jetonomy for iOS: a native app for your WordPress community
How I built and shipped Jetonomy, a native iOS app that takes any Jetonomy-powered WordPress community mobile: the stack, WordPress Application Passwords auth, …
- Community
The complete WordPress platform I wish I had built on ten years ago
A decade of addons taught me I was building pieces of one platform. Here is what that platform looks like now: community in Jetonomy, media in MediaVerse, learn…
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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