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VOL.04 / ISS.27
EST. 2009 · MIA / LTS / GPL
jack arturo · vgp
"Just another Wordprussite." — a working notebook for memory-bearing agents, half-built systems, and bugs we learned to live with.
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October2025 // scroll ↓
We Built a Free Email Marketing System That Runs on Cloudflare (Yes, Really) 🎉 Update: We open-sourced this! Get AutoMail free at github.com/verygoodplugins/automail Today while building the AutoMem.AI website, we needed a simple waitlist and email marketing system. The usual suspects (ConvertKit, Mailchimp, etc.) would’ve cost $20-50/month before we even had our first...
September2025 // scroll ↓
FREE EXCHANGE The curvature of influence: Until recently, WordPress developers had little reason to consider “platform geopolitics.” Plugin markets work best when many developers vie for site owners’ favour. They work badly when a few firms dominate, setting the defaults and shaping...
July2025 // scroll ↓
Integrating Claude Code into development Disclaimer: the rest of this post is AI generated content, created using Claude Sonnet 4 (MAX) in Cursor. The prompt was: Can you help me draft a blog post for my blog, as a followup to @https://drunk.support/how-we-use-ai-for-software-development/, about how we’ve...
March2025 // scroll ↓
The hitchhiker’s guide to configuring VS Code (and Cursor) for WordPress code standards using PHPCS, PHPCBF, and PHPStan We run into a lot of technical challenges while developing WP Fusion, but I think getting our IDE to properly and consistently lint, beautify, run static analysis, and test our code has been the biggest thorn in my side for... How we use AI for software development (burn this note in 72 hours) (Originally published March 2nd, 2025. Updated March 14th, see end of post for the latest) I’ve been experimenting with new AI tools pretty heavily over the last two years (see my experiments with custom agents or AI-assisted data analytics for...
July2024 // scroll ↓
Let’s talk about a bad user experience (WooCommerce feature compatibility) Today when I logged in to my local test site I saw a scary warning across every admin page. WooCommerce has detected that some of your active plugins are incompatible with currently enabled WooCommerce features. Please review the details. I clicked...
April2023 // scroll ↓
Playing with ChatGPT plugins I got access to ChatGPT’s new “plugins” feature. Since we are Very Good Plugins I figured I had to take a day off to play with it. Two demos: 1. Searching a WooCommerce store, narrowing down products by available colors...
March2023 // scroll ↓
Creating an analytics dashboard for Easy Digital Downloads using AppSmith and ChatGPT We use Easy Digital Downloads to sell WP Fusion, and while it’s been good to us over the years, the reports leave a lot to be desired. To get better insights into churn, MRR, and active customers growth, I’d been...
February2023 // scroll ↓
Moist January 2023 Effective dates: Jan 9th – Feb 11th Stats:
January2023 // scroll ↓
Creating a GPT3 powered support bot for WP Fusion I’ve been itching for a few weeks to try training a GPT3 chat bot on some of our WP Fusion support resources. We have over 400 pages of docs, 4,500 chat logs, and over 18,000 support tickets at our disposal,...
December2021 // scroll ↓
CMD + A + Del Tracy’s tweet reminded me of an experience I had recently… I mostly manage to avoid the block editor, but sometimes in debugging something, or on a customer site, I end up using it… and it’s interesting to see how it’s...
July2021 // scroll ↓
It’s not the number of plugins… Elementor + 61 active plugins VultrHF server – 4Gb + 2 CPU WP Rocket Cloudflare APO 🚀🍸 GrooveFunnels got into loans now 👌
April2021 // scroll ↓
And the winner is….. JetPack! 🥇 Event Blocks? I’m trying to make sense of The Events Calendar‘s decision to allow events to be managed in the block editor. What benefit does the end user gain by being able to drag and drop ticket metadata blocks around the admin?... Favorite fruit? Low hanging fruit 🍐
January2021 // scroll ↓
awkward *is distracted with something* “Hey what should my cousin use to start her new website? me: “Wix” 🙈 Sorry @photomatt q: What’s a pirate’s favorite HTML entity? a: → Hello world Hi. I’m Jack. You might know me from Very Good Plugins, WP Fusion, or Fatal Error Notify. This is my personal blog where I’ll post random things that don’t quite fit on any of my company blogs. And try to...