WPVibe.ai has passed 30k active installs 🚀 This is exactly 1 week after we passed 20k. It's really cool to see users connecting their WordPress site with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools to unlock a whole new way of building & managing websites. If you've not given it a try yet, you're seriously missing out. It's a game changer!! AI + WordPress unlocks a new level of flexibility and power that no other platform can match. You can start for free at WPVibe.ai None of this would be possible without the incredible work @johnturner and team are doing. We've shipped 78 out of last 101 days!

I hate CAPTCHAs. And so do your customers ... up to 40% of them abandon a form the moment they see one. But the alternative used to be worse. At one point, my @wpbeginner forms got 18,000 spam requests in a single night. So I tried everything. Honeypots, rate limiting, etc -- they worked for a while until they didn't. There are premium spam tools, but they're often slow & expensive. They flag real people without telling me why. So I asked my team to build something better. It's called ActiveLayer (@activelayerapi) - an AI-powered spam protection that blocks bots without ever asking your real customers to prove they're human. No CAPTCHAs. No tracking scripts. No friction. It runs server-side in milliseconds and returns a verdict with a confidence score, so you can actually see why something was flagged. It works with every WordPress form plugin you already use including WPForms (@easywpforms), @gravityforms, Contact Form 7, Elementor (@elemntor), etc. There's also a clean REST API for everything else, so you can use it on any application platform, not just WordPress. Think of it as a smart security guard for your forms. It welcomes real people, blocks the bots, and never asks anyone to prove they are human. Let's make the web a little less spammy together. Try it free → activelayer.com

Translating my brands with leading SaaS translation tools would have cost us 7 figures annually! For WPBeginner alone, six figures. So last year I tried every well-known WordPress translation plugin instead. Every single one slowed our admin to a crawl. Our post editor was practically unusable. On our WooCommerce / EDD stores, the lag hit the entire checkout. Bad for conversions. Worse for revenue. I kept thinking: why is this so hard? In 2026, AI is good enough that small businesses shouldn't have to choose between site speed and going global. So I asked our team to build the translation platform we actually wanted to use. Today I'm sharing it with you. It's called Universally. AI translates your entire website in minutes. Translations live on our cloud, not your database. So your site stays fast. Often faster, because we deliver from edge servers worldwide. Multilingual SEO is fully automated. Hreflang tags, translated metadata, clean URLs, RTL support. All of it. We've already translated 250M+ words during our private beta. WordPress is live today. Shopify, Wix, Webflow, and Squarespace are next coming very soon. The free plan is genuinely free. No credit card required. You can have your site running in a second language in under 10 minutes. If you've put off translating because it felt too expensive, too technical, or too fragile, this is for you. Try it → universally.com

A.I hackathon + Krispy Kreme = winning combination. Especially when the Hot Now light is on 😁 Built several cool things at our recent @AwesomeMotive AI hackathon.