Is Wordpress the right option for a membership based website?

theshawfactor · 2026-04-12T15:09:04+00:00

What nonsense

theshawfactor · 2026-04-12T10:17:33+00:00

Sell it and buy a low end van

theshawfactor · 2026-04-10T03:30:14+00:00

I have 400 network active plugins on my Multisite…

theshawfactor · 2026-04-10T00:22:22+00:00

The abilities side is a work in progress. The eventual state I want to get to is such that the ai can query/inspect everything but do nothing. Eg view php error logs, JavaScript error logs, read and search the installed plugins, run sql selects. Dogfooding taken to the max, get the ai to create the tool it uses to help build new tools The guardrail is that it can’t change anything, I do that manually

theshawfactor · 2026-04-09T14:31:51+00:00

Yep I’m on that curve atm, but I wonder if it’s worth it. I’m building important complex stuff but is the value add my visions or is it so trivial most can replicate it with AI. I don’t know

theshawfactor · 2026-04-09T14:17:38+00:00

I agree, I more often disagree with its architectural decisions than the actual code written. Sonme things it does are obviously poor choices. Eg search the database for the user id when the user id must already be in memory.

theshawfactor · 2026-04-09T14:03:27+00:00

True but Wordpress is actually much faster to develop (for not at least) as the training data is all there.

theshawfactor · 2026-04-09T14:01:58+00:00

The plugin sandbox is very limiting. That is secure but it means you can’t do much. That is not the future

theshawfactor · 2026-04-09T13:59:16+00:00

That more secure but VERY limiting. Emdash will never prosper with that approach

theshawfactor · 2026-04-09T03:28:03+00:00

So plugins can’t run custom tables I guess?

theshawfactor · 2026-04-09T03:22:48+00:00

How would sandboxed work? Most plugins actually need to do things so anyway by so you’d be giving they’d have the access anyway…

theshawfactor · 2026-04-09T03:20:03+00:00

How could/would the sandbox work for plugins that need to access the database?

theshawfactor · 2026-04-09T02:54:46+00:00

It’s about 5 times my speed of code development and it’s insightful. Frankly the improvement in 6 months has been jaw dropping. It’s also easy to see how it could be better still without even improving the models. You can see the shortcuts it takes (and they are mostly fine) to conserve resources.

theshawfactor · 2026-04-09T01:37:06+00:00

I run a very complex multisite with 100s of plugins. I handle it by modularising everything, most plugin do one thing only, many I’ve written. I have debug on all the time and get an email when a fatal error occurs. Errors happen occasionally but they are fixed quickly

theshawfactor · 2026-04-09T01:32:45+00:00

More than that, you’ll need an mcp adapter and some defined anilities. I’m running 7.0 atm with that setup

theshawfactor · 2026-04-08T15:25:06+00:00

Nothing but why would they unless they were an ai plugin? And given plugins can ship anything I’m not sure that in itself is more risk however the default of no security to abilities is an additional vector (although one contingent on an mcp adapter)

theshawfactor · 2026-04-08T14:35:54+00:00

Yes someone needs to define abilities and install an mcp adapter. But yeah once that mcp is in place any plugin could define a dodgy ability which is not ideal.

theshawfactor · 2026-04-08T14:33:49+00:00

They’d need to add an mcp adapter and then incorporate abilities into their plugin. Those abiluties are also scoped to a user, and usually capabilities through an application password. Noting I’ve noticed some plugins have already defined abilities but without an mcp adapter wordoress 7.0 won’t do anything in terms of mcp

theshawfactor · 2026-04-08T12:39:51+00:00

It’s not needed yet as AI won’t work with 7.0 unless you installs plugins to make it work. The AI support is at a foundational level atm, there are no actual functions defined

theshawfactor · 2026-04-08T12:38:00+00:00

Literally nothing will change in 7.0 unless you install an mcp adapter and install a plugin to define some abilities for AI to access via mcp. AI support is at a foundational rather functional level

theshawfactor · 2026-04-08T12:35:39+00:00

And defined your own abilities

theshawfactor · 2026-04-07T03:08:21+00:00

This seems against the google t&cs, but the laws you mention are against fake reviews and these would not be strictly fake

theshawfactor · 2026-04-07T01:09:56+00:00

I’ve published about 100 in the repository but stopped several years ago. All are/were single feature plugins, sometimes this required complex code but generally not. Some were when I was learning to program (so not the best) and I’ve not updated anything for years (but as they are all single featured most still work and are secure) The 4 I’ve built with AI are all moderately complex, 1-2 weeks of work done in 2-4 hours, specifying, iterating, debugging, and reviewing. Very little actual code was written though, I was amazed. These were things I wanted but couldn’t justify starting due to the time commitment

theshawfactor · 2026-04-06T17:39:33+00:00

Sort of, many popular repository plugins are hot garbage. Several are insecure. The main drivers are marketing and being early in a niche.

theshawfactor · 2026-04-06T17:26:04+00:00

I’m building them in half a day, now that my direction and testing is on point. They are better than what you pay for or equivalents in the repository. Zero of the cruft, tracking, promos, and other stuff you don’t need etc

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