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From the Workbenchby Gaurav Tiwari

From the Workbench: every issue

Notes on WordPress, publishing, search, and independent products, sent when something real comes off my bench.

2026

  1. Improve FluentCart Features with GT Extensions 2.5.0Introducing GT Extensions for FluentCart: practical tools for custom orders, local prices and the work that comes after a sale.
  2. Osmium, a Free WordPress Theme, and Several Plugin UpdatesI launched a new free WordPress theme, Osmium. Osmium is a full-site editing theme tailored for writers and content creators.
  3. The Best Free Performance Plugin for WordPress Is HerePage caching, Cloudflare Free integration, on-server unused CSS removal, Redis and commerce safeguards. Every module on every website, no license fees.
  4. Core Forms Has Its Own Home, and Version 4.7 Is HereA new customer account, stronger commerce and licensing, better polls, accurate Block Editor previews, AI-ready developer tools, and the fastest development pace Core Forms…
  5. I Was Proud of the Wrong ThingsThe client logos I chased turned out to matter least. The boring blog I almost stopped keeping turned out to matter most. Here's what…
  6. WordPress 7.1 Roadmap Meets Supply-Chain ChaosThe 7.1 feature list landed the same week 1.2M sites got backdoored through a stolen CDN key, so you're planning and patching at once.
  7. Gandalf at the GatesEvery WordPress.org plugin release now sits in a 24-hour AI review gate named Gandalf, the same week SiteGround force-installed AI on a million sites.
  8. The Toughest Page to CreateThe hardest page isn't your homepage.
  9. GT Link Manager, WordPress 7 Compat, AI Slop Audit, TT7 Theme, M5 ProGT Link Manager heading to WordPress.org, Functionalities 1.3.0 ships WordPress 7 compatibility, TT7 plans, Core Forms origin story, and the M5 Pro is here.
  10. AI Search Guide, Docanban MCP, Performance Wins, and New HardwareAI search formatting, a massive performance win, Docanban getting an MCP server, and new hardware arriving next week.
  11. Site redesigns, new shop products, and how I’m using AI to publish fasterI redesigned my websites, launched new products in my shop, shipped major plugin updates, and started using AI workflows that fundamentally changed how I…
  12. I Finally Built a Shop (Here’s What’s In It)16 products. 12 free math books. No subscriptions. No nonsense.

2025

  1. I Built a Free ACF Blocks Plugin (And You Should Probably Use It)30+ free WordPress Blocks that you will probably use everyday.
  2. This Week: Templates, Tools, and the MathWordPress development, SaaS economics, mathematics, and content strategy.
  3. FunctionalitiesFunctionalities: My New Modular WordPress Plugin That Fixes the Stuff I’m Tired of Fixing AND Adds Features that You Didn't Know You Needed.
  4. Regional SEO Gets Serious and WordPress 6.9 Changes WorkflowsThis week is all about regional SEO getting serious, WordPress 6.9 quietly changing workflows, and money moving fast in AI, fintech, and edtech. If…

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