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Field notes, playbooks, and code snippets from the mb3techs WordPress team.
Black Friday is 27 November 2026. A practical WooCommerce readiness checklist for agencies: load testing, caching rules for cart and checkout, payment fallbacks, change freezes and a launch-day runbook.
SEO and marketing agencies win the strategy and lose margin on the build. Here is which WordPress work to outsource, what to keep in-house, and how to package it so clients see one team.
How AI assistants like Claude, Cursor and Codex connect to WordPress through MCP, the two main setup options, and the guardrails every agency should apply before letting an agent touch a client site.
A practical decision framework for agencies: the client situations where headless WordPress with Next.js pays for itself, the ones where it does not, and a ten-question scorecard to use in scoping.
WordPress 7.0 put AI infrastructure into core. Here is what the AI Client, Connectors and Abilities API actually do, what else shipped and what was cut, and what agencies should change on client sites.
LCP, INP and CLS explained for agencies: the 2026 thresholds, field data versus lab scores, the WordPress-specific causes of each problem, and a repeatable process for fixing client sites.
What headless WordPress is, when it is the right call for a client, which stack to use in 2026, what it really costs to build and run, and the problems agencies hit after launch.
What AI in WordPress actually means in 2026: the AI Client, Abilities API and Connectors in core, the MCP Adapter for agents, AI content, and the services agencies can sell around it.
We audited all 56 posts on our own blog, found 10 that no other post linked to, and fixed them with 20 contextual links in one afternoon. Here is the exact process, the rules we used, and where AI helped and where it did not.
The build standards we hold every client landing page to: section structure, performance gates, conversion tracking that does not break, and a pre-launch checklist.
Buy a theme or build one? Where each option genuinely wins, the hidden costs on both sides, the hybrid most experienced agencies actually use, and a six-factor scoring method.
Most white label problems are workflow problems, not developer problems. Here is the brief format, board structure, communication cadence and handoff checklist that keep outsourced builds on schedule.
