Developer Diaries
One Architecture, Six Plugins
How six WordPress plugins share one security model, one UX system, and one licensing infrastructure — and why that matters.
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Dual Personality: Standalone-First, Glass-Enhanced
The design pattern behind Conflict Detector and Fortify: work perfectly alone, become better with Glass. How dual-personality architecture enables WordPress.org distribution.
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mattartley.online: The Official Plugin Shop
How Stripe Pro powers the official AJT plugin shop, with the subscription portal, license key management, and the plugin promise that guides everything we build.
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The Glass Portal System: Three Tiers of Access
Customer portals, staff portals, Contracts Managers. Dynamic capability grants, role-based Glass shell access, and per-app visibility control.
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SMTP Pro v3: From SMTP Plugin to Email Platform
Async queue with exponential backoff, webhook delivery tracking, suppression lists, notification routing, and a visual template editor. The v3 roadmap.
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MFA v1.7: Hardening Checks and Nginx Directives
10+ security scans with one-click remediation and a visual Nginx directives generator for Plesk. Because .htaccess is useless on Nginx.
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The Freemium Strategy: WordPress.org Distribution
How we designed a licensing architecture that supports genuinely useful free tiers with no phone-home required, no nag banners, and honest upgrade paths.
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Fortify: Zero-Trust WAF for WordPress
An 8-stage WAF pipeline that fires before WordPress loads. Zero-trust scoring, API Shield, MFA step-up auth, and file-based kill switches for safety.
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Conflict Detector: Autonomous WordPress Monitoring
12 scanner modules, continuous background monitoring, AI-powered analysis. Because "disable all plugins and re-enable one by one" is insane.
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Onboarding Master: Orchestrating Customer Pipelines
11 pipeline stages connecting quotes, forms, contracts, and service setup into one tracked workflow. No new systems, just glue between existing ones.
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