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Turning WordPress Into a High-Speed Frontend (Without Going Headless)
Access the Repo Here on GitHub. There’s a growing tension in the WordPress world. On one side, you’ve got the flexibility and ecosystem that made WordPress dominant.On the other, you’ve got performance expectations, modern tooling, and this new wave of AI-driven “vibe coding” workflows. Most teams try to solve this by going fully headless. I think that’s overkill for 80% of use cases. So we built something simpler. Introducing Convesio Static Proxy Convesio Static Proxy is an open source WordPress plugin that lets you load externally hosted static pages directly into a WordPress route. No theme.No template rendering.No WP overhead.…
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MCP Is Coming to Convesio — And It Changes How You Work With Your Stack
We’re getting ready to release our first MCP (Model Context Protocol) at Convesio. Over the last six months, we’ve been building AI capabilities into the platform. But along the way, something became clear: People don’t want another built-in AI. They want to use the one they already trust—whether that’s Claude AI, ChatGPT, or something else entirely. What MCP Actually Is MCP is a direct connection between your AI tool and your Convesio environment. It gives your AI the ability to: All in real time. Instead of logging into dashboards, exporting reports, or piecing together data from multiple tools… You can…
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The Rise of Vibe Coding: Why the Next Generation of Websites Will Move Faster Than Ever
For the last 15+ years, the industry has been trying to solve the same problem: How do we make it easier for someone—anyone—to launch a website? Platforms like WordPress, Shopify, and Wix made massive progress. They lowered the barrier significantly. But there’s an uncomfortable truth that most people don’t talk about: A huge percentage of people who start building a website… never actually launch it. Not because they lack ideas.Not because they lack ambition. Because building is still hard. The Bottleneck Was Never the Platform — It Was the Process Even with drag-and-drop builders, templates, and plugins, the process still…
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Why We Built Payment Orchestration at Convesio
And Why Every Serious Online Business Will Need It For most online businesses, payments are treated like plumbing. You pick a provider, plug it into your checkout, and hope it works. Until one day it doesn’t. Or worse — your account gets frozen on a Friday afternoon, and your entire cash flow disappears over a weekend. I’ve watched this happen to too many businesses. Subscription companies with seven-figure ARR locked out of their own revenue. High-growth DTC brands scrambling to find a backup processor while orders pile up. Merchants in regulated industries getting dropped by providers who decided the vertical…