#BuildThatBiz Week 49: An early update today as I'm out this afternoon and my head isn't in the right frame of mind for deep work. This week started off with a catch up from being away in Poland - some minor fixes to a recent client project, tweaks to Divi Form DB for a recent customer and with more advanced requirements, and then sending out coupon codes for the Rock, Paper, Scissors winners. Wrote up my WCEU recap post. I need to start drafting up "The Future" post soon for what I plan to focus on for Year 2 of growing my business. Tues evening / Wed morning was replicating a recent feature for Hamish & Milo, my portal client. I attempted it without out AI and got 90% the way there. Claude had to jump in to highlight the one key line of code I missed with the copy-paste to set the correct tenant to begin with. Wed afternoon / Thursday morning was focusing on setting up my new VPS. Access to Azure credits ran out so my Website Toolkit Win 11 development server needed to be shut down. I'm now learning how to set up a Linux based VPS, using git to push up and pull down in a more controlled way (instead of copy and paste a folder over RDP). When chatting to the Web Change Detector team at WCEU they said Claude had re-designed their UI, so I asked Fable to give it a try and pasted my basic UI in. The result went over to Claude to implement, and is now being tweaked but looks a lot better (table stakes SaaS type of UI). During a chat with the Freemius team to demo a copy of Website Toolkit they asked if it could be paused to see the current progress, which at that point it couldn't. This has now been added in to see the current state of the crawl and also to load up the in-progress results. Handy for larger site to see how far thru it is, as it runs politely it can take an hour to process and check all resources to see if they exist. Also handy for me to monitor during testing. I'm attempting to keep the different parts of the WT service separate, which would allow cheap regional based nodes to be set up in the future in an easy way without over engineering it at the start. That's it for now, time for a hot chocolate!

I wouldn't tell you I've been using Fable, but yadda yadda yadda....

My post WCEU to-do list is getting smaller. All Rock, Paper, Scissors winners have had their coupons emailed out. After lunch - finding that pesky dashicon which WP7.0 has moved. Found during a @ToggleWP demo.

WCEU 2026 Part 1: The Recap is now out. davegrey.co.uk/2026/06/09/wc… "Part 2: The Future" will be coming at some point once I've thought things over and caught up with client work.

Took a closer look at Envato's 50% author fee change and its impact on WordPress product companies. The article explores a question many product businesses face: When does it make sense to leave the marketplace and go independent? My thoughts 👇 blogginc.com/blog/envatos-au…

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#BuildThatBiz Week 48: A couple of days late as I'm still out of the country, and honestly need some time for my brain to decompress. I'm going to attempt a blog post on the main WCEU part of the week to keep this shorter. Start of the week was still prep and planning for the trip. Heard back from my corporate client that their careers platform integration project has had the green light, that had been pending for a couple of months but will now be a few weeks work on that once back. Dev part will be shorter, but expecting the usual back and forth on decisions. Some other minor site admin tasks came up to deal with just before travelling, which for anyone leaving the country is expected - hearing from clients just before heading off. That pretty much wraps up everything I can think of for now.