About WebberZone

I’ve been building WordPress plugins since 2005. Here’s what that means for the ones you install.

What is WebberZone

Ajay D'Souza

WebberZone is my WordPress plugin brand, run under Beyond DevelopOpens in a new window.

I started blogging in 2003Opens in a new window and released my first plugin in 2005. Auto Close came in 2008, Contextual Related Posts and Top 10 followed in 2009, and the rest arrived to fill a gap I spotted on my own sites.

I still write every line of code, answer the support forums, and publish the tutorials. There is no team behind this. When you file a bug report, it comes to me.

What I build

Eight plugins for related posts, popular posts, search, knowledge bases, link warnings, code snippets, comment management, and author rankings. They run on more than 60,000 WordPress sites and have been downloaded over 4 million times from WordPress.org.

Each one does the same job in a different place: a reader finishes a post, and there’s somewhere to go next.

You’ll also find a collection of easy-to-understand WordPress tutorials on WordPress development and getting the most out of my plugins.

All plugins
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How I build them

Every plugin follows the same rules, whether it’s the one I wrote in 2005 or the one I shipped last month.

Code follows the WordPress Coding Standards. Output is filterable, so you can change what a plugin renders without touching its files. Queries are cached, because a related posts block that runs an unindexed query on every page load is worse than no related posts at all. Settings are documented in both the knowledge base and the code.

I test against current WordPress and PHP versions, and I support the block editor and the classic editor. Neither is going away on my account.

The plugins stay free on WordPress.org.

Pro versions

Four plugins have Pro versions: Contextual Related Posts, Top 10, Better Search, and Knowledge Base. Pro adds features that need ongoing work to maintain, and buying one funds the free version it’s built on.

The User Retention Suite bundles the first three together for sites that want the full set.

Getting in touch

Support questions go through the WordPress.org forums for free plugins, or by email for Pro. Here’s how you can get support.

You can also follow WebberZone on LinkedInOpens in a new window, X (Twitter)Opens in a new window, and FacebookOpens in a new window to stay updated. You can also find open-source repositories on GitHubOpens in a new window.