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6/26/2026
I spent 18 months building an AI-native ecommerce plugin for WordPress. Here is what I learned.

I spent 18 months building an AI-native ecommerce plugin for WordPress. Here is what I learned.

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Author spent 18 months building EasyCommerce, an AI-native WordPress ecommerce plugin that treats a shopping agent with 23 tools as a core feature, not a bolt-on addition. Key architectural decisions: dedicated database tables for orders/products (instead of WordPress post/meta), agentic AI for full customer conversations, and shipping development learnings openly. Invites community to share early architecture decisions that shaped their products.

  • •18-month production-ready build of AI-native WordPress ecommerce plugin with 30+ releases
  • •Three defended architecture decisions: dedicated DB schema, AI as core (not bolt-on), open shipping
  • •Shopping agent with 23 tools handles full conversations, catalog search, coupons, and order placement

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#ai-tools#ai-agents#product-launch#open-source
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