LightningByrd

The roadmap

What we’re building next.

The WooCommerce suite was wave one. Wave two takes the same DNA, single-purpose, safe by default, no SaaS strings, to problems every WordPress site has. Here's what's in research and development right now, and why.

  • Honest teasers, announced intentions, not vaporware
  • Storm Kit licenses include future WooCommerce plugins
  • Tell us which one you need first
01In development

Crawl Fence

WordPress plugin · AI crawler control

See exactly which AI crawlers and agents are hitting your site, then allow, throttle, or block each one, with real PHP-level enforcement, not just a polite robots.txt.

The pain

AI bot traffic grew over 300% in a year; site owners have documented single bots consuming terabytes of bandwidth in a month, billed as visits. Meanwhile some hosts silently block the AI crawlers you want for AI-search visibility. Nobody can answer “who is crawling me, and what does it cost?” from inside WordPress.

The teaser

AI crawlers now make up a meaningful share of most sites' traffic, and WordPress gives you no way to see it. Crawl Fence keeps a ledger of every bot that visits, then lets you decide, bot by bot, who gets in, who slows down, and who gets the gate. Observe mode first, always.

02Researching

Tick

WordPress plugin · wp-cron watchdog

A watchdog for WordPress's internal clock, learns what's supposed to run and when, and tells you the moment scheduled tasks silently stop running.

The pain

wp-cron only fires when someone visits your site, and it silently breaks under caching, firewalls, and loopback failures. Scheduled posts, backups, security scans, and email queues all die quietly, with zero notification. The popular cron plugins are viewers and editors; none of them alert you.

The teaser

Half of WordPress runs on a clock that only ticks when someone visits your site, and when it stops, nothing tells you. Tick watches every scheduled job, learns its rhythm, and alerts you the moment one goes quiet. No SaaS account, no per-job setup.

03Researching

Hush

WordPress plugin · admin-notice quarantine

Quarantines plugin ads, review begs, and upsell banners into a reviewable inbox, while never hiding the security and update notices that actually matter.

The pain

Admin-notice abuse is a decade-old WordPress sore that keeps getting worse, and the leading “disable notices” plugin now injects promo widgets of its own. Agencies feel it hardest: cluttered client dashboards look unprofessional, and clients click things they shouldn't.

The teaser

Your dashboard shouldn't be a billboard. Hush moves plugin ads and review begs into a quiet inbox you check on your terms, and refuses, on principle, to hide real security warnings or to ever show you an ad of its own.

Have a vote

Which one does your site need first?

We build in the order operators actually need. Tell us which of these would solve a real problem for you, or describe the WordPress pain nobody's solved for you yet. It genuinely shapes what ships next.