DevXpert Labs is the experimental arm of Anup Kankale. It's a workbench where freelance client projects and self-driven experiments get built side by side, just to see how far an idea can go.
Before the lab ships anything of its own, it gives back. These are the places I contribute time and code to the open web, freely.
Credited among 800-plus contributors on the latest WordPress core release (August 2026), shipped to millions of sites worldwide.
See the release creditsCredited among 875-plus contributors on a WordPress core release used by millions of sites. Code that helps everyone, owned by no one.
See the release creditsA free, open-source (GPL) plugin on the official directory. Built for a real problem, given to the whole WordPress community to install and use.
View on WordPress.orgContributing to open-source tooling beyond WordPress, pitching in on a project release for the wider developer community.
View the releaseThis part matters to me most. I contribute to WordPress core and open source without expecting anything back, because the tools I build my work on were given to me the same way. The lab is my way of paying that forward.
The lab spans three things, the same mix you'll find on my GitHub: WordPress, AI features, and modern web development.
Custom plugins, Gutenberg blocks, WooCommerce and full theme builds like Aquila, plus contributions to WordPress core itself.
LLM-powered chatbots that capture leads, and end-to-end AI content pipelines that generate and publish, wired up with tools like n8n.
Fast, responsive front-ends in clean HTML, CSS and JavaScript, styled with Tailwind, and moving toward Next.js and headless CMS setups.
New builds get added over time, each with a link to dig in, live on WordPress.org or open on GitHub.
Built for a travel agency drowning in form submissions and priced out of a CRM. It turns Forminator and Contact Form 7 entries into trackable leads inside WordPress, with statuses, feedback notes and CSV export. Rated 5 stars.
View on WordPress.orgA free, lightweight WordPress chatbot that engages visitors, captures leads and stores customer details right in the WordPress database.
View on GitHubAn end-to-end AI pipeline built with n8n that generates and publishes SEO-optimized content automatically, from prompt to published post.
View on GitHubFive years studying Computer Science, a bachelor's then a master's, followed by four years of corporate job experience and contributing to WordPress core and the wider open-source community. Somewhere in there, a pattern became hard to ignore.
The same real-world problems keep coming back, and most tools answer them by piling on complexity instead of removing it. DevXpert Labs is the response: pick one problem, understand it properly, and build the smallest thing that genuinely solves it.
A bachelor's then a master's, learning how software works from the ground up.
Four years of corporate job experience, shipping real software for real users and clients.
Credited as a contributor on WordPress core releases 7.0 "Armstrong" and 7.1 "Mary Lou", plus projects like NudgeBee.
Taking the problems that keep resurfacing and solving them one focused build at a time.
DevXpert Labs is the experimental workshop of Anup Kankale, a WordPress & PHP developer from Mumbai. It's the place where client deadlines and personal what-ifs get worked out with the same care.
The lab exists for one reason: to keep asking how things actually work, then build the answer. The useful experiments become plugins and tools; the rest become lessons.
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