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[Chris Baldelomar @ChrisBaldelomar]

Another web agency recently asked me whether Gallop could make migrating away from Lovable easy, including moving the entire codebase and database without losing data or breaking the live application.

With Gallop's latest update, the answer is yes.

Gallop can now guide you through the entire migration in one AI chat conversation. It walks you through each step, asks questions, helps you connect your vendor accounts, and prompts you for API keys and confirmations when needed.

The goal is simple: move your Lovable application to your own Cloudflare and Supabase accounts, giving you full control over your code, hosting, and data.

That means lower hosting and database costs, greater independence from Lovable, and more flexibility in how you pay for AI development.

What makes Gallop different is its architecture. Unlike cloud-based AI development platforms, Gallop runs your development environment locally on your computer, giving AI direct access to your project files and development tools while connecting to vendors like Cloudflare and Supabase.

And with Gallop you can basically turn on self-driving mode. Instead of figuring out every technical step yourself, you can let AI navigate the editor, guide the migration, and complete complex development tasks while you answer questions and approve important changes.

In this video, I demonstrate what self-driving software development looks like: AI navigating your development environment, connecting your services, and completing a complex migration from start to finish, all within one guided chat.

Give Gallop a test drive: https://t.co/Wnhq08yRNo

Learn more about Web Plant Media: https://t.co/GSrl7EYiRW

[Chris Baldelomar @ChrisBaldelomar]

Elon Musk has predicted that AI and robotics will bring prices down by making goods and services more abundant.

Well, that’s exactly what’s happening for our clients in the software world.

We used to charge $5,000 to build a custom website. Today, we offer custom websites starting at $50/month with no startup fees.

Gallop, our AI code editor, is a big part of how we made that possible.

Using Gallop, we migrated a client’s aging WordPress website to a modern Next.js frontend connected to headless WordPress, complete with custom email marketing and website analytics tools.

The client still uses the familiar WordPress backend to manage his 1,800 posts and 2,600 comments, while visitors enjoy a completely new frontend. We also migrated 10 years of analytics data into the new analytics tool, moving it off WordPress.

Gallop gives your favorite AI model the development environment, tools, and harness it needs to handle complex website projects from start to finish, all within one chat session.

With Gallop, we can build and test new features for Next.js and React websites much faster. We’re also replacing costly software subscriptions with custom tools we build using AI, eliminating those recurring subscription fees.

World-class website features have become incredibly affordable for small businesses now.

In this video, I walk through a client project, what we built, and how AI is helping us make this level of custom development affordable.

Try building your next project with Gallop: https://t.co/Wnhq08zpCW

Or have WebPlant Media build or migrate your site in hours: https://t.co/GSrl7EYQHu

[Chris Baldelomar @ChrisBaldelomar]

AI isn’t going to kill WordPress.

I think AI is going to push WordPress back to what it does best: publishing content.

AI is also making real source code accessible to non-coders, giving them nearly unlimited freedom to customize the design and functionality of their websites simply by describing what they want.

In this video, I show how we’re using Gallop AI Editor + Next.js + headless WordPress to bring those two worlds together.

You get a streamlined WordPress experience for writing, editing, and publishing content — combined with an AI-powered website editing experience with incredible freedom over design and functionality.

It’s the best of both worlds.

This is where I think WordPress development is headed.

[Chris Baldelomar @ChrisBaldelomar]

I've been programming and developing for the web for over 20 years.

I started with Dreamweaver, then Notepad++. Then I fell in love with VIM and used it professionally for over a decade.

But since 2025, AI has completely changed how I build software.

Here is my current workflow using Gallop + Claude to update an app feature, audit the AI-generated code, test it, and deploy it.

[Chris Baldelomar @ChrisBaldelomar]

I've been using https://t.co/Hlyb7TDlSO AI editor which is basically a @claude_code wrapper for easy React and Next.js development, and it has worked really well for me. I no longer use VS Code or Cursor for my projects. I can screenshot, annotate, and get immediate file context inserted into the terminal, and I can use my Claude Code Max account without being locked into using API keys. It's been the fastest way for me to develop production-ready Next.js sites, at the cheapest possible Claude AI API cost.

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@ChrisHufnagel Hi Chris. I am both interested and available. You can see a sample of my Genesis development work by visiting my website: https://t.co/G3gguN9cqn

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@CarmenLindsay17 Yes, that can easily be changed using my Designer Fonts plugin. https://t.co/Vuy67KUGTl

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@family_journeys Hi There. Simply create a new page titled "Collage 1". And from there, you can set your custom featured image for that collage. The WordPress guidelines was so that content had to be pulled from pages rather than text and image fields from inside the widget.

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@helenhousandi User error on my end. You can insert custom widgets at registration per the instructions on your starter-content docs page. Thanks!

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@helenhousandi on WP starter-content doc, you say "Custom widgets can also be registered at the time of starter content registration". According to wp-includes/theme.php, WP doesn't include any widgets that is not part of the core. Can custom widgets be added at registration?

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@mailmateapp If someone sends an email to an address, when I reply, the "from" email in the new message should be same as the "to" email.

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@mailmateapp With multiple reply-to email address, how can I set the reply email to be the address in the "to field"?

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@mailmateapp When viewing original email source of ones marked SPAM, double quotes got converted to “ and ”

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@mailmateapp HTML signatures was causing my emails to be marked as SPAM by Gmail. Disabled HTML signatures, and emails went into INBOX.

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@mailmateapp Awesome support! Thank you very much.

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@mailmateapp I often paste code in my email, but double quotes get converted to curly quotes. Can this be disabled?

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@Rackspace Awesome CloudSites support from Tyler. I will recommend Rackspace products and services to my friends and partners. Thank you!

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@1828Dictionary I would love to get my hands on your 1828 Webster's Dictionary database file. Is this possible?

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@sanseref That is not easily possible.

[Web Plant Media @webplantmedia]

@TigerFork Head over to my support site for help and tutorials. http://t.co/JwXzQWGlfN