We built the same plugin six ways
As part of our WordCamp US 2026 talk we built out the same plugin with the latest Frontier Sol 5.6 and Fable 5 model at xHigh. We pitted it against our Starter pipeline and our full Principal WP Pipeline running Opus 4.8.
As with each plugin we started with the same prompt:
Build an invite-only WordPress plugin for video-game collectors. Registered users search IGDB to add games to their library. Games can have one of four statuses (playing / finished / backlog / wishlist). They can curate a front-end library at
/my-library/, follow each other, and see an activity feed.
This post is part of a series
We build the same plugin with Sol 5.6 xHigh, Fable 5 xHigh, our starter pipeline and our full pipeline. Here are the results.
Full pipeline
Starter pipeline
Frontier models
Sol 5.6 · Fable 5 This page
See it in action
Highlights
Try it yourself
Boots a fresh WordPress in your browser with the plugin activated and demo content loaded. The search runs against the real IGDB catalog. Nothing is saved, refresh to start over.
Boot takes about 20 seconds · runs in your browser