Your Code Is Great, So Why Isn’t It Selling?
A buddy of mine, a killer PHP dev, built a WooCommerce extension for subscription invoicing. It was clean, well-documented, and solved a real problem. He…
Author: Ahmad Wael
Stop the Guesswork: Standardizing Laravel Model Attributes
I inherited a Laravel project a while back. The client wanted a simple change: rename a few database columns for clarity. What should have been…
WordPress Serverless Hosting: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Had a client call me in a full-blown panic. Their WooCommerce site went down. On Black Friday. They’d just launched a massive sale, got a…
Let AI Do the Grunt Work: A Dev’s Take on MCP
I had a client with about a dozen small WordPress sites—nothing major, mostly local businesses. Every month, they wanted a simple health check report. Traffic,…
Using the PHP Reflection API to Tame Legacy Code
I got a call from a client running a membership site on a pretty old, third-party plugin. Their problem? They needed to sync a user’s…
Stop Manually Deploying WordPress Plugins and Use CircleCI Instead
I was working on a small security plugin a while back and decided to get it onto the official WordPress directory. But then I remembered…
When WooCommerce Admin Slows Down: A Real Fix
Had a client come to me with a WooCommerce store that was starting to choke. They had about 30,000 products, and their admin dashboard, specifically…
Stop Writing Messy Code: A WordPress Meta Box Class
Got a call from a client a few weeks back. They have a ‘Resources’ section on their site—a custom post type for PDFs, external links,…
Fixing a Slow WooCommerce Admin Isn’t About a Bigger Server
Got a call from a client in a panic. Their high-traffic WooCommerce store—the kind with tens of thousands of orders—was timing out in the admin…
How to Add Custom Social Icons in WordPress Correctly
I had a client—a sharp little design agency—who was getting endlessly frustrated. They built their site with a block theme, keeping it super clean. But…