How Good Debugging Skills Can Make You a Better Developer
Got a call from a client. Total panic. A crucial “20% OFF” coupon for their wholesale customers wasn’t working. Regular customers? Fine. But the high-volume…
Author: Ahmad Wael
A Better Way to Import WordPress Data: The Strategy Pattern
I had a client with a new membership site who needed to import thousands of users from two of their old systems. The first system…
Going Serverless with WordPress: A Pragmatic Guide for AWS
I got a call from a client in a full-blown panic. Their WooCommerce site, which had been humming along just fine, had completely fallen over….
When a PHP Loop is the Wrong Tool for the Job
I got a Slack message from a project manager. A client with a high-traffic WooCommerce shop was complaining that a custom dashboard widget we’d inherited…
Stop Using Strings for WordPress Translations. Use Keys.
I got a frantic call from a client with a big multilingual WooCommerce site. Their marketing head in the UK decided to A/B test some…
Why Your WordPress Fixes Keep Breaking Other Things
I had a client come to me with a custom-built plugin that was causing major headaches. On the surface, the request was simple: “Can you…
Using the Static Factory Method Pattern in WordPress
I was working on a WooCommerce plugin for a client to sync their product inventory with a third-party API. Total classic scenario. The problem was,…
Stop Nesting ‘if’ Statements: A Saner Way to Code
I got a call from a client running a pretty complex WooCommerce store. Their shipping logic was a mess. They had all these rules for…
Building WordPress Admin Pages That Don’t Break Later
Got a call from a client last week. They’ve got a WooCommerce extension that’s starting to get popular, but its settings page was buried under…
A Practical Guide to WordPress Regex That Won’t Break Your Site
Got a call from a client last week. They’d just moved their big WooCommerce site to SSL, did the whole search-and-replace for the new URL,…