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,…
Category: Bug Fixing
WordPress Type Safety: Why Your ‘Safe’ Code Is Failing Silently
I got a call from a client. Their new junior dev was trying to use a custom function I’d built to update post meta, but…
Stop Being Scared of the Command-Line Interface
I was reviewing a pull request from a junior dev on my team the other day. Smart kid, really sharp with React. But I saw…
WordPress Acceptance Testing: A Guide for Busy Developers
I got a call from a client running a big membership site. We’d just pushed what we thought was a minor update—just adding a new…
WordPress Admin Pages: From Spaghetti Code to a Scalable System
A client came to us with a plugin that was, to put it mildly, a total mess. It started simple enough—one little settings page. But…
Stop Using FTP: A Practical Guide to Git Push for WordPress
I got a call from a new client in a panic. Their site was down. White screen of death. Turns out, their previous developer had…
Minor Update, Major Fix: Why Woo 10.3.4 Matters
I got a call last week from a client in a panic. Their international orders were failing at checkout, but only when customers tried to…
WP-CLI: Fixing WordPress When The Dashboard Dies
I got a frantic call last Tuesday. A client, running a decent e-commerce setup, had just pushed an update. Classic story, right? Suddenly, their entire…