Why Your WordPress Query is a Mess (And How to Fix It)
I got a call from a client running a decent-sized WooCommerce shop. They were in a panic. Their main shop page, which should have been…
Category: Bug Fixing
How to Start Unit Testing Your Existing WordPress Code
Had a client call last week. They’ve got this huge, old WooCommerce plugin that’s been passed through three different dev teams. A new junior dev…
Finding the real WordPress performance bottleneck
A client’s site was crawling at 5-7 seconds a page. The cause wasn’t a slow query but an uncached external API call from a plugin, which I tracked down with Query Monitor and fixed with a transient.
Wrap the WordPress Options API in one class
A legacy WooCommerce plugin had get_option and update_option calls scattered everywhere, with clashing prefixes resetting settings. The fix was one wrapper class that owns the options table and adds the prefix for you.
Generate HTML in WordPress without the mess
A client wanted a shortcode to highlight reader comments, but the inherited code crammed all the HTML into the shortcode function. Moving it into a dedicated generator class and a separate template file keeps the markup out of the PHP.
WordPress dependency injection without a framework
A custom events plugin where every class built its own dependencies was impossible to test or change. A small DI container built from closures gave one place to wire the objects together, without pulling in a framework.
Stop hacking WordPress admin pages: build a class instead
I got a call from a client last week. Their last developer bailed, and they had a “simple” request: add a new delivery option to…
Standardizing Laravel model attributes to stop the guesswork
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…
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…
When the 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…