What is Software Complexity and Why Should You Care?
I got a call from a new client. Their WooCommerce store was bleeding money because one of their main payment gateways would randomly fail at…
Category: Bug Fixing
A Better Way to Build Complicated WordPress Queries
I got a call from a client with a big WooCommerce store. Their “You Might Also Like” section on product pages was a disaster. It…
Stop Writing Messy WP_Query Arrays. Do This Instead.
Got a call from a client running a huge WooCommerce store. They wanted a “related products” feature that was… ambitious. It needed to show products…
Stop Hooking Your WordPress Classes in the Constructor
I got a call from a client in a panic. Their custom inventory sync plugin was failing silently on the live site. No errors, no…
Stop Scattering WP_Query: Use a Repository Pattern Instead
I got a call from a client with a major headache. They run a big events portal, built on a custom plugin we inherited. Over…
Stop Chasing Bugs: A Better WordPress Event Management System
Had a client come to us with a site that was a total mess. It had years of custom code from different developers, and things…
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…
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…