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…
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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,…
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…
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…
Why Your WordCamp Talk Got Rejected (And How to Fix It)
A junior dev on my team looked crushed. “They rejected my talk,” he said, staring at his laptop. He’d just gotten the canned ‘thanks but…
That Time a Client’s Coupon Failed During a Flash Sale
Got a call from a client. Total panic. They’d just finished a flash sale for their WooCommerce store, and the star attraction—a coupon for 50%…
WordPress Performance Troubleshooting: Finding the Real Bottleneck
Got an email the other day. Subject: “Our site is SUPER slow.” It’s the kind of message every developer gets. Vague, urgent, and you know…
Stop Calling get_option Directly. Do This Instead.
I took over a legacy WooCommerce plugin for a new client last month. Total nightmare. The previous developer had sprinkled get_option() and update_option() calls everywhere,…
How to Properly Generate HTML in WordPress (Without the Mess)
Had a client come to me with a ‘quick job’ the other day. They have a super active blog, great community, and they wanted to…