WordPress Blueprints: A Real Fix for Dev Environment Headaches
Had to onboard a new junior dev last month for a big WooCommerce project. First task was simple: set up the local environment. He’s a…
Category: Development
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…
My Client’s WooCommerce Site Crashed. Here’s the Real Fix.
I got a call from a client in a full-blown panic. Their WooCommerce store, which does huge numbers, was completely down. On Black Friday. They…
Set Up Basic WordPress CI for Stable Deployments
I got a call from a new client running a pretty busy WooCommerce shop. Their dev team was pushing updates, but every deployment was a…
Your Code Is Great, So Why Isn’t It Selling?
A buddy of mine, a killer PHP dev, built a WooCommerce extension for subscription invoicing. It was clean, well-documented, and solved a real problem. He…
Stop the Guesswork: Standardizing Laravel Model Attributes
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…
WordPress Serverless Hosting: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Had a client call me in a full-blown panic. Their WooCommerce site went down. On Black Friday. They’d just launched a massive sale, got a…
Let AI Do the Grunt Work: A Dev’s Take on MCP
I had a client with about a dozen small WordPress sites—nothing major, mostly local businesses. Every month, they wanted a simple health check report. Traffic,…
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…
Stop Manually Deploying WordPress Plugins and Use CircleCI Instead
I was working on a small security plugin a while back and decided to get it onto the official WordPress directory. But then I remembered…