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,…
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Fixing a Slow WooCommerce Admin Isn’t About a Bigger Server
Got a call from a client in a panic. Their high-traffic WooCommerce store—the kind with tens of thousands of orders—was timing out in the admin…
How to Add Custom Social Icons in WordPress Correctly
I had a client—a sharp little design agency—who was getting endlessly frustrated. They built their site with a block theme, keeping it super clean. But…
Thinking in Objects: A Real-Talk Guide to WordPress OOP
I took over a client’s site last month. Total mess. The previous developer promised them a “modern, object-oriented plugin” to handle their custom reporting. What…
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…
Stop Treating Custom Post Types Like Data Dumps
A client came to us with a WooCommerce site that was a total mess. Their product pricing wasn’t just a simple number; it had layers…
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…
How to Properly Autowire a Symfony Console App
I was working on a project for a client with a huge, old-school inventory system that needed to sync with WooCommerce. The only way to…
Serverless vs. Traditional Hosting: What’s the Difference?
A client called me in a panic. Their WooCommerce site, which they’d spent a fortune hosting on a “premium” managed server, had just crumbled under…