Fixing the ‘It Works on My Machine’ Agency Nightmare
A few months back, we brought on a new dev for a quick sprint on a legacy WooCommerce site. Simple task: optimize the checkout flow…
Category: Development
AI Website Building Reality: Why Your Prototype Isn’t Ready
A client came to me last month absolutely beaming. He’d “built” a full business site in twenty minutes using one of those trendy AI prototyping…
Stop Wasting Time on Staging Sites: WordPress Playground in 2025
I once spent three hours setting up a staging environment just to show a client why a specific plugin was breaking their checkout. By the…
How WordPress Real-Time Collaboration Will Change Your Workflow
I once worked with a massive newsroom client where the editorial team was constantly at each other’s throats. They had fifteen editors trying to polish…
Optimizing WooCommerce REST API Performance with Lazy Loading
I had a client last month running a massive store—thousands of SKUs and a high-frequency inventory sync from their warehouse. They kept complaining that their…
Stop Building on Rented Land: Why You Need an Owned Content Strategy
Last month, a client came to me in a total panic. They had built a massive following on a popular social platform—somewhere north of 50k…
Interactivity API: Extending Core Blocks Without the Bloat
I had a client the other day who was obsessed with a “word-flipping” effect they saw on some high-end SaaS homepage. You know the one—a…
Why Your Generic Web Host Is Killing Your Revenue
Last month, a client came to me with a classic emergency. Their WooCommerce site was taking nearly six seconds to load, and they were bleeding…
What the WordPress 6.9 Release Cycle Means for Your Site’s Future
A long-term client called me last week, sounding like he’d just seen a ghost. He’d seen the news about the WordPress 6.9 release cycle wrapping…
How We Rescued 3,684 Blogs During the Typepad Shutdown
A few months back, a long-time blogger reached out in a panic. He’d been writing on Typepad since 2004—nearly two decades of thoughts, family photos,…