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…
Category: Development
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,…
Why the WordPress Plugins Team Name Change Matters for Your Site
I had a client reach out last week, absolutely fuming. He’d tried to submit a custom integration plugin to the directory, and it got bounced…
Why WordPress Development is About to Break Your CSS
I had a client call last week. Total nightmare. They’d spent months manually overriding heading sizes using a pile of !important tags because the Gutenberg…
Stop Guessing: Adding Automated Unit Tests to Your Plugin
I once had a client—a high-traffic membership site—call me at 2:00 AM because their renewals were failing. They had just pushed a “minor” update to…