Building a Multilingual WordPress Site That Doesn’t Break
Got a call from a client last week. They run a WooCommerce shop selling high-end audio gear and wanted to expand into the German market….
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How to Limit Editor Blocks Without Wrecking the Site Editor
Got a call last week from a client in a full-blown panic. Their marketing team was complaining that the block editor was stripped bare—they could…
CSS Specificity: The Right Way to Fix WooCommerce Styles
I got a call about a WooCommerce shop where the product buttons were a total mess. The client said their ‘Add to Cart’ button was…
WordPress Is Coming. Should You Be Worried?
Got an email from a long-time client this morning. The subject was just “WordPress 6.9?” He’d seen the news about the WordPress 6.9 RC2 being…
WordPress 6.9 Is Fast, But Is Your Theme?
Got a call from a client last week. They were pulling their hair out. They had a solid site on a good server, not overloaded…
How to Write WordPress AI Prompts That Don’t Suck
Got a call from a client. He was frustrated. He’d spent the weekend using one of those new WordPress AI site builders and ended up…
WordPress Email Reliability: How WordPress 6.9 Fixes a Mess
Got a call from a long-time client last week. They run a pretty successful WooCommerce store, and their order confirmation emails were landing in spam….
The New WordPress Abilities API: Stop Doing Things Twice
I had a client with a simple request. We’d built a small utility plugin for them that listed out all the URLs of a specific…
If You Build It, They Won’t Come: A Hard Lesson in Developer Marketing
Got a call last week from a sharp developer. Seriously smart guy. He’d built this incredibly detailed WooCommerce extension for managing subscription data exports. The…
Why the WordPress Singleton Pattern Can Burn You
I was digging through a client’s site recently—the kind of project where three different developers had left their mark over five years. Total mess. The…