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…
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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…
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,…
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…