WordPress 6.9: Styling Forms with theme.json (Finally!)
Had a client call the other day, really happy with the new block theme we built. Said everything looked great… except the forms. The comment…
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Adding Schema.org Microdata to Accordion Block FAQs
Had a client come to me last week. Their SEO guy was breathing down their neck because the beautiful new FAQs page, built with the…
WooCommerce CSV Import Issues? A Dot Release Fixed It.
Got an urgent call a while back from a client running a massive fashion store. They were trying to do a bulk product update—we’re talking…
Custom WordPress Blocks With AI: A Senior Dev’s Honest Take
I got a ticket from a client the other day. Good client, on a monthly retainer. They wanted a copyright notice in their footer that…
Don’t Just “Fix” WP-Cron. Replace It. Here’s How.
Got a call from a client running a pretty busy WooCommerce store. Their inventory sync with a supplier’s API, which was supposed to run every…
The One Tool I Still Wish Every PHP Project Had
I got a call late one Friday. A frantic client. “The checkout page is just a white screen for some customers!” You know the feeling….
WordPress Error Logging That Doesn’t Suck
A client with a high-traffic WooCommerce shop called me up. They were getting hammered with support tickets about an intermittent “invalid coupon code” error at…
Fixing Plugin Conflicts with the WordPress Decorator Pattern
I got a ticket for a high-traffic WooCommerce site where the client was stuck. They had one plugin for database scaling—a HyperDB-style read/write replica setup—and…
Pragmatic WordPress Development: Why “Perfect” Code Is Sometimes a Mess
I got a frantic message from a new client last week. Their WooCommerce checkout was throwing fatal errors, but only for certain customers. Total nightmare….
Stop Writing WordPress Code That Breaks on Tuesday
I got a call last week about a WooCommerce site where the custom shipping calculator had gone sideways. The client explained that a previous developer…