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WordPress Development Insights from the Trenches

I’m Ahmad Wael, a WordPress developer with 15+ years of experience building complex WooCommerce stores, custom plugins, and AI-powered solutions for clients worldwide. This blog shares real-world lessons from actual projects—not theoretical tutorials.

You’ll find in-depth guides on WordPress AI integration, WooCommerce optimization, plugin architecture, PHP best practices, and modern development workflows. Every article comes from solving actual client problems, with code examples you can use immediately.

Whether you’re integrating AI agents into WordPress, managing technical debt in legacy codebases, or building scalable WooCommerce solutions, these insights will save you hours of debugging and research.

Development, Front-end

Killing Framework Bloat with CSS Scroll-Driven Animations

A technical recap of the Web Directions Dev Summit 2025 focusing on the shift toward CSS Scroll-Driven Animations. Senior dev Ahmad Wael critiques the reliance on heavy JS frameworks, demonstrates native CSS scroll logic, and discusses the importance of accessibility and performance in modern front-end architecture.

AI, AI in WordPress, Development

Scaling AI: Why AWS Bedrock Beats Direct API Calls

Stop hardcoding API keys and fragile logic. Learn how AWS Bedrock provides a managed gateway for foundation models like Claude and Llama. Senior WordPress developer Ahmad Wael breaks down Boto3 implementations, the necessity of inference profiles, and how to offload AI compute from your web server for better performance.

AI, Development

Maximize Claude Code Effectiveness: A Senior Dev’s Workflow

Maximize Claude Code effectiveness by moving beyond simple chat interfaces. Learn how to use slash commands, project memory, and Plan Mode to automate your WordPress and WooCommerce development. Senior developer Ahmad Wael shares insights on priming your AI agent for better consistency and fewer hallucinations in the terminal.

AI, AI in WordPress, Development

How Infini-attention Architecture Scales Context without Killing Memory

The race for longer context windows in LLMs has a hidden cost: memory. Discover how Google’s Infini-attention architecture uses compressive memory and the Delta Rule to achieve 114x memory reduction, allowing models to process million-token sequences without the massive hardware overhead of standard KV caches.

Fixing Shapley Values Explainability: A Senior Dev’s Guide

Shapley Values are the gold standard for model explainability, but feature correlation often breaks them. Learn why the Symmetry Axiom causes signal dilution and how to use grouping and iterative selection to build robust AI insights that actually work in production environments. Stop shipping misleading model explanations today.

Design, Development, Front-end

Modern CSS Features: Anchor Positioning and @scope Go Baseline

Browser updates for Chrome 144 and Firefox 147 have officially moved major modern CSS features like anchor positioning and @scope into Baseline status. Learn how these native browser capabilities are replacing heavy JavaScript libraries and simplifying component isolation for WordPress developers in 2026.

AI, Development

How to Run Coding Agents in Parallel: A Senior Dev Framework

Stop treating AI as a single-threaded tool. Running coding agents in parallel is the next evolution in developer productivity. In this guide, I share my personal framework for using Claude Code, Warp, and ‘Plan Mode’ to manage multiple agents simultaneously, allowing you to ship features faster while maintaining high-quality standards.

Core Updates, Development

WordPress 7.0 Development: PHP 7.2 Support is Finally Ending

WordPress 7.0 Development is officially moving to drop support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3. Ahmad Wael breaks down the latest Dev Chat highlights, including the debate over the PHP filter extension, the call for release volunteers, and why shedding legacy technical debt is the right move for the ecosystem’s future performance.

Development, Front-end

Building Maintainable Design Systems with CSS Relative Colour

Stop manually calculating HEX codes for your WordPress themes. In this guide, Ahmad Wael explains how CSS Relative Colour and the OKLCH color space allow you to build dynamic, maintainable, and animatable design systems. Learn how to use the ‘from’ keyword and @property to create professional, systemic color architectures.

Bug Fixing, Development, E-commerce Development

Robust Historical Data Analysis: Scaling Beyond Basic MySQL Queries

Stop crashing your WordPress server by running massive historical queries through basic SQL. Senior dev Ahmad Wael explains why Historical Data Analysis requires an OLAP architecture and MDX queries to handle millions of rows efficiently, using a 500-million-row climate study as a blueprint for enterprise-level performance.