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.

How to Leverage Slash Commands to Code Effectively

Stop wasting time re-typing repetitive AI prompts. Learn how to leverage Slash Commands in tools like Cursor and Claude Code to automate WordPress development, from scaffolding unit tests to analyzing debug logs. Senior dev Ahmad Wael shares his “Golden Prompts” for building a faster, more consistent technical workflow.

Proven Automatic Prompt Optimization for Multimodal Agents

Stop guessing with your prompts. Automatic Prompt Optimization uses systematic algorithms like HRPO to refine multimodal vision agents, replacing manual trial-and-error. Learn how to implement the Opik-optimizer SDK with GPT-5.2 to improve accuracy by over 150% in production autonomous driving scenarios. A technical guide from a senior developer’s perspective.

Penpot MCP Server: AI Workflows With Real Design Context

The Penpot MCP server experiment marks a major shift in AI-powered design workflows. By leveraging the Model Context Protocol, Penpot provides a secure, structured bridge for LLMs like Claude to interact with real design data. This senior dev’s take explores why design-expressed-as-code is the only way to eliminate AI hallucinations and technical debt.