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…
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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…
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…
Connecting Fitness Trackers to WooCommerce: A Developer’s Story
Had a client in the health space come to me with a fascinating idea. They sell personalized meal plans via WooCommerce and wanted to integrate…
Stop Writing WooCommerce Queries That Crash Your Site
I got a Slack message from one of our project managers. A client’s WooCommerce shop—a big one, thousands of products—was crawling. Product pages were taking…
How Good Debugging Skills Can Make You a Better Developer
Got a call from a client. Total panic. A crucial “20% OFF” coupon for their wholesale customers wasn’t working. Regular customers? Fine. But the high-volume…
Using the Static Factory Method Pattern in WordPress
I was working on a WooCommerce plugin for a client to sync their product inventory with a third-party API. Total classic scenario. The problem was,…
Set Up Basic WordPress CI for Stable Deployments
I got a call from a new client running a pretty busy WooCommerce shop. Their dev team was pushing updates, but every deployment was 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,…