Why the WordPress MVC Pattern Is Usually a Mistake
I just got off a call with a new client. They were at their wit’s end with a “simple” membership plugin another dev built. The…
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Stop Searching for Code and Start Solving the Right Problems
I got a call last week from a new client. It’s a story I’ve heard a dozen times. They had a WooCommerce site, and their…
How the Mediator Pattern Can Untangle Your WordPress Code
Had a client come in with a plugin that was a complete nightmare. It was a critical piece of their inventory management system, but every…
Automating WordPress Updates with Bedrock and Dependabot
I was talking to a client last week who was getting nervous. They manage a handful of WordPress sites built with Bedrock, and the manual…
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,…
Your Code Is Great, So Why Isn’t It Selling?
A buddy of mine, a killer PHP dev, built a WooCommerce extension for subscription invoicing. It was clean, well-documented, and solved a real problem. He…
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,…
Stop Being Scared of the Command-Line Interface
I was reviewing a pull request from a junior dev on my team the other day. Smart kid, really sharp with React. But I saw…