The New WordPress Abilities API: Stop Doing Things Twice
I had a client with a simple request. We’d built a small utility plugin for them that listed out all the URLs of a specific…
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If You Build It, They Won’t Come: A Hard Lesson in Developer Marketing
Got a call last week from a sharp developer. Seriously smart guy. He’d built this incredibly detailed WooCommerce extension for managing subscription data exports. The…
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…
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 Guessing: A Real-World WordPress Error Logging Fix
Got a call from a client last week. Total panic. Their WooCommerce store’s checkout was throwing a 500 error, but only sometimes. And only, it…
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…
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…