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 with thousands of products, was crawling. Product…
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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….
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…
Technical Documentation: How to Avoid a Nightmare Project
A client came to us with their WooCommerce shop last week. The request seemed simple enough: add a tiered discount for VIP customers. But when…
WooCommerce and Agentic Commerce: What Devs Actually Need to Know
Got an email from a client last week. He forwarded me the official announcement about WooCommerce and Stripe exploring AI and asked, “Ahmad, what is…
Is the Jetpack Mobile App Finally a Serious Tool?
I got a call from a client last week. He runs a pretty high-traffic WooCommerce store and is constantly on the road. He was frustrated…
Hiring a web design partner: look past the pretty pictures
I had a client hit me up last month, completely fed up. They’d just dropped a solid five figures on a new WordPress site, and…