How debugging skills make you a better developer
A WooCommerce coupon worked for regular customers but failed for wholesale ones. Deactivating plugins got me nowhere; stepping through the code with Xdebug found a role-check bug in about 15 minutes.
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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….
Why WordPress developers shouldn’t fear the command line
A sharp junior dev was stuck on a bug that only showed up on staging, because he was lost without a GUI. The command line is the most direct way to see what a server is doing, and a couple of basic commands found the error in minutes.
Technical documentation debt turns a simple fix into a nightmare
A simple VIP discount request stalled on a 1000-line, undocumented function nobody understood. The fix was not more code, it was documenting the intent behind it. A short comment block up front saves hours later.
What WooCommerce agentic commerce means for developers
A client asked whether his store needs new AI features. WooCommerce’s agentic commerce lets AI assistants browse and buy through an API, so the prep work is clean product data and stable APIs.
Is the Jetpack mobile app finally a serious tool?
A client asked why every WordPress mobile app feels like a toy. The latest Jetpack app changes that, with a proper stats screen and on-device AI for excerpts and tags that keeps content on your phone.
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…
AI in web development: what it’s actually like
I just got off a call with a long-time client, Sarah. She runs a few content sites and, like many, has been trying to integrate…