How We Rescued 3,684 Blogs During the Typepad Shutdown
A few months back, a long-time blogger reached out in a panic. He’d been writing on Typepad since 2004—nearly two decades of thoughts, family photos,…
Tag: APIs
Why the WordPress Plugins Team Name Change Matters for Your Site
I had a client reach out last week, absolutely fuming. He’d tried to submit a custom integration plugin to the directory, and it got bounced…
Why WordPress Development is About to Break Your CSS
I had a client call last week. Total nightmare. They’d spent months manually overriding heading sizes using a pile of !important tags because the Gutenberg…
Stop Guessing: Adding Automated Unit Tests to Your Plugin
I once had a client—a high-traffic membership site—call me at 2:00 AM because their renewals were failing. They had just pushed a “minor” update to…
Why Gutenberg Typography Management Just Got Much Easier
Last month, I was sitting on a call with a client’s marketing lead who was absolutely fed up. They’d moved to a block theme, which…
WordPress AI Roadmap: What State of the Word 2025 Means for You
I had a client last month—a high-volume WooCommerce shop—who was convinced they needed a custom “agentic AI” layer. They wanted an AI that could actually…
WooCommerce Stability and PHP Compatibility: Why Version 10.3.6 Matters
I got a frantic call last week from a shop owner running a high-volume apparel store. Their checkout was randomly throwing 500 errors. No pattern,…
The Technical Side of Growing Your Website’s Audience Right
I had a client come to me last month with a problem that sounded all too familiar. They were spending thousands on a dedicated “growth…
Why Better WooCommerce Developer Documentation Saves Your Business Money
I recently inherited a project for a high-volume apparel shop that was losing money on every European order. The issue? Tax wasn’t being calculated for…
Stopping the Mess: Why Standardized AI Features Matter in WordPress
I had a client reach out last week—a high-traffic publishing site—and their admin area looked like a graveyard of “AI-powered” plugins. They had one for…