Navigating the WordPress Plugin Review Process in 2025
I had a client reach out last week, totally fuming. They’d spent months developing a custom internal tool they wanted to share on the official…
Tag: APIs
The Hard Lesson of Ignoring WordPress Incident Response Protocols
I once had a client running a massive membership site—thousands of active users, premium tiers, the works. One Tuesday, everything went sideways. A high-profile user…
Why Your Custom Plugin Fails WordPress Security Standards
I once had a client who spent three months building a custom “Member Directory” plugin. They were convinced it was the next big thing. The…
Why the WordPress HTML API in 6.9 Kills Fragile Regex
I recently dealt with a client whose high-traffic store was constantly throwing layout errors. The culprit? A “clever” snippet of code meant to inject custom…
Building Better Editorial Workflows with WordPress 6.9 Features
I recently worked with a high-traffic media site where the editorial team was in a state of constant, low-grade panic. They had about twelve authors…
20 Years of WordPress: When to Leave the Walled Garden
A client came to me last week with a site that had been running on WordPress.com for nearly a decade. With the platform celebrating its…
WordPress Abilities API: The End of Spaghetti Integrations
I remember working on a massive membership site about two years ago. It was one of those projects where the client kept bolting on plugins—WooCommerce…
Why WordPress Importer URL Migration Changes Everything for Developers
I had a client last month—a high-traffic magazine—moving from a development subdomain that used an emoji in the URL. Yeah, don’t ask why. They were…
How the WordPress CSS Specificity Fix Saves Your Custom Theme
I had a client last week—a large scale e-commerce shop—practically screaming because their carefully crafted H2 styles were being mangled inside the Block Editor. On…
WordPress AI Integration: Lessons from the New Experiments Plugin
I had a client last month who was obsessed with “AI-driven workflows.” They wanted their WooCommerce store to automatically generate alt text and product descriptions…