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…
Tag: APIs
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. Traffic,…
Using the PHP Reflection API to Tame Legacy Code
I got a call from a client running a membership site on a pretty old, third-party plugin. Their problem? They needed to sync a user’s…
Stop Manually Deploying WordPress Plugins and Use CircleCI Instead
I was working on a small security plugin a while back and decided to get it onto the official WordPress directory. But then I remembered…
Stop Writing Messy Code: A WordPress Meta Box Class
Got a call from a client a few weeks back. They have a ‘Resources’ section on their site—a custom post type for PDFs, external links,…
Fixing a Slow WooCommerce Admin Isn’t About a Bigger Server
Got a call from a client in a panic. Their high-traffic WooCommerce store—the kind with tens of thousands of orders—was timing out in the admin…
WordPress Type Safety: Why Your ‘Safe’ Code Is Failing Silently
I got a call from a client. Their new junior dev was trying to use a custom function I’d built to update post meta, but…
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…
How to Properly Autowire a Symfony Console App
I was working on a project for a client with a huge, old-school inventory system that needed to sync with WooCommerce. The only way to…
Why the New WooCommerce Update Schedule Matters for BFCM
I remember getting a panicked call from a client a few years back. It was the week before Thanksgiving. Their site was locked up. A…