One blogger had 30 days to save 5,000 posts and nearly 10,000 images from Typepad. The built-in importer could not finish the job, so we rebuilt it around WP-CLI and an image sideloading script. 3,684 blogs came across in the end.
A client’s plugin came back rejected three times and he blamed the reviewer. The review is largely automated now: more than 220 checks, AI screening plugin names for trademarks, and the Plugin Check tool expected to run before you submit.
WordPress 6.9 is at RC3 with a launch set for December 2nd. The heading specificity fix, the Post Editor iframe and the new DataViews all change what a custom theme has to do.
How automated unit tests fit into WordPress plugin work: scaffolding a suite with WP-CLI, choosing what to assert about a custom post type, and the regressions that manual click-through testing keeps missing.
Gutenberg 22.3 pulls font management out of the Global Styles panels and into its own Fonts page, makes the core Grid block responsive when columns are set, and stops the image cropper from losing your aspect ratio.
I almost sold a client a custom Python bridge between OpenAI and WordPress, then State of the Word 2025 made it pointless. Notes on what the Abilities API and the WP AI Client actually change for developers and site owners.
A store was throwing random 500 errors at checkout because a deleted flash-sale product was still sitting in customer carts. WooCommerce 10.3.6 fixes that class of crash, along with a PHP 8.4 failure in the Helper updater.
A client was publishing three articles a week and getting no traffic. The cause was five sharing plugins, two SEO suites, and a three-second TTFB. Notes on what I stripped out, plus adding Open Graph tags through wp_head.
A VAT fix hardcoded into a core file vanished on the next WooCommerce update. Thin docs are how that happens. Includes the hook-based way to add a cart fee, and what the December office hours cover.
A client’s admin was three AI plugins deep, each with its own API key and settings page. The AI Experiments plugin v0.1.0 offers a registry and a base class instead, so features get built once against a standard API.