A junior dev used the allowed_block_types_all filter globally and it broke the Site Editor. Here is why that happens and how to check the context so you restrict blocks for posts and pages while leaving templates alone.
A WooCommerce Add to Cart button kept turning the wrong color because stylesheets were fighting with !important. Here is how to fix it with CSS specificity and a child theme instead of piling on more overrides.
WordPress 6.9 RC2 is out. Here is what I test before updating client sites, the heading CSS change developers should watch, and why I wait for the .1 release.
A client’s WooCommerce order emails kept landing in spam, even with SMTP set up. WordPress 6.9 fixes the deeper causes: the sender address mismatch, garbled encoding, and a 17-year-old multipart bug.
A client wanted the same URL list on an admin page, a homepage block, and an external API. The old way meant duplicating logic. The WordPress Abilities API lets you define the feature once and reuse it everywhere.
A developer with a clean WooCommerce plugin sold almost nothing in six months. The problem wasn’t his checkout or his code. Nobody knew who he was, because he kept writing for other developers instead of the people with the problem.
A reporting plugin built entirely on the Singleton pattern served stale inventory data across a client’s site. Here’s why singletons hide global state in WordPress, and the static init() method that keeps your classes testable.
A rundown of what’s worth caring about in WordPress 6.9: the new Block Processor for faster block parsing, experimental PHP-only blocks, a theme.json fix for Gallery aspect ratios, and why it pays to wait for 6.9.1.
A client needed FAQ rich snippets from the native WordPress Accordion block, without switching to a plugin’s custom block. This shows how to inject Schema.org FAQPage microdata server-side with a render_block filter and WP_HTML_Tag_Processor.
A client wanted an auto-updating copyright block they could edit in the Site Editor. Instead of a full React build, I tried Automattic’s Telex and had an installable plugin in about five minutes. Here’s how it went and where the tool fits.