Why Your WordCamp Talk Got Rejected (And How to Fix It)
A junior dev on my team looked crushed. “They rejected my talk,” he said, staring at his laptop. He’d just gotten the canned ‘thanks but…
Tag: APIs
That Time a Client’s Coupon Failed During a Flash Sale
Got a call from a client. Total panic. They’d just finished a flash sale for their WooCommerce store, and the star of the show, a…
Finding the real WordPress performance bottleneck
A client’s site was crawling at 5-7 seconds a page. The cause wasn’t a slow query but an uncached external API call from a plugin, which I tracked down with Query Monitor and fixed with a transient.
Wrap the WordPress Options API in one class
A legacy WooCommerce plugin had get_option and update_option calls scattered everywhere, with clashing prefixes resetting settings. The fix was one wrapper class that owns the options table and adds the prefix for you.
Generate HTML in WordPress without the mess
A client wanted a shortcode to highlight reader comments, but the inherited code crammed all the HTML into the shortcode function. Moving it into a dedicated generator class and a separate template file keeps the markup out of the PHP.
WordPress dependency injection without a framework
A custom events plugin where every class built its own dependencies was impossible to test or change. A small DI container built from closures gave one place to wire the objects together, without pulling in a framework.
WordPress Blueprints: a real fix for dev environment headaches
Had to onboard a new junior dev last month for a big WooCommerce project. First task was simple: set up the local environment. He’s a…
Stop hacking WordPress admin pages: build a class instead
I got a call from a client last week. Their last developer bailed, and they had a “simple” request: add a new delivery option to…
My client’s WooCommerce site crashed. Here’s the real fix.
I got a call from a client in a full-blown panic. Their WooCommerce store, which does huge numbers, was completely down. On Black Friday. They…
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…