WordPress OOP: are you over-engineering or just building it right?
A junior dev on my team asked for a code review last week. He was building a custom registration form for a client site, and…
Tag: APIs
My no-BS MacBook setup for WordPress development
A new junior dev joined my team last week, and I had to get them set up. I figured I’d just send them my list…
Stop chasing bugs with a better WordPress event management system
Had a client come to us with a site that was a total mess. It had years of custom code from different developers, and things…
How debugging skills make you a better developer
A WooCommerce coupon worked for regular customers but failed for wholesale ones. Deactivating plugins got me nowhere; stepping through the code with Xdebug found a role-check bug in about 15 minutes.
Importing WordPress data with the strategy pattern
A client needed to import users from a clean CSV and a messy pipe-delimited file. The strategy pattern kept the importer clean instead of a tangle of if/else blocks.
When a PHP loop is the wrong tool for the job
A WooCommerce sales widget kept timing out because it stacked nested foreach loops. Swapping them for array_filter, array_map, and array_reduce made the code fast and readable.
Use stable keys, not strings, for WordPress translations
Editing one English button label broke the German, French, and Spanish translations. Using stable keys as placeholders, plus an en_US fallback, keeps that from happening.
Why your WordPress fixes keep breaking other things
A one-line shipping tweak would have broken inventory reporting and a homepage shortcode. Tight coupling and low cohesion are why, and here’s how to structure the code instead.
Using the Static Factory Method Pattern in WordPress
I was working on a WooCommerce plugin for a client to sync their product inventory with a third-party API. Total classic scenario. The problem was,…
Stop Nesting ‘if’ Statements: A Saner Way to Code
I got a call from a client running a pretty complex WooCommerce store. Their shipping logic was a mess. They had all these rules for…