Stop Fearing Serverless: Your Big PHP Site Can Handle It
I was on a call last week with a client running a pretty big WooCommerce store. They’re getting ready for a huge Black Friday sale…
Tag: APIs
Laravel Vapor Logs: Getting Papertrail to Actually Work
I had a client running a pretty slick setup on Laravel Vapor. But they had this ghost in the machine: an error that would pop…
A minor WooCommerce update that fixes a major PayPal problem
I got a call last week from a client in a panic. Their international orders were failing at checkout, but only when customers tried to…
How to Reliably Test Stripe Checkout with Laravel Dusk
A client came to us a while back with a Laravel subscription app that was bleeding money. Users would go through the Stripe checkout, their…
Fixing customizations broken by the Interactivity API
A client’s product filters broke after a routine WooCommerce update. The old jQuery no longer works with the new block-based, state-driven output, so here’s how to extend those blocks through the Interactivity API instead.
Is the Jetpack mobile app finally a serious tool?
A client asked why every WordPress mobile app feels like a toy. The latest Jetpack app changes that, with a proper stats screen and on-device AI for excerpts and tags that keeps content on your phone.
A practical roadmap to becoming a WordPress developer
A client wanted to become a WordPress developer but was drowning in acronyms. This is the order I would learn things in: the platform basics, HTML and CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, then building real projects.
Headless vs serverless WordPress: what’s the difference
A client wanted to go headless and serverless at once, assuming they were the same upgrade. They aren’t. Here’s what each architecture actually means for WordPress, and when you need one, both, or neither.