Building WordPress Admin Pages That Don’t Break Later
Got a call from a client last week. They’ve got a WooCommerce extension that’s starting to get popular, but its settings page was buried under…
Tag: APIs
That WooCommerce decimal change that’s silently breaking stores.
Got a call from a long-time client last week. Absolute panic. They’d just run a routine batch of plugin updates, and suddenly their shipping calculator…
Why Your WordPress Query is a Mess (And How to Fix It)
I got a call from a client running a decent-sized WooCommerce shop. They were in a panic. Their main shop page, which should have been…
How to Start Unit Testing Your Existing WordPress Code
Had a client call last week. They’ve got this huge, old WooCommerce plugin that’s been passed through three different dev teams. A new junior dev…
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…
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.