A standalone Symfony CLI tool gets brittle once you wire every command’s dependencies by hand. This shows how to configure the dependency injection container so it autowires services and registers new console commands for you.
I remember getting a panicked call from a client a few years back. It was the week before Thanksgiving. Their site was locked up. A…
A client came to us with a plugin that was, to put it mildly, a total mess. It started simple enough: one little settings page….
I got a call from a new client in a panic. Their site was down. White screen of death. Turns out, their previous developer had…
I took over a project once where the deployment checklist was a mile long. Clear this cache, sync that data, run this report. All manual….
I had a client come to me, completely at their wit’s end. Their site had been hacked for the third time in a month. They’d…
A simple VIP discount request stalled on a 1000-line, undocumented function nobody understood. The fix was not more code, it was documenting the intent behind it. A short comment block up front saves hours later.
A client asked whether his store needs new AI features. WooCommerce’s agentic commerce lets AI assistants browse and buy through an API, so the prep work is clean product data and stable APIs.
A client was told Bedrock was impossible on Pantheon. It is not. The fix is a CI build step that runs Composer and pushes the built code to Pantheon, so the main repo stays clean.
A client side project plugin grew into an operational crisis of spaghetti code. The lesson: give even a small plugin real structure from day one, a main class and separated concerns, so it stays maintainable.