Plugins have always exposed their features however they liked, so integration meant writing a wrapper per plugin and repairing it after every update. The Abilities API in WordPress 6.9 replaces that with one registration format.
A WooCommerce shop inherited custom plugins that broke on every update and dragged the admin down. The fix was not more hotfixes, it was the basics: prefixed functions, core hooks, sanitized input and capability checks.
Had a client with a sprawling membership site, right? Think custom content types, members-only dashboards, and a dozen different user levels. The permissions system was…
I had a client running a critical membership site. We’d built some custom roles and capabilities using the tried-and-true WordPress approach for years. Everything was…
Had a project last quarter, custom theme, solid design system in Figma. But man, implementing those consistent border radii in WordPress? Total nightmare for the…
I got a call last month, client was pulling his hair out. He’d implemented some snazzy AI content generation on his WordPress site a few…
Just last week, a client—a sharp agency owner, not a dev—came to me. ‘Ahmad,’ he said, ‘these “Month in Core” reports… they’re like reading a…
Just last week, my phone rang off the hook. A client, mid-afternoon, voice tight with panic. Their hosting provider had pushed a PHP 8.5 update,…
Just last week, I had a client ping me, buzzing about WordPress 6.9 and its shiny new AI capabilities. His immediate concern? “Ahmad, how do…
I got a call recently from a client whose custom CRM plugin, built on WordPress, was becoming a total nightmare. Every time they wanted to…