WordPress Is Coming. Should You Be Worried?
Got an email from a long-time client this morning. The subject was just “WordPress 6.9?” He’d seen the news about the WordPress 6.9 RC2 being…
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WordPress Email Reliability: How WordPress 6.9 Fixes a Mess
Got a call from a long-time client last week. They run a pretty successful WooCommerce store, and their order confirmation emails were landing in spam….
The New WordPress Abilities API: Stop Doing Things Twice
I had a client with a simple request. We’d built a small utility plugin for them that listed out all the URLs of a specific…
WordPress 6.9: What’s a Big Deal and What’s Noise?
I got a call from a client this morning. He’d just read the latest news about WordPress 6.9 dropping soon and had the usual questions:…
WooCommerce CSV Import Issues? A Dot Release Fixed It.
Got an urgent call a while back from a client running a massive fashion store. They were trying to do a bulk product update—we’re talking…
WordPress Error Logging That Doesn’t Suck
A client with a high-traffic WooCommerce shop called me up. They were getting hammered with support tickets about an intermittent “invalid coupon code” error at…
Fixing Plugin Conflicts with the WordPress Decorator Pattern
I got a ticket for a high-traffic WooCommerce site where the client was stuck. They had one plugin for database scaling—a HyperDB-style read/write replica setup—and…
Pragmatic WordPress Development: Why “Perfect” Code Is Sometimes a Mess
I got a frantic message from a new client last week. Their WooCommerce checkout was throwing fatal errors, but only for certain customers. Total nightmare….
Shipping Code is Better Than Perfect Code
I recently took over a WooCommerce project for a client whose last developer had vanished. The site was old, cluttered with plugins, and the checkout…
Your WordPress Site Is Silently Breaking. Here’s the Fix.
Got a call from a new client last week. Their WooCommerce site’s “add to cart” button was working… sometimes. For some users, it would just…