How to Limit Editor Blocks Without Wrecking the Site Editor
Got a call last week from a client in a full-blown panic. Their marketing team was complaining that the block editor was stripped bare—they could…
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CSS Specificity: The Right Way to Fix WooCommerce Styles
I got a call about a WooCommerce shop where the product buttons were a total mess. The client said their ‘Add to Cart’ button was…
Why the WordPress Singleton Pattern Can Burn You
I was digging through a client’s site recently—the kind of project where three different developers had left their mark over five years. Total mess. The…
Stop Guessing: A Real-World WordPress Error Logging Fix
Got a call from a client last week. Total panic. Their WooCommerce store’s checkout was throwing a 500 error, but only sometimes. And only, it…
Don’t Be a Hero: Build on the Right WordPress Foundation
I got a call last week from a new client. Their WooCommerce store was a total mess—orders getting dropped, product pages timing out, the works….
Why ‘Write More Code’ Is Terrible Advice for Developers
I got a call from a new client. Their WooCommerce checkout page was throwing a fatal error, but only sometimes. A real ghost in the…
Why Your Custom WooCommerce Emails Look Broken in Gmail
I got a call from a client with a slick WooCommerce shop. Everything was dialed in, but their transactional emails—order confirmations, shipping notices—looked like they…
Stop Copy-Pasting Code: A Real Guide to WordPress Inheritance
I just got off a call with a new client. He was tearing his hair out over a simple change. His site has about a…
The WordPress Options API: A Guide to Not Wrecking Your Site
I got a call about a site that was crawling. Especially in the wp-admin dashboard. The client was convinced they needed a bigger server, but…
Using PHP Interfaces to Clean Up Your WordPress Hooks
I inherited a WooCommerce project that was a total mess. We’re talking years of different developers, overlapping features, and a dozen custom plugins. The client’s…