A client’s product filters broke after a routine WooCommerce update. The old jQuery no longer works with the new block-based, state-driven output, so here’s how to extend those blocks through the Interactivity API instead.
A client wanted to become a WordPress developer but was drowning in acronyms. This is the order I would learn things in: the platform basics, HTML and CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, then building real projects.
What happened when a client’s multi-block plugin got unwieldy: how we reorganized the blocks, automated registration, and split out shared assets so it kept scaling.
A client hit me up last month. They needed a slick video section on their product pages, with dynamic content and a different video for…
A developer’s rundown of WooCommerce 10.3: COGS in core, address autocomplete at checkout, the PayPal Orders v2 upgrade, and the wc_format_decimal change plugin authors need to handle.
A client’s food blog kept crawling despite great recipes. The fix wasn’t another plugin, it was rebuilding on custom post types and a cleaner WordPress setup.
A client’s flagship plugin had outgrown its loose structure. PHP namespaces, Composer autoloading, and enforced coding standards are what pulled it back into shape.
A client needed accordions and styled form fields without the usual custom-code mess. September’s WordPress core updates add a native Accordion block and theme.json form styling that make it far easier.
A client’s editors kept breaking custom page layouts. October’s Gutenberg releases fix that with content-only editing for patterns, plus the Terms Query block and Block Bindings improvements.
A client wanted a custom mini-cart block inside their nav menu. Here is how to extend the WordPress Navigation block the right way, using the blocks.registerBlockType filter to add your own blocks to allowedBlocks instead of fighting it with CSS.