A client needed niche social icons like Ko-fi and Letterboxd, which the default block doesn’t cover. WordPress 6.9 finally lets you register custom social icons cleanly with a JavaScript variation and a PHP filter, no bloated plugin required.
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’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’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.
I got a frantic call last Tuesday. A client, running a decent e-commerce setup, had just pushed an update. Classic story, right? Suddenly, their entire…