Stop Manually Deploying WordPress Plugins and Use CircleCI Instead
I was working on a small security plugin a while back and decided to get it onto the official WordPress directory. But then I remembered…
Tag: APIs
Stop Writing Messy Code: A WordPress Meta Box Class
Got a call from a client a few weeks back. They have a ‘Resources’ section on their site—a custom post type for PDFs, external links,…
Fixing a Slow WooCommerce Admin Isn’t About a Bigger Server
Got a call from a client in a panic. Their high-traffic WooCommerce store—the kind with tens of thousands of orders—was timing out in the admin…
WordPress Type Safety: Why Your ‘Safe’ Code Is Failing Silently
I got a call from a client. Their new junior dev was trying to use a custom function I’d built to update post meta, but…
Stop Being Scared of the Command-Line Interface
I was reviewing a pull request from a junior dev on my team the other day. Smart kid, really sharp with React. But I saw…
How to Properly Autowire a Symfony Console App
I was working on a project for a client with a huge, old-school inventory system that needed to sync with WooCommerce. The only way to…
Why the New WooCommerce Update Schedule Matters for BFCM
I remember getting a panicked call from a client a few years back. It was the week before Thanksgiving. Their site was locked up. A…
WordPress Admin Pages: From Spaghetti Code to a Scalable System
A client came to us with a plugin that was, to put it mildly, a total mess. It started simple enough—one little settings page. But…
Stop Using FTP: A Practical Guide to Git Push for WordPress
I got a call from a new client in a panic. Their site was down. White screen of death. Turns out, their previous developer had…
Stop Writing Messy WP-CLI Commands: A Better Way
I took over a project once where the deployment checklist was a mile long. Clear this cache, sync that data, run this report. All manual….