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For developers who work on WordPress as code: hooks and filters, WP-CLI, Git workflow and deployment automation.
53 articles· Developers
Working with AI Advanced
Generated code usually looks idiomatic. The trouble is that it can look idiomatic while omitting precisely the escaping, the prepared statement, the capability check or the path validation…
Working with AI Advanced
Every session starts blank, but a project's decisions and incident history must not. Collect conventions, reasoning, traps already hit and regression checks in one document, and the same…
Working with AI Practical
Missing escaping and missing capability checks are caught reliably. What has to be executed to be known — runtime behaviour, hook ordering across plugins, whether the change matches…
Performance optimization Advanced
Pages do not get heavy in one go. They get heavy through small, individually reasonable additions. A ceiling you actually check is what stops the accumulation.
Development workflow Advanced
Headless is not a free upgrade. The gains are real and so are the losses — and the most underestimated of them is preview.
Themes & plugins Advanced
Update reviews turn into excavations because nobody wrote down what the child theme depends on. With a list, it becomes a checklist.
Development workflow Advanced
Checks that rely on somebody remembering get skipped in a busy week. Stack the cheap ones first, run the rest against a disposable WordPress, and the remembering stops…
Development workflow Advanced
A callback that never runs, one that runs and gets overwritten, and a hook that never fires are three different problems. Reading the registry separates all three at…
Working with AI Practical
The same question gives wildly different answers, and the variable is usually not the model but what you handed over. Supply your conventions, your version constraints and the…
Development workflow Advanced
Putting the old code back does not put the old data back. If the new code has already migrated your data, the old code cannot read it —…
Performance optimization Advanced
Adding a cache is easy. Knowing when to discard it is the work — and getting that wrong can end with payment state that never updates.
Performance optimization Advanced
Options marked autoload are read and unserialised on every request. One large blob quietly taxes the entire site, and nothing on screen says so.