Performance optimization Advanced
A front-end budget you can actually hold
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.
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Development workflow Advanced
The price of headless: preview, editing and operations
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
Parent theme updates: keep a list of what you depend on
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
Running WP-CLI in CI: what the checks actually look like
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
Finding out what is attached to a hook, in order
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
Writing WordPress code with AI: context decides the result
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
Designing rollback: reversing code and database together
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 —…
SEO Advanced
Connecting an enquiry back to the article that made it
If enquiries rise but you cannot say which article did it, the next content decision is still made on instinct. The connection comes from rules, not tools.
Security Practical
Consent and tracking — the tag that fires first
Collect the minimum, say that you collect it, and honour a refusal. Three lines of principle, and nearly all the failures happen in one place: a tag that…
SEO Advanced
Before you trust the trend: a data quality check
Office traffic, bots and duplicated tags all inflate the figures — and not by a steady amount, which is what makes reading a trend so dangerous.
Development workflow Practical
Campaign URL hygiene — indexing and reporting split together
A URL with campaign parameters is a separate URL as far as search engines are concerned. Indexed, it duplicates the page it points at; written inconsistently, it splits…
Performance optimization Advanced
A conversion audit: finding where people leave
Polishing a page nobody reaches is the most common waste. Walk the whole path end to end and the leak shows itself first.
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Working with AI
Writing a CLAUDE.md — teaching an AI coding assistant your project
AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot do better work the more precisely they know your project. Here is a structure and a set of principles that hold up.
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Working with AI
Prompting an AI for UI design — drafting with Claude and GPT
Asking an AI to "make a nice button" gets you a disappointing button. Structured prompts that carry constraints, references and a defined role get you the design you meant.
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Themes & plugins
SCSS from the ground up — variables through module structure
The core syntax of SCSS (Sass) and what it solves that plain CSS cannot: variables, nesting, mixins, @use and module structure — organised around patterns you can use immediately.
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Themes & plugins
Design tokens and theme colour systems — brand identity in SCSS variables
How to turn a colour palette from a pile of hex codes into a system that means something — semantic token structure and SCSS variable patterns, from a real project.
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Performance optimization
Designing a responsive typography system — the science of readability
Hard-coded pixel font sizes are over. Type scales, fluid sizing with clamp(), Korean webfont optimisation and line-height ratios — building typography that reads well on any screen.
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Development workflow
From Figma to SCSS — a designer-developer handoff guide
Minimising what gets lost between a Figma file and the code: extracting tokens, naming components, keeping the spacing system in sync — the whole workflow, step by step.