SEO Intro
Sitemaps advertise, robots.txt blocks — and they are not opposites
A page blocked in robots.txt can still appear in search. Blocking a crawl and blocking an index are different jobs — miss that and you fix the wrong…
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Development workflow Practical
Undrawn states are where the build diverges from the design
A composition that shows only the happy path defines half the screen. The other half — empty, error, overlong title — gets improvised during the build, and the…
SEO Practical
Keeping your URLs is a design decision
Redraw the information architecture and addresses change. If they must, the 301 map ships with the change — it is a deliverable, not an afterthought.
Performance optimization Intro
Reading a query profile: slow versus duplicated
They sit side by side in the same panel but they are not the same problem. One needs the query rewritten; the other disappears with a cache. Telling…
Development workflow Intro
Exposing a post type and its meta with show_in_rest
A post type opens with one line. Meta does not: it needs a registered type, an auth_callback governs writing, and reading opens regardless.
Performance optimization Practical
The first-screen image deserves special treatment
How fast a page feels is when the largest element on the first screen finishes drawing. Lazy-load the hero and you have delayed that moment yourself.
Themes & plugins Intro
Load order: declare a dependency instead of reaching for !important
Most "my CSS does not apply" cases are a child stylesheet loading before the parent. Declaring a dependency guarantees the order and removes the need to force anything.
Development workflow Intro
Posts and terms from the command line: list before you change
Bulk-edit accidents almost always come from selecting the wrong set. Split selection and action into two commands and you get to see what will change before it changes.
SEO Intro
Where to put the form without interrupting the reading
Form placement is a timing problem, not a design one. Pushed at the wrong moment, a form stops being an invitation and becomes an obstruction.
Development workflow Intro
Hook timing: before init, the world is not there yet
The same code on the same hook behaves differently depending on when it runs. Taxonomies, post types and translations all see an incomplete world before init.
SEO Intro
Three ways to add analytics to WordPress, and what each costs
A plugin, code in your child theme, or a tag manager. All three work, but they charge different prices: convenience, control, or an extra layer that hides what…
Development workflow Intro
What to commit in a WordPress repository, and what to ignore
One rule decides it: did we write this? Credentials and generated content are not source, and once they are in the repository the problem is no longer reversible.
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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.