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Git, .gitignore, CI/CD, WP-CLI and staging — treating a WordPress site like code rather than like a live server you edit.
64 articles· Development workflow
Development workflow Practical
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…
Development workflow Advanced
Most design problems found after release are catchable before it, in order. Here is the pass, in three stages: rules, states and real devices.
Development workflow Advanced
A rollback is not one button. It is two tracks — code and database — with an order to reverse them in, written down before you deploy.
Development workflow Advanced
Code with no extension points gets forked or edited in place. Where you put do_action and apply_filters — and how many — decides how long that code survives.
Development workflow Advanced
CI earns its keep without a full test suite. Syntax, coding standards, a build check and a boot smoke test are a realistic starting point.
Development workflow Practical
Answering the enquiries you already have is often easier than getting more. Good intentions do not make a flow — writing it down does.
Development workflow Practical
A report that changes nothing is not a report; it is a habit. One page should end in one decision.
Development workflow Practical
If you do not fix the sample size and the duration before you start, you will stop the test at the moment it flatters the variant you preferred.…
Development workflow Practical
A request becomes work when it carries five lines: target, observation, desired state, how to verify, priority. Without them nobody can decide where to begin.
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"Nudge it up two pixels" fixes one spot. "That value is outside the scale" stops the same mistake recurring.
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Registration is three lines and your docblock becomes the help text. What deserves thought is choosing between log, warning and error — because error stops the run.
Development workflow Practical
remove_action says nothing when it fails, and a wrong name, a wrong priority and running too early all look identical. Checking the return value is half the fix.