WordPress customizations, hosting tips and development strategies — written from real project work, not theory.
Agents with terminal access, WP-CLI and a real database — used on client work and this site. The workflow that produces production-quality WordPress code, and the guardrails I earned.
Global WooCommerce tutorials skip Sri Lanka’s payment reality: bank installments, Koko/Mintpay BNPL, and deposit-slip bank transfers. How to meet all three at the point…
Seed scripts make a WordPress environment reproducible in minutes — if they’re truly idempotent. The three rules, including the slug-collision bite that taught me…
The docs show toy counters. Here’s a real Interactivity API build: a server-rendered, client-filtered portfolio grid with no build step — render.php, store, and…
Most block-vs-classic takes come from people who built one of the two. I shipped both for the same site within a year — here’s…
HPOS moved WooCommerce orders out of wp_posts. The practical checklist I used to migrate my plugin — declarations, CRUD, queries, admin screens, and testing…
The WordPress.org plugin review is closer to a code audit than a rubber stamp. What the review team actually checks, and how to pass…
The honest play-by-play of rebuilding minhazimohamed.com with Claude Design and Claude Code: a production FSE block theme in a day — and where human…
A step-by-step guide to installing Docker Desktop to a custom directory like D:\Program Files on Windows, plus how to fix the ‘not a valid…
If you have worked on a WordPress plugin or any PHP project, you have probably run into messy code, inconsistent formatting, or struggled with…
WordPress plugin development has come a long way. While PHP still powers the backend, modern plugins often need interactive, dynamic frontends. From dashboards to…