Newsletter
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Database Schema Changes
If you’ve ever had to create custom tables in WordPress, you probably know how frustrating it can be to get the syntax exactly right. It’s much easier now with AI,…
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Laravel Removes Testing Friction
If you’re a WordPress plugin developer, you’ve likely had rough experiences getting your test suite set up and configured correctly. The process is a pain and brittle: WordPress testing feels…
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Graduate to calm deployments
If you’ve built anything in WordPress, you know the deployment ritual. Maybe you’ve implemented Git-based deploys, but you’re still probably SSH-ing in to pull changes and hoping your database is…
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Use The WordPress Playground For Plugin Demos
The WordPress Playground is a new tool that provides a fully functional WordPress environment directly in the browser. It’s built with WebAssembly and can be spun up in a matter…
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Adding Plugin Check (PCP) to Your Development Workflow
In 2022, there was a post about a WordPress plugin checker that would be a tool for statically scanning plugins to identify if it follows certain guidelines and best practices.…
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How to: Use the WordPress Filesystem API
When developing a plugin, you may need to make changes to existing files on the server—like customizing the wp-config.php constant definitions or writing a custom config file. Filesystem changes can be a…
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The WordPress Community Needs More Utility Plugins
A utility plugin is anything that modifies functionality in a WordPress site that: Whenever you are working on a client site and need to modify a little functionality, turn it…