WordPress Engineering4 min read
How I Structure a Maintainable WordPress Plugin
A practical architecture guide for separating responsibilities, protecting boundaries and making a custom WordPress plugin easier to test, operate and extend.
Technical writing
Practical WordPress notes for building, debugging and maintaining real systems.
Articles focus on decisions, examples, safeguards and trade-offs across plugin architecture, REST APIs, Gutenberg, production debugging, editor experience and search foundations.
APIs & Integrations3 min read
WordPress REST API Routes: Permission, Validation and Caching
A route-by-route checklist for building WordPress REST APIs with explicit permissions, constrained arguments, predictable responses and safe cache invalidation.
WordPress Engineering3 min read
When a WordPress Site Needs a Theme and a Companion Plugin
A practical look at the portability, coupling and operational trade-offs behind separating site presentation from WordPress data and behavior.
AI-Ready Websites1 min read
How to prepare a WordPress site for AI search and technical SEO
AI-ready does not mean stuffing a site with AI buzzwords. It means making the site easy for search engines and AI systems…
WordPress Engineering1 min read
How I approach complex WordPress/PHP systems
Most WordPress problems are not really “WordPress problems.” They are workflow problems that happen to live inside WordPress. Before I touch code,…
Performance & Security1 min read
Why performance work is more than installing a cache plugin
A cache plugin can help, but it is not a performance strategy. If a WooCommerce store has slow database queries, oversized images,…
Uncategorized1 min read
From 100+ hours to 2: what custom import tooling really does
A client’s team was entering thousands of event records by hand — well over a hundred hours per cycle, with errors creeping…
Performance & Security1 min read
WordPress malware cleanup: evidence before deletion
When a WordPress site gets hacked, the fastest-looking action is often the most dangerous one: deleting files before understanding what happened. A…
Production Operations3 min read
A Production Debugging Checklist for WordPress
A repeatable incident workflow for preserving evidence, reducing the search space, validating a fix and communicating clearly during WordPress production problems.
SEO & AI Search3 min read
WordPress SEO and AEO for AI Search: A Practical Engineering Guide
A no-hype technical guide to crawlability, useful content, structured data, authorship and machine-readable discovery for search engines and AI search experiences.