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Reading a theme before you touch it
Why the first hour on any project belongs to the templates, not the task list.
- Start from what the template actually reads
- Change one thing at a time
- Keep the numbers next to the commit
Field notes from WordPress work that had to ship.
Build guides, audit teardowns and release checklists.
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What a cold cache tells you
The home page after a flush is the most honest page on your site.
Release day without the adrenaline
A dull checklist beats a brave team every single time.
Where the escaping should go
Moving every escape next to its echo made the whole file easier to trust.
Building a sidebar from helpers
Custom markup for every widget, and why we stopped fighting core output.
The audit that started with one query
A single slow lookup led us through a whole site's architecture.
Keeping a Tailwind theme small
How a class recipe list keeps templates readable and the stylesheet tiny.
Cron jobs you forgot you had
Listing what runs on your site is more alarming than it should be.
A review that deleted more than it added
The best pull request of the year removed most of a plugin.
Tab through it before you ship it
Put the mouse away and find the bugs your users already know about.