A collection of resources for WordPress Developers, written and curated by experts
No WordPress® site is an island. Sites routinely integrate with external CRMs, enterprise ERP systems, inventory managers, payment gateways, and fulfillment APIs. These integrations add value, but they also introduce… Read more
Mike Davey
Modern development workflows have mostly solved the file problem. We use Git to version our themes and plugins, and we use CI/CD pipelines to deploy those files to staging and…
Mike Davey
Does this sound familiar? You need to update a custom field for 50,000 products or refactor user metadata across a massive membership site. You write a clean PHP script, drop… Read more
Mike Davey
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look ahead to the era of the “Intelligent Web” with the opening of DE{CODE} 2026 registration, examine the technical hurdles pushing WordPress… Read more
Mike Davey
A lot of WordPress® plugins follow the path of least resistance. They enqueue their CSS and JavaScript globally to ensure their features “just work” on every page. While this approach… Read more
Mike Davey
In the lifecycle of a membership site, there is a predictable point where the “My Account” page begins to lag and administrative user searches start to time out. Developers can… Read more
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The WordPress® REST API is the primary bridge to modern frontend frameworks. However, default endpoints are generic by design. Custom endpoints require precise logic to avoid over-fetching data and exhausting… Read more
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In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we explore the human side of innovation in the Crafted with Code showcase, test-drive a nostalgic Clippy-style assistant in the WordPress® dashboard, and… Read more
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WordPress® is built to be a flexible application framework, but that flexibility comes with a trade-off in the form of a “one size fits all” database schema. For most sites,… Read more
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Every time your code reaches out to an external API, you are introducing a point of failure that you do not control. Whether you are fetching a social feed, a… Read more
Mike Davey