WordPress Developer
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Extending the WordPress REST API (wp/v2)
Your data needs REST? Core already has a route. Real code from our plugins on wordpress.org: Property of a post or term? Extend wp/v2. A resource of its…
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Attention Economics: AI Agents Multiply Output, Not Attention
Attention is a resource. A person has only so much of it 🧠Agents write code, subagents send reports, chats open new threads. They multiply output, not attention.…
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WordPress Abilities API: what is this?
The Abilities API is the list of what your WordPress site can do and what it allows. Core, your theme and your plugins each add their own abilities.…
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WP-CLI Themes: active, parent, fallback
A theme is often two themes. Know which one is live. wp theme list shows it: the child is “active”, the theme it builds on is “parent”. Theme…
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WP-CLI Core: the power is in the sequence
wp core has only ten subcommands. Alone, each one does little. The power is in the sequence. Next release? Test it on staging first: wp core download –version=nightly…
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Headless vs classic theme: when NOT to go headless
Your theme does 6 jobs for free: routing, preview, SEO meta, canonical URLs, cache on save_post, plugins on the front. Cut the head off, and all 6 die.…
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WordPress REST API & CRUD
Every app speaks four verbs. WordPress too: /wp-json/wp/v2/ CRUD: Read is open for public data: GET returns 200 with X-WP-Total and X-WP-TotalPages. Write? Prove who you are: POST…
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WP-CLI Plugins: sequences save sites
Plugins break sites. Sequences save them. See everything first: wp plugin list, then only what needs updates. A safe plugin update is one block: Update. Recover. Verify. wp-admin…
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Headless WordPress: why WPGraphQL wins
Cut the head off WordPress: it serves the data, a JS frontend renders the page. With REST, one post page can mean four round trips: post, author, categories,…
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Why WP-CLI
wp-admin shows you WordPress. WP-CLI runs it. Everything wp-admin does, and what it can’t: search-replace with a dry run, a database export, a password reset without email, cron…