Posts tagged "Open Source"
Essays, field notes, and engineering write-ups by Al Amin Ahamed covering Open Source — practical patterns, gotchas from production code, and lessons learned shipping real systems. Topics include architecture decisions, performance tuning, debugging stories, and integration notes you can apply directly to your own Open Source work.
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WordPress Plugin Security: Lessons from Two Disclosures
The exact security checklist I run every plugin through before release — capability checks, escaping, nonces, and the disclosed bugs that taught me each lesson.
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The Honest Economics of Selling WordPress Plugins
Six years of selling on WordPress.org — conversion rates, pricing tiers, what drives installs, the support burden, and when to walk away from a plugin.
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Five Years of Open Source on WordPress.org — What I've Learned
Honest lessons from shipping and maintaining five plugins on WordPress.org — support burden, versioning, security reviews, and building an audience.