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11 of 43 essays
2026
· 0 min read
Prompt Versioning in Production: Managing LLM Prompts Like Code
How EasyCommerce manages LLM prompts across Claude, OpenAI, and DeepSeek with a versioned registry, structured evals in CI, and a rollback path that does not require a deployment.
· 0 min read
Embedding LLMs in a WordPress Plugin: EasyCommerce's Async Architecture
How EasyCommerce wires LLM calls — product description generation, fraud detection, and inventory forecasting — into a WordPress plugin using async dispatch and a provider abstraction that survives outages and scales across catalogues.
· 10 min read
Building Production Gutenberg Blocks in 2025
A practical guide to building Gutenberg blocks with the v3 API — block.json, dynamic blocks, deprecations, and the testing strategies that actually work.
2025
· 11 min read
Building Custom Commission Logic in Dokan Multi-Vendor
How Dokan's commission system actually works, the filters you need, per-category and tiered commission patterns, and what to never do.
· 10 min read
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.
· 11 min read
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.
· 7 min read
Adding PHPStan to a WordPress Plugin (Without Losing Your Mind)
A practical guide to getting PHPStan running on a production WordPress plugin, including the stubs you need and the rules you'll want to ignore.
2024
· 12 min read
Building a WooCommerce Payment Gateway from Scratch
Everything you need to know to build a production-ready WooCommerce payment gateway integration — checkout flow, webhooks, refunds, and subscriptions.
· 6 min read
WP-CLI Tips That Actually Save Time
Practical WP-CLI commands and custom commands I use daily to speed up WordPress development, deployments, and debugging.
· 9 min read
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.
2023
· 8 min read
Scaling WordPress: Redis Object Cache, Query Optimization, and Page Caching
A systematic guide to making WordPress fast — from Redis object caching and WP_Query optimization to FastCGI page cache and CDN asset delivery.
About WordPress
Everything Al Amin Ahamed has written about WordPress — written after shipping rather than before, so what is in here is what the constraint turned out to be and what I got wrong first.