Posts tagged "WordPress"
Essays, field notes, and engineering write-ups by Al Amin Ahamed covering WordPress — 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 WordPress work.
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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.
· 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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.