Working in web and eCommerce since the early 00s
My blog focusses on web development, along with occasional posts about my hobbies and interests.
Downtime isn’t just a technical glitch – it’s lost money, lost trust, and lost opportunities. Whether you’re running an eCommerce store, a SaaS product, or even a blog, keeping your site online is critical. That’s why uptime monitoring tools should be a part of your website management strategy. What is uptime monitoring? At its simplest, …
If you’ve ever asked for help with a plugin you’re using, you’ve probably heard the same advice over and over: “Disable all your plugins and switch to a default theme. Then, turn them back on one by one.” It might feel like a boring, copy-paste answer. But there’s a very practical reason behind it. Narrowing …
Need to display a limited-time offer, announcement, or custom message across your blog posts – without editing every post or touching your theme files? With just a few lines of code, you can dynamically inject HTML before or after post content, conditionally based on post type, category, date, or anything else you need. Use case …
If you’ve ever tried using an AI tool to help debug or analyse a WordPress plugin, you may have run into a challenge: AI platforms often require a single file input, while your plugin is made up of multiple PHP, JavaScript, and other files. Luckily, there’s a simple way to combine your plugin into a …
In the 90s I owned a Commodore Amiga 500, and later on, after rummaging around car boot sales, an A1200. I always planned to buy one again, but the prices have skyrocketed, and they were built to a budget in the 90s, 30+ years later, certain components start to fail. So how do I get …
WooCommerce offers a wide range of customer-related functions that can be beneficial in your custom development projects. I find the functions in this post particularly useful: they allow you to retrieve order counts and total spending and determine if a customer bought a specific product. wc_get_customer_order_count This function returns the amount of orders a specific …
Discover how to access your database through the WordPress dashboard by utilising the WP Adminer plugin, especially useful when you do not have access to the database directly. What is WP Adminer? The WP Adminer plugin is a tool designed for WordPress users who would like to manage their database from the WordPress dashboard. This …
Do you use VS Code and add comments, such as TODO, FIXME, BUG, etc? Then there’s a neat extension available, which you can use to show a tree view of these types of comments. What is Todo Tree? The Todo Tree extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) gives developers visibility over comments added within …