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The excluded-plugin setting that Playwright ignored — fixing browser-mode updates and false residual warnings
The symptom In browser-mode maintenance (Playwright, no SSH), plugins marked as “excluded from update checks” were still being…
The Fundamentals of AI Engineering – EP 01
AI Engineering means using an existing AI model to add useful AI features to a real software application.…
Book meetings in Laravel with Wireschedule
Sometimes you want your visitors to be able to book a call or a demo with you, and…
Beyond WooCommerce.com’s Selective Plugin Loading
Why the final plugin filter is only half of the architecture https://developer.woocommerce.com/2026/07/21/selective-plugin-loading/ WooCommerce Engineering recently published a useful…
Locked out of wp-admin? Why WP-CLI works when `wp-login.php` doesn’t
A forgotten password, a security plugin that blocked your own IP by mistake, a plugin bug that turns…
Why phpMyAdmin migrations break plugin settings — and why `wp search-replace` doesn’t
After a domain migration or HTTPS switch, “all plugin settings are gone” or “Elementor layouts are broken” is…
Another day, another VPS breach
I woke up to two emails that immediately caught my attention. One was from my website monitoring service…
When SSH to Xserver suddenly stops working, it’s fail2ban — the official confirmation and a safer reconnection check
If you run WordPress maintenance for clients on Xserver, sooner or later you hit this: SSH was working…
Open Closed Principle (OCP)
The open-closed principle (OCP) states that software entities should be open for extension, but closed for modification; that…
The Polling API Is the Most Underrated RFC PHP Has Shipped in Years
While most of the community spent the spring arguing about generics, a different RFC slipped into PHP 8.6…
