TL;DR Theme switches break because the previous theme had been carrying things nobody had cataloged: theme-bundled shortcodes, widget areas, customizer CSS, menu locations, and page-builder bundles. The new theme cannot warn you about any of it. Six places tend to…
TL;DR The plugin directory shows tens of thousands of options, and the compatibility flag is, by the WordPress Codex’s own admission, voluntary — a flag, not a verdict. Top-ten listicles rank against a generic site. Neither knows your specific stack,…
TL;DR You open debug.log on a Tuesday afternoon. Two thousand four hundred lines. Most are deprecated-function notices from a plugin you stopped caring about three months ago. Eight are PHP fatal errors that look related. You cannot tell which plugin…
TL;DR The plugin readme is marketing copy. The PHP source is what runs. Reading both at once is the only honest way to know whether a plugin’s documented behavior matches what executes when an HTTP request reaches it. An AI…
TL;DR Most multisite governance documents are written after the incident, not before. Networks above ten sites accumulate decisions faster than tribal knowledge can hold them. The same plugin request gets two different answers six months apart. The inconsistency is not…
TL;DR You have a content inventory. You have a sketch of three tiers. The question that decides whether the membership launches well is which post lives behind which gate. Most launches answer that question on gut, then re-litigate every placement…
TL;DR Public managed-WordPress comparisons rank hosts against a generic small business — they cannot rank hosts against your specific plugin list, traffic profile, or staging workflow. The fit-score is the part the buyer’s guide leaves to you, and the matrix…
TL;DR Pressable’s WordPress plugin-evaluation guide names 100,000 active installs as a reliability marker — and most plugins in the directory miss it by an order of magnitude. Every WordPress plugin has a public record (readme.txt, 12-month changelog, support forum, recent…
TL;DR Most production custom-post-types ship with Text fields everywhere. The migration cost from Text-everywhere to typed-fields-everywhere always exceeds the time it would have taken to plan the field map in the first sprint. Designing the field map BEFORE clicking Add…