I’ve inherited enough WordPress sites to have developed a healthy paranoia about plugins. That “highly rated” plugin with 100,000 active installs? It might be a ticking time bomb. Here’s the evaluation framework I use before any plugin touches a production site. The Five-Minute Audit Before I even install a plugin in a staging environment, I […]
If you build, maintain, or distribute WordPress plugins or themes in the EU market, there’s a regulation headed your way that’s going to change how you work. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) isn’t a suggestion — it’s law. And the clock is ticking. What Is the CRA? The Cyber Resilience Act is the EU’s answer […]
Six months ago, I did something that my past self would have called reckless: I handed 90% of my code review process to an AI. Not as an experiment. Not as a “let’s see what happens.” As a permanent workflow change. Here’s the full, honest story. The Problem with Human Code Review Don’t get me […]
Let me tell you something that might sting a little: your WordPress development workflow is probably costing you two to three times what it should. I know because I’ve audited dozens of agency workflows, and the pattern is almost always the same. The Silent Money Pit Here’s the thing about inefficient workflows — they don’t […]