A monthly check that has failed twice in two years, reporting clean for the fourteenth consecutive month. A check that has stopped failing is either a solved problem…
A theme reduced to templates and styles, and functionality that moved into a plugin — which is where it belonged. The rule that fell out is that anything…
Configuration as code, for a plugin that will never be distributed, and the test that covers it. Testing a filter is testing the contract rather than the implementation,…
A plugin with three configuration values, deployed by a pipeline, and a settings screen that would have had one user. A settings screen exists so somebody without deployment…
A transient holding an expensive query result, expiring at a fixed time, and four hundred requests recomputing it simultaneously. The stale copy with a longer lifetime is what…
A plugin update that broke a checkout flow, reverted by editing one line and running one command. A downgrade that is a version constraint and a redeploy is…
WordPress installed as a dependency, which requires the content directory to move out of the core directory. The constants must be defined before core loads, which means wp-config.php…
A Composer-managed install where an update through the admin would be silently reverted on the next deploy. Disabling it is correct and the confusion it causes is a…
Composer-managed WordPress, and four commercial plugins that ship as a zip behind a licence key. An inline package definition with a version that has to be bumped by…