Building the Plugin Skeleton: Hooks, Shortcodes, and AJAX
A plugin is not just files in a folder. Those files are inert until WordPress calls them, and WordPress only calls what…
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Every post, newest first. Each one is a step in a project I am building.
How I Structured a Big WordPress Plugin Without It Becoming a Mess
A plugin with a dozen features can collapse into chaos shockingly fast. One file grows to thousands of lines, every function touches…
I Decided to Build a Complete Limo Booking System
After smaller tools, I aimed big: a complete limo booking system, built as a WordPress plugin. Not a contact form that emails…
What Building Software for a Real Shop Taught Me
This series began with a clothing shop running on paper and memory, and it ends with that shop running on a single…
Why I Forced My Whole Program Under 600 Lines
I gave myself a hard rule for this project: the entire shop program had to stay under 600 lines. One file, everything…
The Black Window That Made My Software Look Unfinished
My shop software worked, but every time it launched, a black console window opened behind it and sat there for the whole…
Why I Replaced PDF Receipts With a Simple Preview
I built PDF receipts because they sounded professional. A proper document, saved to disk, printable, permanent. I even pulled in a real…
Turning the Database Into Stock, Sales, and Real Profit
A database helps nobody until you make it readable. After weeks of billing, cloth_store.db was filling with sales the shop had never…
Making the Counter Fast With Real Product Search
A shop counter is a place where seconds matter. A customer is standing there, money in hand, maybe a line forming behind…
Cutting the Fields and Columns a Clothing Shop Did Not Need
When I first built the product form, I gave it everything a shop product could possibly have. Category. Color. Size. Name. Price.…