From a Parked Domain to a Real Product
job.army is the longest arc in this blog, a parked domain that became a living federal jobs board and then an engine…
WordPress Plugins
Plugins I build for WordPress, and the lessons learned shipping them.
I Did Not Build a Site, I Built a Product
Somewhere during the multi-source rebuild, I looked at what the plugin had become, any niche via sources and keywords, any branding, complete…
Gathering Jobs From Everywhere at Once
The board ran beautifully on USAJOBS, and that sentence contains its ceiling, one source means one niche and one point of failure.…
A Job Board Has to Keep Itself Alive
A job board rots by default, every listing carries a closing date, and a board still showing last month’s expired jobs is…
Speaking Google’s Language, and the Data I Refused to Invent
Job listings have their own structured-data type, JobPosting, and getting it right puts your jobs into rich search results, which for a…
I Broke My Own Plugin by Cleaning It Up
A routine update, and suddenly the plugin would not activate, the fatal-error screen from the limo days back again. The debug log…
The Bug Where Saving One Page Wiped Another
The plugin had grown several settings pages, API, AI Rewrite, Branding, Sources, and users started reporting an impossible-sounding bug, save your branding,…
Every Job on My Site Was a Copy
Full job announcements gave the board substance and handed it the aggregator’s curse, my pages now carried the same text as USAJOBS…
My Board Looked Full but the Jobs Were Empty
The board looked healthy from the archive page and hollow one click deeper, every job’s body was a summary paragraph and nothing…
Teaching WordPress What a Job Is
Jobs were importing, and the board immediately needed what every listings site needs, ways to slice, by department, by job type, by…