Small Project, Lasting Lessons
The testimonial carousel is the smallest complete project in this blog, one widget, one job, and I am giving it a finale…
WordPress Plugins
Plugins I build for WordPress, and the lessons learned shipping them.
The Detail That Made the Reviews Feel Real
Deployed on real sites, the carousel met two requirements that no demo surfaces. Sites serving Urdu and Arabic speaking audiences needed testimonials…
Do Not Reinvent the Wheel, Use a Proven Library
The testimonial carousel’s most important code is code I did not write. The sliding, the touch gestures, the pagination dots, all come…
A Real Widget, Not Pasted Code
There are two ways to put a custom block on an Elementor site, and the visa site used one of them, paste…
Why I Built a Reusable Testimonial Carousel
Every business site I built ended up needing the same block, a rotating strip of customer testimonials, and every time I rebuilt…
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…
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…