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…
Elite Limo Booking
The story of my most ambitious build, a complete limo booking plugin for WordPress with booking, payments, verification, and a driver dashboard, told step by step by a self taught maker, including what worked and what did not.
This is a project series. The posts below are in order, starting from Part 1.
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…
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…
Installed but Dead: The Fatal Error That Would Not Let My Plugin Activate
My limo plugin uploaded fine, appeared in the plugins list fine, and then I clicked Activate and got the message every WordPress…
How I Debugged the Fatal Error With WordPress Logging
A plugin that would not activate, and a message that told me nothing. The previous post ended with the reframe, the real…
The Elementor Widget Crash and the Timing Rule Behind It
The plugin activated, the booking form worked, and then I built an Elementor widget so users could drag the booking form into…
Adding Phone Verification, and Why the Check Must Live on the Server
A booking system where anyone can type any phone number is a fake-booking machine. Drivers get dispatched to numbers that do not…
Adding Card Payments With Stripe, and the Weight of Handling Money
Adding card payments changed how the whole project felt. Every feature before this, a bug meant inconvenience. A payments bug means someone’s…
Building the Driver Side: Dashboards and Drag-to-Assign
A booking that no driver knows about is just a database row. The other half of a ride platform is dispatch, the…
Live Tracking: The Feature That Looked Easy and Humbled Me
Every ride app has the map, the little car crawling toward the pickup pin, and I wanted it badly for the limo…