What Building My Most Ambitious Project Really Taught Me
The limo booking plugin was the most ambitious thing I had built, and the most humbling. A complete ride platform as a…
WordPress Plugins
Plugins I build for WordPress, and the lessons learned shipping them.
The Human Touches That Make a Service Real
By this point the limo plugin had its booking flow, its payments, its driver side, and an app like feel. But a…
Achievable Wins: A Booking History and an App-Like Feel
After live tracking humbled me, I wanted wins that would fully land. Two were sitting right there, a booking history so returning…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…