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…
WordPress Plugins
Plugins I build for WordPress, and the lessons learned shipping them.
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…
Build Around the Tool You Can Actually Get
Every aggregator lives or dies by its source, and most niches offer only bad choices, scraping fragile pages or paying for feeds.…
Why My Job Board Had to Fill Itself
The day the post type went live, job.army had a perfect empty room, a jobs archive with zero jobs. A job board’s…
From a Parked Domain to a Niche Job Board
For years, job.army sat parked, a domain I owned, showing someone else’s ads, earning pennies. The domain investing series later in this…
What Building MaidsMe Taught Me About Judgment Over Code
MaidsMe was the project where my hardest problems stopped being technical. The limo plugin taught me debugging, payments, and timing rules. This…
Why a Trust Platform Lives or Dies on How It Looks
A family hiring someone to work inside their home judges the platform in the first three seconds, before reading a word. If…