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…
lessons learned
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…
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…
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…
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…
What Building Software for a Real Shop Taught Me
This series began with a clothing shop running on paper and memory, and it ends with that shop running on a single…