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Figma to WordPress: Turning a Design into a Real Theme
What a design file needs before development starts, how to translate it into a theme without pixel-chasing, and the conversations that save a rebuild later.
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WordPress Development Articles
Custom themes, plugins, block development, Gutenberg, PHP and the day-to-day craft of building WordPress sites that are maintainable years later.
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WordPress Multisite: When It Helps and When It Hurts
What multisite actually gives you, the shared-fate risks it creates, and the alternatives worth considering before turning it on.
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A Staging and Deployment Workflow for WordPress
How to set up local, staging and production environments for WordPress, what to version control, and how to handle the database that makes it awkward.
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WordPress Coding Standards: A Practical Review Checklist
What to check when reviewing WordPress code: escaping, sanitisation, capability checks, queries, hooks and the structural choices that decide maintainability.
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Page Builder vs Custom Theme: The Honest Trade-offs
What page builders genuinely give you, what they cost in performance and portability, and how to decide which approach fits a project.
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WordPress Plugin Development: Structure, Hooks and Good Practice
How to structure a WordPress plugin properly: the header, activation, hooks and filters, settings, security and uninstall cleanup.
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ACF vs Native Custom Fields: Choosing a Field Layer
What a field plugin buys you over WordPress's own custom fields, what it costs in lock-in, and how to structure fields so the site survives changing your mind.
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Custom Post Types and Taxonomies: Structuring WordPress Content
When to create a custom post type, how taxonomies differ from fields, the registration settings that matter, and the mistakes that are painful to reverse.
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How to Build a Custom Gutenberg Block (Without a Page Builder)
What a custom block is made of, static versus dynamic rendering, attributes, the editor interface, and how to keep blocks from breaking after you ship them.
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Block Themes vs Classic Themes: Which Should You Build?
How block themes and classic themes actually differ, what each costs to build and maintain, and a straightforward way to decide between them.
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WordPress Child Themes: When to Use One and How to Build It
What a child theme is for, how to set one up correctly, the enqueue mistake almost everyone makes, and the cases where a child theme is the wrong answer.
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Custom WordPress Theme Development: A Complete Guide
What goes into a custom WordPress theme — structure, template hierarchy, the block editor, performance and handover — and when a theme is the wrong answer.
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