Modern WordPress development tutorials covering Gutenberg blocks, themes, plugins, and best practices.

• Case No. — Devops Shipped

  The Seven Commands I Actually Run Every Day (And Why I Stopped Memorizing Them)

  For a long time, my daily WordPress ops routine lived in shell history. Pull a database, sync some uploads, eyeball a security log, glance at a client site’s...

  Aug 29, 2026 · wordpress trellis wp-cli ansible
• Case No. — Devops Shipped

  Splitting a Sage Theme From Its Trellis Deploy: Nynaeve as a Composer Package

  Our Sage 11 theme, Nynaeve, used to live two places at once: as its own standalone repo, and as a plain git-tracked copy pasted into the main site repo’s web...

  Aug 24, 2026 · wordpress trellis composer sage
• Case No. — Frontend Documented

  Two Colors, One Gutenberg Block, No InnerBlocks in Sight

  While adding color controls to a small Gutenberg block — a single “stat” tile, a big number sitting over a caption, the sort of thing you’d repeat three or f...

  Aug 20, 2026 · wordpress javascript gutenberg blocks
• Case No. — Debugging Resolved

  I Shipped a Gutenberg Block Update, Clicked Save, and Nothing Changed

  I added a new section to a custom Gutenberg block, deployed the plugin update, opened the page that uses the block, and clicked Save. The front end kept show...

  Aug 18, 2026 · wordpress php gutenberg blocks
• Case No. — Devops Documented

  Catching WordPress Emails Locally with MailHog (No More Test Mail Hitting Real Inboxes)

  Every WordPress site sends more mail than people think: password resets, contact form notifications, WooCommerce order confirmations, plugin alerts. That’s f...

  Aug 14, 2026 · wordpress php devops mailhog
• Case No. — Security Hardened

  WP 2FA on Roots Bedrock/Trellis: Per-Environment Encryption Keys and a Composer Patch for a Fatal Bug

  We added WP 2FA (two-factor authentication) to a client site this week to help lock down /wp-login.php after a brute-force wave that hit us — 20 IPs, 176 to ...

  Jul 3, 2026 · wordpress php security 2fa
• Case No. — Devops Patched

  How Trellis's database-pull Playbook Works (And What We Fixed)

  One of the most useful Trellis commands in day-to-day WordPress development is trellis db pull. It syncs your production (or staging) database down to local ...

  Feb 27, 2026 · wordpress trellis ansible bedrock
• Case No. — Debugging Resolved

  The WordPress Query Filter Trap: How I Caused Infinite Recursion and Crashed Production

  I wrote some code a month ago that finally crashed a production WordPress site today. The bug sat dormant for 4 weeks before exploding. This post documents t...

  Nov 24, 2025 · wordpress php debugging filters
• Case No. — Debugging Resolved

  Debugging PHP-FPM Memory Exhaustion on WordPress with WooCommerce and Trellis

  Over the past weekend, I spent considerable time debugging persistent memory exhaustion errors on a WordPress site running WooCommerce and the Roots stack (T...

  Nov 24, 2025 · wordpress php php-fpm memory
• Case No. — Frontend Shipped

  Building a Custom WordPress Walker for Multilingual Mobile Navigation with Secondary Menus

  When building modern WordPress themes, mobile navigation often requires more sophisticated functionality than the standard WordPress menu system provides out...

  Aug 3, 2025 · wordpress php walker navigation