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📌 Originally published on 4wp.dev → MVC Pattern in WordPress. Long read on LinkedIn: MVC in WordPress: the pattern everyone learns, few truly apply. Every WordPress developer has heard of MVC. Very
Originally published on 4wp.dev. The Premise wp-admin isn't yours. The owner is WordPress core, and every active plugin is a tenant with its own key to a shared apartment. The six hooks in this catego
Most WPGraphQL tutorials end at the first query. This one goes further: a small Next.js (App Router) blog on top of headless WordPress, taken all the way to a production-ready setup. We'll build a pag
On the surface, these five hooks all do the same thing — load CSS/JS. But four of them sound almost identical while each one runs in a different zone of the site. Mix them up, and block styles leak on
The Problem A typical case: a developer hooks logic onto save_post — update a counter, sync an external service, recalculate something based on the post's fields. The code runs... and immediately runs
WordPress makes it easy to write code that works and easy to write code that lasts, and those are not the same skill. Hooks, filters, custom post types, widgets — the platform hands you enough rope to build something maintainable or something that collapses the moment a second developer touches it. SOLID is the discipline that decides which one you get. Not as academic dogma imported from enterprise Java, but as five habits that map cleanly onto things WordPress developers already do every day.
Let's use a real case — a dental clinic and its appointment booking — to walk through what client-centricity, domain thinking, and scalability actually look like in WordPress development. Let's dive i
In the age of AI engineering and vibe coding, almost nobody mentions OOP anymore. But what if children were never taught prefixes, roots, and suffixes — the architecture of words — or how a sentence i
SOLID Principles for WordPress Development
