A local WordPress dev setup: LocalWP, Mailpit, PHPCS
LocalWP, Mailpit in place of MailHog, and PHPCS with the WordPress coding standards
WordPress fundamentals
Seven reference guides, first written in 2022 and rewritten in 2026: a local setup, plugin basics, translations, blocks, rewrite rules, tests, and how VIP Go is laid out.
WordPress plugin fundamentals: headers, load order, hooks and options
What WordPress reads first, the order plugins load in, and how hooks and options really behave
Translating a WordPress plugin, including the JavaScript
Text domains, when translations load, and getting strings and data into JavaScript the current way
Custom Gutenberg blocks: create-block, InnerBlocks, context and patterns
Building a block with create-block, from scaffold and registration to InnerBlocks, context and patterns
WordPress rewrite rules, permalinks and transients
How clean URLs map back to index.php, where the rules are stored, and when to flush them
PHPUnit tests for a WordPress plugin, scaffold to first assertion
Scaffold, install script, and the PHPUnit version the WordPress test suite still runs on
WordPress VIP Go: repo structure, environments, and local dev
Why a VIP repo does not look like a WordPress install, and which parts of it actually deploy