WordPress guides from client work, homelab build logs, and the occasional postmortem.
When Cloudflare Sneezed and WordPress Caught a Fatal Error
A Cloudflare outage took down wp-admin on a site not on Cloudflare, through Yoast’s license check
Split horizon DNS, and the day my own domain broke a cron job
Split horizon DNS on a domain I own, a cron job it broke, and a VPN resolver that depended on the VPN
VLANs on Omada, and the flag that is not a bug
Omada VLANs by trust, the vlan_enable flag that looks broken, reading the controller’s MongoDB, and dual WAN
GPU passthrough on Proxmox, and why not an LXC
Why the GPUs in my Proxmox nodes go to VMs and not LXC, the VFIO setup, and a kernel flag that does nothing
A two node Proxmox cluster, and the quorum problem
Two votes, one node down, no quorum: what two_node and wait_for_all fix on Proxmox, and what they cost
The homelab hardware: two Proxmox nodes, a laptop, and a Pi
Two Proxmox nodes, a laptop and a Pi: what each one does, and what a laptop needs to be a cluster node
Translating a WordPress plugin, including the JavaScript
Text domains, when translations load, and getting strings and data into JavaScript the current way
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
Custom Gutenberg blocks: create-block, InnerBlocks, context and patterns
Building a block with create-block, from scaffold and registration to InnerBlocks, context and patterns
A local WordPress dev setup: LocalWP, MailHog, PHPCS
LocalWP, Mailpit in place of MailHog, and PHPCS with the WordPress coding standards
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