Pillar
WordPress Practice
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Before WordPress: how a 2002 author platform ran for sixteen years
A 2002 author-publishing platform that ran 16 years with zero ongoing maintenance. Static-site generation years before the pattern had a name.
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Newspaper website development built for how a newsroom actually works
Newsroom-grade WordPress for regional papers and news networks. Editorial workflow, GAM integration, paywall, multisite, by someone who shipped at Postmedia.
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The public record: what I’ve built and where to check it
Verified credentials for Christopher Ross: WordPress Core contributions, merged pull requests to major open-source projects, published WordPress.org plugins, conference speaking, newspaper columns,…
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Scriborium
A column syndication studio for WordPress: track which version ran where, manage rights and reversion, keep the relationship between your original draft…
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Behind the scenes: the WooCommerce bug that hid from its own test
The week I almost shipped a WooCommerce fix that would have quietly undone itself, landed two open-source merges, and audited my whole…
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WordPress application passwords: access without sharing your login
I was partway through migrating a LearnDash course site when I lost access to the dev environment. An Application Password I had…
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Google already made a listing for your business. It probably has the wrong information.
Three different people, in three different conversations, told me the same thing: if I was driving through that part of the county,…
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Migrating off CivicPlus: the hidden records-management cost procurement misses
Municipal procurement teams routinely miss the records-management line item when scoping a CivicPlus exit. Here is what it covers and what it…
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The meeting notes looked fine
AI meeting summaries report what was said, not what was decided. They round unresolved items up to confirmed, and you have to…