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Short pieces on the things we hit while building: what shipped in Divi and WordPress, what a plugin costs a page, and the traps that only show up on somebody else’s site.

React

Your React Search Results Can Arrive In The Wrong Order

A slower request can overwrite a newer search. A tested hook that handles debounce, cancellation, late responses and retry. WooCommerce

Keep Selected Products At The Top Of Your WooCommerce Shop

Choose which products shoppers see first. A small PHP snippet, where to put it, and what happens when someone changes the sorting. Divi 5

Register Your Own Keyboard Shortcut In The Divi 5 Builder

Divi 5 exposes a real shortcut API to the Visual Builder. The whole working plugin, and the three traps that make it look broken when it is not. Divi 5

Your Divi Blog Grid Is Serving 400px Images. Here Is Why

Divi registers its own image sizes, and the blog grid gets a 400 pixel crop whatever you uploaded. One filter changes it, and one step after that is the one everybody skips. Divi 5

Divi AI Agents: What It Actually Does In The Builder

An agent that takes plain language and acts on the page, from layouts to Theme Options. Including what it cannot do yet. WordPress

WordPress Has An AI Team Now. What It Means If You Ship Plugins

Core has formed an AI team and every major builder is shipping AI features. What changes for the people writing the plugins underneath. Performance

The Autoloaded Option That Slows Every Single Request

One row a plugin left in wp_options, loaded on every page whether it is needed or not. How to find it, and what it actually costs. Architecture

Headless WordPress: When It Earns Its Cost, And When It Does Not

A React front end over WordPress buys real things and charges real money. An honest look at which projects actually get their money back.