Practical articles on managing custom WordPress code safely, choosing the right tools, and building workflows that scale across projects.
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A step-by-step migration from WPCode to a file-based snippet plugin: inventory every snippet, map types and auto-insert locations, find shortcodes in content, and cut over one snippet at a time.
October 15, 2026 6 min read
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Release notes, workflow guides, and long-form writing on how to keep WordPress custom code safe and maintainable.
Stripe, GitHub, Zapier, and your own services all want a URL to POST to. Three ways to give them one in WordPress — a REST route, admin-post, or a snippet endpoint — and the security rules every webhook needs.
October 8, 2026 6 min read
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AI tools write plausible WordPress PHP that fails in predictable ways: invented hooks, missing escaping, wrong load order, and queries on every request. A review checklist with before-and-after examples.
October 1, 2026 6 min read
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Turn a published PHP snippet into a signed inbound HTTP endpoint at /sv/{slug}. Secret-header auth, rate limits, invocation logs, admin replay, and new Snippet Engineer tools to author and fixture-test webhooks.
August 22, 2026 4 min read
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WordPress 7.1 shipped 19 August 2026 with responsive styles and hover/focus/active in the editor. A lot of snippet CSS is now core. Here is what to retire — and what to keep.
August 21, 2026 4 min read
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Copy-pasting snippets across client dashboards is not a process. Here is how agencies inventory, review, sync, and retire custom WordPress code in 2026.
August 18, 2026 4 min read
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CVE-2026-65640 is an Author+ RCE via Imagick and Ghostscript, backported to 4.7. Core is patched. Your upload-handling snippets and 'helpful' file PHP may not be.
August 13, 2026 4 min read
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Most snippet bugs are scope bugs. Here is how to load PHP, CSS, and JavaScript on the right pages, roles, and requests — and stop running checkout code on the blog.
August 6, 2026 4 min read
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Copy-pasting the same PHP into ten dashboards is how versions drift. A complete guide to sharing, configuring, rolling out, and retiring snippets across client, staging, and production sites.
July 30, 2026 8 min read
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Woody Code Snippets changed hands in July 2026. What the Themeisle acquisition means for existing sites, and how to decide whether to migrate your PHP, ads, and shortcodes.
July 23, 2026 4 min read
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Customizer CSS, header-and-footer plugins, and snippet types are not interchangeable. Here is how to add CSS and JS so you can scope it, disable it, and survive a theme change.
July 14, 2026 4 min read
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What an AI coding agent actually does, why WordPress is harder for agents than a local repo, how to prompt one well, and which safety gates must exist before it touches production.
July 2, 2026 8 min read
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Our biggest release yet. The Snippet Engineer is an autonomous AI coding agent built into WordPress — like Cursor, but for snippets. Plus: Project Workspaces to organise your library at scale.
July 2, 2026 6 min read
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A bad snippet can white-screen wp-admin. Here is how to get the site back, disable only the offending code, and stop the next fatal from taking everything down.
June 24, 2026 4 min read
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Make WordPress deprecated wp-now in June 2026 and published official Playground guides for PHP snippets. Here is a testing workflow that does not use production as QA.
June 11, 2026 4 min read
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Should a WPCode JavaScript snippet include <script> tags? What happens to type="module"? The short answers, then what HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and PHP snippet types actually do in WordPress.
June 10, 2026 6 min read
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WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” shipped on 20 May 2026 with an AI Client, Connectors, and full PHP 8.4/8.5 support. Here is what to audit in snippets before you click Update.
May 26, 2026 4 min read
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WordPress 7.0 shipped PHP-only block registration — no React, no build step. That does not retire snippet plugins. Here is how to choose the right container.
May 21, 2026 4 min read
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Storing PHP in a plugin is as safe as the storage model, the review step, and the blast radius. Here is how to tell a container from a liability.
May 7, 2026 5 min read
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WPCode, Code Snippets, FluentSnippets, Woody, WPCodeBox, and SnipVault — what each one is actually good at in 2026, and who should use which.
April 8, 2026 5 min read
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FluentSnippets stores PHP, CSS, and JS as real files, has no Pro upsell, and got a full redesign in 2026. What it does well, where it stops, and when to move on.
March 26, 2026 5 min read
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Repository layout, branch strategy, pull-request review, CI linting, conflict handling, and rollbacks — a complete workflow for keeping custom WordPress snippets in Git.
March 13, 2026 9 min read
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Child theme, site plugin, mu-plugin, or snippet manager? A practical decision guide with working examples — plus how to share state between snippets without haunted globals.
March 10, 2026 5 min read
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A practical checklist for every stage of a WordPress snippet's life — how to write it defensively, test it before activation, ship it without surprises, and recover in minutes when it breaks.
March 1, 2026 5 min read
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The 2026 Code Snippets Pro price sheet, what Pro unlocks over the free plugin, and when a lifetime plan or a different tool is cheaper over three years.
February 25, 2026 5 min read
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A practical walkthrough of editing PHP, CSS, and JavaScript snippets in WordPress — from the theme editor trap to a workflow you can actually undo.
February 11, 2026 4 min read
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A snippet plugin is not a code library and not a replacement for a real plugin. Here is what the category is, who it is for, and how the 2026 options actually differ.
January 28, 2026 5 min read
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WordPress 6.9 shipped a machine-readable registry for site actions. Here is how that changes snippet workflows — and why AI agents finally have something structured to call.
January 16, 2026 4 min read
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