Thoughts on PHP, WordPress, and building production-grade systems.
Concrete before-and-after code examples of match expressions, constructor property promotion, readonly properties, enums, fibers, and other PHP 8.x features that make WordPress and PHP development cleaner and more robust.
Specific SQL queries and WP-CLI commands to clean transients, post revisions, orphaned metadata, and autoload bloat from WordPress databases with measurable performance improvements.
Production-grade WordPress plugin architecture with PSR-4 autoloading, proper activation hooks, database migrations, nonce verification, and caching patterns that survive real-world usage.
Exact OPcache configurations, PHP-FPM pool settings, Redis object caching, Composer autoloader optimization, and profiling tools that deliver measurable performance gains in production.
A production-hardened WordPress security checklist with exact file permissions, wp-config hardening rules, database privileges, and server-level protections that actually stop attacks.
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