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Building FunnelWheel’s Feeds Module: A Technical Deep Dive
A look at FunnelWheel Feeds, its core functionality, and the architecture designed for future growth. I’ve spent the last stretch of FunnelWheel development on the Feeds module — the bell-icon notification system that shows WooCommerce stores their own live data back to customers: recent orders, live viewer counts, restock alerts, product recommendations. This is both…
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When Weak Type Assumptions Become Production Failures: Lessons from WP Rocket Issue #8596
Modern PHP is considerably more type-aware than the PHP of a decade ago. After PHP 8, passing the wrong type to many internal functions is no longer quietly tolerated. It can result in a Type Error and stop the request. That evolution exposes an important engineering lesson: If your code expects a specific type, make…
