Want to level up your WordPress development team?

This guide is designed for web developers, project managers, and tech leaders working in team environments to deliver high-quality websites for clients (or internally). As a WordPress developer and technical lead of 15 years, I’ve compiled these lessons I’ve learned through first hand experience.

This site aims to standardize processes, improve code quality, and enhance team collaboration in order to:

• Deliver better results for clients
• Increase satisfaction among your team members.

By following these guidelines, agency teams can ensure consistency across projects, reduce technical debt, improve performance and security, and streamline their development workflows.

Note: this site specifically speaks to those within the WordPress ecosystem, but many of the principles apply across other CMSs.

What this website is not

I’m not here to teach you programming in general. There’s a ton of resources out there for that across the web. [resource page coming soon]

This also isn’t going to teach you about how to program the best way within WordPress. learn.wordpress.org has a ton of resources about that. If you want to learn how block themes work or how to build a block theme from scratch, there’s free course for that.

It can teach you a bit about owning a website, though if you’re technically inclined (which you are because you’re here), then the official Advanced Administration Handbook is more complete.

Many top agencies have their own internal best practices docs, such as 10up’s Engineering Best Practices, Human Made’s Engineering Handbook, or WP VIP’s Entreprise-Level Courses. This doesn’t replace those. The articles on this site are written from my own personal experience, from lessons learned the hard way, and for practices that once I adopted had outsized benefits.