WordPress

This section collects Avunu's WordPress recipes: theme and plugin development patterns, day-to-day operations with WP-CLI, and the tools we use to debug and speed up slow sites. Everything targets current WordPress 6.x and WP-CLI 2.x. PHP snippets note whether they belong in a child theme's functions.php, a site plugin, or a must-use plugin.

Getting Started

The official WordPress Developer Resources and the WP-CLI command reference are the best references for anything not covered here.

Development

• Block Styles in Classic Themes — Register selectable block style variations, each with its own stylesheet, from a classic or child theme.

• Child Theme File Includes — Keep functions.php short by loading feature files and folders of post type definitions.

• Custom Post Type Admin — Admin-only post types, with ACF or meta values shown as sortable list columns.

Operations & WP-CLI

• WP-CLI Cookbook — Search-replace, bulk deletion, WooCommerce bulk edits, emergency admin access, and core or plugin reinstalls.

• WordPress Cron — Disable page-load WP-Cron and run scheduled events from a real server cron job.

• wp-config Reference — The constants we set most often for cron, memory, debugging, and Redis object caching.

Debugging & Performance

• Debugging Snippets — Safe debug logging, listing a page's scripts and styles, and silencing the zlib ob_end_flush() notice.

• Database Optimization Queries — Measure autoloaded options and post meta bloat, then clean up orphaned data.

• Docket Cache Configuration — Avunu's baseline wp-config.php constants for the Docket Cache file-based object cache.

Plugins

• Gravity Forms — Styling, CSS loading, submission UX, dynamic image choices, and webhook integrations.