Technical Blog

Case studies, debugging deep-dives, and engineering insights from 7+ years of WordPress and SaaS platform work.

May 13, 2026

Why MemberPress Needs a Staging Safe Mode

A WordPress plugin that makes MemberPress safe to run on staging — blocks customer-facing mail, pauses reminder crons, sandboxes payment gateways at read time, and survives the clone.

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May 11, 2026

How I Built Admin Filters for MemberPress

A WordPress.org plugin that adds address, custom-field, and user-meta filters to MemberPress admin lists — built entirely on hooks, with no core files modified.

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May 8, 2026

How I Built Selective Role Reset for the Members Plugin

The Members plugin can now restore WordPress roles to a clean state — without nuking custom roles created by other plugins, and without orphaning users. Here's the problem and how I solved it.

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April 29, 2026

How I Built the Administrator Rescue Link for the Members Plugin

The Members plugin now ships with a magic link that lets locked-out administrators restore their own access — without touching the database. Here's the problem it solves, how I built it, and how to use it.

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April 15, 2026

Controlling the Past: Building Forward-Only Access for MemberPress

How the MemberPress Forward-Only Access plugin gates content by publish date vs. join date — with configurable rules, exclusions, wp-config overrides, and hooks for developers.

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April 2, 2026

How to Bulk Generate PDF Invoices in MemberPress

A step-by-step tutorial for using the PDF Invoice Generator plugin to create invoices in bulk for MemberPress transactions — by date range, status, or all at once.

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March 31, 2026

How to Troubleshoot Failed Subscription Renewals in MemberPress

A practical guide to diagnosing and fixing failed subscription renewals in MemberPress — covering webhook issues, gateway mismatches, and the silent failures that cost you recurring revenue.

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March 27, 2026

How to Track and Manage Gift Memberships in MemberPress

Learn how to track gifted memberships, follow up on unclaimed gifts, export gift data, and automate reminders in MemberPress — with practical workflows and tools.

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February 25, 2026

Bridging the Reporting Gap: The Engineering Behind the MemberPress Gift Reporter

How I built a scalable solution to automate gift transaction insights for high-traffic membership sites.

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February 24, 2026

Debugging at Scale: Lessons from 5K+ Advanced Production Issues

Insights from a Tier 3 Engineer on maintaining stability in high-traffic WordPress and SaaS environments.

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February 23, 2026

Welcome to My Technical Blog

Introducing a space for deep-dive case studies, WordPress engineering insights, and lessons from resolving 5k+ production issues at the Tier 3 level.

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