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Technical notes, tutorials, and thought leadership on headless architecture and modern web development.
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Moving a WooCommerce Store to Headless: What Actually Changes
WooCommerce headless is a different job to Shopify. You already own the data and the server, so the work moves to plugins, the checkout and an API that was never really built for this. The honest version.
headlessecommercewoocommerce Read noteWhat a Headless Migration Costs, and How Long It Takes
The two questions I get in every first conversation. An honest look at what really drives the cost and the timeline of a headless migration, and how to keep both down.
headlessmigration Read noteIs a Headless CMS Overkill for a Small Business?
The question I get in almost every first conversation. The honest answer on when a headless CMS is the right call for a small business, and when it is not.
headless Read noteMoving from Wix to a headless setup
Wix is the most closed builder I deal with, so a move is mostly a rebuild, not a transfer. What that actually involves, what you gain, and when to stay put.
headlessmigration Read noteWhat Moving a Squarespace Site to a Headless CMS Really Involves
People picture a theme swap. Moving off Squarespace to a headless CMS is a full rebuild plus quietly owning the forms, hosting, SEO and content export Squarespace handled for you.
headlessmigration Read noteHow I Tanked My Own Rankings With AI, and Fixed It
I accidentally wrecked my own Google rankings by over using AI. Here is the honest story of what went wrong and how I put it right.
aiseo Read noteWhat a Shopify to Headless Migration Actually Involves
People picture a theme swap. A Shopify to headless migration is really a frontend rebuild plus quietly owning everything Shopify used to do for you. The honest version.
headlessecommerce Read noteBuilding a Headless Storefront With Vue, Nuxt and GraphQL
Rewritten from my 2022-2023 Vue Storefront videos: how to put a Vue and Nuxt frontend on Magento over GraphQL, why you test queries first, and why shipping only the data you need is the whole point.
magentoheadlessnuxt Read noteCommon Magento 2 Problems and How to Fix Them
A field reference for the Magento 2 problems that keep recurring: empty categories, the 503 page, extension installs, config that travels, the 2.4.5 Amasty bug, and patching core safely. Rewritten from my 2020 to 2023 fix-it videos.
magentodev-workflow Read noteWorking with EAV Attributes and Product Data in Magento
What EAV actually is, how to add your own product attributes with a source model, the cross environment option id trap that bites everyone, and getting it onto the front end. Rewritten from my 2021 and 2023 videos.
magentodev-workflow Read noteMagento 2 Admin and Advanced Modules
The follow-on to my beginners module piece, rewritten from my 2022 videos: adding fields to the admin order view, editing admin grids with UI listing components, and building advanced front end modules that extend core behaviour like layered navigation.
magentodev-workflow Read noteMagento 2 Module Development for Beginners
Rewritten from my 2021-2022 videos: the three files every Magento 2 module needs, the commands that register it, blocks and dependency injection, routes and collections, and when to build a module instead of editing your theme.
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