I’ve been building nifty solutions with WordPress since version 2.3, back when tagging was a hot and exciting feature, everyone was rocking the Kubrick theme, and breaking your site with a rogue functions.php edit was a rite of passage… so I’ve learned how to craft clean, purposeful features.
Below are some custom WordPress plugins I’ve built outside of client work, that are lightweight, well thought out enhancements that slot neatly into WordPress, match its design language, and behave exactly how you’d expect a native feature to behave.