I have been working with WordPress for years now. I run a WordPress site for myself, for friends and family, and I run several production WordPress sites for clients. In my time working with WordPress, I have used a host of third-party plugins to build new features on client sites. I have used plugins to […]
Have you heard the buzz about Kubernetes in the software engineering scene? If you are anything like me, you’ve certainly heard of it, and know that high-level engineers use it to deploy scalable applications. But, much beyond that, you haven’t been able to find out. And its no wonder why. Most of the documentation and […]
My business is building awesome new car detailing software to help car detailers run their businesses more efficiently. Read about how it is going! The Vision In May of 2025, JG Web Development was approached by the owner of a car detailing business. He had a vision in mind for an all-in-one platform specifically devoted […]
The internet is a powerful tool in disciplined hands. It has democratized knowledge and enabled anyone to share any message they want with the world. It is so accessible that even a child can use it to get their hands on any piece of public information in the world. Unfortunately, this includes the ability to […]
Have you ever wanted to use a composer package in your WordPress plugin? If so, then you may have run into namespace collision problems between your plugin and other plugins that use the same package. Fortunately, we can use PhpScoper, an open-source namespace prefixer, to prevent this issue on WordPress sites with multiple plugins that […]
Today, we will take a look at an ongoing project for my business, JG Web Development. Several months back, we got the opportunity to start working with Totally Mechanics, a power equipment maintenance and parts provider based in Millersburg, Ohio. As a company with an established ecommerce clientele and ambitions for growing their online market, […]
Scheduling tasks to be run at regular intervals in your WordPress plugin can be confusing if you’ve never done it before. And testing to make these “WordPress cron jobs” work properly can be challenging as well, since you can’t see output from the job code as easily. Or at least, that is the experience I […]
There’s no getting around it. Neural networks are complicated. And hard to understand. It is hard to know where to start when using them. There are so many architectural decisions, hyperparameters, and other settings to consider, that, when building models, it can feel like mashing random values together until something works. That was my experience, […]
I’ve been developing ContentOracle AI Chat, a plugin that adds a retrieval-augmented ai chatbot to WordPress websites for the past six months. Today, I’d like to take a look at the main features of my new plugin, and share some lessons learned and problems solved in the process of building a powerful retrieval-augmented chatbot for […]
I am building an Laravel web app to help me generate annotations for images. I will be using these annotated images to train computer vision object detection models. As a part of that app, I need to a way to store images uploaded by users so that I can later go in and add object […]