Jacob Graham

February 9th, 2026 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in Client Projects, Javascript, Laravel, Nuxt, PHP, Vue

Building the Best Car Detailing Software for Xelerate Detailing

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 […]

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September 12th, 2025 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in PHP, Web Development, WordPress Development

How to use PhpScoper in WordPress Plugins to Remedy Namespace Collisions

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 […]

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April 16th, 2025 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in ContentOracle AI, Laravel, Projects, Web Development, WordPress Development

Building a Powerful Retrieval-Augmented AI Chatbot for WordPress

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 […]

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February 27th, 2025 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in Laravel, PHP, Web Development

How to Upload Media From Laravel to Nextcloud with WebDAV

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 […]

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November 19th, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in Client Help, Web Development, WordPress Development

How to Point a Domain to Your Website

So you want to set up a new website for your business, church, or other organization? Great! Setting up a website is a critical step in the establishment of any organization. One of the most important steps when setting up a website is setting up a domain name to point to your website. A domain […]

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July 18th, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in Laravel, My Development Packages, Stickers on Demand - Building my own dropshipping platform, Web Development

How to Build a Custom Blade Directive with Automated Input Validator-Attribute Matching

Laravel is a powerful framework that offers a whole suite of built-in goodies meant to help enormously speed up application development. Blade, its built-in templating engine, and Eloquent, the ORM it ships with, are two of the most especially useful utilities Laravel brings to the table. As you build apps in Laravel, you will inevitably […]

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May 12th, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in API Development, FastAPI, Web Development

How to Build Out a GraphQL Endpoint in FastAPI

What is GraphQL GraphQL is a powerful, expressive query language for APIs, as well as a runtime for using existing data to respond to these queries. Often viewed as the successor to REST APIs, it provides a concise and easily human-readable interface for querying your API for data and tasks. GraphQL offers a number of […]

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April 17th, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in Web Development

How to Host Many Secure Websites on One Host With Docker and a Reverse Proxy

Why Use Traefik Traefik is a powerful modern reverse-proxy program that makes it easy to manage API and web gateways. Including comprehensive support for modern standards such as middleware and multiple routing groups, it streamlines process of load-balancing and routing web traffic between multiple hosts. It is often used to route traffic between docker containers […]

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March 22nd, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in Client Projects, Uncategorized, Web Development, WordPress Development

Client Showcase: G. Kofi Designs Online Store

The client showcase is back once again! This time, I’m pleased to share a business that I have been working with for the past couple months to bring their online sales strategy up to speed. That business is G. Kofi House of Fashion. The team at G. Kofi House of Fashion has a unique and […]

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March 1st, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in API Development, FastAPI, Uncategorized, Web Development

Learning FastAPI and SQLModel for API Development

Are you interested in learning FastAPI and SQLModel? I recently started a new job, and I needed to learn their tech stack. The company implements a microservices architecture, interacting with their databases through micro-apis built using FastAPI, a popular new python package for api development, using the SQLModel library as an ORM and input validator. […]

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