Performance breakdowns, security notes, and practical tutorials for developers and agencies running custom code on WordPress.
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Every snippet plugin we tried stored code in the database and ran SQL on every request. We thought custom code should load like part of WordPress itself, so we made it file-based from day one. Here's the full story.
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Tutorials Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS dies on the next theme switch. Put the same rules in a Styles snippet instead.
Tutorials Meta sent you a pixel and said to paste it in the header. One Content snippet, skip logged-in users.
Tutorials Theme updates put the file back. Put the same PHP in a Functions snippet instead, with an off switch.
Tutorials Discussion settings do not kill the form everywhere. One Functions snippet does, without functions.php or another plugin.
Tutorials Google gave you two blocks. Put them in two snippets, not in header.php, Site Kit, or a one-job plugin.
Tutorials Google sent you a tag and said to paste it in the header. Put it in a snippet instead, so the next theme update can't eat it.
Releases Dark mode, every screen redrawn, and real runtime work underneath — plus the origin story most of those fifty thousand sites have never heard.
Performance Where the work actually goes on a page load, why the query count matters more than the milliseconds, and what zero buys you.
Tutorials Drop your GA4 tag into wp_head in under a minute, scoped to just the pages you care about.
Tutorials Role, page type, URL, date and more. Build grouped AND/OR rules visually, without writing the checks yourself.
Workflow Install the mu-plugin loader, remove FluentSnippets, and hand off a site whose snippets keep working.
Agency The analytics, hardening and cleanup snippets we drop into every project on day one.
Developers Register your own snippet types, skip the runner entirely, or react when a snippet is created, updated or deleted.
Security Validation before save, automatic quarantine at runtime, and the URL that gets you back in when neither one helped.
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