I'm available for hire again. Over 20 years of experience as mostly a backend developer, strong proficiency with WordPress, eCommerce, API integrations and data migrations. Come say hi: coenjacobs.com/hire-me/ (sharing this message is greatly appreciated! 🙏)

Friendly reminder to check your analytics… and call your mother

Had several people request my capabilities for white label WordPress and helping a solopreneur develop his consulting site to help with leads and sales. It's been a great day 🤗

2021: "He's failing." 2022: "He's failing." 2023: "He's failing." 2024: "He's failing." 2025: "He got lucky."

If you could pay a flat fee and have me QA your service or product and receive a detailed report of all the friction points and issues I encounter, would you do it? Keeping in mind, you wouldn't need to pay someone thousands of dollars a year and healthcare benefits.

Alright guys. I am officially screwed. I'll just be honest even though it's embarrassing. We're hungry. There's rent due today. If anyone needs #WordPress or web projects now or near future and might want to put a prepayment down, or I'll even take venmo or I can invoice via

Today marks 10 years since I created the first version of Coupon Affiliates (Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce). It all started with one simple request from a client that wanted to track their WooCommerce coupon usage. I built a small custom feature for them, and released it as a free plugin. Soon

Thanks to a call with Brad Vincent and a call at work today, I’m finally feeling a sense of positive energy. It has been so long, that I forgot what it feels like. I need to bottle it up.

This is a great deal! Entered 🤗

Got it! The whole internet is way smaller than you think.

Now that we know AI is sending potential customers to hallucinated URLs, we’re changing how we handle 404 pages: 1. Keyword-based redirects for URL's that lead to 404's (e.g. “document” → Document Library Pro) 2. A redesigned 404 page that acts like a helpful signpost instead

The main feedback I got when starting WordPress was that there were too many blogging systems already.

y'all can hate as for me and my house we put pineapple on our pizza

I thought making blanket forts was over when my kid grew up. Now my cats DEMAND blanket forts.