YMMV Blog
Things on our mind, articles that will get in to yours.
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How to Clone a WooCommerce Order (Step-by-Step Guide)
Clone a WooCommerce order for a repeat customer or similar sale, then review payment, stock, tax, and status before processing the new order.
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Nobody Is Safe From Your Morals
When political agreement becomes a condition of belonging, a professional community does not become safer. It teaches dissenters to stay quiet.
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How to Auto-Import Images to Your WordPress Media Library
Auto import images into the WordPress Media Library when you save content. Compare manual and automatic workflows, set safe rules, and verify local image URLs.
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How To Distribute A WordPress Plugin Without WordPress.org
You can host, update and sell a WordPress plugin without ever touching the .org directory, and most of the tooling is free. We went through the options: Plugin Update Checker, Git Updater, Troy, FAIR, Freemius, PaddlePress and Composer. What each one does, what it costs, and the catches.
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How to Show Products With and Without Tax in WooCommerce
Show products with and without tax in WooCommerce using native tax settings, the price suffix, or a customer-facing toggle.
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How to Import Hosted Images from External URLs into WordPress
Learn how to move externally hosted images into the WordPress Media Library, replace remote URLs, and choose between manual, developer, and automatic workflows.
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How to Set Up Tax Rates in WooCommerce (2026 Guide)
Set up WooCommerce tax classes, location-based rate rows, shipping tax, and a test order without confusing store settings with your tax obligations.
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External Images in WordPress: Why They Break and How to Fix Them
Find the cause of broken external images in WordPress, check their source URLs, and move recoverable files into your Media Library safely.
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Why We Won’t #BuildInPublic
There is a particular kind of advice that circulates in WordPress and SaaS product circles. If you follow certain people on X (and you probably do if you’re reading this) we are sure you’ve heard it, or at least some of it. “Build in public” “Share your journey” “Share your struggles” “People buy from people” “Distribution is everything” The implication…
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Ignoring the “Best Advice for WordPress Product Businesses in 2026”
Matt Cromwell recently published “My Best Advice for WordPress Product Businesses in 2026 and Beyond” – a compelling case for why user experience will define winners in WordPress’s next era. Invest in UX, simplify your interfaces, perfect your onboarding flows he says. It’s a thoughtful, well-argued piece from someone who deeply understands the WordPress ecosystem. We also think it’s wrong.…