TwistedAndy
toniievych.bsky.social
TwistedAndy
@toniievych.bsky.social
WordPress and WooCommerce Developer, CSS Guru, and Tech Enthusiast
With the GPT-5 release, I tested which LLM is best for WooCommerce development: Qwen3 Coder, Sonnet 4, GPT-5, GLM 4.5, or Gemini 2.5 Flash.
TL;DR: Qwen3 takes the lead, Sonnet 4 is second. Full details, prompts, and code: toniievych.medium.com/testing-the-...
August 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Never liked how ACF stores repeaters and flexible content. It's bloated & messy. So I wrote a small library to serialize that data and store field IDs compressed, while staying 100% compatible with ACF and the WordPress API. Code: github.com/TwistedAndy/.... Maybe, someday I will create a plugin 🙃
wp-theme/theme/includes/theme/acf.php at master · TwistedAndy/wp-theme
The WordPress theme boilerplate with a lot of useful features and helper functions - TwistedAndy/wp-theme
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June 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
CSS has two fundamental problems:
1. Isolate styles for a specific component
2. Share styles between components
Unlike centering a div, there is no perfect solution. And it's not something you can learn overnight. I had to invent CSS_BOX to solve that in a good way: www.reddit.com/r/css/commen...
From the css community on Reddit: CSS_BOX. A better way to write CSS
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January 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Let's talk about coloring icons in CSS. I still see many devs embedding tons of uncached SVG into HTML markup just to make icons change color. Guys, just add an icon as a mask using the -webkit-mask property and specify the background color. All icons are cached. Support: caniuse.com?search=-webk...
January 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My favorite way to estimate a person's experience with a framework or technology is to ask them to describe its drawbacks. And the more detailed the explanation you get, the more experience is behind it.
December 31, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Shopify vs. WooCommerce.

Personally, I prefer developing for WooCommerce more because it's much easier to customize using custom code.

Shopify is a better option only if you're fine with the features it offers out of the box. The more customizations you need, the better choice WooCommerce will be.
December 31, 2024 at 8:12 PM