Lubinik did not start as a framework. I did not sit down one morning with a clean architecture diagram and a perfect plan for themes, plugins, addons, child themes, support plugins, generators, and design...
Read More about I Did Not Mean to Build a FrameworkFor a while, my relationship with WordPress was mostly avoidance with a side of resignation. I did not like Gutenberg. I did not like the feeling of fighting the editor to build something that,...
Read More about Making Peace With WordPress the Hard WayThe first Lubinik-shaped project was a BnB theme, and at the beginning it had everything inside it. That was not a mistake in the dramatic sense. It was simply the stage the project was...
Read More about The First BnB Theme Had Everything InsideThe first big refactor was not the final Lubinik architecture. It was more like opening a window in a room that had become too full. The BnB theme had reached the point where the...
Read More about The First Refactor: Theme, Plugin, Breathing RoomThe first BnB child theme was the first real child theme in the Lubinik story. It belonged to the early BnB phase, and it was useful in exactly the way first real projects tend...
Read More about The First BnB Child Theme Was Useful and MessyThe shortcode manager came from a small, stubborn annoyance. I wanted to build homepages with real templates, not with a visual builder. But I also did not want every section to be hardcoded directly...
Read More about The Shortcode Manager Was Born From a Very Specific AnnoyanceThe BnB addon was not born because I wanted to invent an addon system for fun. It was born because the alternative was bad reuse. After the first parent theme and plugin split, the...
Read More about BnB Became the First Real AddonShelter was the addon that made the architecture real. BnB had proved that the first site could work. Shelter proved something more important: Lubinik could move to a completely different content model without dragging...
Read More about Shelter Made the Architecture RealThe first version of the plugin-side shortcode manager solved one problem: it could render active shortcodes in the order selected from the admin. That was already useful. A single custom post type page no...
Read More about Dynamic Templates Changed the Entity PagesAfter BnB and Shelter, the Freelance addon was the third major proof. BnB proved the first real use case. Shelter proved the architecture could move to a completely different domain. Freelance asked another question:...
Read More about Freelance Proved the System Could TravelOnce addons existed, a new problem appeared immediately. I could copy an existing addon, rename files, replace slugs, change constants, rewrite text domains, update custom post types, rebuild taxonomies, adapt shortcodes, move CSS, move...
Read More about The Scaffolder Was About Future-Proofing the Boring WorkThe Comics addon was the point where the scaffolder started to feel less like a nice idea and more like a real part of the workflow. Comics was not another hospitality site. It was...
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