The Showcase addon is a strange little loop in the project: Lubinik using Lubinik to document Lubinik. When I started thinking about the site that would explain the framework, I already had the Freelance...
Read More about Showcase Is the Light Addon for Telling the StoryChild themes have a very specific job in Lubinik: they should make a site feel like itself. The parent theme provides the reusable site foundation. The core plugin provides plugin-side infrastructure. Addons provide domain...
Read More about Child Themes Became the Visual Memory of Each SiteThe Showcase child theme taught me another child-theme lesson: sometimes one visual direction is not enough. The first Showcase design had energy. It was colorful, loud, graphic, and useful for breaking away from the...
Read More about Design Packs: Keeping More Than One Visual Direction AliveI am careful about moving things into the parent theme or the core plugin. That might sound strange for a framework, because frameworks often grow by adding more shared features. But Lubinik started as...
Read More about When a Feature Deserves to Move Into CoreAt some point, Lubinik was no longer only about templates, shortcodes, and custom post types. The invisible parts of a site started asking for structure too: translation, SEO metadata, and structured data. Those features...
Read More about Translation, SEO, and Structured Data Follow the Same RuleNot everything around Lubinik is a WordPress plugin. Some of the tools are much smaller, and their origin is less architectural and more practical: I got tired of seeing small useful tasks turned into...
Read More about Small Tools Instead of Another SubscriptionThe Resume Generator is different from the smaller utility tools. It did not come from the same "I do not want another subscription for this tiny task" feeling. It came from something more personal:...
Read More about The Resume Generator and the Structured CV ProblemThe Resume addon is not finished, and that is useful to admit. It points toward an idea I still like: modeling resume data inside WordPress as structured content. Resumes, sections, entries, templates, outputs, skills,...
Read More about The Resume Addon and the Multi-Addon QuestionAI has been part of Lubinik from the beginning, but not in the way the marketing version of that sentence usually sounds. I did not want AI to be a magic button. I wanted...
Read More about Building With AI, But Not BlindlyAddons are easy to misunderstand. They are not a rule that every site must have a custom plugin for everything. A small site can be mostly parent theme, core plugin, pages, custom sections, blog...
Read More about The Addon Philosophy: Specific Things Stay SpecificSome Lubinik ideas exist as pressure tests before they exist as code. The music addon is one of those. A musician or band site has familiar generic needs: pages, biography, homepage sections, contact, blog,...
Read More about Future Notes: Music, Multi-Refuge, and Other Pressure TestsLubinik is not the thing I thought I was building at the beginning, because at the beginning I was not trying to build a framework at all. I was trying to build a BnB...
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