Copying a post ID in WordPress means opening the editor, looking at the URL, and picking the number out of ?post=. It works. It’s also mildly annoying every single time you do it.
So I built a plugin that puts a Copy ID button directly in the Posts and Pages list. One click — ID is in your clipboard. And I built the whole thing using Claude Code, start to finish.
Here’s exactly how it went, including the prompts I used.
A user reported that their certificate was printing two pages instead of one. No error. No warning in the logs. Just a blank second page with some content on it that was supposed to be on page one.
That’s the worst kind of bug — silent, visual, and impossible to reproduce until you understand exactly what triggered it.
I added a new column to my plugin’s database table. Tested locally — everything worked. Deployed to the live site — plugin crashed with a “Column not found” error in front of actual users.
The column was sitting in my local database. It was not on the live server. Of course it wasn’t. I had added it by running ALTER TABLE directly in phpMyAdmin. That only touched my local machine. The live server had no idea a new column was supposed to exist.
This is the mistake I see most Moodle developers make once. You do it, the live site breaks, you manually run the SQL on the server at odd hours, and then you learn there’s a proper way to do this.
Welcome back! In our previous adventure, we explored the basics of creating a block in Moodle. If you missed that, no worries! Today, we’re taking the next exciting step by adding a database table to our block.
Now, you might wonder, why do we need a database table? Think of it like a special notebook where our block can neatly organize and store information. It’s like a digital bookshelf for our data.
So, grab your virtual toolkit because we’re diving into the process of creating and integrating a database table in Moodle. Don’t worry; it’s not as complicated as it sounds. Let’s get started on this journey of making our block even more powerful!
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