Notes - Click Foundry Web Design

I Built a Lead Capturing AI Chatbot over a Couple Weekends (And You Can Too)

Or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the OpenAI API TLDR: I built a WordPress plugin that acts as an immediate point of contact via chatbot using OpenAI's...

Building a Smart Video Router: From Basic Player to Intelligent Stream Manager

How we transformed a simple video player into a time-aware content delivery system The Challenge We started with a functional WordPress plugin that embedded Cloudflare Stream videos using HLS.js with...

Fixing HLS Video Players with Barba.js: A Debugging Journey

A technical deep-dive into making live video streams work with single-page application transitions The Problem Ever tried combining smooth page transitions with live video streaming? If you have, you've probably...

How to Optimize WordPress Images Without Slowing Down Your Site

Large images are killing your website's performance. A 1.4MB JPEG might look great, but it's costing you visitors. Slow websites lose traffic—in marketing terms, that's bounce rate, and it directly...

Custom WordPress Theme: 13-Day Progress Update

My new custom WordPress theme is finally up and running! You're looking at it. I started building this website with the 2025 WordPress theme as a foundation on the 17th—it's...

WordPress Image Optimizer Plugin – Second Iteration Update

Progress update time! Second iteration complete. I got through their feedback requests. Fingers crossed, we'll be on the directory by next week. WordPress Review Feedback Last week, WordPress sent me...

Building a Live HLS Video Stream Plugin for WordPress: A complete build journey

Yesterday my after-hours work started with fixing a video streaming feature I had been experimenting with. What began as a simple idea—showing a live feed of my office during work...

Building out a custom WordPress Theme from scratch in 2025

Yesterday the first draft of Click Foundry’s new custom WordPress theme. My goal is to make it feel modern, lightweight, and aligned with this idea of radical transparency. I know...

Design the Click Foundry Website Part 2

I uploaded the old version of my site here. And I think So, I know what I'm going to keep. Today I had Claude whip up four outlines for my...

Building My First Public WordPress Plugin

Check out the full version in substack. I just completed my first WordPress plugin for public release—a free image converter and optimizer that automatically creates WebP and AVIF versions of...