--- title: "Symonov Blog — WordPress plugins, Vue / TypeScript, production engineering" description: "Notes on WordPress plugin development, Vue and TypeScript frontend architecture, open-source libraries, and production engineering." url: https://symonov.com/blog/ --- # notes from the bench. Plugin internals, frontend architecture, open-source libraries, and deploy stories. Written by Serhii & Dmytro, mostly between deploys. **3** posts [rss → /rss.xml](https://symonov.com/rss.xml) last: October 17, 2026 ## subscribe — grab the feed **RSS-only by design.** No newsletter pop-up, no email signup, no tracking pixel. Subscribe in your favourite reader — Feedly, NetNewsWire, Reeder, anything that speaks RSS. → [/rss.xml](https://symonov.com/rss.xml) // new posts go here as we ship them ## upcoming — drafts in the drawer - "wp.org plugin review survival guide" // drafted, q2 - "tma + laravel handshake patterns" // drafted, q3 - "docker compose recipes for tiny saas" // maybe ## 2026 — 3 posts October 17, 2026 ### [Vue Router Citadel — the structured middleware layer for Vue Router I was missing](https://symonov.com/blog/vue-router-citadel-structured-middleware-layer-2026/) Navigation guards turn into a policy system as Vue apps grow. Vue Router Citadel adds priorities, scopes, runtime control and observability on top of them. 17 min · #vue May 9, 2026 ### [Sending WordPress email through Mailtrap's HTTP API (not SMTP) in 2026](https://symonov.com/blog/sending-wordpress-email-through-mailtrap-api-not-smtp-2026/) Routing WordPress mail through Mailtrap's Send API instead of SMTP unlocks bulk/transactional streams, categories, and live suppression. Here's how it works. 8 min · #mailtrap May 8, 2026 ### [Customizing Contact Form 7 validation messages in 2026 (with CF7 6.x SWV support)](https://symonov.com/blog/customizing-cf7-validation-messages-2026/) Most CF7 validation plugins broke when 6.x shipped Schema-based Validation. Here's why — and three patterns that still work in 2026. 7 min · #contact-form-7