A WooCommerce migration left European customers’ accented characters showing as garbled symbols. WordPress 6.9 replaces the old guesswork functions with validation, and here’s how to use them.
A WooCommerce store stuffed all its product attributes into post meta, and the filters buckled under thousands of products. The fix was a custom taxonomy for the shared, filterable data.
A client’s save button kept spinning with no error at all. The cause was a WP_Error object a plugin ignored, and this is how WordPress fails silently and how to get those errors into your logs.
A client tried to just translate their WooCommerce shop into German and it broke. Here is why a multilingual WordPress site needs Multisite or a plugin like WPML, and what those tools handle that manual translation cannot.
A client wanted an AI assistant for his WooCommerce store. Wiring an LLM straight to the database is risky, but the WooCommerce MCP Beta and the Abilities API give AI a structured, safer set of actions to work with.
A junior dev used the allowed_block_types_all filter globally and it broke the Site Editor. Here is why that happens and how to check the context so you restrict blocks for posts and pages while leaving templates alone.
A WooCommerce Add to Cart button kept turning the wrong color because stylesheets were fighting with !important. Here is how to fix it with CSS specificity and a child theme instead of piling on more overrides.
WordPress 6.9 RC2 is out. Here is what I test before updating client sites, the heading CSS change developers should watch, and why I wait for the .1 release.
A client’s PageSpeed score was stuck in the low 80s. WordPress 6.9 finally gives developers real control over script loading, but only if the theme uses it. Here is what changed and why the theme matters.
A client’s AI-built WordPress site looked generic because his prompts were vague. The fix is to treat the AI like a junior developer and write a detailed brief, not a wish. Here is what that looks like.