That ‘Fun’ Side Project That’s Now a Total Nightmare?
Had a client come to me in a panic a while back. He’d built a small inventory management plugin for his WooCommerce store. A classic…
Author: Ahmad Wael
I'm a WordPress and WooCommerce developer with 15+ years of experience building custom e-commerce solutions and plugins. I specialize in PHP development, following WordPress coding standards to deliver clean, maintainable code. Currently, I'm exploring AI and e-commerce by building multi-agent systems and SaaS products that integrate technologies like Google Gemini API with WordPress platforms, approaching every project with a commitment to performance, security, and exceptional user experience.
What’s the Real AWS Lambda Hosting Cost? It’s Complicated.
I got a call from a new client a while back. They had a small, but important, WordPress blog that another dev had put on…
That Time a WooCommerce Race Condition Deleted Live Orders
I got a call from a client running a high-traffic shop. The panic in his voice was obvious. A customer had just emailed him, irate….
A pragmatic local continuous integration workflow with GrumPHP
Had a new dev join the team a while back. Sharp guy, good attitude. But his first few commits were… inconsistent. Braces all over the…
The Right Way to Handle WordPress Password Hashing
I got a call from a client with a membership site that’s been around since the dawn of time. They wanted to upgrade their security,…
Stop Fearing Serverless: Your Big PHP Site Can Handle It
I was on a call last week with a client running a pretty big WooCommerce store. They’re getting ready for a huge Black Friday sale…
Your WooCommerce Admin is Slow? Here’s the Likely Culprit.
I got a call about a high-traffic WooCommerce shop, maybe 30,000 products, and their admin dashboard was timing out. Total mess. The site owner couldn’t…
Stop Writing Messy Laravel Controllers with Static Factory Methods
I was looking at a controller for a client’s project the other day, and it was a mess. They have a `Subscription` model, and you…
Laravel Vapor Logs: Getting Papertrail to Actually Work
I had a client running a pretty slick setup on Laravel Vapor. But they had this ghost in the machine: an error that would pop…
A minor WooCommerce update that fixes a major PayPal problem
I got a call last week from a client in a panic. Their international orders were failing at checkout, but only when customers tried to…