A client wanted WooCommerce to reward customers who hit their step goals on a fitness tracker. Making the API call on every page load fell apart fast, so here is how we synced the data with a background job and a custom table instead.
A founder tried to build a new business model by stacking five subscription, booking, and membership plugins on WooCommerce. Here’s why that breaks, and why your core logic should be your own code, not a plugin.
A client added an email signup form with a heavy marketing plugin and wrecked his site speed. Here’s how to build a lightweight form that posts to your provider’s REST API instead, with full control and no bloat.
Duplicated pricing logic across half a dozen WooCommerce templates turned a 30-minute change into a day of risky edits. The DRY principle, and one function as the single source of truth, is the fix.
A junior dev fixed a 404 by flushing WordPress rewrite rules on every page load, which wrecked performance. Here’s how to register rules on init and flush them only once, when they actually change.
A WooCommerce checkout threw intermittent 500 errors and the logs were useless. Here’s how logging with context, the user, their cart, the gateway, turns a noisy debug.log into error logging you can actually act on.
A client had a WooCommerce checkout throwing random 500 errors while a 200MB debug log told them nothing. Here is the custom error logging setup I used to catch, count, and get alerted on new errors.
A client’s WooCommerce dashboard kept timing out. The cause was a custom framework built for one low-stock widget. Here is how I replaced about a thousand lines with a short function that leans on WordPress and WooCommerce core.
A freelancer rebuilt WooCommerce from scratch and left a store that broke on every plugin update. Here is why building with WordPress hooks and filters beats fighting the framework.
A WooCommerce checkout kept failing silently while a generic PHP error monitor reported zero issues. The cause was a WP_Error the calling code never checked. Here is why WordPress needs monitoring built for it.