Stop chasing bugs with a better WordPress event management system
Had a client come to us with a site that was a total mess. It had years of custom code from different developers, and things…
Category: Bug Fixing
How debugging skills make you a better developer
A WooCommerce coupon worked for regular customers but failed for wholesale ones. Deactivating plugins got me nowhere; stepping through the code with Xdebug found a role-check bug in about 15 minutes.
When a PHP loop is the wrong tool for the job
A WooCommerce sales widget kept timing out because it stacked nested foreach loops. Swapping them for array_filter, array_map, and array_reduce made the code fast and readable.
Use stable keys, not strings, for WordPress translations
Editing one English button label broke the German, French, and Spanish translations. Using stable keys as placeholders, plus an en_US fallback, keeps that from happening.
Why your WordPress fixes keep breaking other things
A one-line shipping tweak would have broken inventory reporting and a homepage shortcode. Tight coupling and low cohesion are why, and here’s how to structure the code instead.
Using the Static Factory Method Pattern in WordPress
I was working on a WooCommerce plugin for a client to sync their product inventory with a third-party API. Total classic scenario. The problem was,…
Stop Nesting ‘if’ Statements: A Saner Way to Code
I got a call from a client running a pretty complex WooCommerce store. Their shipping logic was a mess. They had all these rules for…
Building WordPress Admin Pages That Don’t Break Later
Got a call from a client last week. They’ve got a WooCommerce extension that’s starting to get popular, but its settings page was buried under…
A Practical Guide to WordPress Regex That Won’t Break Your Site
Got a call from a client last week. They’d just moved their big WooCommerce site to SSL, did the whole search-and-replace for the new URL,…
That WooCommerce decimal change that’s silently breaking stores.
Got a call from a long-time client last week. Absolute panic. They’d just run a routine batch of plugin updates, and suddenly their shipping calculator…