WordPress myths about security, speed, and scale
An agency told a client WordPress couldn’t handle their e-commerce project. Most WordPress myths about security, speed, and scale come down to bad implementation, not the platform itself.
Category: Bug Fixing
WordPress UTF-8 encoding, and why validation beats guessing
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.
Why WordPress error handling drives developers crazy
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.
How to limit editor blocks without wrecking the Site Editor
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.
CSS specificity: fixing WooCommerce button styles
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.
Why the WordPress singleton pattern can burn you
A reporting plugin built entirely on the Singleton pattern served stale inventory data across a client’s site. Here’s why singletons hide global state in WordPress, and the static init() method that keeps your classes testable.
The WooCommerce CSV import bug a dot release fixed
A client’s bulk product import kept flattening their brand hierarchy. It turned out to be a WooCommerce importer bug, and the 10.3.5 dot release fixed it. Here’s what happened, plus the other fixes that shipped with it.
Replace WP-Cron with a real server cron job
A client’s inventory sync kept missing its schedule because WP-Cron only runs when someone visits the site. Here’s why that happens and how to move critical jobs to a real server cron job with a standalone PHP script.
PHP error monitoring beats digging through logs
A checkout page went white for some customers and the PHP error log only said what broke, not why. Here’s the case for dedicated error monitoring that captures the full application state at the moment of the crash.
WordPress error logging that gives you real context
An intermittent coupon error at checkout left the logs useless because they had no context. Here’s how structured logging in WordPress captures the user, request, and cart state so you can reproduce and fix the bug.