My client’s WooCommerce site crashed. Here’s the real fix.
I got a call from a client in a full-blown panic. Their WooCommerce store, which does huge numbers, was completely down. On Black Friday. They…
Category: E-commerce Development
Your code is great, so why isn’t it selling?
A buddy of mine, a killer PHP dev, built a WooCommerce extension for subscription invoicing. It was clean, well-documented, and solved a real problem. He…
WordPress serverless hosting: what works and what doesn’t
Had a client call me in a full-blown panic. Their WooCommerce site went down. On Black Friday. They’d just launched a massive sale, got a…
When the WooCommerce admin slows down: a real fix
Had a client come to me with a WooCommerce store that was starting to choke. They had about 30,000 products, and their admin dashboard, specifically…
A slow WooCommerce admin is usually a code problem
A client’s high-volume WooCommerce store kept timing out in the admin. More server power didn’t help. The real cause was an N+1 query from a shipping plugin, and the fix was better code, not bigger hosting.
Custom post types are a persistence layer, not a data dump
Using custom post types as plain data storage scatters your business rules everywhere. Model that logic as PHP entity classes and map the entities onto CPTs instead, so the rules stay in one testable place.
Serverless vs traditional WordPress hosting for traffic spikes
A client’s WooCommerce store kept crashing every Black Friday on a pricey managed server. Serverless hosting runs each request on its own short-lived instance, so a traffic surge scales instead of hitting a single box’s limits.
Why the new WooCommerce update schedule matters for BFCM
I remember getting a panicked call from a client a few years back. It was the week before Thanksgiving. Their site was locked up. A…
A better way to write WP-CLI commands
I took over a project once where the deployment checklist was a mile long. Clear this cache, sync that data, run this report. All manual….
What WooCommerce agentic commerce means for developers
A client asked whether his store needs new AI features. WooCommerce’s agentic commerce lets AI assistants browse and buy through an API, so the prep work is clean product data and stable APIs.