A client tried to just translate their WooCommerce shop into German and it broke. Here is why a multilingual WordPress site needs Multisite or a plugin like WPML, and what those tools handle that manual translation cannot.
A client’s AI-built WordPress site looked generic because his prompts were vague. The fix is to treat the AI like a junior developer and write a detailed brief, not a wish. Here is what that looks like.
WordPress 6.9 finally lets you style core form elements from theme.json, treating textInput and select like buttons and headings. It doesn’t cover focus states yet, so here’s the hybrid theme.json plus CSS setup that works today.
A new client’s WooCommerce checkout was throwing fatal errors after a developer rebuilt field validation from scratch. The fix was not a better library but a short function hooked into WooCommerce, and here is why that was the right call.
A WooCommerce shipping calculator was one 2,000-line file that broke every time a class was added. Refactoring it around a simple interface and small classes fixed that, and it shows how WordPress core can teach better PHP.
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.
I got a Slack message from one of our project managers. A client’s WooCommerce shop, a big one with thousands of products, was crawling. Product…
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.
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,…
I got a call from a new client running a pretty busy WooCommerce shop. Their dev team was pushing updates, but every deployment was a…