Don’t Just “Fix” WP-Cron. Replace It. Here’s How.
Got a call from a client running a pretty busy WooCommerce store. Their inventory sync with a supplier’s API, which was supposed to run every…
Tag: APIs
The One Tool I Still Wish Every PHP Project Had
I got a call late one Friday. A frantic client. “The checkout page is just a white screen for some customers!” You know the feeling….
WordPress Error Logging That Doesn’t Suck
A client with a high-traffic WooCommerce shop called me up. They were getting hammered with support tickets about an intermittent “invalid coupon code” error at…
Fixing Plugin Conflicts with the WordPress Decorator Pattern
I got a ticket for a high-traffic WooCommerce site where the client was stuck. They had one plugin for database scaling—a HyperDB-style read/write replica setup—and…
Pragmatic WordPress Development: Why “Perfect” Code Is Sometimes a Mess
I got a frantic message from a new client last week. Their WooCommerce checkout was throwing fatal errors, but only for certain customers. Total nightmare….
Stop Writing WordPress Code That Breaks on Tuesday
I got a call last week about a WooCommerce site where the custom shipping calculator had gone sideways. The client explained that a previous developer…
Stop Hacking functions.php: A Guide to Custom API Endpoints
I got a call from a client running a busy WooCommerce shop. Their inventory was a mess. They use a third-party warehouse system to manage…
Shipping Code is Better Than Perfect Code
I recently took over a WooCommerce project for a client whose last developer had vanished. The site was old, cluttered with plugins, and the checkout…
WordPress Custom Routing: Stop Hacking the Rewrite API
Got a call from a client running a big WooCommerce site with a custom-built event registration plugin from years ago. It worked, but the URLs…
Your WordPress Site Is Silently Breaking. Here’s the Fix.
Got a call from a new client last week. Their WooCommerce site’s “add to cart” button was working… sometimes. For some users, it would just…