A WooCommerce checkout threw intermittent 500 errors and the logs were useless. Here’s how logging with context, the user, their cart, the gateway, turns a noisy debug.log into error logging you can actually act on.
A client had a WooCommerce checkout throwing random 500 errors while a 200MB debug log told them nothing. Here is the custom error logging setup I used to catch, count, and get alerted on new errors.
A client’s WooCommerce dashboard kept timing out. The cause was a custom framework built for one low-stock widget. Here is how I replaced about a thousand lines with a short function that leans on WordPress and WooCommerce core.
A freelancer rebuilt WooCommerce from scratch and left a store that broke on every plugin update. Here is why building with WordPress hooks and filters beats fighting the framework.
A WooCommerce checkout kept failing silently while a generic PHP error monitor reported zero issues. The cause was a WP_Error the calling code never checked. Here is why WordPress needs monitoring built for it.
A WooCommerce store had a live price update that broke half the time, crammed into one function. Here is the small, reusable AJAX handler class I used to replace it, with nonce checks and clean JSON responses.
A client site was grinding to a halt because a plugin forced an MVC structure onto WordPress. Why that fights the platform, and why hooks and filters are the WordPress way.
A client WooCommerce checkout kept throwing a random fatal error. The fix was not more code, it was reading the core files first. Why reading code beats writing more of it.
A client WooCommerce order emails looked fine in Apple Mail but broke in Gmail. The reason: Gmail strips CSS from the head. Why inlining your styles is the only reliable fix.
Inheriting a plugin with 15 classes crammed into one 3,000-line file is a nightmare to change. How PSR-4 and an autoloader give you a WordPress plugin file structure you can actually navigate.