A WooCommerce add to cart button was failing silently for some users, with no logged errors to go on. Here is how a few lines in wp-config.php turn on WordPress error logging so you can see what is actually breaking on a live site.
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’s WooCommerce product filter kept timing out. The fix was not a faster query but a custom taxonomy, and the real story is about designing instead of copy-pasting.
I got a call on a Friday. 4:30 PM. A client’s critical checkout feature was bugging out, and they needed a hotfix deployed immediately. You…
A client running Bedrock sites updated by hand and worried about missed patches. I set up Dependabot and CircleCI so Composer updates get opened, tested, and deployed automatically.
Got a call from a long-time client last week. Absolute panic. They’d just run a routine batch of plugin updates, and suddenly their shipping calculator…
A sharp junior dev was stuck on a bug that only showed up on staging, because he was lost without a GUI. The command line is the most direct way to see what a server is doing, and a couple of basic commands found the error in minutes.
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…
Had a new dev join the team a while back. Sharp guy, good attitude. But his first few commits were… inconsistent. Braces all over the…
A client asked why every WordPress mobile app feels like a toy. The latest Jetpack app changes that, with a proper stats screen and on-device AI for excerpts and tags that keeps content on your phone.