Stop Playing with FTP: A Real Guide to WordPress Deployments
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…
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Why Your ‘Fast’ WordPress Site Still Crashes Under Load
I got a call from a new client last month. They were running a pretty successful WooCommerce shop, but their site would crash every single…
How a Bad Custom WP_Query Can Wreck Your Site
Got a call the other day from a new client. Their WooCommerce shop, with a pretty hefty catalog, was timing out. Not just slow, but…
Going Serverless with WordPress: A Pragmatic Guide for AWS
I got a call from a client in a full-blown panic. Their WooCommerce site, which had been humming along just fine, had completely fallen over….
That Time a Client’s Coupon Failed During a Flash Sale
Got a call from a client. Total panic. They’d just finished a flash sale for their WooCommerce store, and the star attraction—a coupon for 50%…
WordPress Performance Troubleshooting: Finding the Real Bottleneck
Got an email the other day. Subject: “Our site is SUPER slow.” It’s the kind of message every developer gets. Vague, urgent, and you know…
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…
WordPress Serverless Hosting: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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…
Stop Manually Deploying WordPress Plugins and Use CircleCI Instead
I was working on a small security plugin a while back and decided to get it onto the official WordPress directory. But then I remembered…
Serverless vs. Traditional Hosting: What’s the Difference?
A client called me in a panic. Their WooCommerce site, which they’d spent a fortune hosting on a “premium” managed server, had just crumbled under…