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….
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You Can’t Fix a Slow Site on a Terrible Server
I got an email from a long-term client. “Ahmad, the site is painfully slow. Ever since that last plugin update, it’s been a nightmare.” My…
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 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…
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…
Your WooCommerce Admin is Slow? Here’s the Likely Culprit.
I got a call about a high-traffic WooCommerce shop—maybe 30,000 products—and their admin dashboard was timing out. Total mess. The site owner couldn’t even get…
Mastering WordPress Page Caching with a CDN
I got a call last week from a client, their e-commerce site was crawling. Not just slow, I mean *crawling*. “Ahmad,” he says, “we’ve got…
Building a Real CloudFront Image Optimization CDN
I got a call last month from a client running a fairly successful WooCommerce store. Everything was custom, looked great on paper, but their Google…