A Better Way to Import WordPress Data: The Strategy Pattern
I had a client with a new membership site who needed to import thousands of users from two of their old systems. The first system…
Category: E-commerce Development
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 WooCommerce decimal change that’s silently breaking stores.
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…
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%…
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…
Your Code Is Great, So Why Isn’t It Selling?
A buddy of mine, a killer PHP dev, built a WooCommerce extension for subscription invoicing. It was clean, well-documented, and solved a real problem. He…
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…
When WooCommerce Admin Slows Down: A Real Fix
Had a client come to me with a WooCommerce store that was starting to choke. They had about 30,000 products, and their admin dashboard, specifically…
Fixing a Slow WooCommerce Admin Isn’t About a Bigger Server
Got a call from a client in a panic. Their high-traffic WooCommerce store—the kind with tens of thousands of orders—was timing out in the admin…
Stop Treating Custom Post Types Like Data Dumps
A client came to us with a WooCommerce site that was a total mess. Their product pricing wasn’t just a simple number; it had layers…