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….
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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…
Stop Writing Messy WP-CLI Commands: A Better Way
I took over a project once where the deployment checklist was a mile long. Clear this cache, sync that data, run this report. All manual….
How Serverless Fixes a Core WordPress Security Flaw
I had a client come to me, completely at their wit’s end. Their site had been hacked for the third time in a month. They’d…
What’s the Real AWS Lambda Hosting Cost? It’s Complicated.
I got a call from a new client a while back. They had a small, but important, WordPress blog that another dev had put on…