WooCommerce7 min read
Speeding Up a Slow WooCommerce Store
Why WooCommerce stores get slow and what fixes them: object caching, the uncacheable pages, product queries, images and heavy extensions.
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Practical guides on custom WordPress, headless WordPress, WooCommerce, performance, security and SEO. Notes to help you plan a website, understand your options and maintain an existing build.
Development6 min read
WordPress Child Themes: When to Use One and How to Build It
What a child theme is for, how to set one up correctly, the enqueue mistake almost everyone makes, and the cases where a child theme is the wrong answer.
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Security6 min read
A WordPress Backup Strategy You Can Actually Restore
What to back up, how often, where to keep it, and how to test a restore — because a backup you have never restored is a hypothesis, not a backup.
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Performance6 min read
WordPress Caching Explained: Page, Object and Browser
The layers of WordPress caching, what each one actually does, the order to set them up in, and why a caching plugin sometimes makes no difference at all.
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APIs6 min read
The WordPress REST API: A Developer's Guide
What the WordPress REST API does, how routes and controllers fit together, authentication options, and how to expose data without opening holes.
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WooCommerce7 min read
WooCommerce Development: A Practical Guide for Store Owners
How WooCommerce is really built and extended — product data, checkout, payments, performance, plugins and the decisions that decide what a store costs to run.
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SEO7 min read
Technical SEO for WordPress: A Complete Checklist
The technical SEO work that actually matters on a WordPress site: indexing, site structure, structured data, speed, redirects and the settings people get wrong.
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Development7 min read
Custom WordPress Theme Development: A Complete Guide
What goes into a custom WordPress theme — structure, template hierarchy, the block editor, performance and handover — and when a theme is the wrong answer.
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