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Performance8 min read
WordPress CDN caching: cache full pages safely at the edge
WordPress CDN caching is safe when the CDN stores only anonymous, public HTML and bypasses requests that can vary by user, session, cart, preview, or admin state. Cache static assets broadly, cache full pages selectively, purge changed URLs, and verify the response headers before trusting the policy in production.
Performance8 min read
WordPress PHP workers: size them, spot saturation and use fewer
WordPress PHP workers are PHP-FPM child processes that execute uncached PHP requests, and pm.max_children caps how many a pool can serve at once. Size the pool from measured worker memory and available RAM, then confirm saturation with the PHP-FPM status page and logs before adding workers.
Development7 min read
End-to-end WordPress Playwright testing for editor, admin and checkout
WordPress Playwright testing lets a browser verify the editor, wp-admin, and checkout paths that a release depends on. Run those flows against wp-env, reuse a saved admin session, keep test data fixed, and save traces and screenshots when CI fails.
Performance7 min read
WordPress speculative loading: faster navigation without breaking a store
WordPress speculative loading can make page-to-page moves feel faster by asking the browser to fetch likely destinations before a visitor clicks. On a WooCommerce store, keep dynamic and state-changing URLs out of those rules, then verify what Chrome loads before making the behavior more eager.
Monitoring8 min read
WordPress uptime monitoring: checks that catch site failures
WordPress uptime monitoring should verify that important visitor paths return the right content, not merely an HTTP success status. Check dynamic pages, response time, TLS and domain expiry, then use heartbeats for scheduled work and alert rules that confirm failures before paging someone.
Performance8 min read
WordPress Redis object cache: setup and measurement
A WordPress Redis object cache keeps WordPress object-cache data available across requests, so PHP can reuse cached query results and other objects instead of rebuilding them each time.
Performance5 min read
How to speed up WooCommerce: a Core Web Vitals guide
Common causes of a slow WooCommerce store include an oversized hero image, too much JavaScript from plugins and tracking tags, pages that can't be cached, and a database bloated with old sessions, logs and autoloaded options.