Batch Processing in WordPress Under a 60-Second PHP Limit
Imports, AI generation and image processing all time out on shared hosting. The one-item-at-a-time AJAX queue fixes it — here is the full pattern, with resumability, retries and progress.
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Category: WordPress Development
Theme and plugin engineering notes from real client builds.
WooCommerce Launch Checklist: 40 Things to Check Before You Go Live
Products, payments, shipping, tax, emails, legal pages, speed and SEO — a practical WooCommerce pre-launch checklist from a developer who has launched and fixed many stores.
WordPress Maintenance Checklist: What to Do Weekly, Monthly and Yearly
A WordPress site is not finished at launch. This practical maintenance schedule covers updates, backups, security, speed, SEO checks and the yearly renewals that catch businesses out.
Stop Asking Clients to Clear Their Cache: filemtime() Cache Busting
Hard-coded version numbers mean stale CSS after every deploy. One line of PHP fixes it permanently — plus the caching layers, CDN rules and gotchas that still trip people up.
How to Choose WordPress Hosting for a Business Website
Shared, managed, VPS or cloud? What actually matters when choosing WordPress hosting for a business site — speed, location, backups, support, limits and the questions to ask before you buy.
Why Your Customizer Settings Vanish After a Theme Update (and the Zip Fix)
If every theme update resets the Customizer, the problem is almost always the zip file, not WordPress. How theme mods are stored, how folder names change by accident, how to recover lost settings and how to package themes safely.