This is a real case. A WooCommerce store, 88,000 products was experiencing chronic 500 errors, high server load, and a database that had grown completely out of control. Two-phase engagement: audit first, then execution. I’ll walk through everything I found, everything I changed, and why. No fluff. The Baseline Problem Before touching anything, you need […]
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Open Gravity Forms Confirmation Links in a New Tab
Recently, I had an interesting case while working on a client’s website. Everything looked simple: submit a Gravity Form > show a download link. But Gravity Forms sanitizes confirmation HTML, which means attributes like target=”_blank” are either stripped or ignored in some setups. At first, this was surprising until I remembered that Gravity Forms often […]
High Resolution Preview Thumbnails for Youtube Embeds in Perfmatters Plugin
Are you looking to improve the quality of your YouTube preview images in the Perfmatters plugin? We have just the solution for you! Today, I’m excited to introduce you to a highly useful helper plugin that significantly enhances the quality of YouTube preview images when you enable Lazy Loading iFrames and Videos in the Perfmatters […]
How to prevent bots from adding items to cart
If you use the Abandoned Cart Recovery for WooCommerce plugin (or its similar plugin), you’ve probably noticed that many products are added by bots. The main problem is that some of these bots are googlebot. Why does Googlebot add items to the cart? Googlebot crawls the site by clicking on all available links, including “Add […]
Must-have Plugins for WordPress and WooCommerce Site in 2026
Why Choose Carefully? You can find a lot of recommendations for WordPress or WooCommerce plugins on the web, but not all of them are really useful and necessary. I’ve created a list of plugins that I believe every WordPress/WooCommerce site should have. This list is the result of years of experience and testing various plugins. […]
How to Add noindex for WordPress Pagination Pages with Yoast SEO
Managing SEO for WordPress sites often raises the question of whether pagination pages should be indexed. By default, Yoast SEO used to include a setting to mark paginated pages with noindex, follow, but this option was later removed in line with Google’s updated recommendations. However, not all site owners agree with this approach. If you […]