Debugging Slow WPGraphQL Responses Under Concurrent Load
10 concurrent GraphQL requests ramped from 600ms to 3.4s. Here is the full debugging story: what I checked, what fooled me, and where the bottleneck actually…
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How Media Cleaner Pro Silently Deleted WooCommerce Product Images
101 products lost featured images. 46 categories lost thumbnails. Files were gone from disk. The culprit was a media cleanup plugin running in expert mode.
Read articleCleaning a WordPress Site Infected with WSO Web Shell and Database Stored Malware
Wordfence flagged 7 files. The real infection was 30+ backdoors, a WSO web shell, and malware payloads stored inside WordPress database options. Here is the full…
Read articleThe rsync Exclude Trap That Breaks WordPress Plugin Migrations
Using --exclude='cache/' in your rsync command? That pattern matches at every directory level and silently deletes plugin source code. Here's what happened during a real migration,…
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