02 WOOCOMMERCE ENGINEERING
WooCommerce and WordPress engineering for live store pressure.
Custom plugins, MU-plugins, cache strategy, route control, CRM tooling, admin workflows and diagnostics for stores that need to stay fast, stable and manageable under real traffic.
⚡ Performance
A2 Fast Archive Filters
Rebuilt the archive filtering experience so shoppers can narrow watch and jewelry catalogs quickly, with dependent options, smarter price buckets and cache-aware server fallbacks. The measured archive p95 improved from about 5.2s to 1.7s.
Archive p95: 5.2s → 1.7s
🚀 Microcache
A2 MU Fullpage Microcache
Added a guest-only HTML microcache for product and shop pages, with bypass rules for carts, logged-in sessions and checkout-sensitive states, plus safe invalidation after product or Elementor changes.
Product TTFB: 2.3s → 0.9s
🛡 REST
A2 REST Shield
Protected heavy anonymous REST routes by short-circuiting noisy Elementor and WooCommerce requests while leaving legitimate API behavior and admin workflows intact.
REST p95: 2.8s → 0.9s
🔎 API
Searchwiz Product Snapshot API
Built a product snapshot API that serves search and external interfaces from prepared tables, reducing reliance on expensive live WooCommerce queries during customer-facing requests.
API p95: 1.9s → 0.42s
🔥 Firewall
Searchwiz Allowlist Firewall
Placed an allowlist gate in front of cart, checkout and add-to-cart routes so known clients can pass while bot traffic is denied before it reaches expensive WooCommerce logic.
Cart noise: 4100/day → 180/day
🧬 Similarity
Style DNA Similar Products
Created a watch similarity layer that compares product attributes as style signatures, caches candidate scores and avoids repeated database-heavy recommendation work.
Render: 1.9s → 0.42s
⚙ Queue
Action Scheduler Core
Tuned WooCommerce background processing by reducing batch pressure, limiting concurrency and cleaning stale workload so the admin area stayed more predictable.
Queue: 38k → 4.9k
🧹 Database
Transient Storm Guard
Added a transient cleanup guard that detects oversized transient families and purges them in controlled batches instead of letting option-table growth slow down WordPress bootstrapping.
Rows: 1.3M → 180k
🧠 Bootstrap
Options Autoload Guard
Built an options audit layer that identifies autoload bloat, moves transient-heavy rows out of the autoload path and lowers memory pressure during normal page loads.
Autoload: 5400 → 1050
🛒 UX
A2 Offcanvas Cart
Implemented an off-canvas cart that opens at the right moment, preserves WooCommerce fragment behavior and keeps the mobile purchase path cleaner.
Faster cart interaction
❓ Content
A2 Smart FAQ
Added a reusable product FAQ block that injects buying guidance into PDPs from product context, reducing manual editing while improving customer decision support.
Better PDP clarity
🏷 Brands
A2 Brand Hubs
Built brand hub pages for Swiss and Japanese watch categories with daily price ranges, product counts, cached HTML output and admin rebuild controls.
SEO + UX hubs
🧾 Admin
A2 Order Fix Box
Created an admin order-repair tool for exceptional sales cases, including item replacement, extra shipping, price correction, snapshots and undo support.
Safer order ops
📦 Stock
Corporate Products Off Button
Built a controlled batch utility for cleaning incorrect stock states, with backup and restore flow before changing company-stock product availability.
Safer inventory cleanup
🔐 Roles
Quick Price Editor Role
Designed a restricted staff role that keeps product access narrow: price changes through quick edit are allowed, broader product editing is blocked.
Controlled admin access
💳 Payment
SnappPay UI Fixes
Fixed SnappPay installment presentation around spacing, clickable areas and checkout clarity so payment options remain usable on both mobile and desktop.
Cleaner payment UX
📱 Mobile
Liquid Glass Mobile Header
Refined the mobile header with safe-area handling, a liquid-glass visual layer and scroll behavior while preserving the store navigation structure.
Premium mobile UI
♻ Recovery
Recover MU Plugin
Started a recovery MU-plugin foundation for incomplete cart or payment situations, leaving the trigger rules open for later business-specific remarketing logic.
Recovery system base
📊 Diagnostics
A2 Perf Logger
Built a lightweight production logger that records slow requests, query owners and page context without turning diagnostics into a new performance problem.
Faster debugging
🌐 Egress
A2 Egress Firewall
Added outbound HTTP controls for WordPress admin speed, with block rules and fail-fast behavior for external calls that can stall the dashboard.
Backend stability
🔁 Loopback
A2 Loopback Forensics
Created a loopback diagnostics module to trace internal WordPress HTTP calls, failed callbacks and timing problems behind unexplained admin slowness.
Root-cause logs
📄 Excel
A2 Woo Details Excel
Improved WooCommerce admin and export workflows with operational columns, details modals and cleaner Excel handoff for order and product review.
Operations tooling