How Caching Breaks Dynamic WordPress Features (And How to Fix It)
Caching is essential for WordPress performance — but when implemented incorrectly, it quietly breaks dynamic behavior. Logged-in user states leak, carts reset, personalization disappears, forms misbehave, and conversion funnels silently fail. The worst part?The site still looks “fast.” At Wisegigs.eu, a large portion of WordPress performance audits involve undoing broken caching logic rather than adding […]
WordPress Core Updates: How to Prepare, Test, and Deploy Safely
WordPress core updates are one of the most underestimated operational risks in WordPress projects. While most updates appear routine, even minor releases can introduce compatibility issues, performance regressions, or subtle breaking changes — especially on sites with custom code, plugins, or complex hosting setups. The difference between a smooth update and a production incident is […]
How to Create Custom WordPress Hooks for Cleaner Code
As WordPress projects grow, codebases often become tightly coupled, fragile, and difficult to extend. The most common cause is logic being hardwired directly into templates, plugins, or theme files with no clear extension points. Custom WordPress hooks solve this problem. They allow you to decouple logic, improve maintainability, and make your code extensible without rewriting […]
When to Use Custom Code Instead of Plugins in WordPress
Plugins are one of WordPress’s greatest strengths — but they are also one of its biggest long-term risks. Many performance, security, and maintenance problems don’t come from WordPress itself, but from over-reliance on plugins for problems that should have been solved with custom code. The real question is not “Can a plugin do this?” — […]
How to Prevent Bad Deployments in WordPress Using CI/CD Gates
Bad deployments are one of the most common causes of WordPress outages, regressions, and security incidents. A broken plugin update, a missing environment variable, or an untested configuration change can take a site down in seconds. The problem is rarely WordPress itself — it’s uncontrolled releases. CI/CD gates exist to stop bad changes before they […]
Secure WordPress Development Workflow (From Local to Production)
Security issues in WordPress rarely come from a single mistake in production. Most vulnerabilities are introduced earlier in the development workflow — insecure local setups, shared credentials, missing reviews, rushed deployments, or inconsistent environments. By the time code reaches production, the damage is already done. At Wisegigs.eu, we treat WordPress security as a workflow problem, […]
Performance Pitfalls Caused by Bad Caching Plugins
Caching is one of the most effective ways to speed up WordPress — but only when it’s implemented correctly. In practice, many performance problems we see are not caused by a lack of caching, but by bad caching plugins or poorly configured ones. These issues often create hidden bottlenecks, inconsistent behavior, broken functionality, or even […]
How to Build a Multilingual WordPress Site with No Performance Loss
Illustration showing language switchers, translation architecture diagrams, WordPress multisite structures, and caching layers in a clean technical layout. Multilingual WordPress sites often suffer performance issues — slow database queries, oversized DOM, duplicated content, and unnecessary translation overhead. Many teams rely on translation plugins that load additional scripts, rewrite URLs inefficiently, or duplicate entire content tables. […]
How to Create a Cron-Safe Background Queue in WordPress
Large tasks like imports, API synchronizations, report generation, and cleanup jobs often run during normal WordPress page loads — slowing down the user experience, increasing TTFB, and sometimes causing outright timeouts. A cron-safe background queue offloads heavy operations into controlled batches that run outside the request lifecycle. At Wisegigs.eu, we engineer background processing systems that […]
How to Create High-Performance Custom Plugins Without Bloat
Illustration showing modular WordPress plugin components, performance metrics, clean code structures, and optimized architecture diagrams. Custom plugins are often the backbone of advanced WordPress projects. But poorly designed plugins can slow down page loads, overload the database, introduce security risks, or create long-term maintenance problems. A well-engineered custom plugin should be lightweight, modular, secure, and […]