WordPress Articles & Deep Dives
In-depth WordPress articles and technical deep dives from the Private DevOps team - architecture patterns, trade-offs, and production-grade analysis for infrastructure teams.
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How to Keep a WooCommerce Checkout Up on Black Friday
Ten times the traffic barely troubles a WooCommerce catalogue and takes the checkout down. The reason is that the catalogue is served from a page cache while the cart, the checkout and the account pages cannot be, so every one of those requests boots WordPress and hits the database. This guide walks through what WooCommerce itself excludes from caching, which cookies and AJAX endpoints have to be routed past the cache, where the cart and the order actually get stored, and how to turn the checkout ceiling into a number you can size instead of a surprise you discover on the day.
Read articleWordPress Performance Audit Checklist for 2026
Complete WordPress performance audit checklist covering Core Web Vitals, server configuration, database optimization, and caching layer strategies.
Read articleWordPress vs Headless CMS: A DevOps Perspective on Performance
A performance-focused comparison of WordPress and headless CMS architectures from a DevOps perspective, covering TTFB, caching strategies, CDN integration, security surface, and scaling patterns.
Read articleWordPress to Headless CMS: Migration Playbook
Step-by-step migration guide from traditional WordPress to a headless architecture with WP REST API, Next.js frontend, and optimized hosting.
Read articleWordPress 6.8 "Cecil": What's New & How It Makes Your Site Better
A deep dive into WordPress 6.8 Cecil, covering speculative prefetch, bcrypt password hashing, BLAKE2b token encryption, editor improvements, classic theme style variations, and new developer APIs.
Read articleEnhancing WordPress Security
A comprehensive guide to securing WordPress sites, covering updates, strong passwords, hosting, two-factor authentication, security plugins, SSL, login limits, wp-config hardening, and backups.
Read articleHow to Optimize Your WordPress Site SEO with WP Rocket
A step-by-step guide to configuring WP Rocket for optimal SEO performance, covering caching, file optimization, media loading, database cleanup, CDN integration, and add-ons.
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