by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | SEO, WooCommerce
In 2025, nearly half of the crawl problems reported to the Google team in charge of its crawler came from sites’ filter navigation. Nearly a quarter came from action links, such as add-to-cart buttons. And for one of those links, Google’s team ended up...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WooCommerce
Since November 2023, a new WooCommerce store starts with the Cart and Checkout blocks. Nearly three years later, most existing stores still run the old checkout page, built with shortcodes. WooCommerce acknowledged it itself in spring 2025: adoption remains lower than...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WooCommerce
At Universal Yums, an American company that ships a box of snacks from a different country every month, the customer dashboard started slowing down at around four or five million orders. The store ran on WooCommerce, and every order was stored as a WordPress post...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | Performance
On December 31, 2026, PHP 8.2 will stop receiving security fixes. About one WordPress site in four runs on it today. In late September 2026, WooCommerce set its own deadline: from February 2027, the store plugin will require at least PHP 8.1, while WordPress itself...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | Performance
WordPress has no clock. When a post is scheduled for 2 p.m., no process waits until 2 p.m. to publish it. WordPress checks, on each visit, whether a task is due. If nobody visits the site before 5 p.m., the post waits until 5 p.m.: that is the official...