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Arabic search in WordPress: the matches it silently misses
WordPress compares Arabic byte for byte, so one name spelled two ways never matches. On a real archive that meant 1 result where there were 28,238.
Jul 24, 202621 min read1
WordPress cron behind a load balancer: fixing 'Missed schedule'
wp-cron is triggered by an HTTP request, so behind a load balancer it silently misses schedule. Run it in-process with WP-CLI, elect one runner with a shared lock, and watch it loudly.
Jul 20, 202611 min read
Your WordPress says the email sent. It didn't.
WordPress mail silently dies while wp_mail() returns true. Send it through Amazon SES with an IAM role: no credential at rest, no silent failure.
Jul 15, 202615 min read1
The day YouTube deleted our channel
Own the original, treat every platform as swappable reach, and playback becomes a setting you can flip.
Jul 4, 20267 min read1
Make WordPress do less: offloading media to S3 and the edge
On-the-fly image derivatives instead of twenty pre-generated sizes, browser-direct uploads for multi-gigabyte video, clean generated S3 keys, and two-tier storage. How the NUZ media pipeline keeps WordPress lean on S3 and CloudFront.
Jun 29, 202612 min read4
Short links that outlive the vendor: a newsroom URL shortener on WordPress and AWS
Long Arabic URLs collapse into unreadable garbage on social. Here is the branded short-link system we built on WordPress and AWS, Bitly as a swappable front, our own edge as the hot standby.
Jun 24, 202618 min read8