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Problem, fix, result

Four jobs of the kind agencies send us. Clients unnamed, which is also how yours will be handled.

Case studies

Loop grid ordering by custom date field

Problem
An events archive built with Elementor’s Loop Grid wouldn’t order by the client’s ACF date field. Default query ordering ignored it; every workaround in the forums broke pagination.
Fix
Hooked elementor/query/{query_id}, standardised the ACF Date Picker storage format to Ymd, ordered on meta_value_num.
Result
Correct chronological ordering, pagination intact, no plugin added and no template rebuilt. Under two hours.

AWS to shared hosting migration with PHP and MySQL jumps

Problem
A production WordPress site on AWS needed to move to shared hosting for cost reasons, crossing PHP 8.1 → 8.3 and moving from a local to a remote MySQL instance. No maintenance window.
Fix
Staging replica, deprecation audit, charset and connection reconciliation, hour-planned DNS and SSL cutover.
Result
Zero downtime, no regressions, hosting cost cut significantly.

Hero video with deprecated YouTube parameters

Problem
A homepage hero video had stopped behaving; the previous developer’s approach relied on YouTube embed parameters that YouTube had removed.
Fix
Diagnosed the root cause instead of layering workarounds. Migrated to Vimeo with a reworked poster frame, preload strategy and mobile fallback.
Result
Clean hero, faster mobile LCP.

WooCommerce store under live bot attack

Problem
A WooCommerce store degrading under a live bot attack; orders failing, server saturated.
Fix
Isolated the root cause through log analysis, applied mitigation at the server and application layer, restored stability.
Result
Store back to normal operation, written technical report delivered to the agency for their client.

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