Having spent over a decade deep in the trenches of the Chinese supply chain, helping overseas B2B sellers source products, I find myself regularly recommending 1688.com to my clients. As China’s largest domestic wholesale platform, the prices on 1688 are…
To cut straight to the chase: non-Chinese citizens cannot register accounts on China’s public service websites. If you need to check limited business information, I can help you look it up for free in small batches. If you want to…
This guide applies to both multisite and single-site WordPress and WooCommerce setups. Prerequisite: You generally need VPS hosting for this configuration. Standard shared web hosting typically doesn’t allow object caching (Redis or Memcached) unless explicitly offered by your provider. For…
I recently ran into a breaking UI error in WooPayments that completely stops the “Transactions / Payments” page from loading. The dashboard throws the following error: “Oops, something went wrong… error retrieving account tags / disputes”. My site’s plugins and…
WooCommerce’s default sorting dropdown is a cluttered mess. Here’s what it usually looks like: If you just want the quick fix, scroll straight to the bottom for the final code block. Stop messing with the labels only If you just…
First things first: you need the W3 Total Cache plugin installed. Also, if you are running a CloudPanel environment, turn off Varnish cache completely or this entire setup will break. Stop Caching Dynamic Pages Head over to yourdomain.com Scroll all…
Running a WooCommerce store on CloudPanel is a solid choice for performance, but out-of-the-box WordPress will still choke under concurrent traffic if you don’t configure caching correctly. CloudPanel comes with Memcached and Redis pre-installed and running at the OS level.…
If you drop W3 Total Cache onto a WordPress site hosted via CloudPanel, you’re almost guaranteed to get hit with a couple of annoying admin notices right out of the gate. Here is exactly why this happens on CloudPanel and…
Don’t waste time changing your site title or drafting your first post right after spinning up a new WordPress instance. Your absolute first priority is fixing the permalink structure to enable pretty URLs. By default, WordPress uses an ugly, query-string…
If you deployed a stock Ubuntu instance instead of using a pre-baked cloud marketplace image, you need to set up CloudPanel manually before staging your site. It is a quick cut-and-paste job that takes less than five minutes even on…
