If you take one thing from this week, make it this: look at the first error, not the last one.
Short one tonight. The fix was a missing semicolon in a config file that only one environment ever reads.
#WordPress
Template Parts and Other Small Mercies
Passing data in beats making every partial go and fetch it.
- author
- Jonas Whitlock
- date
- "2026-10-11"
- category
- "WordPress"
- tags
- ["dark-mode", "on-call"]
- reading
- "1 min"
template-parts-and-other-small-mercies.md
Did you try this with a cold cache? We saw very different numbers on the first request.
Reading this at 2am with the pager next to me. Very on brand.
Fair point. It depends a lot on team size.
Fair point. It depends a lot on team size.
Bookmarked for the next time someone proposes rewriting it from scratch.
We hit almost exactly this last spring. The part about the logs is painfully accurate.
The run-it-twice question should be printed on a mug.
Reading this at 2am with the pager next to me. Very on brand.
Reading this at 2am with the pager next to me. Very on brand.
Did you try this with a cold cache? We saw very different numbers on the first request.
The run-it-twice question should be printed on a mug.