This is the final post in a six-part series documenting a full technical overhaul of this site — kindoflost.com — using Claude, an AI assistant by Anthropic. If you’ve followed along from Post 1, you’ve seen every fix in detail. This post is the recap: what the site looked like before, what it looks like now, what we’d do differently, and what’s still on the to-do list.
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WooCommerce Caching, Checkout, and Cart Fixes That Actually Work
WooCommerce adds a layer of complexity to WordPress caching and performance that trips up a lot of site owners. The problem is that WooCommerce pages — cart, checkout, account — are dynamic by nature. They show different content to different users. Cache them aggressively and you get customers seeing each other’s cart items. Don’t cache at all and your site crawls. Getting the balance right requires specific configuration at every layer of your stack.
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Site speed matters more than most small site owners realize. Google uses Core Web Vitals as a ranking signal, which means a slow site is actively hurting your search visibility — not just annoying your visitors. For a WooCommerce site, it’s even more direct: a sluggish checkout experience costs real sales.
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How to Set Up Cloudflare Correctly for a WordPress Site
Cloudflare is one of the best free tools available for a small WordPress site. It sits between your visitors and your hosting server, handling caching, security, and DNS — all at once. But having Cloudflare installed is not the same as having it configured correctly. When I used Claude to audit kindoflost.com, we found that Cloudflare was active but had several misconfigurations that were silently causing problems — a duplicate DNS record, services being proxied that shouldn’t be, SSL running in a weaker mode than necessary, and no real caching rules in place.
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My WordPress Site Was a Mess. Here’s How I Found Out.
If you run a small WordPress site and haven’t thought much about optimization, security, or caching — this series is for you. A few weeks ago I used Claude, an AI assistant by Anthropic, to do a full technical review of this very site — the one you’re reading right now. Claude walked me through every problem it found and every fix in real time, while I made the changes directly in my dashboards. What we uncovered was not great — but the process turned out to be genuinely useful, so I’m documenting every step here so you can do the same thing on your own site.
