WooCommerce to Laravel Migration: The Parts Nobody Talks About
If you've run a WooCommerce store long enough, you've felt the slowdown. Pages take longer to load. The admin panel becomes sluggish. Checkout starts timing out during traffic spikes. You throw caching at it, upgrade your hosting, install optimization plugins. It helps for a while. Then it doesn't. I've been building with PHP and Laravel for over ten years, and I've migrated production WooCommerce stores to custom Laravel applications. Not as a theoretical exercise, but because the stores hit a wall that no amount of WordPress optimization could fix. Here's what that process actually looks like, including the parts the generic migration guides conveniently skip.