01 · The brief
What the store had to do.
A bilingual WordPress site whose URL rewrite rules kept being lost — and when they go, every page except the homepage returns a 404 at once. For a company whose enquiries arrive through product pages, that is the site being down.
02 · What we built
The work.
A guard plugin for the rewrite rules
A small plugin that detects when the rewrite rules have been flushed or corrupted and restores them before visitors hit 404s, and logs when it had to. The failure mode is turned from an outage into a line in a log.
Checks around it
The bilingual routing (English and Chinese) is verified as part of the guard, so a fix for one language cannot quietly break the other.
03 · What's live
What you can check today.
As of September 2026 the site is online in English and Chinese (en, zh and zh-CN in its hreflang) with the guard in place.
At a glance
Timewaying, in one box.
- Platform
- WordPress
- Scope
- Hardening only
- Languages
- English, Chinese
- Live at
- timewaying.com
Catalogue sizes and languages were observed on the live store in September 2026; they change as the client trades. No performance figures are quoted because we only publish what a visitor can verify.