... Coding Journal: Setting Up a Fast Pharmacy Catalog in 7 Days A local family pharmacy owner named Sarah reached out to me last week with an urgent request. With cold and flu season approaching, her customers wanted a clean website where they could view wellness products, check stock levels, and upload prescription forms online. She did not have the budget for a massive Shopify setup or a heavy WooCommerce database server. She needed a fast, clean

... layouts, and optimize it for high traffic. I tracked my entire process over seven days to see how this theme holds up under a strict timeline and real-world performance standards. Day 1: Setting up the Sandbox and Cleaning the Bloat I began by setting up a staging environment on a cloud server running Nginx and MariaDB. After running a fresh WordPress installation, I uploaded the Homely theme. The theme installation process was painless, prompting me to install Elementor ... ... kitchens and living rooms. Some of these placeholder images were over 6MB each, which bloated the database and clogged up the media library. Before doing any visual work, I used WP-CLI to prune the unnecessary media and clean