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Taming WordPress: How I Cut Stack Costs With $1,632 Net Annual Savings While Achieving a 99 PageSpeed Score using Claude Code
For nearly twenty years, maintaining a high-traffic web presence has meant constantly outrunning the slow accumulation of digital debris. What starts as a series of quick feature trials and minor design tweaks inevitably hardens into systemic technical debt, burying application…
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Formidable Forms: How to Build a WordPress Plugin That Automatically Assigns Sales Territories
Formidable Forms has built-in conditional logic, and it's genuinely good. You can show or hide fields, branch confirmation messages, and route email actions based on rules. We've had exceptional responses to sending a confirmation back to the dealers who submitted…
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Pay Raise Calculator: How I Learned to Code
Over 25 years ago, I shifted my career from an industrial electrician to an analyst. While I had already accumulated a ton of networking and PC experience and had to program PLCs periodically, I didn't have any experience with modern programming…
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Knock: Agent-Led Customer Engagement Workflows
You didn't hire your engineering team to build notification infrastructure. But here you are—a sprint or two deep into what started as a simple send a welcome email request, now staring at a growing tangle of custom delivery logic, retry…
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From Dead-End to Discovery: Turning Your WordPress 404 Page into a Smart Page
As I reviewed my site's analytics, I noticed that I was getting a lot of visitors landing on my 404 page. My first step is to ensure that I didn't remove a page without redirecting it. More often it's another…
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MailerSend: Deliver Your Essential Email and SMS Without the Technical Headaches
Reliability is the silent engine of a successful digital product. When a subscriber signs up for your newsletter or a customer requests a password reset, every second of delay erodes trust. Managing high-volume messaging in-house or through rigid providers often…
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Building a Secure Remote Development Stack on AWS EC2 with Mutagen and Claude Code
I've written before about the importance of having a culture of enablement within your organization. The organization I work for today is growing faster than any competitor in an industry that's both mature and highly competitive. Why? Beyond a shadow…
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10 Modern CMS Alternatives to WordPress (2026)
For two decades, the web publishing conversation began and ended with WordPress. And, for two decades, I've been publishing, developing, and promoting articles on the CMS. At its peak, it powered over 40% of all websites on the internet —…
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Cloudways: The Intelligent, Lightning Fast Managed Cloud Hosting Platform
Maintaining a high-performance web presence often feels like a constant tug-of-war between technical complexity and operational costs. Developers and business owners frequently face the anxiety of sudden traffic spikes crashing their sites, the sluggishness of outdated server stacks, and the…
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IPRoyal: Power Your Data Collection with Reliable Proxy Infrastructure
Access to accurate, real-time data is the cornerstone of competitive advantage. However, businesses frequently encounter significant roadblocks when attempting to gather market intelligence or monitor global trends. Websites often employ sophisticated anti-bot measures, rate-limiting, and geo-fencing that can lead to…
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How to Prevent Resource Exhaustion Attacks on WordPress Search (MySQL DoS)
I was reviewing my analytics last night and saw thousands of visitors, admin was timing out, and my server's CPU was spiking. After already battling and thwarting attacks last quarter, I had a head start on troubleshooting and found the…
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WordPress Plugin: How To Build A Custom Sidebar Widget For Your Author Bio
I recently moved my author bio into the sidebar to make it more visible to readers, especially on long-form articles where the author’s expertise matters. WordPress includes great built-in author fields, but there wasn’t a clean, flexible way to output…
