Who Should Own a Client's Domain and Hosting? A Handover Checklist
If you build sites for clients, this is the setup I use on every project, and the one I'd want any client to insist on from any developer. It's writ…
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Не DDoS, а баг в OPcache: воркеры PHP-FPM по 600 МБ на сервере с 5 500 сайтами WordPress
Клиент написал: сайты лежат, похоже на DDoS. На сервере около 5 500 сайтов WordPress, nginx, PHP-FPM 8.4, MariaDB, 125 ГБ памяти, Debian 13. Я нашёл…
FrontEdit vs Frontpen vs LiveCMS: Picking a WordPress Front-End Editor by Stack
Originally published at livecms.io . Updated October 8, 2026. Disclosure: I build LiveCMS. If you build WordPress sites for clients, you've had this…
5 WordPress Migration Mistakes That Can Cause Website Downtime
Your new hosting environment is ready. The WordPress files have been transferred. The homepage loads perfectly. Then someone tries to place an order…
How I Manage a Corporate Client's Websites as a Solo
One corporate client, several websites, a steady flow of new project sites — and on the other side, one person. Most people assume that takes an age…
5 Hidden Reasons Your WooCommerce Store Is Slow (And How to Fix Them)
Running a slow WooCommerce store isn’t just frustrating—it directly hurts your revenue. Studies show that a single second delay in page load time ca…
ChatGPT-User in your logs: how to tell real ChatGPT traffic from a scanner using its name
If you grep your access logs for ChatGPT-User to see what ChatGPT can't find on your site, most of what comes back won't be ChatGPT. We looked at on…
Quovex Blocks: A Post Grid, Featured Posts and Announcement Bar Built on the Interactivity API
Most WordPress sites end up needing the same few things: a grid of recent posts, a featured section on the homepage, and a banner for announcements.…
Why I made my WordPress backup app self-hosted, not SaaS
Most backup tools for agencies are SaaS. When I built SiteVault, the app I use to back up client WordPress sites, I went the other way. Here's the r…
Migrating away from wordpress using Claude.
I was running a wordpress blog for so long now, but with Hickups then and there by Hackers or by some plugin which got hacked. One reason was I was…
Speed up WordPress with ChatGPT by measuring the page first
WPPilot wrote this. Ask ChatGPT how to raise WordPress speed and you get a familiar list. Turn on a page cache. Cut the image size. Lazy load whatev…
Building a Better WordPress Website: A Practical Guide to Performance, Structure, and Maintainability
A WordPress website can be much more than a collection of pages and plugins. When it is planned properly, it can provide a fast, maintainable, and f…
Claude says "Couldn't reach the MCP server" on WordPress — usually it is not the plugin
What WPPilot provides, honestly WPPilot is a self-hosted WordPress MCP plugin. The Free version provides the MCP endpoints, OAuth and Application Pa…
Thirty-Four Out of Thirty-Four. Then Zero Out of Ten.
My last article ended by admitting something my own dashboard could not do. Four days before it went out, I had already fixed it — and the fix had a…
Multiple Image Uploads in WPForms Lite: How I Built Multimage
WPForms Lite is one of the most popular free form builders in WordPress, but it has one gap that keeps coming up: there's no file upload field. If y…
Why Your Contact Form Submissions Are Ruining Your CRM Data (And How to Fix Field Mapping)
A Contact Form 7 integration can return a successful API response, create a CRM record, and still put the wrong data into the wrong fields. That is…
Engineering Data Protection for AI Chatbots: A WordPress Case Study
An AI chatbot creates a new data pathway through your website. A visitor submits text, retrieval selects context, a model generates an answer, and s…
My Site Was Compromised in 48 Hours. I Thought It Was a CSS Bug.
I opened my laptop convinced I had a CSS bug. Shop links on my WooCommerce site were resolving to empty search URLs instead of product pages. Classi…
What Shipping a WordPress CRM Taught Me About Being a Developer
Most advice about becoming a developer stops at the moment you get hired. That is the part I found least useful. The gap that actually mattered for…
Something Asked for My .env File Twenty Times. It Said It Was ClaudeBot.
In the last seven days, something asked this site for its .env file twenty times. It said it was ClaudeBot. An .env file is where a web application…
AI crawlers in WordPress logs: GPTBot shows up, Google-Extended never does
Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended, two of the names that robots.txt guides list most often for AI, cannot appear in a WordPress access log. Neit…
What Is llms.txt? How to Set It Up on WordPress (2026 Guide)
In September 2024, Jeremy Howard — the guy behind fast.ai and a former president of Kaggle — published a short proposal. He called it llms.txt, and…
Stop Hosting Client WordPress Sites in One Shared Account
Hosting ten client sites is not the same problem as hosting one site ten times. The difference is not storage capacity or the number of domains a co…
What `rsync -avz --delete` Actually Does
A lot of people paste rsync -avz --delete into a deploy script and move on without ever unpacking what each letter means. It works, so there's rarel…
HTTP Status Code Basics: What 200/301/403/500 Actually Mean for Maintenance Tools
WordPress site maintenance constantly involves one basic question: after an update, is the site still working? Instead of relying on a human eyeball…
Reading `.htaccess` mod_rewrite Rules: A Real `RewriteBase` Trap From a Subdomain Migration
A WordPress URL like https://example.com/blog/some-post-title/ looks clean, but there's no directory or file on the server that actually matches tha…
Cleora v2: Rebuilding Our WordPress Theme From the Ground Up
A WordPress theme can start simple and become complicated surprisingly quickly. A few dependencies here, some utility classes there, another JavaScr…
WordPress REST API Basics: What Can You Do With `/wp-json/`?
Parts of WordPress that look like they're reading straight from the database are often actually going through an HTTP API behind the scenes. Loading…
AI Workflow Automation in WordPress: Where the 4WP Plugins Are Headed
I've probably worn out my welcome by now with this old-school habit of mine — explaining DDD or SDD, or pushing for TDD (which, in practice, almost…
CF7 to Google Sheets Missing Random Submissions - The Quota Problem Nobody Explains
A site owner posted on the WordPress forums that their CF7 to Google Sheets integration was dropping about a third of submissions. Email notificatio…