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WordPress.org now distrusts my commits by default. As a plugin author, I think that’s right.
I committed a new version of my plugin to SVN and got a message I hadn’t seen before: this version will reach sites in about 24 hours. My first though…
InfiniteWP's Strengths and Who It Fits — An Honest Review from a Competing Tool Builder
Among WordPress maintenance tools, InfiniteWP is one of the most established names. Released by Revmakx in 2011, the tool has been operated continuous…
AI Bots Are Driving Up Your Hosting Bill. I have a WordPress fix
A client called me last month, half panicked, after getting an email from his hosting provider. The subject line wasn’t a good one: “Your site is cons…
WP Umbrella's Strengths and Who It Fits — An Honest Review from a Competing Tool Builder
Among WordPress maintenance tools, WP Umbrella has built strong traction with EU-based agencies. Launched in 2020 from France, this relatively young S…
From Native WordPress to Headless: The Real Engineering Decisions Behind a Production Migration
Every headless WordPress conversation starts the same way — someone draws an architecture diagram with arrows pointing from a REST API to a shiny Next…
How to Trigger a Mailchimp Drip Sequence from a CF7 Form (Without a Checkbox)
A developer posted this on the WordPress support forums: "We'd like to send the auto-reply email after a visitor submits a CF7 form directly from Mail…
I Built a Free Business Directory for Small Business Owners — Here's the Tech Stack and What I Learned
I've been building web tools for small business owners for over a year now. 52+ free tools live on SmallBusinessOwners.co — invoice generators, propos…
A Deep Dive into Cleaning Persistent WordPress Malware and Hardening the REST API
The Hook: The 48-Hour Re-Infection Nightmare It’s a scenario that keeps e-commerce founders and agency directors awake at night: You wake up to a crit…
Why Traditional Website Malware Scanners Miss SEO Spam
Most website owners believe their site is clean because their hosting provider, WordPress security plugin, or malware scanner reports no issues. Yet m…
How to Build a Clean, Light Bulk Data Importer for WordPress Custom Post Types (Without Heavy Plugins)
If you build custom WordPress sites for data-heavy industries (like Real Estate listings, Vacation Rentals, or Directory menus), you've likely faced t…
Publishing to WordPress with Claude and the WordPress MCP Connector
Originally published at malcolmlow.com . Several posts on this blog — including Word Embeddings Explained , SingIDBot , and the OpenClaw Telegram inte…
What Would WordPress Look Like If It Were Designed Today?
WordPress was created during a very different era of the web. An era where: monolithic servers were normal PHP applications lived directly on shared h…
Four Architectures for Letting Claude Edit Elementor (and Why We Shipped Clone-and-Mutate)
If you build with Elementor and you've been watching the MCP ecosystem evolve, you've probably had the same question we did six months ago: what does …
The PHP Stack I Built TrustGate On — And Why I'd Do It Differently Today
I built TrustGate — India's independent business review platform — entirely as a custom WordPress plugin. Full REST API. Custom database tables with v…
The WordPress Paradox: Why It’s Here to Stay (and How to Stop Ruining It)
Let’s be honest. If you are fluent in React, TypeScript, and modern backend architectures, working on WordPress feels like taking a massive step backw…
5 Best AI Chatbot Plugins for WordPress in 2026 (Compared)
Looking for an AI chatbot plugin for your WordPress site? The options range from full-service live chat platforms to lightweight document-based bots. …
WordPress backups: the strategy that actually protects client sites (most setups fail this test)
Most WordPress backup setups fail when they're needed most. The plugin is running. The schedule is set. The backup "completed." But when the site brea…
WordPress plugin conflicts: how to diagnose and fix them without breaking client sites
Plugin conflict. Two words that ruin an afternoon. A client calls. Their site is broken -- something stopped working after an update, or after adding …
Async Everything: Why Background Processing Matters for Operational Software
The first version of most operational software runs everything synchronously. User clicks a button, the server does the work, the response comes back.…
The WordPress maintenance business: real numbers, pricing math, and what most freelancers get wrong
WordPress maintenance is one of the most reliably profitable niches in freelancing. It's also one of the most consistently underpriced. After running …
Why Your wp_remote_post Isn't Sending CF7 Data to Your API (And How to Fix It)
A developer posted this exact problem on the WordPress support forums: they followed a YouTube tutorial step-by-step, hooked into wpcf7_before_send_ma…
Building AI Explain for 260+ calculators (without going broke)
Users abandon calculator pages because raw numbers don't tell them what to do. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.42 means nothing without context. Neither d…
What Years of WordPress Development Taught Me About Modern Frontend Systems
A large part of my frontend experience started inside WordPress. Themes, plugins, hooks, custom dashboards, admin workflows, template overrides, API i…
WordPress Is Not Dead — It's Headless: A Complete React Integration Guide
"Your content layer and your presentation layer don't have to be married anymore — and that divorce might be the best thing that ever happened to your…
WP-CLI: Advanced Techniques for Real-World WordPress Development — Part 2
In Part 1 , we got WP-CLI installed and covered the essential commands. Now it's time to go deeper — custom commands, automation pipelines, remote man…
Why WordPress Developers Should Learn Laravel
As a WordPress developer, you’ve likely felt the friction at some point: the limits of the platform when building complex, custom web applications. Ma…
WordPress Themes Are Architectural Debt
WordPress Themes Are Architectural Debt I have been building websites since the early 2000s. Over the years I have worked through table layouts, inlin…
Schema Markup JSON-LD for Local Businesses: A Practical Implementation Guide
If you have ever wondered why some businesses show up in Google search with rich results like star ratings, address, opening hours and service area, w…
Back to the Basics - Website Hosting on VPS
There are many approaches to hosting a website nowadays, and many rely on major cloud providers such as AWS or Azure. These fully fledged cloud platfo…