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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…
Website Redesign: 7 Signs Your Business Website Needs a Refresh
A website redesign is one of the best investments a growing business can make, but knowing when the time has come is not always easy. Your website m…
WordPress REST API Deep Dive: Custom Routes, Multiple Methods on One Endpoint, and Full CRUD
🚪 Why the WP REST API Deserves Your Attention Every WordPress site already ships with a front door for data. Open yourdomain.com/wp-json/ and you'll…
Five things to check in your WordPress Media Library before you publish a PDF or Word file
AI-assisted draft by Hexloom Labs. Five things to check in your WordPress Media Library before you publish a PDF or Word file Files uploaded to the…
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…
Website Design in North Cyprus: 8 Essentials for Businesses
Good website design in North Cyprus starts with one simple fact: your customers come from everywhere. On an ordinary day, a business in Famagusta, K…
How I Took a Multilingual WordPress Site to 90+ on Google PageSpeed
Speed is one of the first things visitors notice, and one of the things Google measures. But on a real business website, speed work is never only ab…
What I Learned While Building My First Website with WordPress
Building my own website turned out to be a different experience from the work I'd done writing for other websites. As a content writer, I was famili…
Creation of dynamic property is deprecated: fixing the most common PHP 8.2 warning in WordPress
If your WordPress site moved to PHP 8.2 or newer, there's a good chance your debug.log is full of this: PHP Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property…
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…
Image Optimization and WebP Basics — Why WebP Is Smaller, and How Browsers Decide to Use It
It's often cited that the biggest drag on WordPress page speed isn't code at all — it's images. The same-looking photo can end up dramatically small…
Cookie and Session Authentication Basics — What Happens Behind a wp-admin Login
The previous article covered how REST API requests inside wp-admin are protected by a combination of cookies and nonces. This time we go one level d…
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…
Next.js vs WordPress for a Business Website: How to Choose
If you're planning a new site for your business, one question comes up more than any other: Next.js vs WordPress . Both can power a fast, search-fri…
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…
What Click2Shell Teaches About Reporting a Parser Discrepancy
What Click2Shell Teaches About Reporting a Parser Discrepancy Most RCE disclosures lead with the code execution. The Click2Shell report, published S…
Why auto_prepend_file and On-Server WordPress Firewalls Cause TTFB Lag
When scaling WordPress sites, one of the most common bottlenecks developers overlook is the architectural placement of their Web Application Firewal…
CF7 Bearer Token vs API Key vs Basic Auth: When to Use Which
You are configuring your Contact Form 7 form to send data to an external API. You open the plugin's authentication settings and see three options: B…
E-commerce platforms in 2026: what Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce and Squarespace actually cost
E-commerce platforms in 2026: what Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce and Squarespace actually cost Most small business owners compare e-commerce pla…
What a Photography Website Really Costs (And Where the Money Goes)
Photographers usually ask for a "portfolio site", but what they need is closer to a gallery, a price list, and a booking desk in one. It is also the…
We checked 100 WooCommerce stores for AI-shopping readiness
AI shopping agents (ChatGPT's shopping answers, Perplexity, Google's AI results) decide which products to show by reading what a store publishes. We…
Rebuild a WordPress navigation menu with Claude without touching the live header until you're ready
Reorganising a site's main menu is one of those jobs that sounds small and isn't. A client wants "Services" split into three, the blog moved under "…
What WooCommerce Bookings really costs a small rental shop, and the free options
If you rent kayaks, cabins or bikes, or run tours or classes, and your shop is on WooCommerce, the default answer for taking bookings is the officia…
A church calendar on WordPress that volunteers can keep up
Most church websites need the same calendar: a weekly service, a few monthly groups, special services around the holidays, and the occasional potluc…