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On hosting environments without SSH access, the fallback is browser automation: Playwright logs into wp-admin and drives the plugin update screen dire…
A few weeks ago I wrote about the WordPress Abilities API — what it is, why WordPress 6.9 shipped it, and what it means for how plugins will talk to e…
I’ve released Cross Post for Dev.to , a WordPress plugin that mirrors a post to Dev.to the moment you publish it on your own site. The plugin itself i…
TL;DR Ran LiteSpeed Enterprise (LSWS) and Nginx side-by-side on identical VPS instances for 3 months, hosting the same 12 WordPress sites on each. Lit…
Over the last few days, I spent some time going through the WordPress Contributor Learning materials. Most of the ideas weren't new to me, but they re…
К сожалению, мир современной веб-разработки таков, что многие вебмастеры уже давно забили на качество кода, а тяжесть их решений, построенных на не ме…
Most social share plugins do too much. They load jQuery, pull in external fonts, inject tracking scripts, and phone home to somebody's server just to …
Edge vs. Endpoint Bot Blocking: A Developer's Guide to Cloudflare and Wordfence The Real Cost of AI Bot Traffic on Your WordPress Stack If you're runn…
On July 17, 2026, WordPress dropped 7.0.2 to patch a chain of two vulnerabilities — CVE-2026-60137 (SQL injection) and CVE-2026-63030 (REST API batch …
If you've built or maintained a WooCommerce store at scale, you've probably hit the moment where the built-in order management stops being enough. Mor…
The companion to the seven things to check before a WordPress major upgrade is the question that comes right after: when do you actually apply it? A n…
There is no reliable “magic button” that turns an arbitrary HTML website into a clean, responsive, fully editable Elementor project. At first glance, …
A client emails: "we've got hundreds of failed orders, is the payment gateway broken?" The gateway is almost certainly fine. What is happening is wors…
Most WooCommerce product pages still show the same thing stores have shown for 20 years: a handful of flat photos. I spent the last few months buildin…
Nine years. That's how long I've been building WordPress booking engines for vacation rentals. Didn't plan it. Just sort of happened. One client led t…
While building a Computer-Based Testing (CBT) platform, I ran into an unexpected problem. Creating mathematics and chemistry questions wasn't nearly a…
Introduction While working on an eCoach project built with WordPress Multisite, I faced a database architecture challenge that looked small at first b…
Понадобилось дать ИИ-ассистентам (Claude Code, Cursor) доступ к данным своего сервиса — мониторы, события, аптайм, — чтобы вопрос «что сейчас в сбое?»…
When you maintain a number of WordPress sites, showing the "last maintenance date" in the site list is the obvious move. A column of dates like 2026-0…
Our multi-site maintenance tool fires wp plugin list --format=json against the sites it manages. One day, against a specific shared host (Xserver in J…
A few years ago, at an agency I worked at, we launched a corporate WordPress site by migrating the whole database from our development environment to …
It's pretty common to throw a layer of HTTP Basic auth on a WordPress site: a staging environment before launch, an internal test instance only employ…
Every WordPress developer knows the feeling. A host emails: "PHP 7.4 reaches end of life — we're moving you to 8.x." Or you finally want the performan…
One day a multi-site administrator reported a strange bug: "After running the app's SSH connection test 2-3 times, my IP can't reach SSH on that serve…
One day a user reported an oddly asymmetric bug. In the "add new site" modal, picking an SSH profile and clicking "auto-detect WordPress install path"…
If you drive the WordPress admin via Playwright for long enough, one day a screen you've never seen before will appear after login , and everything do…
Originally published on https://makewpfast.com/wordpress-memory-limit-find-whats-eating-php-memory/ Every “fix memory exhausted” article tells you the…
I’m what you’d call a “wannabe developer.” My main focus is SEO, but I like trying new things and getting my hands dirty when something breaks. The pr…
You open the "Updates" page in WordPress admin and see that Elementor Pro / ACF Pro / vk-blocks-pro have updates available. Then you run wp plugin upd…
Almost every user new to SSH hits this wall: WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! Permissions 0644 for '/Users/.../id_rsa.pem' are too open. This pr…