WordPress Plugin Cross Post for Dev.to: my solution to abandoned and unmaintained plugins
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…
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Why phpMyAdmin migrations break plugin settings — and why `wp search-replace` doesn’t
After a domain migration or HTTPS switch, "all plugin settings are gone" or "Elementor layouts are broken" is a common outcome. The cause, in most cas…
Ship a Custom WordPress Endpoint Without Writing a Plugin
Your JavaScript frontend needs a list of featured products from WordPress. Not the whole REST API surface, not raw post objects with forty fields, jus…
Another day, another VPS breach
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LiteSpeed vs Nginx for WordPress: 3 months of production benchmarks
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Building a Fast, Free WordPress Restaurant Theme — Lessons Learned
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Open Source Is More Than Code, What Every WordPress Contributor Should Know
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…
Integrating AI and WordPress: From Idea to Execution, Real-World Challenges, and Practical Workflows
Integrating AI and WordPress: From Idea to Execution, Real-World Challenges, and Practical Workflows The rise of artificial intelligence has fundament…
Installing Composer Packages in WordPress Without SSH
Cross-posted from the Loopress docs Loopress is a toolset to make WordPress reproducible and reviewable via Git . Versioned snippets, Composer without…
Running a WordPress major upgrade step by step with WP-CLI — commands and checkpoints for each stage
The W series has covered what to check before a major upgrade , when to apply it , and what can go wrong . This fourth part covers the remaining quest…
How to Actually Protect Yourself From wp2shell (Not Just "Update WordPress")
Everyone's telling you the same thing right now: update WordPress. Which is, fine, yes, obviously but that's not enough. Patching closes the hole. Wha…
I Built a Free WordPress Social Share Plugin with AI Buttons
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 …
Init User Engine – A gamified, frontend-first user system for WordPress
Init User Engine is a lightweight, no-bloat user system for modern WordPress sites. It replaces the default profile/login experience with a full gamif…
How to Migrate WordPress to Next.js Without Losing Your SEO
Most “WordPress to Next.js” tutorials show you how to fetch posts from the WP REST API and render them in the App Router. That’s the easy 20%. The 80%…
Edge vs. Endpoint Bot Blocking: A Developer's Guide to Cloudflare and Wordfence
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…
I built a test lab to measure SSG vs SSR vs ISR on real WordPress, here's what I found
Most "SSG vs SSR vs ISR" content out there is written from documentation. Someone reads the framework, restates it, and you're left inferring the actu…
The WordPress post ID is already in every row of your admin list, core just never prints it
Show post and page IDs in the WordPress admin by enabling Custom Admin Columns in WP Adminify: go to WP Adminify > Productivity, turn on Custom Adm…
WordPress 7.0.2 — Patching an Unauthenticated RCE Chain Right Now
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 …
When SSH to Xserver suddenly stops working, it's fail2ban — the official confirmation and a safer reconnection check
If you run WordPress maintenance for clients on Xserver, sooner or later you hit this: SSH was working fine this morning, and now your connection dies…
Changelog: July 2026, so far — the platform month
We usually write these when the month closes. July's first two weeks shipped more than most full months, so here's everything so far — with more to co…
Best CMS in 2026: Sanity vs WordPress
Sanity and WordPress for Content Management When building a new website or app, picking a CMS can affect your site's current and future performance. F…
The AI Blind Spot: Why "It Works" Isn't the Same as "It's Safe to Launch"
A few months ago, a founder posted about the SaaS he'd just shipped — built entirely with an AI coding assistant, not a line of it typed by hand. He w…
How I Built an AI Alt Text Generator for WordPress — and What I Learned
Accessibility is one of those areas everyone agrees matters, but it often gets pushed down the development queue. Alt text is a good example. Adding d…
Decorative Image Alt Text in WordPress: Do It Right
Decorative Image Alt Text in WordPress: Do It Right Decorative image alt text is the part of accessibility that most guides get backwards. The usual a…
How WooCommerce REST API Powers External Order Management (And Why It Beats Plugins)
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…
Don't apply WordPress major releases on day one — the "x.0.1 rule" and a calibration framework
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…
Why Converting HTML to WordPress and Elementor Is Still Hard in 2026
There is no reliable “magic button” that turns an arbitrary HTML website into a clean, responsive, fully editable Elementor project. At first glance, …
Building a Complex WordPress Platform from Scratch
Hi my name is Perceval Hasselman and I'm and Building a simple WordPress website is one thing. Building a scalable platform with user accounts, custom…
WordPress Has a DX Problem, and Developers Are Paying for It
Cross-posted from the Loopress docs Loopress is a toolset to make WordPress reproducible and reviewable via Git . Versioned snippets, Composer without…
Seven things to check before a WordPress major upgrade — before "patch what breaks after" becomes a disaster
WordPress major version upgrades (5.x → 6.x, and eventually 6.x → 7.x) are a different animal from minor releases. Minor releases (like 6.4.1 → 6.4.2)…