I’ve been working with WordPress forms for a while now, and if there’s one technique I’ve seen consistently cut down on spam, it’s adding Google reCAPTCHA to the mix. It’s like giving your form a secret handshake—visitors pass the test…
I’ve always believed a good sitemap should be easily findable. After all, search engines love to devour these neatly organized lists, and a well-structured sitemap.xml file goes a long way toward ensuring all your content gets properly indexed. But sometimes,…
It never feels good that finding my own created images, videos or other media are serving on someone else’s website draining my own bandwidth without offering any recognition. It’s frustrating—and for a site running on WordPress, where images are often…
I’ve been working with WordPress ever since 2019 as a full time developer, and contributed to wordpress core a few times, I’ve watched the platform evolve into something truly versatile. But with versatility comes complexity, and one of the features…
I’ve come across this issue more times than I’d like to admit, both on my own WordPress sites and when helping out clients. You head into your WordPress Site Health tool, expecting to see a glowing green checkmark, only to…
I’ve been working on WordPress projects long enough to watch them balloon into unwieldy beasts—sites crammed with a dozen page builders, countless templates, and a backlog of 30+ active plugins. At some point, every developer hits that moment: “This is…
In my seven-plus years of working extensively with WordPress, I’ve encountered countless scenarios where well-intentioned custom code ends up running multiple times unnecessarily, dragging down site performance. It might not seem like a big deal at first—just a few extra…
I’ve spent over seven years deep-diving into WordPress’s internals, building custom endpoints, and integrating with third-party services via the REST API. One of the most fascinating areas I’ve explored is manipulating REST API requests before WordPress actually processes them. This…
In my seven-plus years of wrestling with WordPress, I’ve seen it evolve from a purely PHP-based CMS into a flexible content engine that can be decoupled from its front-end. Headless WordPress—that is, using WordPress purely as a content backend and…
On the journey of my career I’ve found that one of the trickiest parts of building resilient systems is handling repeated requests gracefully. In distributed environments or even simple client-server interactions, things can get messy fast. Maybe a network hiccup…
