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 serving the data to a separate front-end application—has surged in popularity. At the heart of […]
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 causes the client to retry a request, or a load balancer replays a call. Without […]
As a WordPress developer, I’ve come to appreciate the small performance tweaks that make a significant impact. Among these hidden gems is the humble transient, a built-in caching mechanism that’s often misunderstood or simply overlooked. While you might be familiar with options or wp_cache, transients deserve their own spotlight because they’re perfect for speeding up […]
I’ve been optimizing WordPress sites for years now, and if there’s one area I’ve learned to pay close attention to, it’s the database. Databases can be the silent culprits behind slow page loads, painful admin interfaces, and frustrated end users. But the good news? With the right tweaks and some ongoing maintenance, I can transform […]
I’ve always been a huge fan of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). It turns WordPress into a lean, mean, content-structuring machine—no more wrestling with awkward meta boxes or shoehorning data into places it doesn’t belong. But as your site grows, juggling multiple custom field groups through the ACF UI can start to feel a bit tedious. […]
I’ve been managing WordPress sites for years, and if there’s one thing that’s always creeping into my inbox, it’s spam—comment spam, form spam, and even random contact attempts that make no sense. If you’ve ever battled comment spam on your WordPress site, you’ve probably turned to plugins like Akismet for relief. While these tools are […]
