
WordPress Is the Lingua Franca of the Web
Most platform debates centre on the wrong question. Is WordPress easier than Squarespace? No, probably not — not at first. Is Webflow more design-flexible? For

Most platform debates centre on the wrong question. Is WordPress easier than Squarespace? No, probably not — not at first. Is Webflow more design-flexible? For

A few years back, I took over hosting for a small accommodation business in New Zealand. The kind of place where every booking comes through

A SaaS founder told me his $20 server became a $600 monthly bill. The $20 machine had been fine for the first five years. After

WordPress multisite very rarely makes sense. It sells itself as tidiness: one install, one login, one set of plugins to update. That tidiness lasts until

A car that skips its service still drives fine for months. You find out what the skipped service cost on the side of the motorway,

The Incident A media company noticed something wrong when Chinese-language pages started appearing in Google’s results, indexed under their own domain. Visitors to the site

Many WordPress sites we build or take over end up with one file in wp-content/mu-plugins/. It has the site’s name at the top, a version

In November 2018, a developer sent an email to all parties about an industrial business that ran its entire operation through a custom intranet system

It was January 2024, peak summer season in the Bay of Islands. For a regional tourism information site, that fortnight carries more bookings and enquiries

An automatic update ran at 10pm on a Wednesday. Nobody knew. Nobody had authorised it. Nobody was watching. The update notification had been going to