Articles

WordPress, the platform I’ve been building on since 2007. Security cleanups, speed optimization, and what I’ve learned from nearly two decades of keeping client sites running.

“Keeping WordPress Sites Secure” starts with a simple sentence: I cleaned another WordPress site this morning. That’s the reality of running WordPress sites, and this post breaks down what I look for and what you should too.

My speed optimization guide draws from all those years of experience. I’ve been building WordPress sites for clients since 2007, and speed is the thing most site owners ignore until it costs them.

“Reasons Why Website Speed Kills Your Business” makes it blunt: your website speed affects everything. Rankings, conversions, user experience. I lay out the numbers.

Jeremy Koering and I also had a conversation with Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress, at WCUS. That’s a post I was excited to write. With 5 posts here, this section covers the CMS I know best.