Performance optimization Practical
What you miss by only checking on a desktop
You build on a large screen; your visitors arrive on small ones. The problems that gap creates are quiet ones — they cost you visitors without ever looking…
Technote
WordPress guides for Founders
For founders building alone or in a very small team: standing a site up on a minimal budget, earning customers from search, and running it without incidents.
80 articles· Founders
Servers & infrastructure Practical
Sending email yourself, or handing it over
Run your own mail server and the invoice is near zero — you pay in deliverability instead. Which is cheaper depends on what one enquiry is worth to…
SEO Practical
Your first five pages, and the question each one answers
You do not need many pages. Five is enough — as long as each one has a decided question it answers for the visitor.
Security Practical
Setting up account recovery before you are locked out
Recovery paths cannot be created once you are already locked out. Domain, hosting and the site administrator — thirty minutes today covers all three.
Themes & plugins Practical
Taking payment in Korea: transfer, card gateway, or overseas
These are not substitutes for each other; they are separate paths with different requirements. Overseas payment in particular brings a currency problem you should not solve by converting.
Themes & plugins Practical
The three minutes before you press install
A plugin runs inside your site with the same privileges you have. So the criterion is not the feature but the trust — and trust is checkable before…
Servers & infrastructure Practical
Knowing your site is down before your customers do
If a customer tells you the site is down, you are already late. Deciding what to watch and how to be alerted takes about half an hour.
Themes & plugins Practical
Colours and fonts are not a per-page decision
Choosing a colour each time you build a page produces ten sites inside one. Putting them in one global place removes the problem entirely.
Development workflow Practical
Define “done” before the work starts
Without a completion standard, handover becomes an exchange of impressions. Agreed acceptance criteria protect the client and shield the supplier from endless revisions.
Themes & plugins Intro
You only need about five plugins to start
A plugin is not one feature — it is one maintenance liability. Install twenty at the start and you will never work out which one causes a problem.
Servers & infrastructure Practical
Displaying business details: what belongs on the site
If you sell online in Korea, displaying business registration details is a legal requirement — and it is also the first thing a visitor about to pay looks…
SEO Practical
What internal links do: turning ten posts into one body of work
The same ten posts become a different site once they point at each other. Links are the reader's next step and, to a search engine, your explanation of…