Development workflow Advanced
CI for WordPress projects: what you can realistically check
CI earns its keep without a full test suite. Syntax, coding standards, a build check and a boot smoke test are a realistic starting point.
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SEO Practical
Which old posts to fix first
Improving one page that already holds a position in search is often faster than writing something that has to earn a position from scratch. Here are the three…
SEO Intro
Four SEO habits worth retiring — and what replaced them
Keyword density, meta keywords, word-count targets, bulk directory submission. All four once had a rationale and none of them do now — and what matters more than dropping…
Development workflow Practical
The follow-up flow, and what response time does
Answering the enquiries you already have is often easier than getting more. Good intentions do not make a flow — writing it down does.
SEO Practical
Why your name, address and phone must match everywhere
When the details on your map listing, your site and your social profiles differ slightly, they dilute each other. Tidying up is easy; hunting down scattered copies is…
Development workflow Practical
Put the next action next to the number
A report that changes nothing is not a report; it is a habit. One page should end in one decision.
SEO Practical
How to structure an article for the featured snippet
Structure earns the excerpt, not rank alone: a direct answer immediately under the question heading, with lists and tables only where the query implies them. Note that appearing…
Development workflow Practical
An A/B test starts with two decisions
If you do not fix the sample size and the duration before you start, you will stop the test at the moment it flatters the variant you preferred.…
SEO Practical
The content audit: keep, update, merge or retire
An audit is not about deletion; it is about reviving what got buried. How to build the list, and how to sort every post into one of four…
Development workflow Practical
Why “please do some SEO” changes nothing
A request becomes work when it carries five lines: target, observation, desired state, how to verify, priority. Without them nobody can decide where to begin.
Development workflow Practical
Review the build against the rules, not against pixels
"Nudge it up two pixels" fixes one spot. "That value is outside the scale" stops the same mistake recurring.
SEO Intro
The four search intents — one page, one intent
Two queries that look like the same subject can demand completely different pages. Identify the intent first and the format decides itself — and a page that serves…
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Working with AI
Writing a CLAUDE.md — teaching an AI coding assistant your project
AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot do better work the more precisely they know your project. Here is a structure and a set of principles that hold up.
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Working with AI
Prompting an AI for UI design — drafting with Claude and GPT
Asking an AI to "make a nice button" gets you a disappointing button. Structured prompts that carry constraints, references and a defined role get you the design you meant.
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Themes & plugins
SCSS from the ground up — variables through module structure
The core syntax of SCSS (Sass) and what it solves that plain CSS cannot: variables, nesting, mixins, @use and module structure — organised around patterns you can use immediately.
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Themes & plugins
Design tokens and theme colour systems — brand identity in SCSS variables
How to turn a colour palette from a pile of hex codes into a system that means something — semantic token structure and SCSS variable patterns, from a real project.
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Performance optimization
Designing a responsive typography system — the science of readability
Hard-coded pixel font sizes are over. Type scales, fluid sizing with clamp(), Korean webfont optimisation and line-height ratios — building typography that reads well on any screen.
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Development workflow
From Figma to SCSS — a designer-developer handoff guide
Minimising what gets lost between a Figma file and the code: extracting tokens, naming components, keeping the spacing system in sync — the whole workflow, step by step.