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Practical writing on WordPress, Gravity Forms and running a website that earns its keep. From the same people who build and look after sites every day, without the fluff.
How Cloudways managed cloud hosting works, Flexible vs. Autonomous, and why we use it for large, high-traffic WordPress sites but not small ones.
Chris Eggleston
When automatic plugin and theme updates are safe, when they break sites, and the safer way to stay up to date.
Chris Eggleston
Where to put a code snippet in WordPress so it won’t crash the site or vanish after an update: a snippets plugin or a child theme.
Chris Eggleston
WP Simple Pay, Gravity Forms or WooCommerce? How to connect Stripe to WordPress based on what you sell, and how to set it up properly.
Chris Eggleston
Six habits that prevent most of the WordPress problems we fix every week.
Chris Eggleston
Find which plugin is breaking your site, without your visitors noticing, step by step.
Chris Eggleston
Build custom blocks for the WordPress block editor in PHP with ACF Pro: register the block, add fields, and write the template.
Chris Eggleston
How to plan and build a full site with the block editor, from theme choice to patterns and templates.
Chris Eggleston
Shared vs. VPS vs. dedicated hosting in plain terms, when a VPS makes sense for a WordPress site, and how to get one without managing the server yourself.
Chris Eggleston
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