Profiling a Slow WordPress Site with Query Monitor
Query Monitor turns a vague feeling that your site is slow into a specific list of queries, hooks, and requests to fix. Here is how to read its panels and act on what you find.
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Notes from the forge.
Performance engineering, security hardening, and WordPress operations. Written by the people who run the metal.
An Incident Response Plan Sized for a Small Site
You do not need a security operations center to handle a hack well. You need a short plan you wrote before the bad day, and this is the template.
SEO Spam, Redirect Hacks, and Miners: WordPress Malware Taxonomy
Not all WordPress infections look the same because they aren't built for the same purpose. Here's how to recognize the common categories and what each one is actually trying to do to your site.
Bringing Order to a 10,000-File Media Library
A practical plan for taming a sprawling WordPress media library: choosing between folders and taxonomies, hunting down the orphaned files nobody uses, and regenerating thumbnails without taking the site down.
Lightweight Analytics: Measuring Traffic Without the Bloat
Google Analytics is powerful but heavy. Here is how privacy-friendly, low-weight analytics tools compare, what you trade away, and how to fit them cleanly into a cached WordPress stack.
HTTP/3 and QUIC: Why the New Protocol Feels Faster
A plain-English look at why sites running over HTTP/3 feel snappier on real-world connections, and what head-of-line blocking, connection migration, and 0-RTT actually mean for your WordPress site.
How Utilities Decide Which AI Data Centers Get Grid Access
Planning documents from Georgia Power, Duke Energy, and Dominion Energy reveal three distinct approaches to filtering AI data center demand and prioritizing transmission investments.
cPanel, Plesk, and the New Wave of Hosting Panels
Control panels promise to make server administration painless, but the panel you're handed shapes your costs, your flexibility, and how hard it is to leave. Here's what they actually do and how to judge lock-in before it becomes a problem.
Cross-Site Scripting: The Most Common WordPress Plugin Flaw
XSS shows up in plugin vulnerability disclosures more than any other bug class. Here's what stored and reflected XSS actually do, why an admin's browser is the real prize, and how proper escaping closes the door.