WordPress
WordPress at scale: performance, Core Web Vitals, the block editor, hosting and the plugin ecosystem, measured on real sites rather than on a staging demo.
- The WordPress REST API as an agent surface: what you can and cannot automate Route by route from core source: which capability each endpoint needs, why core has no plugin update route, and the constant that turns soft deletes hard.
- Self-Hosting Your Own Analytics: Plausible on a VPS, and What It Actually Costs My ClickHouse volume is 8.6 GB. The analytics inside it are 4.36 MiB. Here is where the rest went, and the real monthly bill.
- Running a Self-Hosted Crawler: Crawl4AI and SearXNG in Docker Real images, real limits, and the SearXNG failure that returns HTTP 200 with zero results and makes you write down findings that are not true.
- What Self-Hosting Actually Costs, Against the SaaS You Are Replacing The VPS price is the smallest line in the calculation. Here is the rest of it, measured on my own server, with two different answers.
- The Abilities API in WordPress core: what it is and what ships with it Core registers exactly three abilities, all read-only. On 6.9 only two are reachable over REST, and the announcement post's endpoint path returns 404.
- WordPress in Docker for Local Development: wp-env vs the Alternatives Three environments timed on one plugin: 123s, 14s and 8s. Real commands, real disk cost, and the error that names a host you never configured.
- Theme.json: the parts that actually control your output A theme.json with no version key is discarded whole. That, the four-layer merge order and three selector shapes explain most files that will not apply.
- Product Feeds in 2026: Google Merchant Center, and What AI Surfaces Read Content API for Shopping was sunset on 18 August 2026 and started returning 410 on 1 September. Here is the current spec, dated, and what is…
- Building a Gutenberg block in 2026: the current, correct way What create-block generates now, why register_block_type left the bootstrap, and the 7.1 change that makes apiVersion 3 mean something else.
- The Plugin That Is Slowing Your Site, and How to Find It Without Guessing Query Monitor names the plugin in one page load because of a db.php symlink that runs before WordPress boots. The method, and what the numbers mean.