Using AI to improve technical SEO in WordPress
A short guide in how to use an AI assistant to improve your WordPress website's technical SEO scores, without installing any new plugins.
Patching the WooCommerce PayPal Payments plugin
The official WooCommerce PayPal Payments plugin started throwing fatal errors on the checkout page. It's time to patch this plugin for good.
E-Commerce, WooCommerce - 24 Jun 2026
A new base to work from in Reading
My day-to-day work involves running a website hosting company, and building WordPress/WooCommerce. All I need (apart from a fleet of web servers) is a laptop and a robust network connection, which I have at home. But working from a home office can be a isolating over long periods, so I like to work from a
Reading (Berkshire) - 20 May 2026
Improve site crawl on The Events Calendar sites
The Events Calendar plugin fills your site with URLs like "/?tribe-bar-date=". These URLs bypass your page cache to consume CPU and hurt page speed. Easy to fix, with a simple PHP snippet to adjust "robots.txt".
Page Speed, SEO - 11 May 2026
Elementor performance: practical settings and PHP snippets
A series of settings & copy-and-paste snippets that make Elementor pages load faster - while editing content, and for your site's visitors.
Elementor, Page Speed - 8 Apr 2026
The WooCommerce debloat guide: patching out Automattic’s tracking & bloat
If your WooCommerce site is feeling slow, especially in the back-end admin area, it may not be 100% down to your hosting provider. WooCommerce can be fixed.
E-Commerce, Page Speed, Privacy - 30 Mar 2026
WordPress, WooCommerce & a high-traffic media event
A client recently asked if his website would be able to handle him being on the BBC TV programme, Dragons' Den. Follow the changes we implemented, so we could handle the traffic gracefully and without issue.
CDN, E-Commerce - 2 Mar 2026
New WordPress vulnerability system is online
After building my new WordPress vulnerability database project, I wanted to make it easier for people to use. It’s taken some effort to get all the bits-and-pieces put together, but Vulnz is now ready for public use.
Security - 1 Jan 2026
Repelling a WordPress hack in real-time
Today was a long day, repelling a WordPress hack attack in real-time. The hacker was deploying PHP backdoors as quickly as I was removing them.
Security - 1 Dec 2025
Creating a WordPress vulnerability database
I needed to track vulnerable WordPress plugins across all the websites on our hosting network without installing Wordfence all over the place, so I built a tool. But instead of coding it by hand, I used this project as an opportunity to learn about AI coding agents.
A.I., Security, Technology - 30 Oct 2025
Add a tariff to WooCommerce orders that ship to USA
If you run a WooCommerce website outside the USA, you probably need to add a tariff (tax) to all orders that ship to the USA. WooCommerce can do this with built-in functionality, and we can give the tax an appropriate name with a small code snippet.
E-Commerce - 9 Oct 2025
Experiments with low-energy desktop computing
With talk of how much electricity AI data centres use, I thought it would be interesting to investigate low-energy desktop computing for day-to-day use.
Energy Responsibility, Technology - 7 Oct 2025