Stop Manually Deploying WordPress Plugins and Use CircleCI Instead
I was working on a small security plugin a while back and decided to get it onto the official WordPress directory. But then I remembered…
Tag: CDN
Serverless vs. Traditional Hosting: What’s the Difference?
A client called me in a panic. Their WooCommerce site, which they’d spent a fortune hosting on a “premium” managed server, had just crumbled under…
Stop Writing Messy WP-CLI Commands: A Better Way
I took over a project once where the deployment checklist was a mile long. Clear this cache, sync that data, run this report. All manual….
How Serverless Fixes a Core WordPress Security Flaw
I had a client come to me, completely at their wit’s end. Their site had been hacked for the third time in a month. They’d…
What’s the Real AWS Lambda Hosting Cost? It’s Complicated.
I got a call from a new client a while back. They had a small, but important, WordPress blog that another dev had put on…
Mastering WordPress Page Caching with a CDN
I got a call last week from a client, their e-commerce site was crawling. Not just slow, I mean *crawling*. “Ahmad,” he says, “we’ve got…
Building a Real CloudFront Image Optimization CDN
I got a call last month from a client running a fairly successful WooCommerce store. Everything was custom, looked great on paper, but their Google…