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Web & WordPress
Plugin count alone is a poor measure of a WordPress site; quality, overlap and maintenance matter more.
Web & WordPress
WordPress 7.0 arrived on May 20 with a new admin experience, design tools, developer changes and foundations for AI features.
Web & WordPress
The WordPress project moved the 7.0 release to May 20, giving contributors more time for architectural work and testing.
Web & WordPress
A staging copy gives changes somewhere safe to fail before they reach customers.
Web & WordPress
WordPress performance can involve several caching layers. Page caching can bypass much of PHP and database work for cacheable requests, while…
Web & WordPress
WordPress uses scheduled tasks for publishing, updates, maintenance and plugin jobs. On busy or poorly designed sites, frequent background work…
Web & WordPress
WordPress databases can accumulate revisions, expired transients, plugin tables and historical records over time.
Web & WordPress
WordPress changes can affect code, database structures, caching behavior and integrations at the same time.
Web & WordPress
The aim is to connect the technology with everyday operational decisions. The number of installed plugins alone does not determine whether a WordPress site is slow or insecure.
Web & WordPress
The aim is to connect the technology with everyday operational decisions. Core, plugin and theme updates can change application behaviour, database structures and compatibility.
Web & WordPress
A new year is a useful time to review updates, backups, plugins, users and basic performance across a WordPress installation.
Web & WordPress
A plugin can continue working after development stops, while becoming progressively riskier over time.
