Most long-running WordPress sites land in the same spot eventually. There’s a place they need to get to: modern WordPress, Full Site Editing, something that won’t be a maintenance burden in three years. And then there’s the day-to-day reality of the site they actually have. Editors are publishing…
Carrie Dils
2025: A Year in Review
‘ Tis the season to reflect on the year before sliding into the next, as is my annual tradition. Maybe it’ s this whole getting older thing, but 2025 seemed to go by in a hurry. Can you relate? If you’ re curious to read reviews from years passed, here they…
Goodbye 2024. Goodbye WordPress as we know it.
There’ s a quiet lull between Christmas and the New Year that I find is the perfect time to reflect on the previous year and think out loud about plans for the one to come. With the exception of last year (2023), I’ ve jotted down these reflections for the…
WordCamp Europe 2023
I’ m writing this from a hotel room near the airport in Athens, Greece as I get ready to start the trip home. (I’ m finishing this post a full two weeks after WordCamp Europe. Over the past 12 days, I attended my first WordCamp Europe, my first conference (anywhere)…
It’s that time again… So long, 2022
As is my custom, here’ s a year-end retrospective. If you’ d like to catch up on previous year-end reviews, here ya go: 2013 review 2014 review 2015 review 2016 review 2017 review 2018 review 2019/2020 review 2021 review Short Story The tl; dr is that this year looked fairly similar…
Modify Yoast Breadcrumb Text for Parent and Child pages
I recently had a situation where I wanted to add some text to two items in the breadcrumb trail. It took me an absurdly long time to figure it out so I wanted to post my solution in case someone else runs into the same issue. A brief…
How to choose a web host for a small business WordPress site
Want to use WordPress for your new small business website? You’ ll need a web host where your site can “ live.” There are more hosts out there than you can shake a stick at, so how do you choose the best WordPress hosting for your site? Well, that’ s what…







