User-generated content is the proverbial double-edged sword. While it’s a powerful engine for engagement, it’ s also a significant technical liability. User uploads are often unpredictable, unoptimized, and can consume server disk space and bandwidth at an alarming rate. This unchecked growth directly impacts site performance, inflates hosting costs, …
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Preparing Your WordPress Site for High-Traffic: Media Optimization Strategies
Many successful WordPress sites eventually hit an architectural bottleneck. As traffic scales, the web server struggles to handle the dual responsibilities of running the PHP application and serving a library of heavy media assets. This strain on bandwidth is a primary cause of slowdowns and instability under load….
Moving WordPress to a New Domain: A Step-by-Step Guide Without Breaking Links
Relocating a WordPress website to a new domain is a frequent task for developers, but it often comes with the risk of broken links and lost content. Ensuring a seamless transition where every URL, image, and internal reference correctly points to your new domain is critical for user…
The Power of Partial Migrations: Syncing Only What You Need
Managing WordPress sites across different environments often requires moving data and files. A partial migration involves selectively transferring only specific components of your WordPress installation. Instead of cloning an entire site, you might move just new database entries, an updated theme, or recently added media. In this article, …
Merging WordPress Sites: Consolidating Multiple Installs into a Multisite Network
WordPress Multisite is a powerful tool, highly useful for things like client sites managed by an agency, school or university departments, or large corporate structures where many related sites are needed. However, moving existing standalone sites into that network can be a real headache, with tricky database merges…
Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress Set for Another Major Release in 2025
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look into recent and upcoming WordCamps, discuss the upcoming release of WordPress 6.9, and much more! WordCamp Wrap-Up: Europe Recap, US on the Horizon WordCamp Europe’s 2025 Contributor Day was particularly fruitful, welcoming five new Core contributors to the project…
Splitting a WordPress Multisite: Migrating a Subsite to its Own Single Installation
WordPress multisite networks offer flexibility, but a subsite often needs its own single installation for client needs, scaling, or simplified management. Separating a subsite is complex due to Multisite’ s unique database structure, making manual migrations prone to errors, especially with serialized data. In this article, we look at…
Creating a Headless WordPress Site from a Blueprint
Headless WordPress unlocks a variety of powerful use cases that are often difficult or less efficient to build with a traditional setup. For example, developers and designers may feel constrained by the structure of WordPress themes. A headless approach removes these limitations entirely. Headless architecture also excels in…
How to Unlock Recurring Revenue from One-Time Clients
If you build WordPress websites, you’ re familiar with the cycle: finish a project, launch, and then the hunt begins for the next client. This project-based model often means inconsistent income and constant client acquisition. What if every one-time client could become a source of predictable, stable income instead?…
Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress Launches AI Team
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we discuss the new WordPress AI Team, dip into Figma Sites, and much more! WordPress Launches AI Team to Steer Open-Source Innovation WordPress is doubling down on artificial intelligence with the formation of a dedicated WordPress AI Team, announced by Mary…
Set Up Visual Studio Code and xDebug as the Ultimate Editor for WordPress Development
Visual Studio Code is a free, open source code editor that is lightweight like Sublime Text, but offers many of the same features as bigger IDEs like PhpStorm or WebStorm. In this article, I’ ll review some features of VS Code that I love, and show you how to…
Project Red Flags for the Solo Dev
As a solo WordPress developer, you wear every hat—coder, designer, project manager. But autonomy comes with risk: one overlooked red flag can sink your project. Ignoring warning signs breeds burnout, unpaid scope creep, and fractured client relationships. Vague requirements, refusal to sign contracts, or dismissing security best practices…
Delicious Brain Bytes: DE{CODE} Sessions on Demand and WordPress 6.8
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look into the sessions now available from DE{CODE} 2025, discuss the release of ACF 6.4 and WordPress 6.8, and much more! DE{CODE} 2025 Sessions Now Available On Demand WP Engine’s annual DE{CODE} conference wrapped on April 15, 2025, drawing a…
Delicious Brain Bytes: DE{CODE} 2025 and ACF’s New Guides
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look into DE{CODE} 2025, discuss the release of the first beta for WordPress, and much more! Registration Open for DE{CODE} 2025 DE{CODE} 2025—WP Engine’s sixth annual virtual conference for WordPress professionals—is now open for registration. Building on last year’s record-breaking…
Creating a WordPress Plugin With Cursor
AI-powered coding tools have been around for some time, but Cursor has been getting a lot of press recently. While other tools often focus on code completion, Cursor allows natural language inputs and can guide you in exactly what to do with the code once it’s written. One…
Delicious Brain Bytes: Upcoming Releases and WordPress Accessibility Day
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look into upcoming WordPress releases, the results of the 2024 WP Awards, and much more! Upcoming WordPress Releases WordPress 6.7.2 is scheduled for February 11, 2025. This maintenance release aims to address bugs introduced during the 6.7 cycle, with a…
