We’ve been running a series of experiments using ChatGPT 5.4 integrated into a website chatbot across different environments: 🌐 a main website 🎯 Goal: simulate realistic user behavior and observe how the model responds over time. ⚙️ Test setup The chatbot is designed to (no self promo here, just context): 📌 answer strictly based on website content (RAG-like approach) Over time, we intentionally
Introduction Backup plugins are useful — but they are not a real disaster‑recovery strategy. In this article, I break down the real reasons why backup plugins fail, what actually happens during a server‑level crash, and how to build a recovery plan that works in the real world. Backup Plugins Only Work When WordPress Works A backup plugin depends on: WordPress running PHP running MySQL running the
Riad Hasan has optimized dozens of WordPress sites for clients worldwide. In this guide, he shares the exact techniques he uses to achieve sub-2-second load times and perfect Core Web Vitals scores. Performance isn't just about speed — it impacts SEO, user experience, and conversions. Riad Hasan explains his systematic approach to WordPress optimization. Google's Core Web Vitals are now ranking fa
It started at midnight I had 24 hours, a free Replit subscription, and an idea: what if I could build something like Miro — but actually understand every line of code in it? The core problem I had to solve first Multiplayer sync sounds simple until you actually build it. The hard part isn't sending a canvas update — it's figuring out what to send. canvas.on('object:modified', (e) => { socket.emi
Stop clicking through wp-admin for every small task. WP-CLI is a command-line tool that lets you manage WordPress sites faster — all from your terminal. Why WP-CLI? Problems It Solves Is It Good or Bad? Setup & Installation Must-Know Commands A Quick Real-World Use Case Your First Custom Script What's Next Every WordPress developer knows the pain — update 12 plugins, flush cache, reset a password,
FutureMe has 15 million letters in its database. They've been there since 2002. Some of them will be there in 2050. Evengood will have zero. This week I shipped The Quiet Letter — a feature where you write to your future self today, we email it on a date you pick, and we hard-delete the row from our database within 24 hours of sending it. The email is the only artifact. We don't keep a copy. Every
It was around 1am and I had three feeds open. X on my phone, Reddit on one monitor, Hacker News on the other. I was reading about a plane crash, a new AI model, and a meme war about whether oat milk counts as milk. And I realised I had no idea what the internet was actually feeling about any of it. The feeds told me what was happening. They didn't tell me how it felt. That's when the idea hit me.
After running a small online store and working with SEO for over 10 years, I’ve tried many WooCommerce product filter plugins. Honestly, none of them felt 100% right. Some were great at performance but lacked flexibility, others had good UI but were not SEO-friendly. So I decided to build my own plugin tailored exactly to my needs. It focuses on: Better SEO compatibility Flexible filtering logic L