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AlexVasquez.

Founder and Principal at DigiSavvy. I help businesses get where they’re growing. I do that by building robust website platforms for our clients then quietly run them so they don’t have to. Writing here about the boring discipline that keeps sites fast, stable, and out of your way.

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How Many Plugins Is Too Many? You’re Asking the Wrong Question.

https://twitter.com/MarkJSzymanski/status/2067253049685418414?s=20 A WordPress topic for the ages: how many plugins is too many for one website? Mark Szymanski took a swing at it, and look —…

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How Many Plugins Is Too Many? You’re Asking the Wrong Question.

https://twitter.com/MarkJSzymanski/status/2067253049685418414?s=20 A WordPress topic for the ages: how many plugins is too many for one website? Mark Szymanski…

Aug 3, 2026

Journal

5 LearnDash Mistakes That Derail Training Platforms (and Cost You a Rebuild)

I want to tell you about a medical coding instructor who came to us after her LearnDash build…

Jul 21, 2026

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LearnDash Performance: Why Your Course Platform Slows Down (and How to Fix It)

A client called me last year with a problem I’d heard about a dozen times before, just never…

Jul 21, 2026

WordPress

WordPress in 2026: why I still build on it (and the one thing that worries me)

WordPress is leaking market share — and that’s fine. A clear-eyed take on why it’s still the smart…

Jul 20, 2026

Automation

Little Internal Apps With a Big Punch

A show-and-tell of the scrappy internal tools quietly running my business — a self-hosted CRM, a positioning advisor,…

Jul 17, 2026

Design

How I designed DigiSavvy’s Refresh for Etch Using Claude

I’ll be honest with you: the first batch of designs for the new DigiSavvy was garbage. Not “needs…

Jul 13, 2026

Automation

If I Built a Membership Plugin Today, I’d Build It for the Robots Too

I’m a ride-or-die MemberPress guy. But if I built a membership plugin today, I’d build it completely differently,…

Jul 9, 2026

Automation

I Over-Engineer Everything. A Room Full of Claude Users Set Me Straight.

I hosted an unofficial Claude Users Group meetup in Pasadena expecting nobody to show. Thirty-plus people did, and…

Jul 8, 2026

Journal

The 5 Automations Every Small Business Should Set Up First

Five simple, no-code automations that save small business owners time — welcome emails, appointment reminders, lead follow-up, social…

Jul 7, 2026

Tech Stacks

My WordPress Development Workflow, 2026

Eight years after my 2018 workflow post, almost every tool got swapped: Etch and Bricks, Automatic CSS, GridPane,…

Jul 3, 2026

Tech Stacks

Managed WordPress Hosting Is a Lie

I have been at this since 2010 and run sites on every kind of host there is. Here…

Jun 30, 2026

Running a business

I’m a who helps with (and why that blank is so damn hard to fill)

Most owners cannot say what their business does without rambling through fifteen things. Here is how a laser-focused…

Jun 29, 2026

Tech Stacks

You’re under-utilizing Your Cloudflare Account (I was, too)

For years I used Cloudflare for one thing: domains. Then I actually opened the dashboard. Here’s everything I…

Jun 26, 2026

WordPress

Show & tell: the little plugins powering the new digisavvy.com

No feature plugins where a hundred lines of our own code would do. A tour of the tiny…

Jun 22, 2026

Running a business

We Gave Away a Detailed Scope for Free. Here’s Why That’s the New Normal.

AI collapsed the cost of detailed scoping — so we give ten-page scopes away before a contract is…

Jun 17, 2026

WordPress

What Is a Learning Management System? (And Do You Actually Need One?)

What a Learning Management System actually does, hosted vs. self-hosted (LearnDash), a quick platform comparison, and how to…

Jun 16, 2026

WordPress

Building With Etch

How we rebuilt digisavvy.com on Etch + Automatic CSS: library-free scroll animations, canvas components, and the Safari rendering…

Jun 12, 2026

WordPress

Why your WordPress site keeps breaking — and how to make it stop

Sites don’t break randomly — they break for the same five reasons, in the same order. Here’s the…

Jun 7, 2026

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How Many Plugins Is Too Many? You’re Asking the Wrong Question.

All articles.

How Many Plugins Is Too Many? You’re Asking the Wrong Question.

5 LearnDash Mistakes That Derail Training Platforms (and Cost You a Rebuild)

LearnDash Performance: Why Your Course Platform Slows Down (and How to Fix It)

WordPress in 2026: why I still build on it (and the one thing that worries me)

Little Internal Apps With a Big Punch

How I designed DigiSavvy’s Refresh for Etch Using Claude

If I Built a Membership Plugin Today, I’d Build It for the Robots Too

I Over-Engineer Everything. A Room Full of Claude Users Set Me Straight.

The 5 Automations Every Small Business Should Set Up First

My WordPress Development Workflow, 2026

Managed WordPress Hosting Is a Lie

I’m a ____ who helps ____ with ____ (and why that blank is so damn hard to fill)

You’re under-utilizing Your Cloudflare Account (I was, too)

Show & tell: the little plugins powering the new digisavvy.com

We Gave Away a Detailed Scope for Free. Here’s Why That’s the New Normal.

What Is a Learning Management System? (And Do You Actually Need One?)

Building With Etch

Why your WordPress site keeps breaking — and how to make it stop

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