Growth Marketing | WordPress Development — Since 2010

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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I Gave a Bot the Job I Was Bad At

I gave Grok Bot the operations seat I was never good at. Here is what is helping, what is annoying, and why the stakes stay low.

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Automation

I Gave a Bot the Job I Was Bad At

I gave Grok Bot the operations seat I was never good at. Here is what is helping, what…

Sep 15, 2026

Running a business

Your WordPress Site Doesn’t Care Who Runs Automattic

Automattic changed hands twice in 33 hours. Your WordPress site didn’t notice, but the governance problem got harder…

Sep 14, 2026

WordPress

Best 7 WordPress Membership Site Builders in 2026

MemberPress wins best overall membership site builder in 2026; see 7 ranked picks with pros, cons, and verdicts…

Sep 12, 2026

Digital and Growth Marketing

The AI Agent in a 4-Million-Site Plugin Was Quietly Making Admin Keys. Here’s the Lesson.

An SEO plugin on four million sites let its AI agent generate admin credentials without asking first. Here’s…

Sep 11, 2026

WordPress

AI Now Finds the Holes in Your Website Faster Than Anyone Patches Them

A client asked me last week if her site was “probably fine” since she updates plugins every few…

Sep 9, 2026

Running a business

Freelancer, Codeable, or Agency? How to Hire a WordPress Developer in 2026

Freelancer, Codeable, or agency? Here’s my biased-but-honest guide to choosing the right WordPress help for your actual project.

Sep 8, 2026

Digital and Growth Marketing

Cloudflare Is Making an AI Decision for You on September 15. Don’t Let It.

Cloudflare is quietly resetting who gets to read your website on September 15. I almost missed it too,…

Sep 7, 2026

Digital and Growth Marketing

Google’s AI Cites My Site 19 Times. ChatGPT Cites It Zero. Here’s What I’m Doing About It

I ran our own AI-citation audit and found something embarrassing: Google’s AI Overviews cite digisavvy.com 19 times, and…

Sep 5, 2026

Running a business

What WordPress Maintenance Should Actually Cost in 2026

What should WordPress maintenance cost? Here are the real market ranges, DigiSavvy’s prices, and what you should get…

Aug 31, 2026

Automation

Time First or Your Calendar Eats Everything

AI may save your time, but work will eat every minute you don’t claim. I’m testing a Profit…

Aug 24, 2026

WordPress

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

Journal

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

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I Gave a Bot the Job I Was Bad At

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I Gave a Bot the Job I Was Bad At

Your WordPress Site Doesn’t Care Who Runs Automattic

Best 7 WordPress Membership Site Builders in 2026

The AI Agent in a 4-Million-Site Plugin Was Quietly Making Admin Keys. Here’s the Lesson.

AI Now Finds the Holes in Your Website Faster Than Anyone Patches Them

Freelancer, Codeable, or Agency? How to Hire a WordPress Developer in 2026

Cloudflare Is Making an AI Decision for You on September 15. Don’t Let It.

Google’s AI Cites My Site 19 Times. ChatGPT Cites It Zero. Here’s What I’m Doing About It

What WordPress Maintenance Should Actually Cost in 2026

Time First or Your Calendar Eats Everything

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.

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