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Running a business

Hiring a LearnDash Developer: When You Need One and What It Costs

Has your course platform outgrown DIY? Here’s when to hire a LearnDash developer, what it costs, and how…

Sep 24, 2026
Running a business

Should You Let AI Build Your Website? Here’s the Test

Yes, AI can build your website. Before you let it, ask who owns the site, sets next year’s…

Sep 18, 2026
Running a business

How to Choose a WordPress Developer in Los Angeles (From One Who Lives Here)

Hiring a WordPress developer in Los Angeles? Here are the questions I’d ask before trusting anyone with your…

Sep 16, 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
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
WordPress

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

A WordPress topic for the ages: how many plugins is too many for one website? Mark Szymanski took…

Aug 3, 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

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
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
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
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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