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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, 2026My WordPress Development Workflow, 2026
Eight years after my 2018 workflow post, almost every tool got swapped: Etch and Bricks, Automatic CSS, GridPane,…
Jul 3, 2026Managed 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, 2026Show & 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, 2026Building With Etch
How we rebuilt digisavvy.com on Etch + Automatic CSS: library-free scroll animations, canvas components, and the Safari rendering…
Jun 12, 2026Why 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, 2026Stop treating updates like a chore
Updates aren’t housekeeping — they’re the immune system of your website. The trick isn’t doing them bravely. It’s…
May 28, 2026WordPress or Shopify for your store? A straight take
We build on both, so we have no horse in this race. The straight version of WordPress vs…
Apr 30, 2026Block themes, one year in
A year of shipping client sites on block themes: what genuinely got better, what still bites, and who…
Apr 2, 2026Getting Started with Bricks Builder: An In-Depth Guide.
Bricks Builder has been getting much more attention in recent months, and I think it’s good. I’ve gathered…
Jan 15, 2024Breakdance Page Builder Review: Is it Any Good?
Recently, I provided my thoughts on several WP-focused page builders that are currently available. Breakdance is one of them from…
Jun 27, 2023Building a Membership Website
Membership websites are all the rage. You’ve seen people run Patreons and Only Fans pages and similar. These…
Jun 20, 2023A Bricks Builder Review. Is it Any Good?
Three years on from the original review: what changed in Bricks, what the pricing actually is now, and…
May 2, 2023The Best WordPress Page Builders 2023
Page Builders (and just in time for Page Builder Summit). They all have a promise: You can build…
Feb 27, 2023A Nelio Content Review
Maybe you’re a fan of social media or maybe you’re not. There is no shortage of tools that…
Mar 21, 2022Launching the New IgnitionDeck Website
DigiSavvy recently launched a new website for IgnitionDeck, the longest-running, White-Label, Crowdfunding plugin for WordPress. High-fives were given,…
Mar 10, 2022Selling shoes that don’t exist: how we built First Pitch by Reebok
Reebok wanted to crowdfund sneakers with prices that climb a dollar per pair. No platform did that —…
Sep 15, 2020My WordPress Development Workflow 2018
Development & business workflows are deeply personal opinions we all have when it comes to creating with WordPress.…
May 17, 2018[Tip] Rendering Beaver Builder Layouts on Archive Templates
Page builders. They’re all over the place and if you build sites for clients then you’ve at least…
Aug 29, 2016Pressmatic Teardown
I saw the tweet that Pressmatic was announced as a Sponsor of the WordCamp in my backyard. I was…
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