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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 foundation in the age of AI…

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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, a GitHub PM layer, an agent…

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 a little polish” garbage — actual,…

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, because AI didn’t just change how…

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 the best uses of Claude I…

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 media, and an AI assistant. No…

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, and Claude Code doing real work…

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 is my unpopular, deeply held opinion:…

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 positioning statement — Jonathan Stark’s “I…

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 run on it now — databases,…

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 single-purpose plugins we built for the…

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 signed. What changed, what got worse,…

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 tell if you need one.

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 lesson that cost us a week.

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 pattern, and the boring fix that…

Jun 7, 2026

Running a business

5 signs you’ve become your business’s accidental IT manager

You started a business, not an IT department. If three of these five signs sound familiar, your tech is running you — not the…

Jun 2, 2026

WordPress

Stop 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 making them so routine they’re boring.

May 28, 2026