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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 a swing at it, and look…
Aug 3, 2026
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 fell apart twice — with two…
Jul 21, 2026
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 this politely framed. “Our courses are…
Jul 21, 2026
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…
Jul 20, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
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