Monthly Archives: October 2026

Four WordPress plugins we built for our own stores — now free for yours

GA4 in one setting, Amazon-style live search for WooCommerce, pre-orders with ship dates, and a WHMCS bridge replacement. GPL, no licence keys, no upsell.

The cache that served a ten-month-old homepage (and why your edits might not be live either)

Three layers of caching, one stale snapshot from December, and a homepage change nobody saw for most of a year. A field guide to the caches between your WordPress site and your visitors.

Your contact form is lying to you: 8 “leads” in 10 days, all spam

The delivery log said every form submission arrived. It did. Just not from customers. How to tell real leads from bots, and how to stop the bots without annoying real people.

We moved a site to PHP 8 and it went down in 30 seconds. Here’s what that costs you.

A host-side PHP change, one encoded plugin, and a white screen. The real lesson is about who finds out first.