Practical articles from fifteen years of PHP, Laravel, WordPress and WooCommerce work: upgrades, performance, architecture decisions and hiring remote developers.
Time zones, contracts, payments and how to tell a senior developer from a confident junior — written by a Ukrainian PHP developer who has been on the other side of these calls.
PHPPHP 7.4 has been out of security support since 2022. Here is how I upgrade legacy PHP applications and WordPress sites to PHP 8 without a white screen on launch day.
WordPressStacking three plugins and a forum snippet works until the next update. A decision framework for when a small custom plugin is the cheaper, safer option.
WooCommerceA store that was quick with fifty products can crawl with five thousand. The usual suspects, how to confirm which one is yours, and what to do about it.
WordPressPage builders are fast to start and slow to live with. Why I build business sites from custom blocks instead, and when a page builder is still the right call.
PHPBoth are PHP, both are mature, and they are good at very different things. A practical way to choose — and why the answer is sometimes both.