Senior procurement buyers come to WordPress discovery calls with a checklist. Here are the eight questions worth asking — and what a senior consultant’s answers should sound like.
WordPress 7 shipped in May 2026. If you run a WordPress site, here is what changed, what matters, what to actually do about it, and the one feature that got pulled at the eleventh hour.
The questions Christopher asks on a 20-minute WordPress discovery call, why he asks them, and what a procurement-quality answer sounds like for each one.
A defensible three-year total cost comparison between hiring a senior WordPress consultant and adding a junior developer in-house. Real numbers, both directions, no agency math.
Your name on a plugin in the WordPress.org directory is a standing commitment. As long as the listing is live, that code is installing on new sites that trusted the directory, and by extension trusted you.
Five days of working on my own site as a laboratory: a JSON-LD collision that was firing two primary types on the same page, a Wayback Machine recovery pass on 693 archived posts, and a 404 handler that turned dead URLs into a consolidation funnel. Notes from the bench.
Eighteen WordCamp deliveries across fifteen unique talks, eight cities, and two countries — from free plugins in 2011 to a live game show in 2024 — and the five principles that stayed constant the whole time.
EmDash to WordPress migrations for early-adopter teams who picked Cloudflare’s EmDash on launch and decided WordPress’s larger ecosystem or specific integration is the right next step. Ranking-preserving cutover, schema continuity, editorial training paired with the move.