• Headless WordPress in 2026: When It Helps and When It Hurts

    Headless WordPress in 2026: When It Helps and When It Hurts

    Headless WordPress is the right answer to about one in five problems people use it for. Here is when it helps, when it hurts, and what to look at first.

  • Video Hosting in 2026: Which Platform Actually Fits Your Business

    Video Hosting in 2026: Which Platform Actually Fits Your Business

    Video hosting is three decisions, not one. SEO/discovery, on-site conversion, and private delivery each want a different host. Here is how to pick for each.

  • CAN-SPAM Compliance: What the Act Actually Requires of You

    CAN-SPAM Compliance: What the Act Actually Requires of You

    CAN-SPAM has seven requirements. The most violated one is the easiest to fix: a physical postal address in every commercial email. Here is the 10-minute audit.

  • The Service Business Sales Stack: Six Tools, Three Levers, One Audit

    The Service Business Sales Stack: Six Tools, Three Levers, One Audit

    A modern sales stack for a service business is six tools, not twenty. Here is what each one does, what most teams over-buy, and the three things that actually move conversion.

  • From Layoff to Consulting: What the First Year Costs You

    From Layoff to Consulting: What the First Year Costs You

    The forced transition from employee to consultant is a different problem from the voluntary one. Here is the playbook for the first 90 days when the runway is shorter and the identity work is harder.

  • File Names and WordPress

    File Names and WordPress

    From the archive. I wrote this back in 2014 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…

  • Seven Easy Ways to Make WordPress Far More Secure

    Seven Easy Ways to Make WordPress Far More Secure

    From the archive. I wrote this back in 2013 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…

  • Is WordPress Dead in 2012?

    Is WordPress Dead in 2012?

    What I’d say now. I wrote this in 2012, when SOPA and PROTECT IP looked like they might kill the platform inside a year. The 2026 version of this thinking lives at Is WordPress Dead in 2026? — same question, fourteen years of “WordPress is dead” cycles in between. Leaving this here because the threat…

  • White Hat Black Hat SEO Tactics

    White Hat Black Hat SEO Tactics

    From the archive. I wrote this back in 2011 and I’m leaving it published because the thinking still has value, but on 2 May 2026 I cleaned up some imported page chrome (old menus, sidebars, ad blocks from a previous CMS) so it renders properly, and I removed outbound links and old contact emails to…