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WordPress

Notes where WordPress itself is the subject, not just the tool underneath.

Notes I took over the years as a web designer.

  • The code you did not write

    What a plugin really is, and why this site has none

    That last sentence usually gets one of two responses. Either “how is that possible”, or “why would you make life hard for yourself”. Both are fair, and the answer to both is the same: for a small site with a stable…

    Webdesign: small decisions

  • The page only one program can read

    What a page builder does with your content, and what it costs to get it back

    Both times the brief was the same, and both times it was phrased carefully, the way people phrase things when they suspect the answer is expensive. The site worked, more or less. It was slow. Small changes broke other…

    Webdesign: small decisions