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Most infrastructure cost comparisons show monthly prices. Monthly price is the least useful number for planning infrastructure spend — it hides the compounding costs of hardware refresh, staff time, and technology debt that make a “cheaper” option more expensive over a planning horizon.Total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over 3 and 5 years reveals what… […]

When I started running a multi-author WordPress blog, I learned something important: readers develop favorite writers. But when they type an author’s name into your WordPress search box, nothing shows up, even if that author has published many posts. This happens because the default WordPress search feature does not include author names. Even if the

I’ve been using Mailchimp for the WPExplorer.com newsletter for many years. While it’s a powerful email marketing platform, it’s also gotten very expensive over time and includes countless features I’ve never needed or used. Because of that, I paused the newsletter for about a year while searching for a simpler, more affordable solution. Recently, I

What are we likely to see when the WordPress 5.3 release gets to be a reality? And now you can start looking forward on it. The official release date of the WordPress core was allocated on November 12, 2019. Earlier today, the beta version was discharged. You are able to test on the beta version

Every engineering organization that outgrows shared or VPS hosting eventually confronts the same decision: build your own servers (custom hardware, colocation) or buy managed dedicated hosting from a provider. The answer isn’t universal. It depends on your team’s technical depth, your capital budget, how specialized your hardware requirements are, and whether managing physical infrastructure is…

Hiding your best WooCommerce reviews on product pages is like keeping your top salespeople in the back room. When reviews are scattered or hidden, most visitors never see them. And that means missed chances to earn trust and make sales. By showing your reviews on your homepage and other key pages, visitors can see real

While many people are looking forward to a shorter work week, football games, parades, and time with friends or family, there is another reason to get excited, especially if you are a WordPress enthusiast like me. This week is one of the best times of the year to score amazing deals on themes, plugins, hosting