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WordPress resources. Practical guides for site owners and developers.

Everything we publish in one place: the blog, long-form guides, our own plugins, the tools we use on client projects, and a plain-English glossary. No email required.

Blog & news

The latest from the blog.

New articles on WordPress, WooCommerce, and Elementor, written by the developers who do the work.

May 1, 2026
Performance

Why is my WordPress site slow? 11 real causes and what to do about them.

A caching plugin doesn't fix a slow WordPress site. It might hide the problem briefly, but the underlying causes are still there. Here's what actually makes WordPress slow, and what a proper fix looks like....

July 2, 2026
Comparisons

The 7 best WordPress development agencies in 2026 (an honest list)

Every 'best agencies' list puts its author first. So do we, with the reasoning shown, six real competitors described fairly, and a test at the end that beats any list....

July 1, 2026
Business

Custom vs template websites: why serious businesses eventually choose custom WordPress

A template gets you live this month. The question is what it costs you in year two, when your site looks like three competitors' sites and converts like none of them....

Guides & articles

Step-by-step guides and checklists.

The how-to side of the blog collected on its own page: performance, security, migrations, and maintenance.

June 27, 2026
Guides

The website redesign checklist: 28 steps in the order that prevents disasters

Most redesign disasters aren't design problems, they're sequence problems: rankings lost to missing redirects, forms nobody tested, analytics gaps right when you need proof it worked. This is the order....

May 1, 2026
Security

WordPress security guide: what actually matters, and what doesn’t.

WordPress security advice on the internet ranges from good to genuinely counterproductive. This guide covers the real attack vectors against WordPress sites and the specific configuration steps that address them....

May 1, 2026
Maintenance

WordPress maintenance checklist: every task, how often, and why it matters.

WordPress sites don't maintain themselves. Without a regular maintenance routine, plugins fall out of date, databases bloat, backups stop working, and security vulnerabilities accumulate. Here's the complete maintenance task list, organized by frequency....

Mineweb tools

Software we build ourselves.

Plugins that started on our own client projects, published for everyone.

Mineweb Addons for Elementor

A focused set of widgets, dynamic tags, and entrance animations for Elementor. Elementor Pro is not required. Free on wordpress.org.

Mineframe

Instant UI layout generator for Figma. Available in the Figma Community.

WordPress tools & technology

What we use on client projects.

The page builders, plugins, hosting providers, and WordPress tools we actually use on client projects, picked from real production experience rather than paid placements.

WordPress glossary

WordPress terms in plain English.

Short definitions for the terms that come up on every WordPress project, for example:

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