Moving from shared hosting to a VPS was the best decision for my sites.

I put every site behind the same free CDN tier and forgot about DDoS worries.

My monitoring setup alerts me within a minute of downtime and costs nothing.

Learned the hard way that an untested backup is a Schrödinger backup.

— CSS variables made my theming life so much easier.

:has() finally lets me style parents without JavaScript, and support is good now.

I design in the browser almost exclusively now; mockups only for client sign-off.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I could not find anything recent.

There is a special category of album that just works front to back, no skips.

Started three series this month and finished none of them — a new personal record.

Live music is one of the few things I will happily overspend on.

My vinyl shelf is small but every record earns its place.

The cancellation still stings years later.

There is a special category of album that just works front to back, no skips.

My vinyl shelf is small but every record earns its place.

After juggling a dozen WP sites for clients, I have opinions on pretty much everything WordPress.

The block editor is fine now, but I still install Classic Editor on client sites.

wp-cron only fires on page views, so low-traffic sites should switch to system cron.

My rule of thumb: if a plugin has not been updated in a year, it is a liability.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I could not find anything recent.

Dark mode via prefers-color-scheme is easier than I expected.

My current stack is GeneratePress plus a small custom plugin for tweaks.

I have been test-driving lightweight themes and the speed difference is dramatic.

Any tips, experiences or strong opinions welcome.

Dark mode is a one-liner media query once your colours live in variables.

I design in the browser almost exclusively now; mockups only for client sign-off.

— CSS variables made my theming life so much easier.

Any tips, experiences or strong opinions welcome.

Moving from shared hosting to a VPS was the best decision for my sites.

Learned the hard way that an untested backup is a Schrödinger backup.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

Overall the forum feels fast and the layout is easy on the eyes.

I run a small blog and a MyBB forum of my own, so this place is right up my alley.

I have been lurking for a few weeks and finally made an account.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

Soundtrack vinyl collecting is my side hobby — game OSTs are incredible value.

I have replayed this game six times and I will absolutely do it again.

The block editor is fine now, but I still install Classic Editor on client sites.

My rule of thumb: if a plugin has not been updated in a year, it is a liability.

wp-cron only fires on page views, so low-traffic sites should switch to system cron.

Child themes are still the correct way to override a theme you do not control.

WireGuard took ten minutes to set up and replaced every port-forward I had.

Self-hosted email is the one thing I refuse to take on — deliverability is a minefield.

Caddy won me over with automatic HTTPS; nginx when I need fine control.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

Use the report button rather than back-seat moderating.

Welcome aboard! Forumeze is a general-purpose community for webmasters, gamers and tinkerers.

Please take a minute to read the rules — they are short and mostly common sense.

I run a small blog and a MyBB forum of my own, so this place is right up my alley.

Overall the forum feels fast and the layout is easy on the eyes.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

Overall the forum feels fast and the layout is easy on the eyes.

I have been lurking for a few weeks and finally made an account.

One small suggestion: a toggle between light and dark mode would be lovely.

I run a small blog and a MyBB forum of my own, so this place is right up my alley.

Moving from shared hosting to a VPS was the best decision for my sites.

Learned the hard way that an untested backup is a Schrödinger backup.

My monitoring setup alerts me within a minute of downtime and costs nothing.

I put every site behind the same free CDN tier and forgot about DDoS worries.

Curious what everyone else here thinks about it.

— CSS variables made my theming life so much easier.

I design in the browser almost exclusively now; mockups only for client sign-off.

:has() finally lets me style parents without JavaScript, and support is good now.

Container queries changed how I build card layouts — the component adapts to its slot, not the viewport.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I could not find anything recent.

Site speed moved my average position more than any backlink campaign ever did.

The hardest part of a new forum is the first hundred real members — everything before that is setup.

My best-performing affiliate content is honest comparisons, not listicles.

Every build of mine starts with the same six plugins and grows from there.

Rank Math won me over after Yoast nagged me one time too many.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

Never let WordPress send mail natively on a VPS — use SMTP or a transactional service.

Every build of mine starts with the same six plugins and grows from there.

Rank Math won me over after Yoast nagged me one time too many.

I stopped using page builders once the block editor matured.