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Redesign or Rebuild? Deciding What Your Site Needs
How to tell whether your WordPress site needs a new design, new foundations, or neither — and how to make the decision without wasting the budget.
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WordPress Development Blog
Practical guides on custom WordPress, headless WordPress, WooCommerce, performance, security and SEO — from 7+ years of building WordPress sites in Mumbai.
Headless6 min read
Forms and Search in a Headless WordPress Site
Two features a WordPress theme gave you free that a headless frontend has to rebuild — with the spam, deliverability and relevance problems that come with them.
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WooCommerce6 min read
Extending WooCommerce: Custom Plugin or Snippets?
Where WooCommerce customisations should live, why hooks beat template overrides, and how to add functionality that survives updates and theme changes.
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Development6 min read
WordPress Coding Standards: A Practical Review Checklist
What to check when reviewing WordPress code: escaping, sanitisation, capability checks, queries, hooks and the structural choices that decide maintainability.
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Security6 min read
How to Judge Whether a WordPress Plugin Is Safe
Plugins are how most WordPress sites get compromised. How to assess one before installing it, what to monitor afterwards, and when to remove it.
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APIs6 min read
Webhooks in WordPress: Sending and Receiving
How to send webhooks from WordPress without slowing the site, and how to receive them safely — signature verification, idempotency, retries and debugging.
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SEO6 min read
Duplicate Content in WordPress and How to Fix It
Where WordPress generates duplicate URLs by default, why it dilutes your rankings, and how canonicals, noindex and redirects each fit into the fix.
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Performance6 min read
Web Fonts in WordPress Without Wrecking LCP
How font loading delays rendering, why self-hosting beats a third-party stylesheet, and how to subset, preload and set font-display so text appears immediately.
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WooCommerce6 min read
GST Invoicing in WooCommerce for Indian Stores
What WooCommerce does and doesn't handle for Indian GST, how tax rates and place of supply work, and what a compliant invoice needs on it.
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Development6 min read
Page Builder vs Custom Theme: The Honest Trade-offs
What page builders genuinely give you, what they cost in performance and portability, and how to decide which approach fits a project.
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Hiring6 min read
How to Write a Website Brief That Gets Accurate Quotes
What a developer needs to know to quote your project accurately, the questions that change the price most, and the template to work from.
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Headless6 min read
Making Previews Work in Headless WordPress
Preview is the feature editors miss most in a headless build. How the flow works, how to secure it, and what to do about revisions and unsaved changes.
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