The client onboarding process is often the make-or-break moment for WordPress development agencies. First impressions matter, and nothing demonstrates expertise and value like a comprehensive, insightful site audit delivered quickly and professionally. Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing this process, enabling agencies to conduct deeper analyses in less time while creating compelling presentations that win more projects….
WordPress custom post types have revolutionized how we organize content beyond traditional posts and pages. But what if we could make them even smarter? By integrating AI into your custom post type workflows, you can automate categorization, enhance SEO optimization, and create truly intelligent content management systems that work for your clients around the clock….
Content migration projects are often the most dreaded aspect of agency work. Legacy WordPress sites come with years of accumulated technical debt, inconsistent content structures, and optimization opportunities hiding in plain sight. What if AI could transform this painful process into a strategic advantage? Smart content migration using AI tools can turn site audits from…
In the fast-paced world of web development, agencies are constantly seeking ways to deliver high-quality WordPress themes faster without compromising code quality. AI-powered code generation tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, and other emerging platforms are revolutionizing how we approach theme development. This practical guide will show you how to leverage these tools effectively while maintaining…
In the past couple of days, many client sites have gotten notices from Google Webmaster Tools about being unable to access CSS and JS files. The most widespread issue was blocking of wp-content, wp-includes and wp-admin in the robots.txt file. Googlebot is now smart enough to not crawl these items by default, so they can…
We use Google Calendar for quite a few of our clients. They get a nice interface for managing their events, and we can leverage the API to display the content in various places. Both by using our own developed tools and by using plugins like Google Calendar Events. Just to cover all of the bases…
WPCmdCtrl (WP Command and Control) is a new service from Soju Web Development designed to help you easily manage multiple WordPress installs. It was initially developed as an in-house tool to manage all of our client sites, but as word of it leaked out more and more contacts started asking about being able to use it for their…
If you have a custom menu on your WordPress site, and you’ve found that after adding so many items, saving the menu will remove the last few items from the list. This will generally happen if you have many sub menu items. The main culprit is the “max_input_vars” PHP setting. By default this is set…
Virtualmin is a fantastic (and free!) alternative to cPanel. It gives you a nice web interface to easily add hosting for many sites on a single VPS or dedicated server. By default, Virtualmin will setup Apache for your webserver, which is Ok, but not great. Thankfully, Nginx is available as a supported add-on. However, in the…
WordPress get a lot of, somewhat deserved, bad press in regards to being able to stand up to large amounts of traffic. Especially on your run of the mill, everyday shared hosting. Even on some VPS or dedicated hardware, people have had trouble keeping WordPress from falling over. There are some very simple fixes you…