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7 WordPress plugins I install before the theme
Introduction Forget the “Top 50 Essential Plugins” lists. Most plugins are bloated garbage that slow your site to a crawl. After a decade of debugging sites at 3 AM, I’ve narrowed it down to seven pieces of infrastructure. These handle the invisible work, being speed, security, and not losing data. Akismet Anti-spam by Automattic –…
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Oneshot secured Hetzner VPS
Introduction A complete, automated WordPress hosting solution using OpenTofu, Docker, and Traefik. Deploy a secure, fast WordPress site to Hetzner Cloud in minutes with TLS, caching, andsecurity hardening out of the box. Find the code here. The Problem Setting up a production-ready WordPress server is tedious. You need to: I wanted a single command that…
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From platform engineer to threat hunter
Introduction I’ve spent the last decade automating everything that moves. Turning VMs into containers, containers into orchestrated workloads, and Git repos into self-healing production platforms. I’m a Kubernetes platform engineer by trade, addicted to GitOps, service meshes, and the beautiful chaos of multi-cluster architectures. But lately? I’ve been spending more time thinking about how to…