• 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 –…

  • 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…