WordPress
4 posts on WordPress.
Running a large WordPress site for years taught me the parts nobody blogs about. Why we built Qysh Me on WordPress in the first place, how to make it genuinely fast for readers on slow connections and cheap phones, how taxonomy, categories and search behave once there are thousands of posts, and the unglamorous maintenance discipline that keeps a popular install from becoming somebody's target. Here are those articles.
- Keeping a Growing WordPress Site Secure and Updated March 8, 2016
A popular WordPress site is a target. The unglamorous maintenance discipline that kept Qysh Me safe and online as its traffic and reputation grew.
- WordPress at Scale: Taxonomy, Categories, and Search October 14, 2015
As Qysh Me grew into hundreds of how-to articles, structure became the product. How we organized WordPress so readers could find things.
- Making WordPress Fast on Kosovo's Internet October 8, 2011
How we optimized Qysh Me's WordPress site for slow connections and cheap phones, and why performance doubled as an SEO strategy.
- Why We Built Qysh Me on WordPress April 12, 2011
Why a two-person team building Albania's first how-to portal chose WordPress over a custom build, and what that choice let us do.