Jetpack can do a lot for a WordPress website. Backups. Security. Statistics. Performance features. Connections to WordPress.com. But when that connection gets sick, Jetpack has a habit of presenting symptoms without making the underlying diagnosis immediately obvious. Before you start deactivating plugins, changing firewall settings, reinstalling WordPress, or blaming your hosting company, there’s a much …
Website builders are not evil. Free ones like Wix or Weebly.Paid ones like Shopify, Squarespace, or GoDaddy. They’re actually pretty great… as long as you want to do exactly what they think you should want to do. And that’s the part most people don’t realize until it’s too late. The Promise: Fast, Easy, Done These …
Imagine this: You’ve got a single image file, but it’s not just one image — it’s dozens crammed together. You don’t want to crop out each element manually. But that’s exactly what you’ve been doing — dragging crop boxes around like it’s 2004. This isn’t graphic design. This is digital surgery. And Autocropper.io is your …
Sometimes you find the perfect image… only for it to be way too small. Whether it’s an old photo, a logo, or something you grabbed from a dusty corner of the internet, a good image upscaler can work miracles. I use these enough that we wanted to jot them down for ourselves — but you …
SVGRepo is a massive, free online library of over 500,000 SVG icons and vector graphics. Whether you’re designing for web, mobile, or print, it offers an easy way to find and download clean, customizable SVG files—all without signing up or paying a dime. Why Use SVGRepo? 1. Huge Selection SVGRepo covers everything from UI icons …
You’ve got a pixel-based image and a dream — maybe it’s a logo, a sketch, or a hand-lettered quote. Whatever it is, you need to transform it into smooth, scalable vector art without losing the personality baked into those pixels. For years, a variety of tools have claimed to offer the cure, but many left …
Regex can be a tricky beast—powerful, yet unforgiving. One wrong move and your carefully crafted pattern either misses matches or catches too much, leading to website functionality headaches. Today’s case study? A website suffering from overmatching syndrome. The goal: to match any URL containing “sitemap”, except for one specific case—/sitemap_index.xml. This is where negative lookahead …
Diagnosing “Update Amnesia Syndrome” and How to Cure It If you’ve been dabbling in WordPress for any length of time, there’s a good chance you’ve experienced a mild, creeping temptation—one that whispers, “Just tweak this little thing directly in the theme files or plugin code. What’s the harm?” This urge is the beginning stage of …
If you’ve ever encountered the “Your connection is not private” warning, you’ve experienced a browser’s built-in defense system. These security features, especially prominent in Chromium-based browsers, block access to sites with invalid SSL certificates or potential security threats. Sometimes, though, you know the site is safe, and the browser’s heavy-handed protection becomes more of a …
The Diagnosis: Lost in a Maze of Shortcodes? Shortcodes are like the Swiss Army knives of WordPress—they make it easy to add dynamic content to your website without delving into the complexities of coding. But if you’ve been using WordPress for a while, your site might be scattered with shortcodes—some active, some deprecated, and others …
Real websites, real recovery stories
Store Owner
My website was having performance anxiety. After a few optimization sessions, it's loading faster than ever and enjoys user interactions again.
Treated for:
Performance Depression
Blog Owner
I thought my site's 404 errors were just a phase, but they helped me understand it was a deeper navigation issue. Now my users can find everything they need.
Treated for:
404 Anxiety Disorder
CEO
Our mobile responsiveness was all over the place. The therapy sessions really helped our site develop a consistent identity across all devices.
Treated for:
Mobile Identity Crisis