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My Cache Plugin Cached Zero Pages For Months And The Dashboard Said It Was Working

6h ago · 5 min read · ForgeCache's dashboard reads "Pages Cached: 0 / Warming up…" on a fresh install. That's the expected state on day one — the cache builds lazily as real visitors hit the site, and "0" is correct until

I Buried My Plugin Behind a 6-Tab Settings Screen

May 6 · 4 min read · ForgeCache shipped with the WordPress default activation flow. User installs, activates, license-activates, lands on the plugin's main menu page. The main menu page was the 6-tab Settings screen. Page

My Login CAPTCHA Worked Perfectly. Except It Locked Every User Out of WooCommerce

May 3 · 4 min read · GuardPress's login CAPTCHA has two providers — a math question by default, Cloudflare Turnstile if the user adds keys. Both are gated by a single setting and render on the WordPress login form. I'd ad

Directory Badges Tanked My Page Speed Score by 26 Points

Mar 25 · 2 min read · Added a bunch of "featured on" badge images from directories to our homepage. Performance went from 90 to 71. Here's what actually happened and what fixed it. The Setup We added hand-drawn SVG illustr

I Got Tired of Paying for Half-Built SEO Plugins- So I Built My Own

Mar 25 · 7 min read · I started where most people start. Yoast. It's fine for the absolute basics. Meta tags, sitemaps, a green light that says your content is "SEO-friendly." But that's about all you get. There's no real