by Ernie St Gelais | Sep 25, 2026 | WordPress, Case Studies
The Short Version One row was 65 percent of it. A single expired transient held 1,284 KB of a 1,966 KB payload. I turned nine orphans off instead of deleting them. All nine still hold their full values 25 days later. Site Health reported the old number after the fix....
by Ernie St Gelais | Sep 23, 2026 | WordPress, AI
The Short Version What I built. I manage multiple WordPress sites, forty of them, and I built a system that sends an update to every one of them at the same time. I make a fix once and it is live everywhere within minutes. The same job used to mean logging into forty...
by Ernie St Gelais | Sep 23, 2026 | Divi
The Short Version One Divi code module can hold a whole page section. Instead of stacking twenty modules, I paste one block of HTML and CSS. It buys markup control and portability. Fluid type, no builder wrappers to fight, and a section I can version, diff, and move...
by Ernie St Gelais | Sep 21, 2026 | WordPress, Case Studies
The Short Version A WordPress plugin fatal error ran every five minutes for nineteen days. It started August 10 and I found it August 29. WordPress emailed me the whole time. The notices went to a catch-all inbox and I deleted them unread. Nothing visible broke. The...
by Ernie St Gelais | Sep 16, 2026 | WordPress, Web Development
The Short Version An accessibility overlay is not compliance, and a million dollars says so. The FTC ordered accessiBe to pay $1 million in 2025 over that exact claim. A green check sat on top of a Level A failure. The free scanner passed a page for Language while the...
