by Ernie St Gelais | Jul 1, 2026 | WordPress, Review
If you run a WordPress site with a contact form, you already know the problem. You want to stop contact form spam without making real visitors jump through hoops to reach you. The two usual answers are Google reCAPTCHA and a honeypot field, and a third option, the WP...
by Ernie St Gelais | Jun 27, 2026 | WordPress, AI, Case Studies
The owner of a small music site and its companion WooCommerce t-shirt store came to me with a problem that had already beaten one developer. Visitors kept hitting a fake Cloudflare popup, the “verify you are human” kind that tries to get you to paste...
by Ernie St Gelais | Jun 16, 2026 | WordPress, Review
If you run WordPress sites for other people, the Antispam Bee vs Akismet question is really a billing question. Akismet was the default comment spam filter for years. It shipped with WordPress, it caught the junk, and nobody thought about it. Then the free key stopped...
by Ernie St Gelais | Jun 13, 2026 | Web Development, WordPress
Here is a question I get from clients who just watched a designer spend an hour perfecting their homepage on a 27-inch monitor: what screen size to design for when the people actually visiting are holding a phone. The honest answer is that there is no single screen...
by Ernie St Gelais | Jun 10, 2026 | Google Business Profile, Articles
A customer in your town pulls out their phone, types your service plus the city name, and hits search. In the next three seconds Google decides whether your business shows up in that little map box at the top or whether your competitor does. That box is built almost...
