How to Brief a Web Developer and Get an Accurate Quote
The eight things to put in a web development brief, what a good proposal should send back, and the red flags on both sides before work st…
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WordPress projects by Bikas Kumar: custom themes, headless WordPress builds and performance and SEO work.
WordPress Maintenance Checklist for the New Year 2027
Nine jobs for the new year: test a backup restore, audit admin accounts, remove unused plugins, move off PHP 8.2, renew licences, test fo…
Read moreOut of Stock Products SEO: Keep, Redirect or Remove After the Sales
What to do with sold-out and discontinued product pages after the sale season: keep, redirect or remove, structured data availability, an…
Read moreBoxing Day Sale on WooCommerce and Shopify: Set It Up Before You Go
Schedule a Boxing Day and January sale on WooCommerce or Shopify that runs while you are away: prices, coupon stacking, stock sync, retur…
Read moreHeadless WordPress for High Traffic: Static Next.js for Sale Season
How a static Next.js front end keeps a WordPress site fast during sale spikes, what still runs on WordPress, and when going headless is n…
Read moreCore Web Vitals Fixes to Ship Before Black Friday
The low-risk LCP, INP and CLS fixes for WooCommerce and Shopify stores, how to read field versus lab data, and what to leave alone in sal…
Read moreChristmas Delivery Cut-Off Dates on WooCommerce and Shopify Stores
How to show Christmas delivery cut-off dates on WooCommerce and Shopify product, cart and checkout pages, using your own carrier dates, a…
Read moreWordPress Holiday Traffic: How to Prepare Your Site for the Peak
Caching, CDN, database and cron clean-up, load testing and a change freeze: a practical checklist to keep a WordPress or WooCommerce site…
Read moreBlack Friday Landing Page SEO: Keep One URL Every Year
Why your Black Friday page should live at one evergreen URL, what to update each season, what to do off-season, and how to redirect old y…
Read morePHP 8.2 End of Life: What WordPress Site Owners Should Do
PHP 8.2 stops getting security fixes on 31 December 2026. How to check your version, pick PHP 8.4, test on staging and time the switch ar…
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