On February 10th, 2026, Meta officially killed the Facebook Like button for external websites. No replacement offered. It just stopped rendering, quietly degrading to an invisible 0x0 pixel element on millions of websites worldwide. I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time, not because I wanted to see it die per se, but … The Facebook Like Button is Officially Dead and Here’s its Replacement
A caching plugin serves a static HTML file instead of running PHP and database queries on every page load. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. It’s one of the oldest, simplest performance tricks in web development, and somehow it became one of the most expensive products in the entire WordPress ecosystem. I used WP Rocket … Why I Stopped Paying $600/Year for a WordPress Caching Plugin
AI movie finders like ChatGPT, Claude, and WhatIsMyMovie are impressive tools. They can identify most mainstream films in seconds. But they fail more often than you think. Since 2012, the Filmfind community has identified over 6,000 movies that people couldn’t find anywhere else. With 10,000+ movie enthusiasts and nearly 20,000 questions posted over a decade, … When AI Can’t Identify Your Movie: 6,000+ Cases Where Human Experts Succeeded
If like me, you hate programmer comments and like to keep your files super clean and straight to the point when you’re working on personal projects or projects only you manage and you also manage your PHP settings from a php.ini file, this how-to may be for you. Using an advanced text editor like TextWrangler … How to Cleanup a php.ini File
If you’re using the Q2A (Question2Answer) software to run a site, you’ll no doubt have struggled with spam. While there are a number of plugins (scroll down to “Anti-spam tools”) as well as built-in settings one can balance to combat spam occurring in the first place, as this software becomes more popular and supported by … How to Delete Q2A Spam Users in Bulk
Sellwire is hands-down the winner for the overall best way to sell software, themes, plugins, PDFs, etc. online. I discovered this after weeks of signing up for and testing all the popular competitors. I tried Fetch, Pulley, PayLoadz, Sellfy, and a desperate dozen others to try and find something suitable. What I needed and Sellwire … Sellwire — The Best Way to Sell Digital Goods Online
I’ll mostly be referring to WordPress themes and the three common styles you’ll find in the repo. However, the same basic ideas apply to all website templates and web design in general. This is what each means to me and does not necessarily represent what everyone else in my industry thinks. It’s a bit subjective, … Boilerplate vs Framework vs Theme
I’m sick and tired of people trying to discredit information found on the internet. That thought is, in and of itself, in fact, what is ignorant. Knowledge is knowledge, wherever it is found. Whether you read it in a fifty-year-old respected text book, on a Wikipedia page, or in a bathroom stall, words are words, … Wikipedia vs Books
I’ve known the answer to that question for a long time. AVG is clearly the better anti-virus software. However, at the end of this article will be a chance for everyone to chime in. A friend of mine once said that Norton itself is a virus, couldn’t agree more. I’ve cleaned all the crapware off … AVG vs Norton
The age-old battle of Microsoft Windows versus Apple Macintosh hardware and operating systems. Windows The common arguments for Windows is that it has far more users, meaning more support, more apps, and better compatibility with people you might network with because most people and offices use Windows. The common arguments against Windows being viruses, a … Windows vs Mac