MECANIK DEV LTD · London, UK

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WooCommerce Product Images: Why Catalogue Pages Are Slow

WooCommerce Product Images: Why Catalogue Pages Are Slow

A WooCommerce product page usually loads acceptably. The shop page, the category listings and the search results often do not, and store owners are frequently surprised by this because the individual products feel fine. The difference is arithmetic. A product page shows one main image. A category...

Cloudflare Image Transformations vs WordPress Image Plugins

Cloudflare Image Transformations vs WordPress Image Plugins

Every WordPress site eventually hits the same problem. Images are the largest thing on the page, the editors upload whatever came off the camera, and the mobile score is suffering for it. The usual answer is to install an image optimisation plugin, and the usual candidates are Smush, ShortPixel and...

Cloudflare Image Resizing Is Now Image Transformations

Cloudflare Image Resizing Is Now Image Transformations

If you have followed a Cloudflare tutorial written before 2026, installed a plugin with “resizing” in its name, or inherited a Worker that rewrites image URLs, you have probably hit something confusing. The Cloudflare dashboard no longer has a feature called Image Resizing. The documentation does...

Fine-Tuning vs RAG vs Prompting: What Each Costs

Fine-Tuning vs RAG vs Prompting: What Each Costs

The fine-tuning vs RAG question usually arrives as a statement: “we need to fine-tune a model on our data.” It is one of the most expensive sentences in enterprise AI, and it is usually wrong. Not always, but usually. The request nearly always means one of two things: the model does not know about...

Website Migration Without Losing Traffic: 2026 Guide

Website Migration Without Losing Traffic: 2026 Guide

A website migration is the only routine project that can wipe out years of search visibility in a single afternoon. Rebuilds, replatforms, domain changes and even a tidy-up of URL structure all carry the same risk, and the damage rarely announces itself on launch day. It shows up two weeks later as...

Moving Off OpenAI: What an Open-Weight Switch Costs

Moving Off OpenAI: What an Open-Weight Switch Costs

The case for moving off OpenAI got considerably stronger during 2026. Open-weight models reached a level where the quality gap on ordinary production work became narrow, published pricing undercut the frontier providers, and the weights themselves became downloadable, which turns a supplier...

API Security: How to Protect a Public API in 2026

API Security: How to Protect a Public API in 2026

Most teams treat API security as an authentication problem. They add tokens, check them on every route, and consider the job done. Then a tester changes one number in a URL and reads another customer’s invoice. That gap between “authenticated” and “authorised” is where the majority of real API...

WordPress Hacked: Malware Removal and Recovery Guide

WordPress Hacked: Malware Removal and Recovery Guide

If your WordPress site was hacked and is now showing pharmaceutical spam, redirecting visitors to somewhere unpleasant, or has been flagged by Google as deceptive, start here rather than with a plugin. The instinct is to install a security scanner and click clean. That removes the visible symptom...

WooCommerce Performance: Why Your Store Is Slow

WooCommerce Performance: Why Your Store Is Slow

Almost every WooCommerce performance investigation starts the same way. The store owner has already moved to a faster host, installed a caching plugin, and bought an image optimiser, and the site is still slow. They conclude that WooCommerce is simply heavy and give up. WooCommerce is heavier than a...

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