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Guides, tutorials, and resources on the PHP programming language, covering modern PHP, frameworks such as Symfony and Laravel, and legacy modernisation.

WordPress Hosting: What You Are Actually Paying For
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WordPress Hosting: What You Are Actually Paying For

What the money buys across shared, managed and cloud WordPress hosting, which layers actually make a site fast, and what each tier costs.

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Drupal Support: What a Retainer Should Cover
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Drupal Support: What a Retainer Should Cover

The work a Drupal site needs every month, how to read a support SLA, the three retainer models compared, and realistic UK monthly price bands.

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Drupal Commerce: When It Beats Shopify
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Drupal Commerce: When It Beats Shopify

Drupal Commerce is the wrong platform for most shops and the right one for a narrow, lucrative few. Here is exactly where that line falls.

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Drupal 12: What Changes and When to Move
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Drupal 12: What Changes and When to Move

Drupal 12 arrives the same week Drupal 10 stops getting security fixes, so here is what changes, what the move costs and when to do it.

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WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates
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WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates

How to commission and build a custom WordPress plugin that keeps working through core updates, what to ask for, and what it should cost.

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WordPress 7.0 and the AI Client in Core
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WordPress 7.0 and the AI Client in Core

What WordPress 7.0 actually shipped, why real time collaboration was cut, and how the AI Client changes what a plugin is allowed to assume.

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Drupal AI: What the AI Modules Actually Do
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Drupal AI: What the AI Modules Actually Do

What the Drupal AI modules actually do, what the token bill looks like, where they fail, and what a business still has to build by hand.

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Drupal Hosting: What Actually Runs Drupal Well
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Drupal Hosting: What Actually Runs Drupal Well

What Drupal really needs from a host: the PHP and database floors, the caching layers, honest cost bands per tier, and what actually drives sizing.

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Drupal Security: Advisories, Patching and Real Risk
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Drupal Security: Advisories, Patching and Real Risk

How Drupal security advisories work, why the gap between publication and patching is the entire risk, and what hardening actually buys you.

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Drupal SEO: The Technical Setup That Actually Ranks
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Drupal SEO: The Technical Setup That Actually Ranks

What Drupal core leaves out, the contributed modules that replace it, and the crawl traps that quietly cost a Drupal site its search rankings.

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