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Decide to build a WordPress site and you hit a wall before you even start: wordpress.com and wordpress.org. Almost the same name, completely different things. Pick wrong here and every step after it goes sideways, so that fork is where this guide starts. This blog runs on WordPress. We installed two of them — an … Read more

You finish a post and need a picture for it. You search “free images,” a dozen sites come up, and grabbing one seems harmless. Years later some people get a letter from a law firm about that picture. Free does not mean the copyright went away. Free means someone gave you permission on certain terms, … Read more

When you move to WordPress from Blogger or a hosted platform, one small thing trips people up: the post URL. Some sites show a clean address like example.com/post-title. Others show example.com/?p=123. That gap comes down to one setting. Our own site runs on the clean version, /post-name/, and that’s where I’ll start. If you remember … Read more

Search “how to start a blog” and you get two answers that don’t agree. One says the easiest route is a free hosted platform. The other says if you want ad money, self-host WordPress. Both are right — they’re just measuring different things. Easy and profitable pull in opposite directions. I run this blog on … Read more

You’ve got the idea. It’s the PRD, the feature specs, the user flows, and the wireframes that never quite get written. Planning is where the time leaks out. Manyfast (매니패스트) is a tool that writes those planning docs for you by talking them through with an AI. I haven’t used it myself — this is … Read more

Scroll the top-grossing charts on any app store and you keep hitting the same kind of game. Something called “Idle” this or “AFK” that, parked near the top, out-earning games you’d expect to see there. No flashy MMORPG, no twitch skill — and the money is real. I went digging through the revenue charts to … Read more

While building this blog I got curious about its speed, so I measured our own site. The result was a little funny. On desktop the homepage painted in about half a second, and yet one clear problem stood out. So here is the walk-through, using our own site as the example: where to actually start … Read more

I was scrolling the Google Play charts last week and did a small double take. The apps sitting at the top of the free list were not the ones I open every day. A short-drama app and a couple of oddball puzzle games were riding high, while the usual giants were nowhere near the top. … Read more

When you build something that sells online or charges a subscription, you eventually run into the same wall: taking payments. Dropping a “Pay” button onto a page sounds simple, but underneath it you have to connect to card networks and banks, handle card details safely, meet strict security rules, and deal with refunds and payouts. … Read more

When you first install WordPress, the dashboard can feel surprisingly bare. You can write and publish posts, but a lot of the things you will actually want — a way for readers to reach you, a nudge to help your posts show up in search, a safety net for when something breaks — simply are … Read more