A useful WordPress maintenance calendar separates frequent health checks from deeper quarterly reviews and annual ownership decisions, with backups and verification around meaningful changes.
TechDex Posts
How to Check Whether Your Website Contact Form Is Quiet or Broken
A contact form is only working when the visitor can submit it, the site records the request, the message reaches the right person, and the business follows up. Test the whole proof chain.
How to Write a Website Project Brief Before You Ask for Quotes
A useful website project brief defines the business problem, the visitor action, the required scope, the decision process, and the evidence of completion before a provider prices the work.
Introducing TechDex Search Scrape Guard: Protect WordPress Search Before It Reaches MySQL
TechDex Search Scrape Guard is a free WordPress security plugin that rejects abusive public search requests before they trigger expensive search SQL. It was built from a real production resource-exhaustion incident.
Six Website Improvements That Give Small Businesses the Biggest ROI
The highest-return website improvements usually remove friction, reduce risk, strengthen trust, improve visibility, and make the next action easier.
Why Small Businesses Are Paying More for Tech and Marketing Services
Small businesses are paying more for tech and marketing services because inflation, software costs, retainers, AI disruption, and heavier customer expectations have changed the market.
Case Study: Fraud Remediation With The TechDex WP Toolkit
A sanitized case study of active WooCommerce card-testing attempts, Authorize.Net fraud controls, and how the TechDex WP Toolkit supported a controlled WordPress-side remediation.
Beating AI Detectors Without Dumbing Down Your Writing
AI detectors often flag polished human writing because they measure statistical patterns, not authorship. Here’s how to make your writing feel more human without making it worse.
Stop Paying Premium Prices for Messy AI Thinking
A viral Jensen Huang clip made token spend sound like a measure of AI productivity. I think that’s backwards. The real metric is how much useful work got done with the tokens you used.
Stop Treating AI Like a Tool. Start Onboarding It Like a Developer.
Most developers are using AI backwards. Instead of treating it like a prompt machine, treat it like a developer joining your team. Here’s a four-stage onboarding approach that can dramatically accelerate your development workflow.