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13 Easy Steps to Improve WordPress Security and Keep Your Site Safe

Defend your WordPress website and keep your business safe! Discover 13 simple and effective steps to improve your WordPress website’s security and protect your business from cyber threats.

By Bartosz Nowak

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WordPress Page Speed Optimization: 20 Expert Tips to Boost Your Site Performance

By Michał Gwóźdź

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What are web development agency red flags? Osom Studio’s essential checklist for evaluating your agency

By Robert Cnotalski

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By Maciej Nowak

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WCAG Compliance for EAA 2025: Last Call for WordPress and WooCommerce Website Owners

What is the European Accessibility Act (EAA)? The European Accessibility Act is an EU directive aimed at ensuring equal access to digital products and services for people with disabilities. This means that every user – regardless of physical, sensory, or cognitive limitations – should be able to fully and independently use websites, applications, self-service kiosks, […]

By Łukasz Kaczmarek

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Conversions & UX: Payment Trends – Interview with Web Griebel

Welcome back to Osom to Know! In this episode, we explore AI’s role in accelerating product and service development. Our guest, Joost de Valk, shares insights from launching his latest product and his experience with Yoast. We discuss the cold start problem – how to market a new product category from scratch – and the balance between AI automation and the lasting value of creativity and expertise.

By Karolina Szor

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Improving TTFB in WordPress (Pt. 2): Front-End and CDN Optimizations

In Part 1 of this series, we tackled server-side performance (optimizing queries, PHP execution, and server caching) to improve Time to First Byte. In this Part 2, we shift focus to front-end and CDN-level strategies that can dramatically reduce TTFB from the user’s perspective. Even if your WordPress backend is blazing fast, network factors and […]

By Tomasz Zieliński

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Improving TTFB in WordPress (Pt. 1): Backend and Server-Side Optimizations

Use a Solid Hosting Foundation Before tweaking code, ensure your hosting environment isn’t the bottleneck. No amount of optimization will overcome an underpowered server or one that’s an ocean away from your users. Consider the following: In short, start with a strong foundation: a server that’s geographically appropriate and powerful enough for your site’s load. […]

By Tomasz Zieliński

WordPress Security VIP – Key Takeaways from Maciej Nowak’s Talk at WordCamp Porto

Maciej Nowak delivered an insightful and experience-driven talk at WordCamp Porto, focusing on the real-world implications and practices surrounding WordPress security. Drawing from his agency’s hands-on experience and highlighting case studies, Maciej emphasized why proactive measures are essential in today’s world. His goal was to raise awareness and encourage website owners, developers, and administrators to take security more seriously – starting with the basics.

By Maciej Nowak

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What Google Chrome Knows About You and Your Website? Insights from Mobile SEO Expert Cindy Krum

By Maciej Nowak

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Migration from Joomla to WordPress part 3 – Advanced user role tactics, modules & a smooth go-live

In an earlier part of the series on migrating a website to WordPress, we discussed the content migration process. Once it has been migrated, it is also worth considering how to design the site’s user ecosystem so that it is scalable and manageable. If the Joomla site had user registrations or a team of content […]

By Maciej Nowak

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Migration from Joomla to WordPress part 2 – Best Practices for Automated & Manual Data Transfers

Choosing Your Joomla to WordPress Migration Approach In the previous part of this blog post series, we covered how to prepare your environment for migrating data from Joomla to WordPress. Now, we’ll focus on a key decision: choosing the right approach for the actual content migration. There are two main options – automated plugins or […]

By Maciej Nowak

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Migration from Joomla to WordPress part 1 – Planning and Environment Setup

Migrating a website from Joomla to WordPress can be challenging, but it’s a common path as sites grow and need more flexibility. Joomla and WordPress are both PHP/MySQL-based CMS platforms with similar hosting requirements, yet they differ in structure and ease of use. Joomla uses a complex system of articles, categories, menus, modules, and components, […]

By Maciej Nowak

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WordPress through the years: Insights on Themes, Block editors, and AI with Hendrik Luehrsen

By Karolina Szor

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AI, SEO, and Automation: How to start marketing a new product category? Interview with Joost de Valk

By Maciej Nowak

An illustration of people optimizing technology: A woman on a laptop, a man at a desk with another laptop, and a woman holding a phone. Symbols like a speedometer, cloud, gears, and tablet capture the essence of connectivity and efficiency—perfect for improving WordPress's Largest Contentful Paint (LCP).

How to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in WordPress: A Comprehensive Guide

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Its Impact on SEO Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is a critical performance metric that measures how quickly the main content of a page loads. It’s one of Google’s Core Web Vitals and even a ranking factor for SEO . In simple terms, LCP tracks the time from when a user […]

By Kamil Jankowiak

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