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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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When a WordPress contract goes badly wrong…

By Maciej Nowak

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

TTFB starts at the server. Backend factors like PHP execution, database queries, and server setup heavily impact how fast your site delivers content. Explore this guide to WordPress server optimizations

By Tomasz Zieliński

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

Drawing from his agency’s hands-on experience Maciej Nowak delivered an insightful talk at WordCamp Porto, focusing on practices surrounding WordPress security.

By Maciej Nowak

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

In this episode of the podcast, we had an in-depth conversation about Google Chrome and its search ecosystem. Our guest, Cindy Krum, shared some tips for maintaining a strong presence in Google searches.

By Maciej Nowak

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

Migration to WordPress offers a simpler setup and a rich plugin ecosystem, making it easier to manage content, users, and roles. This guide walks you through moving Joomla modules, components, and ensuring a smooth transition.

By Maciej Nowak

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

Migration to WordPress can be approached in multiple ways – from automated tools like FG Joomla to WordPress to manual imports via CSV/XML. Learn how to handle media, images, and SEO to ensure a smooth, complete migration.

By Maciej Nowak

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

Migration to WordPress makes managing content and scaling your site easier. This guide provides a step-by-step roadmap for development teams to migrate medium-to-large Joomla sites into WordPress.

By Maciej Nowak

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

This time, our guest is Hendrik Luehrsen, a WordPress expert, and an agency owner. We spoke about how agencies can future-proof their WordPress work by using AI and building smarter with blocks.

By Karolina Szor

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

Our gest is Joost de Valk, the founder of Yoast SEO. He shares how his team handles the cold start problem when launching a new product. We discuss today’s SEO and balancing automation with creativity.

By Maciej Nowak

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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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Understanding WordPress Optimization and Performance Principles – interview with Remkus de Vries

Website performance is often misunderstood – often reduced to a set of technical tweaks applied after a site goes live. In reality, it’s a foundational element in building digital products that scale effectively, convert reliably, and stand the test of time. We explored this topic in our latest podcast episode with Remkus de Vries.

By Maciej Nowak

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Advanced Security Challenges in Enterprise WordPress

Supply Chain Risks in Plugins and Themes One major challenge is the software supply chain: attackers target the third-party code (plugins, themes, libraries) that WordPress sites depend on. For example, a popular WordPress vendor, was compromised and had backdoors inserted into 40 themes and 53 plugins, which then gave attackers admin access to every site […]

By Łukasz Kaczmarek

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Osom Studio Launches WP Winners: AI-Researched, Practical Answers for WordPress Users and Developers

Last updated: May 2025 We proudly announces the launch of WP Winners. Whether you’re a website operator, freelancer, agency professional, or a developer tackling technical challenges, WP Winners offers straightforward, actionable content without the usual noise. With over 140 articles, guides, tutorials, and posts already available—and more added daily—WP Winners is your reliable resource for ongoing […]

By Łukasz Kaczmarek