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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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Highlights from WordCamp Europe 2025 in Basel

This year’s edition of WCEU 2025 took place in beautiful Basel, Switzerland. Over 1,860 participants from 84 countries joined the event, and 70 speakers took the stage to share their insights on WordPress development, optimization, design, security, and everything in between. Participants began with Contributor Day, working together on core, documentation, translations, and support to […]

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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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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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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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

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

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Understanding the European Accessibility Act and Its Impact on WordPress Websites

Introduction to the European Accessibility Act The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is a significant legislative measure aimed at improving accessibility for people with disabilities across Europe. This Act mandates that various goods and services, including websites, must meet specific accessibility standards. As a website developer or owner, understanding the implications of the EAA is crucial, […]

By Maciej Nowak

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