Month: June 2023

With one-click wordpress installs on a bunch of domains and a few different hosts, I started experimenting with different themes, site builders, and pre-packaged fancy stuff over the past couple of years. What have I learned? Well ... for now it's better to just stick with a couple of simple things and one premium-ish doohickie (elegant themes: Divi). It's unmanageable and hard to keep track of all of this stuff AND I've noticed these sites (with hardly any content on them) sometimes load REALLLLLLY SLOWLY. I don't have time to keep track of all of it and troubleshoot and add back in one at a time SO for now when I don't have time to play around with all of them, I'm just deactivating all that stuff. A lot of the stuff has promise and I want to play around with it (AI, SEO, etc.) but honestly most of it just seems to be slowing stuff down, doesn't play well with each other, and/or are full of upsells (which I'm open to IF I were actually using them and sure that they work). Like, I'm suspicious even of the SUPER CACHE whateverish plugin that is often pre-checked to auto-install. I'm not seeing any evidence it speeds anything up, and more often seems to be the culprit in making it nuisances from an admin and author perspective. Playing around with...