Web Architecture

HTTPS used to mean paying a certificate authority every year and renewing by hand. Now it's free and automatic: Let's Encrypt issues the certificate, Certbot installs and renews it, and after a one-time setup you never think about it again.

A wall of un-styled cells buries good data. TablePress builds clean WordPress tables you can sort, search and page through, without writing a line of code, and keeps each table in one place so an update lands everywhere it's embedded.

Elementor's Overview widget — shortcuts, tutorials, news — clutters the dashboard of every subsite that has Elementor active. On a single site you'd just ignore it; across a multisite network you want it gone everywhere at once, without touching the subsites where Elementor isn't even installed.

Not every page is for public eyes — internal SOPs, server notes, draft policies. WordPress can lock content so only administrators see it, and the right method depends on whether you're hiding a whole page, a whole category, or just one secret line inside an otherwise public post.

WordPress turns on a lot of things by default. Some of them quietly work against your SEO — spawning thin, near-duplicate pages, or loading scripts you never use. You don't need to disable everything, but a handful of defaults are worth switching off on most sites. Here's the shortlist, grouped by why.