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  • UniDark Magazine Theme Review: My Newsroom-Style Comparison

    UniDark vs Other Magazine News Themes: My “Newsroom Incident Report” At 11:48 PM, I found myself arguing with a WordPress theme like it owed me an apology. The “incident” started when I tested UniDark – Modern Magazine News WordPress Theme for a magazine-style site and...
  • Gilory Digital Agency Theme Review: My Comparison Build Log

    Gilory vs Other Digital Agency WordPress Themes: My Build Log I didn’t plan to spend a weekend comparing agency themes. I planned to ship a small redesign and go outside like a healthy person. Then the client message arrived: “We want it to feel more premium, but also faster, and we wan...
  • Glovera Spa Theme: My “Booking Flow” Incident Report

      Glovera Spa Theme: My “Booking Flow” Incident Report I installed Glovera - Beauty Salon Spa WordPress Theme after what I now call “The Tuesday Appointment Meltdown”: a salon site that looked absolutely serene… while the booking flow quietly sabotaged conversio...
  • Furnob WooCommerce Theme: My “Big Images, Big Problems” Log

    Furnob WooCommerce Theme: My “Big Images, Big Problems” Log I installed Furnob - Furniture Store WooCommerce Theme after watching my “premium” furniture catalog load like it was being delivered by hand—one pixel at a time. Furniture ecommerce is brutal: huge lifestyle ...
  • Under the Hood of Alquran: A Dev-First Community WP Build

    Under the Hood of Alquran: A Dev-First Community WP Build I’m going to start in “diary mode,” because that’s honestly how this project felt. A community volunteer messaged me late at night: “We need the mosque website updated before Friday.” That sentence can me...
  • Under the Hood of SquadForce: A Dev-First Gaming Build

    Under the Hood of SquadForce: A Dev-First Gaming Build I didn’t plan to rebuild an eSports site this month. It happened the way these things always happen: someone on the team changed a “simple” banner, the homepage spacing broke, the match schedule block disappeared on mobile, an...
  • Dine Restaurant Cafe Bakery WordPress Theme in Action

      Dine Restaurant Cafe Bakery WordPress Theme in Real Use When I inherited our restaurant’s website, it felt like a relic from another era: blurry photos, a PDF menu buried three clicks deep, and a “reservation” form that never quite worked. The food coming out of the kitche...
  • Building a Modern Freight & Logistics Site with Cargozen Theme

    Cargozen WordPress Theme: How I Turned Our Logistics Site from “Confusing” to “Confident” When I first inherited our logistics company’s website, it looked exactly like what it was: a collection of pages glued together over the years by different people, with different...
  • Sounder Theme Review: My Playbook for Online Radio Success

      Sounder: How I Built a Reliable Internet Radio Station Site Without the Headaches Running an internet radio station is equal parts content, community, and clockwork. Schedules must be accurate to the minute. DJs need clean profile pages. Shows require archives with playable episodes. Sponso...
  • Sounder Theme Review: My Playbook for Online Radio Success

      Sounder: How I Built a Reliable Internet Radio Station Site Without the Headaches Running an internet radio station is equal parts content, community, and clockwork. Schedules must be accurate to the minute. DJs need clean profile pages. Shows require archives with playable episodes. Sponso...
  • Tax Help Theme Review for Accounting & Tax Advisor Sites

      How I Finally Got Our Tax Website to Look as Professional as Our Reports I run the website for a small-but-busy accounting and tax advisory firm. Every year we send out polished reports, tidy spreadsheets, and carefully worded client letters… and every year I died a little inside whe...