WordPress Blog: Dev Tips, Fixes & Behind-the-Scenes from VegasGeek
VegasGeek is a WordPress development, support, and consulting agency that documents the real problems we solve for clients and not theoretical best practices. This blog covers WordPress troubleshooting, automation, SEO and AI visibility shifts, and the actual conversations we have with clients before, during, and after a build.
Most of what’s here comes straight from active projects: a hack that needed a rebuild instead of a cleanup, a client who needed talking out of the wrong solution, a cache-purge workflow that started as our own annoyance. If you’re running WordPress and want fixes that have actually been tested in production, you’re in the right place. Browse by topic below, or jump into the latest posts.
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Crawled – Currently Not Indexed: What It Means and How to Fix It
You log into Google Search Console, pull up the Indexing report, and there it is. A status you have probably seen before and quietly worried about: “Crawled – currently not…
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Help Me Remember: Why I built yet another reminder app
I got so annoyed at losing track of my own reminders that I built an app to fix it. It’s called Help Me Remember, it’s free, and it runs on…
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Why “Great Content” Won’t Save Your Business Anymore
For as long as I can remember, the golden rule of building a business online was simple: “Just make great content”. Google preached it for 25 years. SEO experts echoed…
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Why First-Hand Experience Is Now the Price of Entry in SEO and AI Search
Framework: Lily Ray (E-E-A-T & AI Visibility) | Cyrus Sheppard (On-Page & CTR) | Glenn Gabe (Content Quality & Recovery) Have you hired a web developer, brought on a WordPress…
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How to Say No to a Client
Saying no is not a failure to sell. On a long enough timeline it is most of the job. Nobody hires a WordPress shop because the shop agrees with them.…
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How to Build a Local WordPress Dev Stack on Mac with Homebrew
TL;DR Tired of MAMP’s limitations? This guide walks you through building a local WordPress development stack on macOS using Homebrew-installed Apache, PHP 8.4, and MariaDB with real trusted SSL via…
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Automate Cloudflare and SpinupWP Cache Purges with Git Hooks
The Core Insight: A local Git pre-push hook that calls the Cloudflare and SpinupWP APIs automatically clears your cache on every push, with nothing to configure on the production server.…
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Hacked WordPress Site? How to Decide Between a Cleanup and a Full Rebuild
The Core Insight: When a WordPress site gets hit with malware, the first move is always to find a clean backup and restore from it. A full rebuild is the…
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The Hard Part of Business Automation Isn’t the Code
The Core Insight: Business automation fails because of a vision gap, not a coding problem. Most owners have normalized the repetitive work in their week, so they never flag it…
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Fixing an issue with og:image and Featured Images
Over the past month, I’ve been putting some extra effort into updating the VegasGeek site. As they say, the cobbler’s kids have no shoes. Well, the web developer’s website is…
