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Blog posts tagged Performance

Feb 06, 2026

Meilisearch for WordPress: A Developer's Honest Take

Meilisearch as a WordPress search backend compared to ElasticSearch, Algolia, Relevanssi, and SearchWP. What works, what doesn't, and when it makes sense.

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Feb 04, 2026

Building a High-Performance Directory with Headless WordPress and Hugo

How to combine WordPress as a headless CMS with Hugo for static frontend generation, featuring magic link authentication, Cloudflare image uploads, and Meilisearch.

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Jan 07, 2026

Optimizing Since 1995

Performance optimization lessons from three decades of web development, starting with dial-up modems and static HTML.

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