Category: Web Development

Ditch the Overkill: How to Send WordPress Emails Using PHPMailer and Amazon SES

The WordPress ecosystem now hosts a range of fully developed email solutions provided by numerous plugins. Two of the most prominent examples are WP Mail SMTP and Easy WP SMTP. While I have no particular objections to these plugins, I believe that for experienced developers, they can be overly complex. Most of their features extend […]

How to Implement Server-Side Rendering for WordPress Blocks?

Recently, I was tasked with implementing server-side rendering for a WordPress block created with @wordpress/create-block package. Specifically, I developed a block that displays a page list based on a user-selected menu. The block’s functionality is straightforward: in the back-end, the user selects a menu from a list of available menus, and on the front-end, the […]

How to check your website’s performance?

Just recently, a friend of mine asked me about “website analysis tool”. I got interested and immediately started asking questions. What would you like to analyze? Performance? SEO? Accessibility? “We would like to check our website for performance.”, he says. Luckily, a couple well established tools exists that are designed to do just that. I […]