Your Backups Are Useless Until You Restore One

A backup you have never restored is a belief, not a safety net. The four questions a backup has to answer, a one hour restore test you can run this week on a staging copy, and the five mistakes that turn a working backup system into a silent one.

Page Builder or Custom Theme: What Each Costs You Later

Page builder or custom theme is not a preference, it is a decision about who can change your site in year three. What each approach is good at, four questions that settle it, and the mistakes that keep showing up on inherited WordPress installs.