Skip to content LFW - Weekly Recap One week in: 4,300 views, four proposals, 39 changes On Monday I announced LFW on LinkedIn. By Friday the post had been seen 4,300 times, four proposals were out, and the site had changed 39 times.
Leland Fiegel· 3 minutes - Operations Your web host is not your web team Good hosting is essential, but it is only one part of running a website. Here is how to evaluate a managed host for WordPress, what the host should handle, and what still needs a web team. Leland Fiegel· 3 minutes
- Operations What website management actually includes Plugin updates are one small part of website management. A useful agreement also spells out who does the rest of the work, where routine work ends, and how quickly you'll hear back. Leland Fiegel· 3 minutes
- Security Your website monitor should notice more than downtime Uptime is only the first check. A useful monitor also notices changes to security policy, redirects, certificates, performance, and the pages people depend on. Leland Fiegel· 3 minutes
- Audit findings The four files nobody links to Every website has four plain-text files no visitor sees, from robots.txt to llms.txt. Search engines, security scanners and AI agents check them before anything else. Leland Fiegel· 6 minutes
- Guides Our hero image was disappearing on iPhones: an ad blocker was hiding it For weeks our hero image vanished on iPhones and no lab test reproduced it. A field trace found the cause: an ad blocker hiding every class that starts with ad-. Leland Fiegel· 4 minutes
- Audit findings Why the page jumps while it loads Why a page jumps while it loads and why visitors read that as a broken site. The usual causes are few, from images without dimensions to late banners, and each has an exact fix. Leland Fiegel· 4 minutes
- Audit findings Phones download your desktop images Why a 2.6 MB hero image reaches a phone that needs 33 KB, and how srcset, sizes and WebP let the browser download only what the screen needs. Leland Fiegel· 5 minutes
- Audit findings Your media library is public The media library is not a private folder, in WordPress or anywhere else. Here is how to keep uploaded drafts private without switching off the API or breaking links. Leland Fiegel· 3 minutes