Bjorn Solstad When I was 16, I worked for a friend’s dad who owned a painting company. After my first day, I went to their house for dinner. Their house desperately needed painting. The irony wasn’t lost on me. But now, running a web development company for 15+ years, I get it. Why Service Businesses Neglect Themselves …
Multilingual WordPress is not just translation. WPML damaged this site, Polylang is still our favourite plugin option, and Devenia now uses its own AI-assisted language workflow to control URLs, menus, links, hreflang, QA, and review.
Business is full of hard choices. Sometimes the hardest one is admitting you were wrong—and cutting your losses before they cut you. Here’s one we got wrong, what it cost, and what we learned. When Expansion Goes Wrong Devenia started as a link-building company. We were good at it. Then we had a “smart” idea: …
Most SEO companies treat their methods like state secrets. “It’s proprietary.” “You wouldn’t understand.” “Just trust us.” That’s not how we work. We hide nothing from clients. And we publish nothing about clients. We’re radically transparent with the people paying for the work—and radically private everywhere else. Our Policy 🔍 With clients What we did …
Your WordPress site is slow. You’ve compressed images, installed caching plugins, optimized everything you can think of. Still slow. The problem might be your hosting. The Hosting Reality Check ⚡ Cheap shared hosting puts your site on a server with hundreds of others. When any of them spikes in traffic, everyone slows down. You’re paying …
You publish a new blog post. Now you need to share it on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, send a newsletter… Doing this manually every time is tedious. Here’s how to automate it without bloating your WordPress with plugins. The Problem with Plugin-Based Automation Every plugin you add to WordPress is a potential conflict waiting to happen. …
“It didn’t work out.” I’ve heard this phrase countless times from entrepreneurs who tried something once and gave up. But here’s the thing: a single unsuccessful attempt isn’t failure. Failure only happens when you stop trying altogether. The Difference Between Persistence and Stubbornness This isn’t a call for blind, headstrong persistence. Banging your head against …
