Does Your WordPress Website Need Maintenance, Major Repairs, or a Complete Rebuild?

When a WordPress website becomes slow, unreliable, difficult to edit, or noticeably outdated, it is easy to assume the whole thing needs to be replaced. Sometimes that is the right answer. Often, it is not. Most struggling WordPress websites fall into one of three categories: the site has a solid foundation and needs consistent maintenance, … Continue reading “Does Your WordPress Website Need Maintenance, Major Repairs, or a Complete Rebuild?”

AI Friendliness 1.11 Helps You Decide What to Fix First

We’ve released the biggest update yet to our AI Friendliness WordPress plugin. The centerpiece of version 1.11 is a new Priorities page that combines each page’s AI Friendliness score with the AI traffic it is already receiving. This helps you quickly identify the pages where improvements are most likely to make a difference, rather than … Continue reading “AI Friendliness 1.11 Helps You Decide What to Fix First”

We Inherited a WordPress Website From Another Developer. What Happens Next?

Changing WordPress developers can feel risky, especially when the website has been managed by the same person or agency for years. You may not know how the site was built, which plugins are important, where the backups are stored, or whether any documentation exists. Sometimes the previous developer is helpful during the transition. Sometimes they … Continue reading “We Inherited a WordPress Website From Another Developer. What Happens Next?”

AI Is Reading Your Website. Can It Understand You?

A new Pew Research Center study found that 60% of U.S. adults now read AI-generated summaries at the top of their search results. AI search has already arrived. That changes something simple but important for any business with a website. People used to find you mostly through Google links. Now an AI system often reads … Continue reading “AI Is Reading Your Website. Can It Understand You?”

AI Friendliness Version 1.06 Released

We just released a new version of the AI Friendliness WordPress plugin, with a clearer way to understand how AI tools interact with your website. The LLM Traffic dashboard now separates “Confirmed AI referrals” from “Confirmed + likely AI traffic,” so site owners can tell the difference between verified AI-driven visits and broader AI activity … Continue reading “AI Friendliness Version 1.06 Released”

New AI Friendliness Score Update

We just published a new release of the AI Friendliness plugin with new scoring factors. This update reflects several practical improvements to how the score evaluates pages, including stronger handling of answer blocks, better detection of important content hidden behind JavaScript or interaction, and a re-balancing of a few existing factors based on more recent … Continue reading “New AI Friendliness Score Update”

Why We Recommend Quality Over Quantity When It Comes to WordPress Plugins

A recent WordPress plugin supply chain incident is a good reminder of something we have believed for a long time at MantyWeb: your WordPress site should use the smallest number of trustworthy plugins possible. That does not mean WordPress is a bad platform. One of its biggest strengths is its large plugin ecosystem and the … Continue reading “Why We Recommend Quality Over Quantity When It Comes to WordPress Plugins”

How to Choose the Best WordPress Development Company for Casinos: 20 Questions to Ask

If you are searching for the best WordPress development company for casinos, you are not just looking for a developer. You are looking for a partner who understands performance, security, and the unique demands of the gaming industry. Casino websites are not typical WordPress projects. They require structured content systems, high-performance architecture, and careful handling … Continue reading “How to Choose the Best WordPress Development Company for Casinos: 20 Questions to Ask”

WordPress for Nonprofits: What You Need to Know Before You Build a Nonprofit Website

If your nonprofit is planning a new website, the decisions you make early on will shape how well the site actually works for your organization. Get it right and fundraising, volunteer recruitment, and day-to-day content management all get easier. Get it wrong and you end up with a site that creates friction, costs more than … Continue reading “WordPress for Nonprofits: What You Need to Know Before You Build a Nonprofit Website”

Why Most Sites Are a Good Fit for WordPress

We recently wrote about whether we build and maintain non-WordPress sites, and the answer is absolutely yes. We work with Shopify, Webflow, BigCommerce, and other platforms regularly. But after nearly 20 years of building and maintaining websites across just about every platform out there, I want to make the case for something we see play … Continue reading “Why Most Sites Are a Good Fit for WordPress”

AI Friendliness WordPress Plugin Announcement

Introducing Our New AI Friendliness WordPress Plugin Artificial intelligence is changing how people discover information online. Instead of only searching through traditional search engines, users are increasingly asking AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity to answer their questions. But most websites were never built with AI systems in mind. That is why we … Continue reading “AI Friendliness WordPress Plugin Announcement”

Content Freshness: A Key Factor in Getting Found by AI

If you want to understand how RAG systems actually work under the hood, this article by Pedro Dias at Visively is one of the better reads out there. It covers vector embeddings, hybrid retrieval, re-ranking thresholds, and why information gain matters more than keyword density. Better than 90% of the AI SEO content floating around … Continue reading “Content Freshness: A Key Factor in Getting Found by AI”

Why Vibe Marketing Is a Necessity for Digital Marketing in 2026

You have probably noticed it by now. That blog post a company published that sounds like it was written by a committee of robots. The LinkedIn post that uses all the right buzzwords, but says absolutely nothing. The email that opens with “In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape…” and immediately gets deleted. That is AI … Continue reading “Why Vibe Marketing Is a Necessity for Digital Marketing in 2026”

AI Can Write Your Marketing Content. But Should It?

We use AI in our business and sometimes help our clients develop practical AI strategies for their business. What about using AI for content marketing. Can you use it to write compelling blog posts, social media posts, and ad copy? The short answer is yes, but you have to be strategic in the way you … Continue reading “AI Can Write Your Marketing Content. But Should It?”

AI For Digital Marketing Agencies – Do you use AI in your Business?

Do we use AI at MantyWeb? Yes. We do. Most agencies use AI in some form, and I would be shocked if those that don’t will avoid using AI much longer. Here’s some of what we’re using AI for: ✅ Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Windsurf, Cursor and other tools for development and debugging work ✅ … Continue reading “AI For Digital Marketing Agencies – Do you use AI in your Business?”

How To Audit Your WordPress Website

The Ultimate WordPress Website Audit Checklist for 2026 Your WordPress website is working right now, but is it working well? A comprehensive website audit reveals hidden problems that silently cost you traffic, leads, and revenue every single day. We’re often asked to perform website audits focusing on different aspects (plugins, speed, SEO, conversions), so we … Continue reading “How To Audit Your WordPress Website”

When Does DIY WordPress Stop Making Sense For Your Small Business?

DIY WordPress sometimes makes sense for new businesses, but once your site generates meaningful leads or revenue, the hidden costs (time, opportunity, risk) typically exceed professional maintenance fees by 3-5x. You launched your business, picked a theme, watched some tutorials, and got a WordPress site online. At the beginning that was exactly the right move. … Continue reading “When Does DIY WordPress Stop Making Sense For Your Small Business?”

The Small Business Owner’s Checklist For A New WordPress Website Project

A smooth WordPress project starts long before anyone touches a theme or a plugin. This checklist walks you through what to decide and prepare so your new site launches on time, within budget, and ready to support real business goals, not just “look nicer than the old one.” If you’re planning a new WordPress site … Continue reading “The Small Business Owner’s Checklist For A New WordPress Website Project”