Behind the Scenes: Advanced Themer 13 — Hooking the SEO Page to Your Pages and Posts This one’s for the WordPress devs. When I rebuilt Advanced Themer’s SEO Options page for version 13, I recoded every field from the legacy v12 plugin into proper registered settings — meta description, keywords, title prefixes and suffixes, the […]
Four Real-World PHP, MySQL, and API Problems (and the Fixes) Most internal admin tools follow the same arc: a PHP script talks to a couple of third-party APIs, writes the results into MySQL, and renders a table so a human can act on the data. It’s a simple shape, but it hides a handful of
PHP ProgrammingBring back old photos share again, live again enjoy again. I have about 30 years of photos sitting on a hard drive. Weddings, road trips, concerts, random Tuesday nights that somehow became important memories. They were a mess — duplicates everywhere, iPhoto libraries inside iPhoto libraries, GoPro footage mixed in with birthday photos from 2003.
Portfolio Case StudyPavlov MediaHomepage RedesignA full ground-up rebuild in WordPress + Elementor Pro — taking a dark, B2B-coded legacy homepage and transforming it into a warm, consumer-first fiber internet experience built for residential sign-ups.Platform: WordPress + Elementor ProTheme: Astra Client: Pavlov MediaBefore: March 2023 → After: 2024Sections: 10 (was 6)Work completed by Seth Rhoads while serving
Security Perspective We Don’t OutsourceYour Code — Ever. Your codebase is your business. Your credentials are your livelihood. Here’s the data behind why we keep everything in-house, and what that means for every project we touch. By SolarBlu.net · Web Development & Hosting Security · Sources: Verizon DBIR 2024–2025 · Wordfence · Patchstack In the
Website Restoration & SEO Optimization: Rebuilding Stronger with Recovered Backups Posted on: April 18, 2026 AI Assistance: Claude (Sonnet 4.6) Introduction: When Disaster Becomes Opportunity We experienced what most web professionals dread—a server crash that left us scrambling to recover critical content and website functionality. But here’s the silver lining: we had backups. Not just
Celeste AI Agent: Webserver, USB Drive & SMB Sharing Setup SolarBluSeth • solarblu.net • April 2026 Update: After a solid 4 hours of configuration today, Celeste’s Raspberry Pi infrastructure is now fully operational with webserver-accessible storage and seamless file sharing across the local network. All components tested and working. The Setup: What We Built Today
