Sendy has quietly become one of the most compelling email marketing platforms for businesses that want control, performance, and dramatically lower costs compared to traditional SaaS tools. With its self-hosted model powered by Amazon SES, Sendy removes subscriber-based pricing and replaces it with a lightweight, scalable system built for ownership. The release of Sendy v7 takes this even further, introducing major performance improvements, modernized workflows, and under-the-hood optimizations that make it faster, more reliable, and easier to scale than ever before. This post explores what Sendy is, what’s new in v7, and why it is becoming a serious alternative to platforms like Mailchimp for teams that want long-term independence from rising subscription costs.
The updates in WordPress 6.9, releasing the first week of December 2025, focus on some serious behind-the-scenes improvements that make your site faster and more efficient! We’ll focus on the impact to the front-end changes and how they can improve web metrics like TTFB, FCP, and LCP. Even for sites with lots of content, users, or categories, these enhancements help pages load more quickly and run more smoothly.
Search is changing very fast. With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, Google SGE (Search Generative Experience), and Bing Copilot, how your content is found, interpreted, and presented is fundamentally different from traditional search. Generative Engine Optimization...
Website speed has always mattered, but now, with the latest advancements from Cloudflare’s Speed Brain and WordPress 6.8’s new speculative loading support, we’re entering a new era of web performance. Let’s break down why this matters, how it works, and how to enable it on your site today.
Freemius is a comprehensive software licensing and distribution platform for WordPress plugins and themes. For some background and transparency, we use it very extensively as part of our plugin development under our 5 Star Plugins brand, creating plugins such as...
Accessible overlays, also known as “accessibility overlays” or “accessibility widgets,” are tools or plugins that can be added to a website, in an attempt to make it more accessible to users with disabilities. However, these overlays can...
