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Web development, performance and security, written from practice.
Open-source e-commerce under attack: why WooCommerce, OpenCart and PrestaShop stores get hacked in 2026, and how to stop it
Attackers target the platform, not the shop: plugin flaws, card skimmers and supply-chain attacks hit open-source stores automatically. What protects a store.
Marketplaces vs your own store: how to sell on Pigu and Amazon without losing your margin
Marketplaces bring traffic and take margin. The setup that works: one catalogue, automated feeds and order import, channel pricing, monitoring of stale offers.
A 30-minute security check for your online store
A half-hour checklist for store owners: versions, plugins, accounts, checkout scripts, backups and monitoring. It covers the causes of most incidents we clean up.
Eight things that decide whether an online store makes money
From ten years of building stores for Baltic retailers: speed, search, correct stock, local payment and delivery, a frictionless checkout, marketplaces, admin tools.
AI in e-commerce: what actually works in a real store
What generative AI delivers in real stores: product content and translations at scale, PDF price-list extraction, semantic search, careful support assistants.
Core Web Vitals and INP: why speed is a revenue metric for online stores
INP replaced FID as a Core Web Vital and many stores now fail it. Where the time goes and how a performance project fixes it with before/after numbers.
PHP end of life: upgrade the store or migrate it?
End-of-life PHP still runs but never gets patched. When an upgrade is a two-week project and when a migration is the honest answer, with a real migration example.
How does website load speed affect traffic conversion?
Site loading speed increasingly influences conversions and rankings in search engines like Google. What the numbers say and what to fix first.
What need to know about the Internet Of Things security
IoT devices are a large part of the world around us, and few admit that they can be hacked and used against us to send data, spam or mine crypto.
All that you should know about Virtual Identity Security in 2020
A common-sense guide to virtual identity security: how to prevent loss of sensitive information and browse the web safely.
How hackers can attack your laptop with USB stick
How attackers can use a USB stick against you and steal sensitive data from your laptop without you noticing.
Why employees need to know what is cybersecurity
Educate your employees in cyber security to reduce the risk of an attack on your organisation and get a more motivated staff.
Add Google reCaptcha v3 on Laravel App
Full tutorial with code examples on implementing reCAPTCHA v3 in a Laravel application login form, and why it is worth adding.
What mean 'salutem'?
Why we chose the name Websalutem, what the Latin word salutem means, and what we set out to do.
MD5 checksum of a file is important
How to validate a downloaded file and check that it is unmodified, and why the MD5 checksum matters.