Building websites that load fast and stay fixed.
That's me, mid-deployWordPress troubleshooting, bug fixing, maintenance and site upgrades.
Plus full-stack web apps in Next.js, React and the MERN stack.
Currently taking on new projects.
ReadMy First Steps in the WordPress Community: Designing for WordCamp Bharatpur and Butwal
A nostalgic look back at my early days in the WordPress community, organizing and designing for WordCamp Bharatpur 2019 and volunteering at WordCamp Butwal 2020.
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Error establishing a database connection: how to fix it
The WordPress database error has four common causes. How to tell them apart in a couple of minutes, fix each one, and avoid the advice that makes it worse.
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How to speed up an Elementor site without rebuilding it
Elementor gets blamed for slow WordPress sites, but most of the weight is optional. A practical order of operations for cutting load time before you rebuild.
I fix broken WordPress, and build what comes next.
Most of my work is WordPress support: troubleshooting sites that have broken, fixing bugs, keeping installs maintained and patched, and running upgrades without taking anything down. Inherited themes, plugin stacks nobody documented, staging that stopped matching production years ago — that is the usual terrain.
The other half is building. I work on web applications with Next.js and React, and full-stack projects on the MERN stack. Same priorities from the other end: keep it fast, keep it maintainable, and make sure it still works after I hand it over.
- WordPress
- PHP
- Elementor
- MySQL
- React
- Node.js
- Express
- MongoDB
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Linux
- Cloudflare
- Git
- Figma