Beyond the Drag-and-Drop: Why Custom Gutenberg Blocks Outperform Page Builders for SEO

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A performance comparison chart between custom WordPress blocks and popular page builders. Let’s have an honest conversation about the state of modern WordPress development. For years, the industry has been dominated by a “convenience-first” mindset. Page builders like Elementor, WP Bakery, and Beaver Builder promised to democratize web design, allowing anyone to drag and drop their way to a functional website. And to a point, they delivered. But there is a hidden cost... read more »

Augmented Development: Using AI to Speed Up WordPress Theme and Plugin Workflows

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AI robot doing the coding The role of a WordPress developer is shifting. While we’ve always prioritized hand-coded, high-performance builds at Seismic Pixels, the tools we use to get there are evolving. AI isn’t here to replace the logic, but it is becoming a highly efficient junior partner for the “boilerplate” heavy lifting. If you’re looking to integrate these tools into a professional workflow,... read more »

Creating a Laravel SaaS Framework: Part 5

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Person holding cash in front of laptop Part 5 of the series covers installing Laravel Cashier and setting it up to work with the Hyn Tenancy package. We'll modify the default migrations as well as create a couple custom models for use with tenant subscriptions. read more »

Creating a Laravel SaaS Framework: Part 4

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high rise buildings In this section we're going to work on creating a login and registration system to accommodate our multi-tenant application. To do this, we'll set up a single registration form on the main domain and redirect to subdomains for users to sign in once they've registered for the site. You could go into some complexity with OAuth tokens here, but let's keep it simple for now with a separate field... read more »

Creating a Laravel SaaS Framework: Part 3

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Apartment building high rise Picking up from the last article, we now have a single tenant on our system with the subdomain of "foo". Let's work on a few additions, including a second tenant and proper routing if a tenant doesn't exist. Let's add a second tenant and verify that they have some separation. For this one, we'll use a subdomain of "bar". Make sure to save the password somewhere. Now let's check our database... read more »

Creating a Laravel SaaS Framework : Part 2

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Apartment building high rise Now that we have the basic setup, let's create our first tenants! We'll initially do this through an artisan command. This is based on the article by Ashok Gelal, with some updates for the latest versions. We'll start off by making some configuration updates so that we can separate our tenants by subdomains. First, open up the .env file and add in a value for APP_URL_BASE and also make a... read more »