My WebWorkbench Journal Stack is a collection of ideas, experiments and insights behind the projects I build. While WebWorkbench focuses on the technical implementation, this journal explores the thinking, goals and lessons behind the work.
Notes to self for project and act as reminder for future build/rebuild
The original goal of the Web Workbench Build Storyboard was to document the planning and infrastructure side of creating a self-hosted web environment.
A practical look at building a modular WordPress system designed around workflow, not page builders
Sometimes the fastest solution is building exactly the tool you need.
Before worrying about rankings, I want to understand how people are actually finding the site.
Building an API-free WordPress plugin for automatically displaying the latest YouTube videos
Testing a free WordPress plugin that converts large videos into smaller web-ready MP4 files
SMTP, logging, failover — all in one plugin for WordPress
A SEO experiment inspired by David Quaid’s discussion on crawl prioritisation, authority signals, and indexing behaviour in Google Search Console
SEO Test: Testing Google's Indexing on My 3-Week-Old Website
Twenty years after managing Linux servers, I decided to build a mail server and discover how much email had changed.
From Substack discovery to AI-assisted WordPress development
Combining SMTP reliability, email monitoring and failover protection into one WordPress system.
Sometimes the best tools come from solving your own problems.