Wunderlandmedia Blog
Thoughts on web development, SEO, and running a one-person agency.
September 27, 2026
Your WordPress Site Costs $111 a Month. Here's the Line-by-Line.
I priced a representative small business WordPress stack off nine vendor pricing pages. Year one: $1,090. Year two: $1,330. Here is every line.
Insights & Ideas
September 25, 2026
Should You Block Google's AI Crawler? The Math Is Different for a 20-Page Business Site.
Publishers are debating blocking Google's AI crawler. For a 20-page service business the math is completely different. Here is what each control does.
SEO
September 23, 2026
The WordPress to Astro Migration Problems Nobody Warns You About
The Astro migration guide is 400 words. Here is the rest: redirects, ACF, page builders, forms, comments, and what to do about each.
Case Studies
September 21, 2026
Upwork Cut a Quarter of Its Staff. Freelancers With AI Skills Earn 34% More.
Upwork cut a quarter of its staff. Freelancers with AI skills earn 34% more. Both are true, and the gap between them matters.
Behind the Business
September 19, 2026
I Ran the Same 732 Decisions Through Jev Three Times. It's Not Deterministic.
Three runs of 732 Jev decisions: only 24 percent came back identical. What the drift actually costs you, and where a threshold belongs.
Artificial Intelligence
September 19, 2026
Astro Sites Pass Core Web Vitals 67% of the Time. WordPress 49%. Here's Where the Gap Comes From.
Field data, Astro 7 build benchmarks and hosting prices head to head, plus the cases where WordPress closes most of the gap.
Case Studies
September 18, 2026
I Read All Four Legal Documents Behind Jev, the Fastest AI Model of the Year
Everyone benchmarked Jev this week. Nobody read the contract. Four legal documents, read from a German desk, and what they mean for EU client work.
Artificial Intelligence
September 17, 2026
Your Traffic Is Down 33% and It Isn't Your Fault. Here's What I'd Do Anyway.
Search traffic is down 33% globally. It didn't go to ChatGPT, it vanished. The real 2026 data, and what still works.
SEO
September 15, 2026
I Stopped Recommending WordPress to New Clients. Here's My Exact Cutoff.
My actual decision rule for when WordPress still belongs in a new client project in 2026, and the two-bucket test you can run yourself.
Behind the Business
September 13, 2026
Google Quietly Routed Every Result Link Through a Redirect. Your Analytics Didn't Notice.
Google now routes search result links through google.com/goto. What it actually breaks, what it does not, and what to check in your analytics.
SEO