Watermelon Web Works, LLC

09/01/2026

WordPress for Nonprofits: Raise More and Save Time

Practical ways to raise more, save time, and build something that lasts. I founded Watermelon Web Works to serve nonprofits....

Put WordPress to work for your nonprofit: build monthly giving, use Google Ad Grants, recruit volunteers, save staff time, and protect your website long-term.

08/18/2026

How to Stop a WooCommerce Carding Attack (And the Root Cause We Nearly Missed)

If your WooCommerce or Magento store is under a carding attack, you need to stop the abusive checkout traffic at the edge, make sure CAPTCHA failures block rather than approve payments, and add fraud controls at the payment gateway....

A WooCommerce carding attack can overwhelm checkout and bypass CAPTCHA failsafes. Here’s how we found the cause—and how to stop it.

08/04/2026

Zapier vs. a Custom API for WordPress CRM Integrations: When You’ve Outgrown No-Code Automation

A prospect fills out a form on your WordPress site. They see the cheerful little “Thank you!” message....

A prospect fills out a form on your WordPress site. They see the cheerful little “Thank you!” message. Marketing records a conversion. Everyone goes home believing that a lead now exists in Salesf…

07/23/2026

Core Web Vitals Failed: When Speed Plugins Make High TTFB Worse

A client sent me a PageSpeed Insights report recently. Their WordPress site was failing its Core Web Vitals assessment, Google was complaining about server response time, and the score had become a bit of an obsession....

A client sent me a PageSpeed Insights report recently. Their WordPress site was failing its Core Web Vitals assessment, Google was complaining about server response time, and the score had become …

07/04/2026

You are running a business website, keeping it maintained, optimized, and secure. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a demand letter from a law firm arrives accusing your company of violating the Cal…

07/04/2026

Unexpected Legal Risk for Website Owners: C**A Demand Letters Are Targeting WordPress and Other Business Websites

You are running a business website, keeping it maintained, optimized, and secure. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a demand letter from a law firm arrives accusing your company of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act, or C**A....

You are running a business website, keeping it maintained, optimized, and secure. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a demand letter from a law firm arrives accusing your company of violating the Cal…

06/24/2026

Scaling E-Commerce SEO with AI (for 500+ SKUs)

How to Improve Product Descriptions at Scale Without Google Penalties If you run an e-commerce store with 500, 1,000, or 5,000+ products, …...

How to Improve Product Descriptions at Scale Without Google Penalties If you run an e-commerce store with 500, 1,000, or 5,000+ products, SEO gets messy fast. At that size, product content tends t…

06/18/2026

When Elementor Loses Its CSS: A Free Plugin for a Very Silly Problem

If you maintain Elementor sites, you have probably seen this one. The site was fine yesterday. The homepage looked normal....

If you maintain Elementor sites, you have probably seen this one. The site was fine yesterday. The homepage looked normal. The buttons were buttoning. The spacing was spacing. Everyone went home h…

06/17/2026

Your WordPress Maintenance Should Grow Your Business, Not Just Update Plugins

WordPress maintenance gets talked about like it is a small technical chore. Run the updates. Check the backups....

WordPress maintenance gets talked about like it is a small technical chore. Run the updates. Check the backups. Make sure the site is still online. Done. That version of maintenance is fine if you…

06/09/2026

What Makes WordPress Maintenance Worth Paying For?

WordPress maintenance is easy to underestimate when everything seems fine. The site loads. The forms appear to work....

WordPress maintenance is easy to underestimate when everything seems fine. The site loads. The forms appear to work. The plugins are mostly updated. Nothing is obviously on fire. But the expensive…