Articles by Joel Olawanle
Joel is a Frontend developer working at Kinsta as a Technical Editor. He is a passionate teacher with love for open source and has written over 300 technical articles majorly around JavaScript and it's frameworks.
How WordPress hosting handles partial failures (APIs, CDNs, and third-party scripts)
Learn how third-party APIs cause WordPress slowdowns and how to detect, isolate, and mitigate failures with monitoring and fallback strategies
What happens to WordPress performance during traffic decay (not spikes)
Traffic drops shouldn't slow your WordPress site. Learn how shared hosting throttling hurts performance and how container hosting prevents it.
SLAs and guarantees: What should your agency expect from your hosting partner?
Working with hosting providers that offer SLAs and other guarantees helps agencies deliver. Learn how that works here.
Automate your Kinsta workflows with Zapier and the Kinsta API
Learn how to automate WordPress maintenance, deployments, and troubleshooting using Zapier and the Kinsta API.
How to distinguish traffic from bots to identify real visits, helpful bots, and harmful attacks
Knowing who's actually visiting your site matters. Learn how to distinguish traffic from bots to spot real visits, helpful bots, and attacks.
How MX records work during Kinsta migrations
Website migrations can cause email and DNS disruptions. This post explains how MX records operate during a hosting migration.
Create your own MCP Server to control WordPress hosting with AI
Create your own MCP server that connects AI tools to the Kinsta API for managing WordPress hosting tasks across multiple sites.
How DNS really works during a site migration (and how to avoid downtime)
Learn how DNS works during a site migration and how you can use that knowledge to prevent downtime, every time.
Blade templating in WordPress: modern template development with Radicle on Kinsta
Modern WordPress development combines multiple time-saving tools. This post shows you how to use Blade templating with Radicle on Kinsta.
How to build custom WP-CLI commands and automate WordPress maintenance with Acorn
Between WP-CLI, Acorn, and WordPress, you can build custom commands that assist with site maintenance. This post shows you how.
Managing DNS centrally for multiple client sites with Cloudflare
Learn how agencies can manage DNS centrally with Cloudflare to reduce delays, avoid registrar access issues for multiple client sites.
The hidden costs of website downtime and what you can do about it
Website downtime costs more than lost sales. Learn the hidden SEO and trust impacts and how managed hosting like Kinsta prevents them.