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Santosh K Sharma

Santosh K Sharma builds and maintains WordPress and Shopify sites, from theme and plugin work to store migrations and performance fixes. Santosh K Sharma writes about keeping client sites fast, current and easy to manage.

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7 posts published under this byline, newest first.

WordPress vs Wix: of five parts of a Wix site, only CMS collections and store products leave as CSV files, so leaving Wix is a rebuild.
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Santosh K Sharma
Santosh K Sharma
Oct 28, 2026
7 min
Series: Platform comparisons

WordPress vs Wix: Which Should You Choose for Your Website?

WordPress vs Wix: what each costs to build and run, who keeps it updated, what you can take with you if you leave, and which to choose for your site.

Shopify vs WooCommerce: Shopify rents you a store on its servers, WooCommerce keeps every order in a database you control.
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Santosh K Sharma
Santosh K Sharma
Oct 28, 2026
8 min
Series: Platform comparisons

Shopify vs WooCommerce: Which Should You Choose for Your Store?

Shopify vs WooCommerce: what each costs to run, the fee on every sale, what you can take with you if you leave, and which to choose for your store.

Squarespace vs WordPress: the Squarespace export carries pages and one blog, while store pages, style settings and more are built again.
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Santosh K Sharma
Santosh K Sharma
Oct 28, 2026
8 min
Series: Platform comparisons

Squarespace vs WordPress: Which Should You Choose for Your Website?

Squarespace vs WordPress: what each costs to run, the fee on store sales, what Squarespace's export leaves behind, and which to choose for your site.

PHP end of life: 8.1 and older get no security fixes. A bar shows 34.7% of reporting WordPress sites on 8.1 or older, 23.5% on 8.2 and 41.8% on 8.3 or newer.
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Santosh K Sharma
Santosh K Sharma
Oct 25, 2026
9 min

PHP End of Life: Is Your Website's PHP Version Still Getting Security Fixes?

PHP end of life explained: PHP 8.1 and older got no fix for the critical flaws of 21 October 2026. See which versions are safe and how to upgrade.

The Website Animation Playbook by Boffin Coders beside its matrix: cursor, parallax, page wipes and fade-ups rated for law firms, dentists, shops and photographers
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Santosh K Sharma
Santosh K Sharma
Oct 22, 2026
11 min

Which Website Animations Suit Your Site, and Which Ones Cost You Clients?

See which of 77 website animations help each of 13 kinds of site and which cost you clients, with the Next.js code and a free PDF playbook to keep.

A browser window of your Next.js site: Next.js keeps routing, rendering and design, and a gold Hydrogen panel handles the cart, variants, Shop Pay, currency and accounts
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Santosh K Sharma
Santosh K Sharma
Oct 19, 2026
10 min

What Is Shopify Hydrogen Now, and Can You Add It to a Next.js Site?

Shopify Hydrogen was a framework and is now a library. See what it handles inside a Next.js site, how to set it up, and what a check of the package shows.

Speed up a WordPress site: three phones show server wait, page weight and one slow plugin, and a cache plugin fixes only the server wait.
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Santosh K Sharma
Santosh K Sharma
Oct 18, 2026
10 min

How Do You Speed Up a WordPress Site? Start by Finding What Is Slow

How to speed up a WordPress site: find whether the server, the page weight or one plugin is slow, then fix that part first, with a check you can repeat.

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