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Why I Stopped Chasing a “Perfect” WordPress Design When I first started building my WordPress blog, I thought design was everything. I spent hours comparing themes, adjusting spacing, changing fonts, testing color palettes, and rebuilding the homepage over and over again. Every time I visited another blog, I felt like mine was incomplete. Something always … Read more
Why I Underestimated WordPress Menus I thought WordPress menus would be one of the easiest parts of building a website. Just create a few categories, connect them to the menu, and move on. That was my expectation. Instead, I spent hours trying to understand why pages, categories, sidebars, dropdowns, and post lists all behaved differently. … Read more
Installing WordPress Was the Easy Part I thought installing WordPress on GCP would be the difficult part. It wasn’t. The real problem started when I tried to set up SSL. At first, everything seemed simple. I had already launched a small free-tier GCP server, connected my domain, and installed WordPress successfully. The site worked, but … Read more
The $10 Confession: How I Hypnotized Myself into Google Cloud’s Bitter Billing Trap Let’s cut the crap. I am an idiot. Or more accurately, I managed to play the part of a textbook idiot for exactly two months, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) charged me 10,148 KRW (about $7.50) to officially certify it. What makes … Read more
I Thought GCP Free Tier Was Free — Until Google Charged Me Months Later When I started building my WordPress blog, I wanted one thing above all else: a server that cost as close to $0 as possible. That’s why I chose Google Cloud Platform’s famous Free Tier instead of AWS or Lightsail. Google advertises … Read more