Laura Ward

It runs hormoneharmonyhq.health and honestly I can't imagine using anything else. The REST API is the thing that makes it special — I publish all my content programmatically through it. My automation system creates blog posts, uploads images, updates pages, manages categories, all through the API without me logging into the dashboard. The plugin ecosystem means whatever I need — SEO, link tracking, forms — there's something that works. It's been around forever and that stability matters when your business depends on it.

The block editor is a nightmare for anyone doing custom HTML. I wrap everything in wp:html blocks because the moment you let Gutenberg touch your markup it injects rogue paragraph tags inside style blocks and breaks your CSS. I've had live outages from that. The classic editor was simpler and more predictable. Also the way WordPress encodes ampersands inside script tags — turning && into && — has silently killed JavaScript on my pages more than once. Those two things have cost me hours of debugging.

Control. Squarespace and Wix look nice but the moment you need to do something they didn't anticipate you're stuck. I run 31 automation agents that publish content, create tracking links, update pages, and manage media — all through API calls. Try doing that on Squarespace. WordPress lets me own everything — the code, the data, the hosting, the integrations. If I want to wire my site up to an AI content pipeline that publishes three posts a day with custom affiliate links and branded Pinterest pins, WordPress says yes. Everything else says "upgrade to our enterprise plan and maybe."

I registered hormoneharmonyhq.health through Namecheap and it was the easiest part of setting up my entire business. No upsell hell at checkout, no hidden renewal prices that triple after year one, no forced add-ons. The domain management dashboard is clean and straightforward — DNS settings, nameservers, redirects, all where you'd expect them to be. When I needed to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records for my email deliverability it was simple to find and configure.

The support live chat can be slow during peak times. I've waited 20+ minutes to get through to someone for what should have been a quick DNS question. The knowledge base is decent but sometimes you just need a human and the wait can be frustrating.

GoDaddy's checkout is an assault course of upsells and the renewal pricing is a joke. Namecheap charges what it says it charges. The price you see at registration is close to what you pay on renewal. That transparency is rare with domain registrars and it's the main reason I went with them. The interface is also just cleaner — I can find what I need without wading through ads for services I don't want.