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The changelog is the plain-language summary. This is the deeper record: real technical write-ups, kept for anyone who wants to understand how things actually work, not just that they got fixed.

12 write-upsabout 106 minutes of reading

Astra theme MCP capabilities

What the Astra-native MCP tools can and can't touch on this site.

2 min read

Contacts - who is who in this story

The people of PIR®'s digital service story: the fellowship volunteers who served, the WPX family who helped, and the 🕯️ In loving memory shelf for those we've lost.

2 min read

Elementor MCP (emcp) tool capabilities

What the Elementor MCP tools can and can't touch on this site.

3 min read

Footer reconnaissance: Astra footer internals

How PIR's Astra footer is actually built, and the real settings behind its mobile/desktop alignment bugs.

20 min read

How A.L.E.X. works (and why it's built this way)

The full walkthrough of PIR's helper: how a question travels, the safety rules that run before any AI, where the knowledge comes from, the helpdesks, the web desk, privacy, hosting and costs, and the helpers around her.

8 min read

How to reconnect the MCP tools

What to do when the WordPress MCP connection drops mid-session.

4 min read

PIR's email setup, explained for volunteers

Which service sends which email, how PIR's email evolved, and what SPF, DKIM, and DMARC mean in plain language.

1 min read

Site health, caching layers, and plugin inventory

The two separate cache layers (W3TC + WPX/XDN) and what's actually installed on this site.

10 min read

The header saga: sticky scroll-reveal + mobile pill nav

18 rounds of real WordPress/Elementor debugging -- scroll-reveal, the mobile hamburger, iOS scroll-lock bugs, and the specificity gap that explained half of it.

36 min read

The resource shelf

Standing documents of Psychedelics In Recovery™ – PIR®: the Open Letter, Self-Support, the structure map, and the Google Drive paths where the records live.

1 min read

The search widget's mobile horizontal-scroll saga

Four rounds tracking down why a search box kept causing sideways scroll on phones, site-wide.

7 min read

Why the site got slow (and why it wasn't Claude, Littlebird, or AI)

The real, traced-to-the-evidence story of the PIR® slowdown - what we checked, what WPX found in server logs, what's fixed, and a plain-language guide to bots vs. AI agents vs. simple automation.

12 min read