The post Black Friday, pre Cyber Monday, surviving the weekend, no 75% off, taking a breath and learning a little assorted links. Let’s do it!

1. WordPress Themes for Consulting Business: “some of the most popular consulting WordPress themes”
2. A load off the University of Helsinki’s mind: “5000 users over a period of 30 minutes”
3. Optimizing Your BigCommerce Abandoned Cart Strategy: A Complete Guide: “recover even a modest percentage of these nearly-shoppers”
4. PHP 8: What WordPress Users Need to Know: “issues that previously resulted in warnings now result in errors”
5. Our Updated MySQL 5.5 Roadmap: “why you are still running this out-of-date software”