Website Maintenance
WordPress Database Optimization: What Actually Helps
A WordPress database grows quietly for years. Most of what fills it is not your content, and most of it can go.
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WordPress Cron Not Running: Why Scheduled Tasks Fail
WP-Cron only runs when somebody visits your site. On a quiet site, that is exactly why your scheduled tasks stopped.
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What a Website Maintenance Report Should Tell You
A report that says "maintenance completed" tells you nothing. Here is what one should contain, and what it lets you check.
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WordPress Contact Form Not Working: How to Fix It
A broken contact form does not announce itself. The enquiries simply stop, and it looks like a quiet month.
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Website Uptime Monitoring: What to Watch and Why
A site can pass every uptime check while its checkout is broken. Watching the right thing matters more than watching often.
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Taking Over a Website From Another Developer
Inheriting a website is mostly an access problem, not a technical one. The first hour is about getting hold of things, not…
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What Should Be in a Website Maintenance Contract
Most website maintenance disputes are not about price. They are about something the contract never said, so nobody was wrong.
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Website Support: What It Is and When You Need It
Website support means two quite different things depending on who is selling it. Knowing which one you are buying is most of…
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WordPress Maintenance Mode: How to Do It Properly
Maintenance mode takes two minutes to switch on. The two minutes people skip are the ones that stop it costing them search…
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Website Hosting and Maintenance: Who Fixes What
Your site goes down, the host says it is the site, the developer says it is the host, and you are still…
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