WordPress PHP Version Update: What Breaks and Why
Your host will raise the PHP version eventually. Whether that is routine or a bad afternoon depends entirely on what you did…
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WordPress Staging Site: What It Is and How to Use One
A staging site is the difference between finding a problem yourself and having a customer find it for you.
Read articleWordPress Updates: Core, Plugin and Theme Compared
"Apply your updates" hides three different jobs with three different risks. Plugins break sites; core rarely does.
Read articleWordPress Media Library Cleanup: Doing It Safely
Media libraries only grow. The risk is not the clutter — it is deleting an image that turns out to be in…
Read articleWebsite Slow After an Update: How to Find the Cause
A site that was fine last week and is slow this week has a specific cause, and it is usually findable in…
Read articleWhat to Do About an Abandoned WordPress Plugin
A plugin nobody maintains does not stop working. It stops being fixed, which is a slower and more serious problem.
Read articleHow to Stop WordPress Comment Spam
Comment spam is rarely dangerous and frequently decisive: it is why many owners stop logging in at all.
Read articleWhen a WordPress Backup Restore Fails
Nobody discovers a bad backup on a calm day. The discovery always happens at the worst possible moment.
Read articleWordPress 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.
Read articleWordPress 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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