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Practical guides to WordPress, security, performance & hosting for website owners.
Is my WordPress site hacked? 10 signs to check
The signs that a WordPress site has been hacked, from Google warnings and spam search results to unknown admin users, and what to do if you find one.
Why is my website slow? The usual causes
The most common reasons a website loads slowly, from hosting and caching to images, scripts and fonts, how to tell which one is yours, and what to fix first.
Who really owns your website?
The domain, hosting and accounts a business should hold in its own name, and how to take back control if a developer holds the keys.
How we use AI to build, secure and grow websites
Where AI earns its place in our development, security and SEO work, and the rules that keep it away from anything that matters.
PHP 8.2 support ends in December. Now what?
What PHP end-of-life means for a WordPress site, how to check which version yours runs, and how to upgrade without breaking anything.
Why your website’s emails land in spam
Contact form and order emails that never arrive, explained. SPF, DKIM and DMARC in plain English, and how to set them up properly.
Ready for the spike: sale days and viral stories
How to keep a shop or news site up when traffic jumps tenfold overnight. Caching, load testing, and what to switch off first.
Hardening WordPress in an afternoon
Ten changes that close the most common holes, in the order we make them.
What to do in the first hour after a hack
A calm, step-by-step plan for the moment you realise your website has been hacked, and the mistakes that make the clean-up harder.
The 15-minute monthly Search Console check
The reports in Google Search Console worth checking every month, what normal looks like, and which warnings mean you should act now.
Core Web Vitals, minus the jargon
Three numbers Google uses to judge how a page feels, and what usually fixes them.
Web app or WordPress? How to choose
When WordPress is the right tool, when you need a custom web app, and why so many businesses end up happily using both side by side.
Backups you’ve never restored aren’t backups
What a website backup should cover, where the copies should live, and the restore test that tells you whether any of it actually works.
Fast on the connection your visitors really have
Your site feels fast on office Wi-Fi. Here’s how to test and build it for visitors on mobile data and ordinary mid-range phones.
What a technical SEO audit actually checks
Crawling, indexing, and everything between your server and a search result.
Why we never test changes on your live site
What a staging site is, how to set one up so it can’t email customers or take real payments, and the rule that stops content going missing.
How many plugins is too many?
The number of plugins matters less than which ones you run. How to audit a WordPress site’s plugins and decide which ones stay.
Moving hosts without losing a minute
The checklist we follow so a migration is invisible to visitors and search engines.
Which structured data a small business needs
Schema markup without the hype. The few types that help a small business in search, the ones that no longer do, and how to check yours.
What 99.9% uptime really means
The downtime hidden in uptime percentages, what your host’s guarantee actually covers, and monitoring that catches real problems.
Rebuild or tune-up? How to tell which you need
Eight questions that show whether your website needs a full rebuild or a few weeks of fixes, and why the answer is often the cheaper one.
A month in the life of a managed website
What actually happens when someone looks after your WordPress site. The updates, backups, checks and fixes, week by week.
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