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Weekly WordPress fixes for people responsible for leads, speed, SEO and reliability.
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Weekly fixes for people responsible for WordPress leads, speed, SEO and reliability.
What you can expect
- For founders: sharper site decisions before paying for a rebuild.
- For in-house teams: maintenance, SEO and performance fixes that reduce drift.
- For agencies and consultants: reusable workflows and implementation examples.
- A quiet cadence: one useful email a week, plus occasional plugin, sprint or care-plan updates.
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Archive
Past issues that stay useful.
Each issue is stored as a practical reference, with descriptive titles and topic tags so you can find the right fix later instead of digging through old emails.
Issue 13
Your "where to find us" map is the heaviest thing on the page
Maps are one of the heaviest things on a WordPress page, and the usual plugins make it worse by installing a whole page-builder ecosystem to show eight venues. Here's what a map plugin actually needs — geocoding, pin clustering, category filters and CSV bulk edits — plus the shortcode-driven one I built.
Issue 12
The enquiry you never got
A form submits, the visitor sees "thanks", and no email ever arrives. SMTP logging plugins can't catch it, because the failure isn't in the transport — the notification was never attempted at all. Here's how to test your own forms today, and the reconciliation approach that catches silent failures for good.
Issue 11
The video on your homepage is 200MB
Phones shoot 4K, WordPress accepts the file without comment, and your mobile visitors pay for it. Server-side optimisation isn't an option on managed hosting with no ffmpeg. Here's what web-ready actually means — H.264, 1080p, CRF 23, faststart — and a plugin that transcodes in the editor's own browser.