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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 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.
Issue 10
The real cost of form spam isn't the spam
Form spam doesn't cost you time, it costs you attention — and eventually a real enquiry gets skimmed past. Aggressive CAPTCHAs and bulk deletes both make it worse. The safer approach: detection that only inspects free-text fields, blocking at submission, a recoverable trash, and a schedule.
Issue 9
Your site got slower. Do you know what changed?
Every WordPress site slows down eventually, but almost none can say what caused it. Aftercare is a free, open-source plugin that records your daily Core Web Vitals from real Chrome users alongside a plain-English ledger of every change made to the site, then lines the two up when a metric breaches its budget.