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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.
Issue 8
The app I built so the vendor can't see your data
A slight detour from the usual weekly fix. Most software you rent can read everything you put into it, and can lock your data away the day you stop paying. I built NomadWealth — a self-hosted personal net-worth app — on the opposite principle.
Issue 7
How to get your content quoted by ChatGPT
AI tools favour a specific shape of content — direct questions, clear answers, short topical chunks. How to restructure a page so it gets cited in AI answers, not skipped.
Issue 6
97% of WordPress hacks come from one place
Almost all WordPress vulnerabilities come from plugins and themes, not core. A 20-minute audit to find the abandoned and risky plugins on your site — and why a maintained site is a safe one.
Issue 5
Why your WordPress site feels slow
Most WordPress sites fail Core Web Vitals for the same handful of reasons. How to find your worst offender — your LCP element — in five minutes, and what to do about it.
Issue 4
Find the question first
A simple four-tool workflow for deciding what your WordPress site needs next — find real demand, check how machines read your site, fix the right thing, and escalate to an audit only when the problem is bigger than one fix.
Issue 3
The one file that tells ChatGPT how to read your site
What llms.txt is, why AI crawler traffic is now worth optimising for, and how to add the file to your WordPress site in about fifteen minutes.
Issue 2
Diagnose first, invest second
Two free checks to run before paying for an SEO audit, sprint, or plugin fix — and when the results tell you it's time to escalate.
Issue 1
Start here: the first fix
The inaugural issue — what One WordPress Fix a Week is, what to expect each week, and a 15-minute plugin clean-up that quietly speeds up almost every site.