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A shortcut into the archive for teams that want useful WordPress fixes without wading through every issue in order.
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Issue 19
A critical PHP flaw was announced. Is your site covered?
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities announced on 21 October 2026 let attackers run code on a web server without logging in. WordPress, theme and plugin updates do not fix them. How to check your PHP version, why the version number alone can mislead and what to do on managed, shared and self-managed hosting.
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 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 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 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.
Starter collection
wordpress
A critical PHP flaw was announced. Is your site covered?
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities announced on 21 October 2026 let attackers run code on a web server without logging in. WordPress, theme and plugin updates do not fix them. How to check your PHP version, why the version number alone can mislead and what to do on managed, shared and self-managed hosting.
An hour a month is enough (if it's the right hour)
Not every site needs a care plan, but every site needs a routine. The failures that take WordPress sites down are never sophisticated: an untested backup, a plugin abandoned two years ago, an admin account belonging to someone who left. The monthly hour that catches them, and the checklist pack.
Starter collection
performance
LCP, INP, CLS — and what they actually mean for you
Core Web Vitals are a real ranking factor explained in language nobody outside performance engineering uses. Here they are in English — how fast the main thing appears, how quickly the page reacts to a tap, whether it jumps around — plus a free Chrome extension that answers in sentences, not scores.
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.
Starter collection
maintenance
A critical PHP flaw was announced. Is your site covered?
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities announced on 21 October 2026 let attackers run code on a web server without logging in. WordPress, theme and plugin updates do not fix them. How to check your PHP version, why the version number alone can mislead and what to do on managed, shared and self-managed hosting.
An hour a month is enough (if it's the right hour)
Not every site needs a care plan, but every site needs a routine. The failures that take WordPress sites down are never sophisticated: an untested backup, a plugin abandoned two years ago, an admin account belonging to someone who left. The monthly hour that catches them, and the checklist pack.
Starter collection
security
A critical PHP flaw was announced. Is your site covered?
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities announced on 21 October 2026 let attackers run code on a web server without logging in. WordPress, theme and plugin updates do not fix them. How to check your PHP version, why the version number alone can mislead and what to do on managed, shared and self-managed hosting.
An hour a month is enough (if it's the right hour)
Not every site needs a care plan, but every site needs a routine. The failures that take WordPress sites down are never sophisticated: an untested backup, a plugin abandoned two years ago, an admin account belonging to someone who left. The monthly hour that catches them, and the checklist pack.
Starter collection
technical-seo
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.
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.
Starter collection
tools
LCP, INP, CLS — and what they actually mean for you
Core Web Vitals are a real ranking factor explained in language nobody outside performance engineering uses. Here they are in English — how fast the main thing appears, how quickly the page reacts to a tap, whether it jumps around — plus a free Chrome extension that answers in sentences, not scores.
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.
