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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 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.