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What we have learned keeping WordPress sites secure, fast, accessible and easy to change.
Accessibility
ADA Title II Deadlines: April 2027 and 2028 for Government Sites
DOJ moved Title II web accessibility deadlines to April 26, 2027 and April 26, 2028. Who is covered, what must comply, the exceptions and how to get ready.
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Accessibility
ADA Website Lawsuits Are Rising: Why Compliance Helps You Win
Federal website accessibility lawsuits hit 3,117 in 2025, up 27%. Compliance won't stop every lawsuit, but it is how businesses win the ones that come.
7 min read
Technical debt
WordPress Technical Debt Audit Checklist: What to Check and Why
A practical WordPress technical debt audit checklist covering plugins, server versions, custom code, speed, accessibility and security, with what to record.
7 min read
Technical debt
How to Measure WordPress Technical Debt: Six Metrics and a Simple Score
Measure WordPress technical debt with six metrics: plugins, versions, untested code, speed, accessibility and security. Score each one and track it over time.
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Technical debt
Refactor or Rebuild a Legacy WordPress Site? How to Decide
Should you refactor or rebuild your legacy WordPress site? Use these clear signals, a simple decision table and a low-risk process to make the right call.
7 min read
Development
WordPress Automated Testing with Playwright and PHPUnit: A Practical Start
How to add automated testing to a WordPress site with Playwright and PHPUnit: what to test first, the official tools, example tests and running them on updates.
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Development
WordPress CI/CD with GitHub Actions: A Professional Deployment Pipeline
How to build a WordPress CI/CD pipeline with Git and GitHub Actions: tests on every pull request, staging on merge, approved production deploys and rollbacks.
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Development
Uncanny Automator Workflows: Automate WordPress and Know When to Customize
How Uncanny Automator recipes, triggers, actions and tokens automate WordPress, how to build reliable workflows, and when custom integration is the better fit.
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Development
Gravity Forms Custom Development: When You Need a Developer
When Gravity Forms needs custom code: dynamic fields, custom validation, CRM and API integrations, custom add-ons, and keeping that code safe through updates.
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Migrations
WordPress Multisite Migration: Moving, Splitting and Merging Networks
How to move a WordPress multisite network to a new host or domain, split one site out into its own install, or merge sites into a network without breaking.
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Technical debt
How to Clean Up a Bloated WordPress Database Safely
Clean up a bloated WordPress database: find heavy autoloaded options, clear expired transients, limit revisions and remove orphaned tables safely.
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Servers & hosting
WordPress Server Tuning: PHP-FPM, OPcache, Redis and MySQL
How to tune a WordPress server: sizing PHP-FPM workers, OPcache memory, a Redis object cache and MySQL or MariaDB settings, with safe starting points.
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Security
How to Remove the Google Dangerous Site Warning From Your Website
How to remove the Google dangerous site warning: find the cause in Search Console, clean the site fully, request a review, and check other blocklists too.
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Accessibility
How to Audit WordPress Accessibility: Manual and Automated Steps
Step-by-step WordPress accessibility audit: choose pages, run automated scans, test with a keyboard and screen reader, check forms, and report fixes by impact.
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Accessibility
Why Accessibility Overlays Don't Make Your Website ADA Compliant
Accessibility overlays promise instant ADA compliance with one line of code. Here's why they can't deliver it, what the FTC found, and what works instead.
6 min read
Migrations
WordPress Migration SEO Checklist: Move Your Site Without Losing Rankings
A step-by-step WordPress migration SEO checklist: crawl and map URLs, set 301 redirects, protect metadata, use Google's tools, and track rankings after launch.
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Migrations
How to Change WordPress Hosts With Zero Downtime
Change WordPress hosts without downtime: lower DNS TTL early, test the new server before switching, freeze or sync content, and keep the old host running.
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Maintenance
How to Upgrade the PHP Version on WordPress Safely
Upgrade the PHP version on WordPress without breaking your site: check support dates, scan plugins for compatibility, test on staging, and keep a rollback plan.
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Accessibility
WCAG 2.2 Changes: What's New and What It Means for WordPress
WCAG 2.2 added nine success criteria and removed one. Here is what each change means for WordPress themes, forms, menus and login pages, with practical fixes.
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Security
How to Find WordPress Backdoors: Where Malware Hides
Where WordPress malware hides and how to find backdoors: uploads, mu-plugins, core files, rogue admins, the options table, cron jobs and .htaccess rules.
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Performance
Core Web Vitals for WordPress: How to Fix LCP, INP and CLS
A practical guide to Core Web Vitals on WordPress: what LCP, INP and CLS measure, the current thresholds, and the fixes that actually move the numbers.
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Servers & hosting
Managed WordPress Hosting vs VPS: How to Choose
Managed WordPress hosting or a VPS? Compare control, performance, security, total cost and who does the work, so you can pick the right fit for your site.
6 min read
Security
WordPress Site Hacked? What to Do in the First Hour
Your WordPress site was hacked. Here is what to do in the first hour: contain the damage, save evidence, lock every account, then clean up and recover safely.
8 min read
Performance
Why Is My WordPress Site Slow? A Step-by-Step Diagnosis
Find out why your WordPress site is slow. We walk through the order we diagnose it: server response, caching, database, plugins, images and front-end code.
7 min read
Maintenance
How to Update WordPress Safely: Staging, Backups and Automated Tests
A step-by-step process for safe WordPress updates: fresh backups, a staging copy, automated smoke tests, careful rollout to live, and a fast rollback plan.
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Accessibility
ADA Compliance for WordPress Sites: A Practical Guide for 2026
What the ADA means for WordPress websites in 2026: who is covered, current federal deadlines, why WCAG 2.2 AA is the target, and how to get your site there.
8 min read
Security
WordPress Security Hardening Checklist: 25 Practical Steps
A practical WordPress security hardening checklist covering accounts, updates, wp-config.php, file permissions, server settings, backups and monitoring.
6 min read
Maintenance
What WordPress Maintenance Includes (and What Most Plans Skip)
What real WordPress maintenance includes: safe updates, tested backups, security checks, speed, accessibility and a measured plan to reduce technical debt.
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