Your WordPress contact form stopped sending and nobody told you
WordPress contact forms show a success message even when the email never arrives. Why PHP mail fails on shared hosting, how to test properly, and the fix that sticks.
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Website problems, explained without the jargon.
The same handful of faults account for most of what goes wrong with a business website: hosting that queues, a plugin nobody updated since 2021, a contact form that stopped sending months before anyone spotted it.
We write up the ones we keep meeting, so you can check your own site against them. Three a week. No newsletter to sign up to.
Should you click 'Update All' on your WordPress plugins?
Mostly yes. The caution people preach about WordPress updates has broken more sites than the updates themselves. A ten-minute routine that makes updates safe to do yourself.
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Why your website is slow, and which bit is to blame
Most people blame the images. Most of the time it is the hosting. Work out which part of your site is slow in about five minutes, without installing anything.
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The OWASP Top 10, for people who do not write code
Developers get measured against the OWASP Top 10. Read it from the other side of the desk: what the ten items mean when you own the website rather than build it.
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Your WordPress site has been hacked. What to do in the first hour.
The order you work in matters more than which plugin you install. This is the sequence we follow, and the two mistakes that turn a bad morning into a lost website.
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