WordPress
WordPress care notes: backups, staging, migrations, monitoring, security and database upkeep for blogs.
WordPress vs Squarespace for a Blog That Needs to Earn
For a blog that has to earn, the question is control over ads, products, email and export. Here is where each platform…
Website Maintenance Cost: What Drives the Bill
What drives the cost of website maintenance, how it is billed, what is usually extra, and the questions to ask when comparing…
WordPress Website Cost: What a Blog Costs for a Year
The lines that make up a year of blog costs, which ones repeat, what moves each one, and a worksheet to fill…
WordPress Redirect Plugin or Server Rule: Which to Use
A redirect can live in a plugin, in the web server or in code. Here is how to pick the right status…
WordPress Care Plan: What It Should Include
What a WordPress care plan should include, what each line should mean in practice, the wording that needs a follow-up question, and…
Website Down Message: Wording for Your Readers and Customers
Four lines every site-down message needs, copy-ready wording for readers, customers and partners, and why a maintenance page should send a 503,…
WordPress robots.txt: What to Allow, Block and Test
Where WordPress gets its robots.txt, what is worth blocking, and how to test the file before a wrong line costs you traffic.
Check Your Schema Without Google’s Rich Results Test, Using curl and Python
One page at a time in a web form does not scale. Here is a script that pulls JSON-LD from any URL…
Audit Your Own robots.txt for the Most-Specific-Match Trap, by Hand
robots.txt matching is most-specific-wins, not additive. Add one named crawler group and your global rules silently stop applying to it.
WordPress Database Maintenance: What Grows, What To Prune, What To Leave Alone
A WordPress database grows in predictable places. Here is how to find them, what is safe to delete, and which cleanups make…
Be easy for AI to read.
Field notes from the team that runs blogs for a living, so your posts are easy for Google and AI crawlers to read. Written for businesses, bloggers and agencies. No spam, no 14-email “sequence”, just the good stuff.