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WordPress care notes: backups, staging, migrations, monitoring, security and database upkeep for blogs.

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…

Core Web Vitals On WordPress, In The Order That Actually Moves The Number
Most WordPress speed work starts at the end of the chain. Here is the sequence that changes field data, and the part…

WordPress Security Without A Security Plugin That Fights Your Host
Most WordPress compromises trace back to old code or stolen credentials. Here is what to fix, layer by layer, and what your…

Plugin Bloat: How To Decide What To Remove Without Breaking The Site
Plugin count is a bad metric. Here is how to measure what each plugin actually costs, and how to remove one without…

What To Actually Monitor On A WordPress Site, And What Is Just Noise
Most WordPress monitoring watches the one failure that is easy to measure. Here is the list that catches the failures that actually…

WordPress Staging Done Properly, And The Three Ways It Silently Diverges
A staging site is only useful while it matches production. Here are the three drifts that make a green staging test mean…

What Breaks On A WordPress Site When Nobody Is Watching
Eleven real incidents from one month across the blogs we look after. Only two of them produced downtime, and only one was…

The WordPress Migration Checklist, Including The Step Most People Skip
The migration checklist, including the redirect step people skip and the traffic it quietly costs.

Five Changes That Actually Moved The Number On Client Sites
A caching plugin is not the biggest win on most WordPress blogs. Here are five changes that moved LCP on our client…

The WordPress Backup That Did Not Restore, And What We Changed After
Our dashboard said 94 consecutive successful backups. The restore produced a database from Tuesday and a media library from four months earlier.
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