SEOThe robots.txt Myth: What ‘Discourage Search Engines’ In WordPress Really Does
Short answer: ticking “Discourage search engines” in WordPress does not put Disallow: / in your robots.txt…
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SEOI Ran A WordPress Crawl Audit On Our Own Site And Found A Broken Link On Every Page
Short answer: a wordpress crawl audit checks the relationships between pages, which is the one thing an SEO…
PerformanceThe WordPress Page Cache Header Lies. Here Is What To Check Instead.
Short answer: do not trust the plugin. Request the page normally, then request it again with a random query…
PerformanceWordPress TTFB: The Number Everyone Quotes And Almost Nobody Measures Properly
Short answer: wordpress ttfb is not a measure of your server. It is DNS, plus a TCP connection, plus a TLS…
SecurityYour wp-config.php Is Fine. The Exposed File Next To It Is Not.
Short answer: a wp-config exposed to the internet is almost never wp-config.php itself. PHP executes that…
SecurityWhen A WordPress Plugin Is Removed From The Repository, Nobody Tells The Site
Short answer: when a wordpress plugin removed from repository is sitting on a site, nothing happens. It stays…
CareWordPress Cron Not Running: The Failure That Never Alerts You
The first time I saw this properly, it was a membership site. Renewal emails had not gone out for eleven…
CareThe Half Hour Nobody Bills: What A WordPress Maintenance Plan Actually Costs You
Short answer: the machine work in a safe WordPress update takes about eleven seconds. Agencies spend about…
Product UpdatesIntroducing Protuno - Your Agency Automated the Wrong Half of the Job
A client asks you a question once a year, usually over email, usually in a sentence that sounds casual. Is…
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