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What Happens If You Ignore WordPress Updates?
If you look after your own WordPress website, you’ll know the feeling. You log in, and there’s a little red number telling you that 7 updates are waiting. You make a mental note to deal with them later. Next time you look, it’s 12. One of my clients described her old routine perfectly. When she…
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What I Actually Do on Your Website Each Month
When you pay someone to look after your website, most of the work happens where you can’t see it. That’s the whole point. You get on with running your business, and your website quietly keeps working. But it does leave you wondering what you’re actually paying for. One of my clients told me that her…
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Who Owns Your Domain Name?
The Five-Minute Check Most Businesses Never Make Most business owners assume they own their domain name. Quite often they don’t, and they find out at the worst possible moment: when they want to move host, change designer, or simply renew it and nobody can remember who set it up in 2014. Owning a domain is…
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My Site is Down: What to do in the First Ten Minutes
Before You Press Anything, Read This The site isn’t loading, and your first instinct is to start pressing things. Resist it. Most of the damage done during a website outage happens in the ten minutes after somebody panics. First, check it’s actually down Sites appear broken for reasons that have nothing to do with the…
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What WordPress Maintenance Actually Involves
What actually happens on a site care plan day-to-day Most people who pay for a website care plan aren’t quite sure what they’re paying for. The site looks the same this month as it did last month, no invoices arrive with a list of dramatic rescues on them, and the whole thing can feel a…
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