WordPress site health
Practical guides for site owners who care about what’s running under the hood
Plain-English articles on database health, plugin management, SEO protection, and keeping your WordPress site running cleanly.
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WP-Cron
Quick answer: WP-Cron isn’t a real cron job. It only runs when someone visits your site, which means scheduled tasks on a low-traffic site can be hours late — or…
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404 Floods
Quick answer: A 404 flood — hundreds or thousands of 404 errors generated in a short period — wastes your crawl budget, dilutes your site’s authority signals, and can cause…
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Every Plugin on the Site Deactivated Itself, Every Night, Between 3 and 6 AM
A client site started turning itself off. Not the site — the plugins. All of them. Every morning I’d get a report that something was broken, log in, and find…