Plugin Conflicts

Quick answer: A WordPress plugin conflict happens when two plugins (or a plugin and your theme) interfere with each other — usually after an update. The symptoms range from broken layouts to complete site failure. The fastest way to catch conflicts before visitors do is to monitor plugin status changes automatically. The average WordPress site … Read more

MyISAM tables in an InnoDB world

Quick answer: WordPress database table errors — including overhead accumulation, collation mismatches, and table corruption — build up silently and slow your site before causing visible failures. Most site owners only discover them when something breaks. Almost every other WordPress problem announces itself. A broken plugin throws a white screen. A bad theme update mangles … Read more

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 fire many times at once on a busy one. Switching to a server cron fixes both problems in about five minutes. If you’ve ever wondered … Read more

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 the plugins list completely deactivated. Turn them back on, everything works, site’s fine all day. Next morning, off again. Somewhere between 3 and 6 AM, … Read more