Website Maintenance

A 500 error takes down the whole site with no explanation — work through error logs, plugins, theme, PHP memory, and .htaccess in order, and you’ll usually find it in under 30 minutes.

Learn how WordPress core’s own default memory limits (40MB front end, 256MB admin) actually work, and how to raise the PHP memory limit properly via wp-config.php, php.ini, or your hosting dashboard — with steps to verify the change in Site Health.

Learn how to create a WordPress staging site using your hosting provider’s built-in tool or the WP Staging plugin. Test plugin updates, theme changes, and code edits safely before they touch your live website.

The fix is still WP Mail SMTP plus Gmail OAuth, but two details matter more than most guides mention: Gmail’s cap counts recipients on a rolling window, not a daily reset, and a brand-new Workspace account doesn’t get the higher limit right away.

A maintenance plan doesn’t need to be elaborate — weekly, monthly, and quarterly checks that keep a site stable, built around the actual, well-documented reason most WordPress sites get compromised.

Clearing your caching plugin doesn’t always fix a stale page — if a CDN sits in front of your site, its edge cache is a separate layer that a plugin purge never touches. Here’s how to clear LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, and WP Super Cache properly, plus the CDN layer most guides skip entirely.

A blank white screen in WordPress is almost always a fatal PHP error from a plugin, theme, or memory limit. Here’s how to find the cause and get the site back online without losing data.

WordPress updates are essential for security and stability — but running them without a process is how sites break. This guide explains how to update WordPress core, themes, and plugins safely, in the right order, with a backup in place and a clear testing routine after each step.

The WordPress Site Health tool runs automatic checks on your site’s security, performance, and configuration and flags issues by severity. This guide explains how to access it, what critical issues and recommended improvements actually mean, and what to fix first.

Over time, a website fills its database with post revisions, auto-drafts, spam comments, transient options, and orphaned plugin data. This guide explains how to clean up and optimise your website’s database safely, reduce its size, and keep it lean going forward.