Step-by-Step Guides to Building and Growing Your Website
Practical fixes for the WordPress problems that cost site owners time: posts that miss their schedule or need a safe update date, bloated databases (autoloaded data, wp_postmeta, WooCommerce sessions and orders), and knowing when a PHP upgrade is due.
The category also covers the email side of running a site: setting up SPF, DKIM and DMARC for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, finding a DKIM selector, adding an IP to an SPF record, staying under the ten-lookup limit, and reading a DMARC rejection so contact-form and order emails stop bouncing.
Most WordPress database cleanup guides skip the real cause of a slow admin dashboard: a bloated wp_options table loading megabytes of data on every request. Here’s the safe cleanup order, backup-first.
WordPress can schedule new posts but not changes to posts that are already live. Here is why changing the publish date takes a post offline, and the options that actually schedule an edit on the same URL.
A post stuck on “Missed schedule” is almost never a problem with the post itself. It’s WordPress’s scheduler not running when it should. Here’s how that scheduler works, the four usual reasons it doesn’t fire, and how to tell which one you have.