Blog / friday roundup
Notes from the field.
Short, practical pieces on the problems we fix most often. No trends, no fluff.
4 min
Five free checks before a new site goes live
Five free tools we run on every launch, in order, to catch broken links, certificate gaps, leftover staging settings and slow pages before visitors do.
3 min
Six settings we change on every new WordPress site
Six WordPress settings our team changes before a new site goes live, based on the support tickets we end up fixing when nobody does.
3 min
The questions we get about business email
Seven questions our support queue gets about business email on your own domain: IMAP or POP, aliases, forwarding, catch-all, quotas and moving mail.
4 min
The accessibility tools we reach for
The browser extensions, the screen reader and the one free habit we open first when a site owner needs a straight answer about accessibility.
4 min
Five image habits that keep WordPress fast
Five image habits we use on real WordPress sites to cut page weight, from resizing before upload to cleaning out an overgrown media library.
4 min
Contact Form 7 vs WPForms: what we see
Two WordPress form plugins compared from the server side: spam volume, mail delivery, page weight and whether the enquiry actually survives.
3 min
Five uptime tools for small sites
Five long-trusted monitoring tools that tell you a small site is down before your customers do, and what's actually worth an alert.
3 min
Six lightweight WordPress themes that don't fight you
Six WordPress themes we see running fast on real servers, judged by CPU load and build speed instead of demo screenshots.
3 min
Top 10 questions we get about moving hosts
The ten questions every site owner asks before switching hosts, answered plainly: downtime, email, DNS timing, and what we need from you.
3 min
Four backup plugins, compared from the restore side
We compare four WordPress backup plugins the way that matters: not how they back up, but how the restore goes at 2 a.m. when it counts.
3 min
Seven free tools for checking your DNS and email
Seven free tools we use every day to diagnose DNS records, mail delivery, and certificates, and the exact question each one answers.
3 min
Five caching plugins we actually see working
Five WordPress caching plugins that hold up on real shared hosting, when each one fits, and how to avoid caching the same page twice.
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