Category: Howto
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Why Your Contact Form Emails Aren’t Arriving You’ve got a contact form on your WordPress site. Someone fills it in, clicks submit, and gets a “message sent” confirmation. But the email never arrives in your inbox. This is one of the most common WordPress problems I deal with, and the fix is straightforward once you…
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Why Your WordPress Site Is Actually Slow Every article about WordPress speed says the same thing: optimise your images, use a caching plugin, pick a good theme. That advice isn’t wrong, but it barely scratches the surface. I’ve sped up hundreds of WordPress sites. The real problems are usually deeper than an uncompressed JPEG. Here’s…
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Why WordPress Updates Break Sites Your WordPress site was working fine ten minutes ago. You clicked “Update All,” and now you’re staring at a white screen or an error message. This happens more often than you’d think, and it’s almost always fixable. Here’s what typically goes wrong: Plugin conflicts. A plugin update changes how it…
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Cookie Consent in 2024: Why Your Australian Website Is Probably Breaking the Law (And How to Fix It)
TL;DR: Your website tracking is likely illegal in the EU, UK, and California. Australia’s joining the party in 2024. Here’s how to not get sued. 👇 Listen, I had a client nearly shit themselves last week. Why? They just realised they’ve been illegally tracking thousands of European visitors for years. Oops. Here’s the thing: If…