Themes 2 min
How to Fix Mobile View Problems in WordPress
Most mobile problems are one element wider than the screen. DevTools will point at it in under a minute.
Fix it guides
Practical, tested fixes for the WordPress theme and plugin problems that actually come up — written to be followed, not skimmed.
Plugins 2 min
How to Uninstall a Broken Plugin When You Cannot Log In
Locked out by the plugin you need to remove. There are three ways in, and none of them require the dashboard.
Security 3 min
How to Fix a Hacked WordPress Site (Including the Redirect Hack)
Removing the malware is the easy part. If you do not find how they got in, you will be doing it again next week.
SEO & indexing 2 min
How to Find and Fix Broken Links in WordPress
Finding broken links is easy. Fixing them well means treating internal links, external links and old URLs differently.
SEO & indexing 3 min
How to Fix "Excluded by 'noindex' Tag" in Google Search Console
Google is telling you exactly what is wrong: the page asks not to be indexed. The only question is which setting is adding that request.
Performance 3 min
How to Fix WordPress CSS Changes Not Showing Up
Edited the stylesheet, reloaded, nothing changed. There are five caches between your file and your eyes, plus one CSS rule quietly winning.
Performance 3 min
How to Fix a Slow WordPress Theme
Before you replace the theme, find out whether the theme is actually the problem. Often it is the images, the host, or one plugin.
Plugins 2 min
How to Find Which Plugin Is Breaking Your WordPress Site
Guessing which plugin broke the site is slower than testing. The conflict test takes about ten minutes and gives a definite answer.
Themes 2 min
Why the Theme File Editor Is Missing in WordPress
It is almost never a bug. Something disabled it deliberately — and in most cases that was the right call.
Themes 2 min
How to Properly Remove a WordPress Theme
Unused themes are a real security liability — they still receive requests even when inactive. Removing them properly takes a little more than clicking delete.
Themes 2 min
How to Reset a WordPress Theme to Its Default Settings
Theme settings live in the database, not the theme folder — which is why reinstalling changes nothing. Here is what actually clears them.
Themes 2 min
How to Update a WordPress Theme Without Losing Your Customisations
If updating a theme wipes your changes, the changes were in the wrong place. Here is how to move them somewhere updates cannot reach.
Themes 3 min
How to Change Your WordPress Theme Without Losing Content
Your posts are safe. What actually disappears is menus, widgets, theme options and any layout built with the old theme's shortcodes — and that is worth planning for.
Errors & downtime 3 min
How to Fix a 403 Forbidden Error in WordPress
A 403 is not a crash. Something looked at the request and said no. The trick is finding out what.
Errors & downtime 3 min
How to Fix a 500 Internal Server Error in WordPress
A 500 is a category, not a cause. The server log turns it into something specific in about thirty seconds.
Errors & downtime 2 min
How to Fix 404 Errors on WordPress Posts and Pages
The classic symptom: the home page loads, every post 404s. That single pattern tells you it is permalinks, not content.
Errors & downtime 2 min
How to Fix a WordPress Site Stuck in Maintenance Mode
"Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance" that never ends is a single leftover file. Here is how to remove it and, more importantly, clean up what caused it.
Errors & downtime 3 min
How to Fix "Error Establishing a Database Connection" in WordPress
WordPress is running fine — it simply cannot talk to MySQL. There are only three real causes, and they are quick to tell apart.
Errors & downtime 3 min
How to Fix "There Has Been a Critical Error on This Website"
This message looks worse than a white screen, but it is actually better news: WordPress caught the error, emailed you the cause, and left you a way in.
Errors & downtime 3 min
How to Fix the WordPress White Screen of Death
A completely blank page means PHP died and WordPress was told not to say why. The fix is to make it talk, not to guess.