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Why Every Serious WordPress Site Needs an Offsite Activity Log
It’s 2:17 a.m. Your phone buzzes. The homepage now redirects to a crypto-casino. WooCommerce has stopped taking payments. Bleary-eyed, you reach for your laptop, refresh the server logs, and scroll through a wall of automated noise—thousands of lines that tell you something happened, but not what, or more importantly, who. Was it a rogue plugin…
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Redirect or Replace? The Best Fix for Broken Links
Broken links hurt user experience and harm your site’s SEO. But once you’ve found a broken link, what’s the best way to fix it? Should you redirect it to another page, or replace it entirely at the source? The answer depends on context, and this article walks you through the right approach for each scenario.…
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The 5 Best Tools to Detect Broken Links and Embeds
Imagine clicking on a blog post, ready to explore some fantastic content, only to be met with a dead end—a broken link that leads to nowhere. Frustrating, right? Or worse, you’re watching a tutorial, and the embedded video refuses to load. These little hiccups aren’t just annoying; they make your site look neglected and can…
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The 5 best website monitoring tools for 2025 (Free & Paid)
If you are running your business online, then a single minute of website downtime can cost you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in lost revenue. This makes website monitoring not a luxury but essential for business-critical websites. In this article, we will discuss some of the best website monitoring and uptime tracking tools you…
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Who Changed What? Track All Changes in WordPress
Surely this sounds familiar: You wake up to an urgent message: “The homepage is broken, posts have disappeared, and the site looks different. What happened?” Panic sets in as you scramble to piece together the puzzle. Was it a plugin update? A bulk post edit? A plugin database migration gone wrong? Without a clear record…
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What Causes Mixed Content, and How to Fix It
Mixed Content. Something that will make your browser go “Nope!” Surely, you’ve seen something like that before. You get an email with a simple complaint from a client: “Why is my site saying it’s not secure?” At first, you brush it off because you set up an SSL certificate, didn’t you. But when you visited…
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Why You Need to Care About Broken Links
Imagine you’re reading an incredibly insightful article about optimizing your WordPress site’s performance. The writer mentions a fantastic case study that dives deeper into how a simple tweak improved page speed by 40%. Excited, you click the link, expecting to gain some actionable insights. But instead… Boom. A 404 error page. You hit the digital…
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What Are WordPress Embeds, and How Do They Work?
If you ever wanted to add a YouTube video to your WordPress content, chances are you’ve just copied the URL for the YouTube video in your editor and then… magic. Your video is automagically displayed. This is called an embed. Embeds allow you to pull content from one source and display it somewhere else. They…
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A WordPress Activity Log That Protects You Every Time
There so many ways a WordPress Activity Log can protect you and can have your back. Let me explain in three different examples: 1. Imagine you notice a sudden spike in failed login attempts. With our WordPress Activity Log, you can quickly identify the source. For example, one client experienced repeated login failures from an…