Guides
WordPress guides worth the reading time
Longer pieces on running a WordPress site well — useful whoever hosts it, not just if you host it here.
In progress
What we are writing
Each one comes out of a problem we have had to explain enough times that it deserved writing down properly.
Making Core Web Vitals pass
What each metric actually measures, which ones hosting can fix and which ones only your theme can, and how to tell them apart before you spend money.
Auditing a plugin before you install it
Reading a changelog, checking update cadence and open issues, and judging what a plugin will cost you in performance and risk.
A safe update routine
Building the clone, screenshot and compare habit yourself, and what to do when an update has to ship regardless because it patches a vulnerability.
Speeding up WooCommerce
Why stores resist caching, what can safely be cached anyway, and how object caching changes cart and checkout behaviour under load.
Backups you have actually tested
The difference between a backup that exists and one that restores, and a restore drill you can run in twenty minutes.
Hardening without breaking things
Which hardening advice is still worth following, which is cargo cult, and the handful of changes that remove most of the real risk.
Migrating without downtime
Sequencing a move so the old site keeps serving until the new one is proven, including stores that take orders throughout.
Reading a slow query
Finding the query that is hurting you, understanding why an index would help, and knowing when the answer is caching instead.
Handing a site to a client
Access, documentation and update responsibility set up so the site does not quietly rot six months after launch.
Guides will be published on the blog as they are finished. If one of these would help you now, say so — it moves up the list.