“Unable to Contact Your Store’s REST API”; When Your Security Plugin Is Blocking Your Payment Processor
A payment gateway reporting invalid WooCommerce REST API credentials, even when they test fine, often means Wordfence is silently blocking the provider’s server. Here’s how to find the block in two minutes and fix it for good.
Read MoreCase Study: The Invisible WordPress Outage Every Monitor Called “Up”
A WordPress site returned a healthy 200 status on every page for 33 hours while completely broken, undetected by uptime monitoring. Here is how we found and fixed an invisible outage in under three hours, and the critical vulnerability the update was patching.
Read MoreUnknown Named Parameter Error in wp-cron.php: The 2 Minute Fix
A wp-cron.php fatal error citing an unknown named parameter usually means an old cron event from a plugin you removed years ago. Here is why PHP 8 triggers it and how to delete it for good.
Read MoreWordPress Image Optimization Case Study: The Website That Was Attacking Itself
A WordPress site was quietly attacking itself, generating 40 percent of its own traffic, while 58,698 optimized images sat unused. Desktop speed went from 49 to 100 once we found all three problems.
Read MorereCAPTCHA vs Turnstile: The Case Study of an Invisible Captcha Tax
Every visitor to this site was downloading the same 332KB captcha script eight times over, a 3.6MB tax nobody could see. Here is how we found it and fixed it in two days.
Read MoreDomain Reputation Monitoring: The Outage Your Uptime Monitor Can’t See
A false phishing flag can silently block visitors on filtered networks, even while your uptime monitor reads 100 percent. See how our new domain reputation monitoring catches it fast, included free for every Your WP Guy client.
Read MoreWhat Happens When a Care Plan Pauses: A 22-Pixel Layout Shift Case Study
A 22-pixel layout shift quietly pushed an Orlando WooCommerce store past Google Cumulative Layout Shift threshold. Here is how we found and fixed it.
Read MoreWordPress Site Speed Audit: The 8MB That Most Tools Missed
A WordPress site speed audit uncovered 8.2MB of media hidden behind a CDN blind spot, invisible to GTmetrix and PageSpeed. Here is what we found and how we fixed it.
Read MoreCase Study: The Missing Line of Code That Cost a Nonprofit 40 Seconds
A nonprofit client’s WordPress site looked fine on office WiFi, but took over 40 seconds to load on mobile. The cause was a single missing line of code silently disabling image lazy loading site wide. Here is the detective work behind the fix, and how total mobile load time dropped 72 percent in a day.
Read MoreSite Can’t Be Reached on WiFi but Works on Cell: Your Domain May Be Flagged as Phishing
If your site works on cell data but shows site can’t be reached on WiFi, a DNS filtering service like Cisco OpenDNS may have flagged your domain as phishing. Here is how to diagnose it in under a minute and get it fixed.
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