What Is WordPress Maintenance? (What It Includes and How Often)
The short answer WordPress maintenance is the ongoing work that keeps a WordPress website secure, fast and working after it is built: updating WordPress, plugins and themes, making backups, watching for security problems and downtime, and fixing what breaks. It is not a one-time job, because WordPress and its plugins change every week. See how…
Read MoreWhat is WordPress?
The easy answer to this question is WordPress is a software anyone can use to edit and create a website. Before WordPress, it was very difficult to get a website running without the help of someone who could write code, like CSS, PHP and JavaScript. Now anyone can create a website quickly by installing the…
Read MoreSpeed Testing the 10 Best WordPress Chat Plugins
TL;DR – I tested 10 chat plugins for speed results and found Tidio to be the fastest one that meets my needs, plus it has a phone app. Pick 3 for yourself and test each of them. Chat with us if you have any issues. Table below for faster reading & sorting:
Read MoreIs the website maintenance plan affordable for you?
At Your WP Guy, we understand that affordability is an important consideration for many businesses when it comes to website maintenance plans. That’s why we’ve designed our plans to be flexible and affordable, with options available to fit a wide range of budgets. How much does a WordPress maintenance plan cost? Our WordPress maintenance plans…
Read MoreWhat to consider or expect from a web maintenance service provider?
What should you look for in a website maintenance provider? Look for a provider with WordPress experience and good reviews, fast support you can reach by phone, clear monthly reports, and monitoring that catches problems before you notice them. Pricing should be clear with no hidden fees, and they should back up your site daily…
Read MoreYour WordPress Website is Down! 19 Steps to Quickly Fix Your 503 Service Unavailable Error – What To Do When Your WordPress Site Goes Down
A 503 Service Unavailable Error is one of those issues that is bound to happen at some point. A perfect example to this was earlier today when I made some adjustments to this site, yes my main site, and I started getting the dreaded 503 error message. The problem I had was that it wasn’t…
Read MoreWordPress Error Messages: What Each One Means and What to Do
The short answer Copy the exact words of the error, then find out who wrote it: WordPress, PHP, your server, your CDN or a plugin. That tells you what broke and who can fix it. Find your message in the table below, take a backup, and change one thing at a time. Rather have us…
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