WordPress
Case 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.
Why Cloudflare Alone Won’t Protect Your WooCommerce Store
Cloudflare only protects traffic that actually goes through it. Here are the two ways attackers get around it, and the three layers that close the gap for good.
Anatomy of a WordPress Breach: A One-Day-Old Plugin Flaw, an Invisible Admin, and How We Shut It Down
A real WordPress security breach from our managed care fleet. An attacker used a newly disclosed plugin vulnerability to bypass the login screen entirely, planted two hidden backdoors, and created an admin account that respawned on every page load. Here is what we found and the exact order of operations that shut it down.
What Caused the WordPress Hosting Outage on August 13, 2026 (And What We Are Doing About It)
A storm-driven cooling failure at a Phoenix data center knocked some WordPress sites offline on August 13, 2026. Here is what happened, why it was not a security issue, and the failover system we are rolling out so it does not take every site down at once next time.
5 WordPress Security Rules Your Site Is Probably Missing
The Short Version These 5 WordPress security rules close off most of what automated attacks are looking for. Most sites are missing at least one. Most attacks aren’t sophisticated. They’re bots running down a checklist of common weaknesses, hoping yours is unlocked. Never let PHP run in your uploads folder, that’s how a single bad…
Site Slow Under Load? A Real Case Study in Why
A client’s site slowed to a crawl under load, but the server had power to spare. Here is the real cause we found and the fix that made it 30x faster at no added cost.
Bot Traffic Attack Case Study: Stopped Before Any Downtime
The Short Version A site we manage took a massive traffic surge one morning: many times its normal volume, all inside a single hour. It was a bot traffic attack. Nothing was broken yet, but that kind of flood takes a server down fast once it tips over. Our monitoring knows what normal looks like…
WordPress Site Monitoring: What We Actually Watch
Most WordPress maintenance providers monitor 4 to 6 things, mostly unverified. Here is the full stack we run on every site we manage, and the real example that shows why it matters.
Card Testing Attack? How to Spot and Stop It on Your Store
TL;DR Card testing is a bot running stolen card numbers through your checkout to find out which ones still work. It is not trying to buy anything from you. The giveaway is a burst of declined orders with fake names, fake emails, and the same small charge amount hit over and over. Every declined attempt…
What a Real WordPress Site Attack Looks Like (And How We Stopped It)
Most articles about WordPress security talk in generalities: keep your plugins updated, use strong passwords, install a firewall. This post is different. This is a real WordPress site attack that hit one of our client sites on July 13, 2026, told with the actual numbers, the actual IP addresses, and the actual fixes we deployed…