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Real WordPress problems I’ve fixed, written up from my own notes: what broke, how I found the cause and what fixed it. If one of these sounds like your site, I can help.
While going through this site’s SEO in October, I noticed new posts weren’t being picked up by Google as quickly as they should. The reason turned out to be the sitemap: it had quietly stopped updating three weeks earlier. The symptoms What made it tricky Nothing looked broken. The sitemap loaded, it was valid XML,…
How I Fixed Fail2ban, Plugin Lockouts and WP-CLI Problems on AWS Lightsail Getting locked out of WordPress sounds simple. Reset the password. Log back in. Done. Except sometimes there are multiple security systems involved, and each one can block you independently. That is exactly what happened to me on a WordPress site hosted on AWS…
It’s not a great start to a relationship managing a WordPress site when the very next day the client sends a message “Our website is down, can you get it back up quickly?” I had just taken over the management of the WordPress site and had planned to get familiar with the setup that day…
The problemA hospitality website hosted on AWS Lightsail had become painfully slow and was intermittently going offline. Visitors were hitting timeout errors and even server access was becoming unreliable. What made it difficultThe hosting dashboard suggested the server was barely using its CPU, so the obvious explanation didn’t fit the symptoms. What I foundAfter working…
If you rebooted your AWS Lightsail WordPress site and it’s not coming back, then you need to check the Linux CPU steal time and Lightsail CPU burst capacity. In my case the server could technically boot, but it no longer had enough available CPU capacity to bring the full WordPress stack back under load. The…