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When Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Volunteer Leaves | A Recovery Plan

There is a sentence I hear from nonprofits far more often than I should: “The person who handled our website is gone, and we’re not quite sure how any of it works.”...

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There Has Been a Critical Error on This Website: What to Do Next

You visit your website and find a blank page with one deeply unhelpful sentence: There has been a critical error on this website....

There Has Been a Critical Error on This Website: What to Do Next Seeing “There has been a critical error on this website”? Learn what caused it, what you can safely check, and when to call a WordPress developer.

WordPress for Nonprofits: Raise More and Save Time

Practical ways to raise more, save time, and build something that lasts. I founded Watermelon Web Works to serve nonprofits....

WordPress for Nonprofits: Raise More and Save Time Put WordPress to work for your nonprofit: build monthly giving, use Google Ad Grants, recruit volunteers, save staff time, and protect your website long-term.

How to Stop a WooCommerce Carding Attack (And the Root Cause We Nearly Missed)

If your WooCommerce or Magento store is under a carding attack, you need to stop the abusive checkout traffic at the edge, make sure CAPTCHA failures block rather than approve payments, and add fraud controls at the payment gateway....

How to Stop a WooCommerce Carding Attack (And the Root Cause We Nearly Missed) A WooCommerce carding attack can overwhelm checkout and bypass CAPTCHA failsafes. Here’s how we found the cause—and how to stop it.

Zapier vs. a Custom API for WordPress CRM Integrations: When You’ve Outgrown No-Code Automation

A prospect fills out a form on your WordPress site. They see the cheerful little “Thank you!” message....

Zapier vs. a Custom API for WordPress CRM Integrations: When You’ve Outgrown No-Code Automation A prospect fills out a form on your WordPress site. They see the cheerful little “Thank you!” message. Marketing records a conversion. Everyone goes home believing that a lead now exists in Salesf…

Core Web Vitals Failed: When Speed Plugins Make High TTFB Worse

A client sent me a PageSpeed Insights report recently. Their WordPress site was failing its Core Web Vitals assessment, Google was complaining about server response time, and the score had become a bit of an obsession....

Core Web Vitals Failed: When Speed Plugins Make High TTFB Worse A client sent me a PageSpeed Insights report recently. Their WordPress site was failing its Core Web Vitals assessment, Google was complaining about server response time, and the score had become …

Unexpected Legal Risk for Website Owners: C**A Demand Letters Are Targeting WordPress and Other Business Websites You are running a business website, keeping it maintained, optimized, and secure. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a demand letter from a law firm arrives accusing your company of violating the Cal…

Unexpected Legal Risk for Website Owners: C**A Demand Letters Are Targeting WordPress and Other Business Websites

You are running a business website, keeping it maintained, optimized, and secure. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a demand letter from a law firm arrives accusing your company of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act, or C**A....

Unexpected Legal Risk for Website Owners: C**A Demand Letters Are Targeting WordPress and Other Business Websites You are running a business website, keeping it maintained, optimized, and secure. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a demand letter from a law firm arrives accusing your company of violating the Cal…

Scaling E-Commerce SEO with AI (for 500+ SKUs)

How to Improve Product Descriptions at Scale Without Google Penalties If you run an e-commerce store with 500, 1,000, or 5,000+ products, …...

Scaling E-Commerce SEO with AI (for 500+ SKUs) How to Improve Product Descriptions at Scale Without Google Penalties If you run an e-commerce store with 500, 1,000, or 5,000+ products, SEO gets messy fast. At that size, product content tends t…

When Elementor Loses Its CSS: A Free Plugin for a Very Silly Problem

If you maintain Elementor sites, you have probably seen this one. The site was fine yesterday. The homepage looked normal....

When Elementor Loses Its CSS: A Free Plugin for a Very Silly Problem If you maintain Elementor sites, you have probably seen this one. The site was fine yesterday. The homepage looked normal. The buttons were buttoning. The spacing was spacing. Everyone went home h…