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Practical fixes from WordPress builds and website migrations.

October 19, 2026

WordPress posts missing their scheduled time: what to check first

You schedule an announcement to support a campaign, then discover that it never went live. Someone has to interrupt their morning, publish it manually, and check whether the campaign links now work. When this happens repeatedly, the website becomes another deadline your team has to supervise. A missed publishing time deserves investigation, but it does […]

October 12, 2026

WordPress autoloaded options warning: what to check before cleaning the database

Your WordPress dashboard feels sluggish, updating a service page takes longer than it should, and Site Health flags “Autoloaded options could affect performance.” It is tempting to install a database cleaner and remove whatever looks large. A better first step is to understand what the warning measures, connect it to an actual business problem, and […]

October 11, 2026

Taking over an unfinished WordPress website

What your agency needs before hiring a new developer If your WordPress developer has left a half-built site, start by finding out what your agency can access, what actually works, and what still needs to happen before launch. Those answers make it possible to hire the right replacement and agree on a realistic scope. The […]

September 29, 2021

Ordering WordPress posts by multiple custom fields

Recently I had to order a custom post type archive page by two different custom fields (set up via ACF). In this instance the point was to order by last name and then first name on a staff listing page. Took a little digging to figure out how to do this exactly, helped by John […]