WORDPRESS SPECIALIST, LONDON
Is Your WordPress Site Broken? A London WordPress Specialist Explains
I’ve dealt with a hacked site, plugin conflicts, and unexplained downtime on my own WordPress installs over the years — so if you’re panicking right now, you’re not the first.
Below are the problems I get asked about most often — what’s usually actually going on, and how it gets fixed. If you need wordpress emergency support right now, skip to the bottom and get in touch.
“My website has been hacked”
Usually it’s an out-of-date plugin or theme with a known vulnerability — the door was left open, not picked. Your wordpress site hacked doesn’t mean you did anything wrong; it means nobody’s been keeping the locks up to date. The fix is a clean rebuild on a platform that doesn’t have this problem in the first place.
Your WordPress site is slow
A wordpress site slow to load is almost always plugin bloat — years of tools stacked on top of each other, most doing jobs nobody remembers assigning them. Every one of them slows every single page load down, whether it’s being used or not.
Your WordPress site is down
A wordpress site down usually traces back to a bad plugin update, a hosting hiccup, or a conflict nobody caught before it went live. If wordpress is not loading at all right now, that’s urgent — get in touch and I’ll take a look as fast as I can.
Plugin conflicts after an update
You update one plugin and something else on the site quietly breaks. This is one of the most common reasons a wordpress site broken shows up out of nowhere — plugins were never really designed to be trusted to play nicely together.
The white screen of death
A blank white page with no error message is usually a PHP fatal error — often triggered by exactly the kind of plugin conflict above. It looks catastrophic. It’s rarely as bad as it looks, and it’s fixable.
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