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What the Cloudflare 2025 Year in Review Tells Us About WordPress Websites

The Cloudflare 2025 Year in Review provides an informative snapshot of how the web is used today. It highlights how widespread WordPress remains, how PHP underpins a large portion of websites, and other trends in website traffic. For business owners, these insights show the environment their websites operate in and why ongoing maintenance matters. WordPress […]

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WordPress 6.9: What Businesses Should Know About Performance, Sustainability and Support

WordPress 6.9 launched this month with practical improvements rather than flashy new features. It delivers better WordPress performance, reduced resource usage, and meaningful accessibility updates. It also changes email handling, which requires attention from website owners. Although in most cases updating will be painless, without WordPress support some websites may face disruption after updating. WordPress […]

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Optimise your WooCommerce store for a busy and sustainable festive season

The busy season grows each year and shoppers search for strong deals across Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas. Many shops chase higher sales and unfortunately ignore wider impact. I understand the need for as much sales as possible, however, I support growth that still respects the planet. Good preparation helps your WooCommerce store perform […]

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Turnstile and Cloudflare Security Rules for extra WP Admin protection

WordPress powers a huge share of the web because it is flexible, stable, and well supported. To protect the WP Admin area from bad actors and automated bots, tools like Cloudflare’s Turnstile provide an extra layer of security. Strengthening your WP Admin login with Turnstile improves reliability, performance, and safeguarding of data. As mentioned in […]

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Two Factor Authentication: Strengthen Your WordPress Admin Security

Running a website comes with responsibility. Keeping your WP Admin safe from attacks must be at the top of your priorities. Bad actors target WordPress Admin areas every day. They use stolen passwords, brute-force attacks, and phishing tactics to gain access. Once they break in, they can steal potential sensitive information, destroy data, or take […]

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Gravity Forms Data Retention: Why Every WordPress Site Needs a Policy

From over a decade of offering WordPress support in both the UK and globally, I have seen Gravity Forms data retention overlooked far too often. Gravity Forms is a trusted plugin for collecting enquiries, bookings, and feedback. However, many site owners forget to plan how long form data should stay stored. By default, Gravity Forms […]

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How to Stop AI Bots Slowing a WordPress Website, with Cloudflare

AI bots now scan the web faster and more aggressively than ever. Tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude rely on these crawlers to fetch new content. They scan millions of web pages to improve their models. Often, they do this without clear limits or permissions. That might sound harmless. However, for business owners, these bots […]

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SJ Gravity Forms Blocklist: A Gravity Forms Plugin to Block Website URLs, Email and Domains Extensions.

SJ Gravity Forms Blocklist is a lightweight WordPress plugin built to extend Gravity Forms with simple but powerful spam-blocking features. Designed with freelancers, developers, and digital agencies in mind, this plugin helps protect your WordPress site from unwanted form submissions by blocking specific website URLs, email addresses, and email domain extensions. If you’re tired of […]

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Stop WooCommerce spam orders by using the Six Thinking Hats to choose the right WordPress Plugin for your business.

Choosing the right plugin can make or break a WordPress project, especially when dealing with WooCommerce spam, performance issues, client expectations, and compliance. I’m a WordPress freelancer based in Norwich, UK, and I previously faced a decision that’s worth sharing. A client running an E-commerce website had a serious issue: WooCommerce spam orders. These fake […]

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How to stop WooCommerce spam orders

WooCommerce spam orders cause serious problems for many UK-based online retailers and disrupt normal store operations daily. Bots and bad actors flood checkout pages with fake orders that overwhelm stock levels and confuse fulfilment teams. Store owners waste valuable time sorting these orders and dealing with fake payment attempts and refund requests. Fake orders inflate […]

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SJ News: A WordPress Plugin for WP Admin Dashboard Custom News Feed

SJ News is a WordPress plugin that adds a new widget directly to the WP Admin Dashboard with your custom news feed and a call to action button. I developed this WordPress plugin with freelancers and digital agencies in mind, specifically useful for those providing ongoing maintenance and support, offering a simple way to keep […]

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