WordPress help and fixes, from someone in Nottingham.
An update broke the layout, a plugin is fighting another one, the pages take six seconds to load, or the person who built it has vanished along with the login. WordPress is my home turf. Send me the link and tell me what’s going wrong.
Tell me what needs doingSounds familiar?
WordPress will happily run for years and then break on a Tuesday morning for no obvious reason.
There usually is a reason, and it’s usually one of about six things. These are the ones I get asked about most.
An update broke the layout
Everything was fine on Friday. Something updated over the weekend and now the homepage looks like a ransom note.
Two plugins are fighting
And the page has gone white, or a section has vanished, or the checkout stops halfway through.
The site is slow
Six seconds on a phone, and most of that is usually photographs nobody resized and plugins nobody uses any more.
Nobody has the login
The developer who built it has moved on, changed email, or gone quiet. That’s more recoverable than people expect.
You’re wary of the page builder
Elementor, Gutenberg, whichever it was built in. You want one thing changed and nobody wants to be the one who tries.
Something is posting spam
Pages appearing that you didn’t write, or Google warning you about content that isn’t yours.
What I actually do on WordPress
Most WordPress jobs are small once you know where to look. Some really aren’t, and I’ll tell you which yours is before I start rather than after.
- Fixes and rescues. Broken layouts, plugin conflicts, white screens, and the ones where nobody is quite sure what happened.
- Page edits. Copy, photos, prices, opening hours, and staff who have moved on.
- Elementor and Gutenberg. Edits in whichever builder your site uses, without breaking the template around it.
- Speed. Images, caching, and clearing out the plugins that are doing nothing except slowing you down.
- Security and clean-ups. Spam pages, dodgy logins, and getting the site back to itself after something has got in.
- Getting back in. Lost logins, changed email addresses, and domains registered to somebody who has left.
- The SEO fields. Titles, descriptions, headings and the structure underneath, so Google and the AI tools can read you clearly.
- Ongoing help. If you’d rather somebody else kept on top of updates and backups instead of you remembering.
Nottingham, and everywhere else
I’m in Nottingham, so a lot of my WordPress work is for businesses around Nottinghamshire, Newark, Grantham, Mansfield and Lincoln. Trades, clinics, small agencies, a couple of charities.
But none of this needs me to be nearby. WordPress runs in a browser and so do I. So if you’re further afield and you like the sound of how I work, get in touch anyway.
Why not just ask whoever built it?
If they’re still around and doing a good job, that’s exactly what you should do and I’ll tell you so. Nobody knows a site like the person who built it.
But that’s often the problem. They’ve moved on, changed rates, taken a full-time job, or simply stopped answering. Sometimes the agency that built it has closed. And you’re left with a site you can’t get into and no clear idea who holds the domain.
That’s a normal situation and it’s usually recoverable. Send me whatever you’ve got and I’ll tell you what’s missing and how we get it back.
How it works
Three steps, and no project plan required.
- You tell me what’s wrongDrop me an email. A sentence is plenty, and a screenshot is a bonus. You don’t need to know the technical words for it.
- I tell you what it takesWhat I’d do, what it costs, and how long. If it’s quick I’ll say so rather than dressing it up into a project.
- I do it and you check itYou see it before it goes live. If it isn’t right, I fix it.
You get me, not an account manager and not a ticket number. And if your site also needs help getting found rather than just fixing, that’s what the AI visibility work is for. The two pair up nicely, but neither needs the other.
Questions I get asked
Can someone fix my WordPress site for me?
Yes. Send me the link and a sentence about what’s going wrong, and I’ll tell you what it takes before you commit to anything. Most WordPress jobs are small, and they’re priced per job.
Why did my WordPress site break after an update?
Usually because a plugin or the theme was not ready for the new version, so something it relied on has moved or gone. It is normally fixable by rolling back the one thing that broke rather than the whole site.
How do I fix a white screen on WordPress?
A white screen almost always means a fatal error in a plugin or the theme. The usual route is to disable plugins one at a time, or switch to a default theme, until the page comes back. If you cannot get into the dashboard at all it has to be done through the hosting file manager.
Why is my WordPress site so slow?
Nine times out of ten it is oversized images, too many plugins, or no caching, in that order. A slow site is worth fixing on its own, because people leave before the page finishes loading.
I have lost my WordPress login. What can I do?
More often than not you can get back in through your hosting control panel or the database, even without the original email address. Send me what you do have, including who your host is, and I’ll tell you what is possible.
How much does it cost to fix a WordPress website?
It is priced per job, because a plugin conflict and a full rescue are not the same afternoon. You get the price before I start, and if it turns out to be ten minutes of my time I’ll usually just do it.
Do I need a WordPress maintenance plan?
Not necessarily. If your site is simple and you are happy running updates, you probably do not. If nobody is watching it and it has not been backed up since launch, then a monthly arrangement is worth it and we can work one out.
Who can help with WordPress in Nottingham?
That would be me. I work with businesses across Nottinghamshire, Newark, Grantham, Mansfield and Lincoln, and plenty of people I have never met, because it is all done in a browser.
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