WordPress tips, tutorials, and best practices for building and managing your site.
WordPress powers over 40% of the web, and for good reason. It's flexible, it's open source, and when it's set up properly on decent hosting, it performs well. But "set up properly" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
These articles cover the practical side of running WordPress: picking plugins that won't slow you down, keeping your site secure between updates, squeezing more speed out of your stack. Written from the perspective of a UK hosting company that's managed thousands of WordPress installs since 2002.
WordPress 7.1 was supposed to speed up prerendering by itself on well-cached sites. That is not what shipped. What landed instead is a lever only your host can pull, and the caching test behind the deferred idea cannot see most of what makes hosting fast.
WordPress 7.1 shipped on 19 August with responsive styling and hover states built into the editor, two jobs that have pushed people towards Elementor for years. Updated for the release: what actually landed, the one thing we got wrong in July, the two settings that can hide the new controls, and the UK maths on whether your page builder site should care.
WordPress is turning from software humans drive into software AI agents can inspect and operate. Giving an agent access without backups, permissions, logs and easy rollback is like giving a very enthusiastic apprentice the server password and going to lunch. Here is what changed in WordPress 7.0, what goes wrong, and what AI-ready WordPress hosting actually needs to include.
Nearly every host promises "daily backups included", but that phrase tells you almost nothing about whether you could actually recover your site on a bad day. Here is what really gets backed up, why retention matters more than frequency, whether the backup can be restored, and how 365i's Timeline Backups handle files, databases and mailboxes without a plugin.
WordPress 7.0 launched on 20 May 2026 without real-time collaboration, which Matt Mullenweg pulled on 8 May. Here's what shipped, what got cut, and our hands-on findings from running RC5 on two of our own sites for the 24 hours before launch.
Wordfence disclosed CVE-2026-4798 in Avada Builder this week, affecting over 1,050,000 WordPress installations. The headline is patch to 3.15.3. The buried lead almost nobody covered is the WooCommerce-installed-then-deactivated precondition that turns the SQL injection from a "1M sites at risk" panic into a much narrower exploit window. We have held Avada licences for years and patched our portfolio first. Here is what actually matters.
515 tickets in our entire helpdesk history. Median first response under five minutes. 72 five-star Google reviews and zero negatives. Eleven recent tickets, anonymised, with timings, customer reactions, and the day we re-registered a customer's domain at our own cost.
Webflow locks your CMS content to their servers. Cloudflare's EmDash only runs its security features on Cloudflare. WordPress lets you host anywhere. Here's the honest comparison nobody else is making.
The complete reference guide to every common WordPress error message. White screen of death, 500 errors, database connection, memory exhausted, redirect loops. Diagnose, fix, and stop it happening again.
Every comparison on page one of Google is funded by affiliate commissions. This one isn't. We run a WordPress hosting company, but we'll tell you where Shopify, Squarespace and Wix genuinely win, and where WordPress still wins everything else.
WordPress 7.0 didn't ship on 9 April. The core team extended the cycle to redesign the database layer for real-time collaboration, then pulled real-time collaboration entirely on 8 May. The release shipped on 20 May with block-level Notes in its place. This is the record of the database rework that happened anyway.
The WordPress Foundation has announced that WordPress 7.0 will require a physical USB-C hardware key plugged into your computer to access wp-admin. Four pricing tiers start at £29.99. The Agency Bundle weighs 1.4kg. We have questions.
Your contact form submissions vanish. Order confirmations never arrive. The problem isn't WordPress or your plugins. It's that PHP mail() sends email with no proof of identity, and Gmail rejects it. Here's the hosting-level fix.
We checked the renewal pricing on Kinsta, WP Engine, Hostinger Pro, Pressable, and SiteGround. Then we calculated what agencies actually pay per site at scale. The gap between per-site pricing and 365i's flat-rate agency plan is staggering.
Your WordPress site is being probed by bots right now. Our free scanner checks eight things attackers look for, grades your site A+ to F, and tells you how to fix every issue. No plugin, no signup, 30 seconds.
The plugin once called AI Experiments hit a stable 1.0 and jumped from 7 features to 18. We reinstalled it at 1.0.1 on WordPress 7.0, added the three provider plugins for Claude, Gemini and OpenAI, and tested everything: the editorial tools, alt text, comment moderation, and the two new governance features that matter most if you run client sites.
WordPress 7.0 ships on 20 May 2026 with the AI Client, block-level Notes, DataViews and PHP 7.4 as the new minimum. Every blog covers the features. Nobody is asking whether your hosting can actually handle them. Here's the WordPress 7.0 hosting readiness checklist your provider hopes you won't read.
Most hosting companies sell you a server and disappear. 365i does things differently. From personalised screencast tutorials to one-click DKIM setup and 37 built-in control panel tools, here's what WordPress hosting looks like when someone actually cares whether you succeed.
The web has seen this pattern twice before: robots.txt in 1994, sitemaps in 2005. AI Discovery Files are at that same early stage. 99.7% of UK websites have none deployed. Here's what they are, why they matter, and how to get started.
AI crawler logging turns AI visibility from an argument into a measurement. The free AI Discovery Files plugin now logs every fetch of your llms.txt, and adds AI Import on WordPress 7. Here is 30 days of real log data from one of our own sites, against the Ahrefs study that says nobody reads these files.
43% of UK businesses reported a cyber breach last year. If your WordPress site has a contact form, analytics, or customer logins, security and GDPR overlap. This seven-step checklist covers SSL, two-factor authentication, safe updates, daily backups, user permissions, GDPR compliance, and security monitoring.
Per-site hosting fees add up fast when you manage client WordPress sites. 365i's agency plan costs £32.99/month for unlimited sites, each with staging, backups, and a full management panel. Here's why freelancers and small agencies are making the switch.
Your XML sitemap is the best inventory of what Google knows about your site. Our free Post Sitemap to CSV tool discovers every sitemap, fetches all page titles, and exports the lot as a spreadsheet. No sign-up, no page limits.
73% of websites have robots.txt errors that hurt their search visibility. Our free Robots.txt Checker parses every crawl rule, lets you test URL paths against them, and flags the mistakes that block search engines and AI crawlers from your best content.
WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 dropped 19 February with the Abilities API, MCP Adapter for AI agents, and a visual admin refresh. Real-time collaboration was originally planned for 7.0 but was pulled on 8 May. Here's what UK site owners need to know about the final release on 20 May 2026.
A colour-coded WordPress plugin that labels your admin bar green, orange or red so you never accidentally push changes to the wrong environment. Built after one too many late-night staging mistakes.
WordPress 7.0 ships on 20 May 2026 with the AI Client, DataViews admin redesign, block-level Notes and visual revisions. Real-time collaboration was pulled on 8 May. Full feature guide with the confirmed schedule, hosting requirements, and preparation checklist.
