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UK employment rights changes are here: what this means for your SME
The Employment Rights Act 2025 is not a future concern. Its first major wave of changes took effect on 6 April 2026, and if you run an SME in the UK, several of those changes carry direct financial consequences that start from the moment an employee joins your business or calls in sick. This is
Performance Optimisation
WordPress Uptime Monitoring: Ensuring Maximum Website Availability
Your website going offline is a real operational risk. Servers overload, software conflicts bring sites down, and physical damage to hosting infrastructure can take a site offline without warning. Each of these causes damages your reputation, drags down your search rankings, and costs you traffic and sales. The question is how quickly you find out
A Guide for Improving WordPress Server Response Time
Server response time is the gap between a visitor clicking a link to your site and their browser receiving the first piece of data back from your server. That gap, measured as Time to First Byte (TTFB), determines how quickly the rest of the page can begin loading. A slow TTFB sets a ceiling on
WordPress Downtime Costs: Why Uptime Guarantees Matter
When a website goes offline, the loss is immediate. Visitors who cannot reach your site do not wait. They leave, and they spend their money elsewhere. E-N Computers’ 2024 calculation puts a number on that: a business generating £1 million in annual revenue loses approximately £3,000 for every day its website is down. Scale that
Security Hardening
200,000 WordPress Sites at Risk from Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Burst Statistics Plugin
A critical security flaw in the Burst Statistics WordPress plugin left more than 200,000 business websites exposed to complete administrative takeover, with no login credentials required from the attacker. The vulnerability, discovered on 8 May 2026 by Wordfence’s autonomous research platform, scores 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS severity scale — the highest rating
Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in Slider Revolution 7 WordPress Plugin
Slider Revolution is installed on millions of WordPress sites worldwide. If yours is among them, a recently disclosed security flaw means any logged-in user on your site — a newsletter subscriber, a low-level team member, anyone with the most basic account — could upload a malicious file and gain complete control of your server. That
Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition
Microsoft’s February 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 58 security flaws across Windows and related software, six of which were already being used against real targets at the moment the patches dropped. That last detail is the one that matters. These are not theoretical risks being disclosed responsibly ahead of any known exploitation. Attackers were already inside
Troubleshooting
WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 4
The fourth Release Candidate for WordPress 7.0 was published on 14 May 2026, six days before the scheduled final release on 20 May 2026. If you run a website that takes orders, generates leads, or represents your business to customers, that date proximity might tempt you to update quickly once the final version drops. I’d
WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 3
WordPress 7.0 is scheduled to release on 20 May 2026. If your business runs on WordPress, that date is close enough to warrant action now rather than after the fact. The question is not whether to update, but how to do it without taking a trading site offline or breaking functionality your customers depend on.
WooCommerce
Why Messy Data Stops Your Online Store Scaling Into Marketplaces
There is a moment in every growing ecommerce business when the infrastructure that got you here starts working against you. A plugin added to handle a new payment method. A custom integration bolted on for a wholesale channel. A workaround built because the original system could not quite do what you needed. Each decision made
Why UK B2B Firms Without an Ecommerce Stack Are Losing Sales in 2026
Forty-two percent of UK B2B businesses have no ecommerce tech stack in place. That figure comes from The Inevitable Shift report, produced by Commerce with YouGov and PayPal, and it describes a straightforward commercial problem: businesses that cannot sell online are losing orders to competitors who can. What makes it worse is that 44% of
Will TikTok’s Ad-Free Subscription Hurt Your WooCommerce Sales Reach?
If you run a WooCommerce store and spend money on TikTok ads, you have probably seen the headlines about TikTok’s new paid subscription. The natural concern is simple: if users can pay to remove ads, does that mean your paid campaigns will stop reaching them? The answer is more reassuring than the headlines suggest. TikTok
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