How the PressFixer Agent Actually Works
Plain English instructions. Live preview before anything goes live. Every change version-controlled.
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Real data on what WordPress costs small businesses. What we found inside client sites. What the migration actually looks like.
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The Hidden Cost of WordPress Nobody Talks About
Hosting, plugins, maintenance contracts, emergency developer calls — we built a cost model from public vendor pricing and industry data. The number will surprise you.
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The Questions Small Business Owners Ask Before Migrating Off WordPress
Will I lose my rankings? What about my contact form? The real questions, with honest answers.
Read →Five Things We Strip Out of Every WordPress Migration
Every WordPress site we migrate carries years of accumulated junk. Here's what we remove every time.
Read →What's Actually on a WordPress Maintenance Invoice
A $400/month retainer sounds reasonable until you look at what's being done. We broke it down.
Read →What Happens to Your WordPress Site When Hosting Renewal Lapses
Most hosts offer a low intro rate and then quietly double it. Miss the email, and your site goes down.
Read →Your Web Designer Retired. Now What?
Your developer built the site, kept the passwords, and has gone quiet. Here's what to do.
Read →We Considered Going Headless. Here's Why We Didn't.
Headless CMS is genuinely good technology — for content teams with developers. An honest look at why most small businesses should choose static HTML instead.
8 min read →Accessibility Widgets Don't Make Your Site Accessible
Overlay widgets like accessiBe and UserWay are sold as instant ADA compliance. Disabled users, disability organisations, and the courts say otherwise.
7 min read →Why Some Businesses Show Up in AI Search Results (And Most Don't)
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini are answering questions and citing sources. If your business isn't one of them, here's exactly why — and what a static HTML site does differently.
7 min read →Inside a Two-Week WordPress Migration
Day-by-day breakdown of how we migrate a real WordPress site to a clean HTML build. What we extract, what we rewrite, and what we leave behind.
11 min read →WordPress vs Static HTML: The 5-Year Total Cost
We built a model comparing total cost of ownership across WordPress, Webflow, Squarespace, and a static HTML site. The results were not close.
9 min read →AI-Powered Site Editing Without a Developer
Plain English instructions. Live preview before anything goes public. Version control on every change. What our agent actually does — and what it refuses to touch.
4 min read →WordPress Faces 90,000 Attacks Per Minute. Here's Why.
The plugin architecture that makes WordPress flexible is the same reason it's the most attacked CMS on the internet. Here's what the security research actually shows.
7 min read →You Don't Actually Own Your WordPress Site
The distinction between renting infrastructure and owning a file. Why most small business owners are one bad update away from losing everything.
5 min read →What Security Research Shows About WordPress Sites in the Wild
Abandoned plugins still running. PHP versions years past end-of-life. Security holes with no patch available. Here's what independent security researchers actually find.
8 min read →The WP Engine vs. Automattic Situation, Explained — And Why It Should Concern Small Business Owners
If you run a WordPress site, the WP Engine conflict is more than industry drama — it's a window into the kind of platform risk your business carries every day.
7 min read →How We Build Websites That Don't Break
Clients sometimes ask us what our support process is like — what happens when something goes wrong after we hand off their site. The honest answer is that we don't have an emergency support line because we don't build sites that have emergencies.
8 min read →Is WordPress Still Worth It for Small Business in 2026?
The honest answer: it depends on what you're building, and probably not if you're a typical small business with a brochure site. Here's a genuine attempt at an unbiased assessment.
7 min read →Your WordPress Site Got Hacked: What to Do Now, and How to Make Sure It Never Happens Again
Discovering that your WordPress site has been hacked is simultaneously alarming and somehow not surprising. Here's what to do immediately, how to understand what happened, and how to think about what comes next.
8 min read →What 'Owning Your Website' Actually Means (And Why Most Businesses Don't)
You paid a developer several thousand dollars for a website. You probably feel like you own it. You might not — and the distinction matters more than most business owners realise.
6 min read →Why Your WordPress Site Is Slow (And Why Plugins Can't Fix It)
A slow website costs you customers. Most WordPress sites load in 3–6 seconds. Here's why performance plugins don't solve the underlying problem — and what actually does.
6 min read →WordPress Alternatives for Small Business: An Honest Comparison (2026)
Squarespace, Webflow, Wix, Ghost, or plain HTML? An honest look at what each platform actually delivers for small businesses — and what they cost in the long run.
8 min read →How to Migrate Off WordPress Without Losing Your SEO
The fear of losing search rankings is the single biggest reason small business owners stay on WordPress longer than they should. A properly executed migration won't hurt your rankings. In most cases, it will improve them.
7 min read →The Real Cost of WordPress in 2026: What Nobody Tells Small Business Owners
Most small business owners think their website costs around $200–300 a year. The actual number is usually between $2,000 and $6,000 — and sometimes much more.
7 min read →Why Your WordPress Site Keeps Breaking (And Why It's Not Going to Stop)
You updated a plugin last Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, your contact form had stopped working. If this sounds familiar, you're not doing anything wrong — this is just what WordPress does now.
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