Guru Site HealthGuides
WordPress site health, explained properly.
Every guide here comes from a check the plugin runs. No filler, no affiliate links, and no advice that ends in “contact your developer”.
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Audit
WordPress Site Audit: The Complete Checklist
A six-part audit covering updates, security, database, media, accessibility and SEO - what to check, why it matters, and what good looks like.
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Indexing
Discourage Search Engines From Indexing This Site: How to Fix It
One WordPress checkbox can hide your whole site from Google. Here is what it actually does, how to tell if it is on, and how to undo the damage.
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Security
The WordPress Security Checklist You Can Actually Finish
Fourteen checks, ordered by how much they matter and how little they cost. No firewall vendor required, and most of them take under a minute.
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Performance
How to Run a WordPress Performance Audit Without Guessing
Most speed advice tells you to install a cache and hope. This is how to find out what is actually slow on your site, in order, before you change anything.
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Indexing
How to Get Your WordPress Site Indexed by Google
Six things to check, in order, when your WordPress site is not showing up in Google - starting with the ones that block indexing entirely.
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Database
Autoloaded Options: WordPress’s Hidden Performance Tax
WordPress loads some of your options table on every single request. Here is how to measure yours, why it grows, and what is safe to remove.
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Accessibility
WordPress Accessibility Checker: Find What Is Broken
How to check a WordPress site for the accessibility problems that actually occur - missing alt text, broken heading order, unlabelled forms and poor contrast.
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Maintenance
How to Check Your WordPress Version (and Hide It)
Five ways to find which version of WordPress a site is running, including from outside the admin - and why you might not want that to be public.
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