So your site is down and you can’t log in… and you just realized you don’t have a recent backup. Dammit. Before you launch into panic mode, though, it’s safe to say you’re not completely screwed. In an ideal world, you would have a working backup that you could use to restore your site, but we don’t exactly live in a perfect world. Sometimes, backups don’t work, get corrupted, or we simply forget (or neglect…) to make one in the first place.

Source: Creating a Manual Backup of WordPress When It’s Down or Locked

A few years ago, I played a big part in building a client website that’s still successful enough today but has become frustratingly slow. The database is full of clutter and there are some pages that take as long as 26 seconds to load due to the number of images and other requests it makes to the server. We decided it was high time to do something about this and recently rebuilt the site, applying tried and tested speed techniques, which lowered the loading time to around 2 seconds on more complex pages and just 800ms on simple pages.

Source: The Ultimate Mega Guide to Speeding Up WordPress

WordPress is the preferred content management system behind 26% of the world’s websites. Many of which are for major brands, companies, and public figures like CNN, Major League Baseball, Katy Perry, Mashable, TechCrunch, and the New York Post. Obviously, their experience managing their WordPress website is going to be much different from your own.

Source: 10 of the Best WordPress Support Services Available in 2016