WordPress Closed That Plugin. Your Dashboard Still Says It Is Fine.
WordPress can close a plugin without telling you. Updates stop, the code keeps running, and your admin screen shows nothing. How to check your own list.
·13 min read
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Ian oversees Web60's hosting infrastructure and operations. Responsible for the uptime, security, and performance of every site on the platform, he writes about the operational reality of keeping Irish business websites fast, secure, and online around the clock.
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Hosting infrastructure and uptimeServer operations and monitoringSecurity, backups, and complianceWordPress platform managementIncident response and disaster recoveryGDPR and Irish data sovereignty
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- ✓Operations Director at Web60 / SmartHost
- ✓Specialist in managed WordPress infrastructure
- ✓Responsible for platform uptime and security
Articles by Ian O'Reilly
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The Google Supplier Unit Now Covers Local Businesses. Most Owners Have Never Heard of It.
Google's supplier unit gives direct providers a slot beside the booking sites and directories in EEA results. It now covers local business queries.
·13 min read
Google Does Not Read Your Embedded Widget: The Services Search Never Sees
Your booking widget, menu or price list may sit in an iframe Google never reads. How to verify what search engines actually store from your page.
·13 min read
Checking Your Own Google Ranking: Why Your Search Is Not Your Customer's
Your own Google search is shaped by your location, device and history. How to check where your business really ranks, and which number to trust instead.
·12 min read
A One-Page Website Gives Google Exactly One Page to Rank
A one-page website gives Google a single URL to index, which caps every search you can win. What that costs, how to fix it, and when one page is enough.
·12 min read
Invoice Redirection Fraud: Your Customer Paid, and You Never Got the Money
Your customer paid a fraudster and believes your invoice is settled. Who owes what now, the 72-hour GDPR clock, and what to do in the first hour.
·17 min read
The Advertising Code Applies to Your Website, Not Just Your Ads
Ireland's Advertising Code covers your own website, not only paid ads. Complaints are free, and upheld cases get published with your business name on them.
·14 min read
A Platform Removed Your Business Page. The Appeal Does Not Have to End With Them.
A platform can remove your business Page or listing overnight. Under the EU Digital Services Act, Ireland now has a free independent appeal route.
·14 min read
Ireland's eInvoicing Deadline Is Not a Big-Company Problem. It Lands on You in 2028.
From 1 November 2028 every business in Ireland must be able to receive a structured eInvoice. What Revenue's eInvoicing deadline means for small firms.
·13 min read
Somebody in Your Business Is Pasting Customer Data Into ChatGPT
Using ChatGPT with customer data makes your business the data controller, not the AI company. What the Irish DPC expects, and a four-step fix for staff AI use.
·13 min read
Google Is Showing a Grey Globe Instead of Your Favicon
Google shows a grey globe beside your result when it cannot read your favicon. What Google needs, how to set it in WordPress, and how long it takes.
·11 min read
Hosting Switching Fees End in January 2027: What You Are Owed
Hosting switching fees end on 12 January 2027. What the EU Data Act already obliges your provider to do, and which hosting plans it may not cover.
·15 min read
Why Your Competitor Ranks Above You on Google, and What You Can Copy
The business above you on Google did not pay for that spot. What they actually have, which parts you can copy this month, and the one you cannot.
·11 min read
Your Website Calls It Eco-Friendly. New Green Claims Rules Start 27 September.
New green claims rules hit Irish business websites on 27 September 2026. What eco-friendly, sustainable and carbon-neutral can still say, and what must go.
·17 min read
When Google Marks Your Business Permanently Closed and Nobody Tells You
Your Google listing can say permanently closed without you touching it. How wrong closures happen, how to reopen the profile, and how to stop it recurring.
·12 min read
Recurring Payments on Your Own Website: What Has to Work Every Month
Taking recurring payments on your own website means expiring cards, lapsed mandates and refund windows. What has to work every month, and what breaks.
·16 min read
Product Safety Rules Reach Your Product Pages, Not Just the Factory Floor
EU product safety rules now set what every online product listing has to show, and what a recall asks of your website. What Irish shops need on the page.
·15 min read
How to Get Your Business Website Indexed on Bing, and Why an Hour Is Enough
Google is 94% of Irish search. The rest runs on an index most business owners never submit to. How to get your website indexed on Bing in about an hour.
·12 min read
Every Stockist Got the Same Product Description. Google Only Shows One of Them.
Your supplier's product descriptions sit on every other stockist's site too. Google shows one of them, rarely yours. What to write on the page instead.
·12 min read
Your Gift Vouchers Are a Five-Year Promise Your Website Has to Keep
Irish gift vouchers must run at least five years, and the VAT can fall due before anyone redeems one. What to set up when you sell them from your own site.
·16 min read
Google Maps Is Not the Only Map: Your Apple Maps Listing Is Probably Wrong
More than half the phones in Ireland are iPhones, and Apple Maps runs on separate data to Google. How to claim, verify and fix your Apple Maps listing.
·11 min read
A Data Deletion Request Lands in Your Inbox. Your Website Kept More Copies Than You Think.
A customer asks you to delete their data. Your WordPress site keeps copies the delete button never touches, and the clock runs for one month.
·11 min read
Copied Word for Word: What to Do When a Competitor Lifts Your Website
A competitor copied your website word for word. What Google actually does about it, how to get the copy delisted, and the evidence to gather first.
·11 min read
Changing Your Business Name: What Moves With You and What Does Not
Changing your business name? Your rankings, links and listings do not follow you automatically. The sequence that protects what your website already earned.
·14 min read
Your Website Changes Are Not Showing Because You Only Updated One Copy of Your Site
You changed the page and customers still see the old one. Several copies of your site hold the old version. Learn which you can clear and which you cannot.
·13 min read
A Hacked Website Is Bad. What Google Does Next Is Worse.
Cleaning a hacked WordPress site is the easy part. Removing Google's 'this site may be hacked' warning and rebuilding the search visibility it wrecks is the real cost.
·10 min read
A Broken Link Sent Her to a Dead End. A 404 Page Would Have Kept Her.
A dead link should not cost you a customer. A custom 404 page turns a not-found error into a second chance to keep visitors on your site and off a dead end.
·9 min read
Your New Website Is Live but Invisible on Google. One Setting Is Usually Why.
Your website is live but nowhere on Google? Before you blame slow SEO, check the one WordPress setting that quietly tells search engines to stay out.
·10 min read
You Are Not the Only Person Who Can Log Into Your Website
Former staff, freelancers and old agencies often still have live logins to your site. Learn how to audit who can access your website and revoke stale accounts.
·10 min read
Comment Spam: The Case for Closing Your Business Website's Comments
Comment spam floods business websites with junk links while real customers stay silent. Why closing your comments section is the smart operational call.
·7 min read