WordPress in 2026: Common Questions We’re Getting From Business Owners
WordPress has been around for a long time, but the questions businesses are asking about it are changing. A few years ago, most conversations were around design, hosting and how easy a website was to update. In 2026, we’re hearing a lot more about AI, security, ownership, search visibility, website maintenance and whether businesses still […]
WordPress 7.1.1 Is Out. Here’s What It Actually Means for Your Website
WordPress 7.1.1 is scheduled for release on 17 September 2026, just a few weeks after WordPress 7.1 launched in August. Rather than introducing another round of major features, this maintenance release is focused on resolving bugs and regressions identified following the rollout of WordPress 7.1. Why WordPress Maintenance Updates Matter Over the last few years […]
WordPress/WooCommerce vs Shopify: Which Is Better for Your Business?
Choosing between Shopify and WordPress with WooCommerce is one of the most common decisions businesses face when building an online store. The problem is that there isn’t a simple answer. Both platforms are capable of running successful eCommerce websites, and both can scale to support large businesses. The right choice really comes down to what […]
WordPress 7.1 Is Coming: What Business Owners Actually Need to Know
If you’ve ever had a website update knock your site offline, break a plugin, or quietly wreck your homepage layout, you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common worries business owners raise with us, usually because it’s happened to them before with a previous provider. Most of the time it comes down to a […]
wp2shell Explained: The WordPress Core Vulnerability Behind the July 2026 Emergency Patch
On 17 July, WordPress released version 7.0.2 to patch a vulnerability chain security researchers have named “wp2shell”, one of the most serious WordPress core flaws in years. Four days later, on 21 July, we updated every website we manage, roughly 350 sites, to close it off. Most of our clients never noticed this happened. And […]
How We Kept the Mark Hughes Foundation Website Online During Australia’s Biggest Brain Cancer Fundraiser
A 100x traffic spike. A live national broadcast. Three years. Zero downtime. When the Mark Hughes Foundation runs its annual Beanies for Brain Cancer campaign, millions of Australians tune in across national television. Donations flood in. Social media lights up. And in the background, our team at Clickk is watching every metric in real time […]
Google PageSpeed’s New Agentic Browsing Score Explained for Business Owners
If you’ve logged into Google PageSpeed Insights recently or had your web agency run a report on your site you may have noticed something new sitting alongside the familiar Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO scores. There’s a fifth one now. It’s called Agentic Browsing. Most business owners in Australia have no idea it exists […]
Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Turned Them Into Malware. But don’t worry, no Clickk websites were affected
In early April 2026, thousands of WordPress website owners found out that their sites had been compromised without their knowledge. Not by a hacker getting past a firewall, but by a normal plugin update that they probably clicked “approve” on without thinking about it. The attack was aimed at a group of more than 30 […]
Why We Use an Approved Plugin Stack (And Why It Matters For Your Website)
If you have a WordPress website, you may have seen some noise recently about a security incident involving a popular set of plugins. Without getting into the technical details, here is the short version: a company that made over 20 widely used WordPress plugins was sold to a new owner, who quietly planted malicious code […]
Server Upgrade: Faster, more reliable websites
Background Over the past week, we’ve kicked off the migration of around 120 websites to a new hosting environment. This wasn’t a reactive decision. It’s something we’ve been watching closely for a while. We noticed that our old hosting provider wasn’t giving our clients the level of service we expect over time. The load speeds […]