Fix It: The Diagnosis Order for Any WordPress Problem
Six steps that identify the cause of almost anything, in the order that finds it fastest. Start here when you do not know where to start.
By Sumit · 12 Jul 2026 · 18 minWhite screens, 500 errors, stuck maintenance mode. The fixes, in diagnosis order.
Open Fix ItDomain to first published post. Nothing skipped, nothing upsold.
Open the guideEvery one installed on a live site and run before it gets a score.
See all reviewsFind it, remove it, close the hole, then prove it is gone. In that order.
Open the checklistLCP, CLS and INP, in the order that actually changes the number.
Open the guidesChecked against live Indian retail every month. No twelve-way ties.
All buying guidesWordPress guides, theme setups, security fixes and speed work, written from real client sites. Plus honest buying guides when you need the hardware to run it on.
Something is broken. Diagnosis order, cause, and the fix — written by…
24 postsCore settings, plugins, maintenance and the things that quietly break sites.
10 postsTheme reviews and setup guides, each one installed on a live site…
10 postsHardening before it happens, and cleanup after it already did.
10 postsHosting reviews, Core Web Vitals work and the fixes for when a…
7 postsPhones and laptops used before they are scored. Units bought at retail.
4 postsFour paths through everything on the site. Pick the one you are on.
Domain to first published post, with nothing skipped and nothing upsold.
Install, child theme, and build the layout without a page builder.
Hardening before it happens, and cleanup after it already did.
The errors everyone hits, in the order worth checking them.
Written while fixing real sites, not from a feature page.
Step by step, from a blank install.
Everything above is for the site itself. This half is the hardware: phones, laptops and PC parts, priced in rupees and re-checked against Indian retail.
One pick per budget, re-checked against live prices.
Six numbers that dominate comparison tables and barely affect how a phone feels to use, and four that genuinely do.
Read the full guideThree windows a year account for most genuine discounts. The rest of the time the “offer” is the price.
Read the full guideIntegrated graphics are finally enough at 1080p for a lot of people. Here is the build, and the honest limits of it.
Read the full guideEvery price in these guides is checked against Indian retail before the guide goes out, and the date it was checked is on the post.
Used, not unboxed. Scores are ours.
Every review here has a “what annoyed us” section and a “who should not buy this”…
A two-week review cannot see battery degradation, software rot, or whether the update promise was kept.…
Fourteen days, a logged battery, five fixed camera scenes and a twenty-minute thermal run. The procedure,…
The rubric, the weightings, what disqualifies a product outright, and why we do not grade on…
What broke this week, what we fixed, and the one deal worth taking.
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