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The blog is grouped by the practical problem type first, then by tags for platform, symptom, tracking, SEO, and implementation details.
4 articles
Front-End & Layout
Visible page problems: layouts, CSS, JavaScript, embeds, widgets, and mobile behavior.
5 articles
Forms, Tracking & Data
Lead flow, GA4, GTM, pixels, dashboards, APIs, CRMs, and conversion reporting.
2 articles
WordPress & CMS
WordPress, plugin updates, themes, page builders, admin behavior, and recovery paths.
3 articles
SEO, Pages & AI Launches
SEO implementation, landing pages, AI-built cleanup, internal links, and crawl topology.
1 articles
AI Development
AI-assisted website development, launch readiness, human review, production cleanup, and maintainable implementation.
1 articles
Ecommerce & Checkout
WooCommerce, checkout failures, product data, purchase tracking, and revenue reporting.
Latest articles
Newest website support articles
Recent posts are listed newest first, using the article update date with the newest additions first when dates match.
Oct 9, 2026 · AI Development
Read articleAI-Built Website Not Ready to Launch? Cleanup Checklist
AI-built sites can look close while missing the production details that make a site usable: forms, tracking, routing, metadata, deployment settings, accessibility, and maintainable structure.
Jul 22, 2026 · Front-End & Layout
Read articleJavaScript Issues on Websites: Console & Broken Actions
JavaScript issues on websites leave clues: console errors, failed network requests, recent plugin or theme changes, cache/optimization conflicts, scripts blocked by CORS or CSP, and symptoms like dead buttons, broken menus, forms that hang, or widgets that never load.
Jul 22, 2026 · Start Here
Read articleWebsite Repair Help: Safe Triage & Next Steps
If your website is broken and the next thought is fix my broken website, identify what is broken, when it started, what changed, and whether rollback, cache cleanup, plugin/theme isolation, hosting review, or developer repair is the safest first move.
Jul 12, 2026 · Start Here
Read articleFix My Broken Website: Safe Repair Order
When the site is already broken, the useful move is to protect the current state, reproduce the symptom, identify the affected business path, and fix the smallest verified cause.
Jul 10, 2026 · Front-End & Layout
Read articleJavaScript Not Working? Website Troubleshooting
JavaScript issues usually show up when JavaScript is not working: broken menus, dead buttons, forms that never finish, widgets that fail to load, or features that work on one page and fail on another.
Jul 8, 2026 · Forms, Tracking & Data
Read articleTracking Scripts and Pixels Are Broken: How to Spot the Problem
Analytics looks wrong, conversions disappear, tags fire twice, pixels are missing, or a tracking script is pasted in three different places.
Jul 8, 2026 · Forms, Tracking & Data
Read articleForms and Modals Not Working: Where Website Leads Disappear
The form submits but nobody gets the lead, validation fails, a popup will not open, or the thank-you flow no longer tracks correctly.
Jul 8, 2026 · Front-End & Layout
Read articleWordPress Broken Layout Fix: Mobile & Desktop
If a WordPress layout is broken on mobile or desktop, check CSS files, cache and minification, plugin or theme updates, page-builder spacing, responsive breakpoints, CDN behavior, mixed content, and recent template changes before editing blindly.
Jun 29, 2026 · SEO, Pages & AI Launches
Read articleTopological Relevance and Vector SEO: A TopoRank Case Study
A technical look at how TopoRank crawls a site, strips template noise, discovers semantic clusters, scores link support, and turns internal linking into a measurable optimization loop.
Jun 29, 2026 · Forms, Tracking & Data
Read articleGoogle Ads Conversion Tracking Not Working? Check the Full Path
Google Ads conversion tracking can fail because the tag never fires, fires too late, fires twice, imports the wrong GA4 event, loses attribution, or triggers on the wrong page.
Jun 29, 2026 · Forms, Tracking & Data
Read articleGTM Form Tracking for GA4: Why Form Events Go Missing
Form tracking fails when the tracking method does not match the way the form actually submits. GTM setup needs to follow the real form behavior.
Jun 29, 2026 · WordPress & CMS
Read articleWordPress Broken After Plugin Update? What to Check
When a WordPress site breaks after a plugin update, the goal is to isolate the affected behavior, identify the plugin/theme/cache layer involved, and avoid making production worse.
Jun 29, 2026 · Ecommerce & Checkout
Read articleWooCommerce Checkout Not Working? Start With the Failure Point
A WooCommerce checkout problem can be a payment issue, JavaScript conflict, cache problem, session failure, plugin conflict, shipping/tax setting, or tracking mismatch. The first job is to identify where checkout fails.
Jun 29, 2026 · WordPress & CMS
Read articleCMS, Plugin, and Theme Weirdness: Why Existing Sites Get Strange
The site behaves differently after an update, one page ignores the template, the builder output is strange, or a plugin almost works but not quite.
Jun 29, 2026 · Front-End & Layout
Read articleEmbeds, Iframes, and Widgets Breaking Website Pages
Maps, videos, calendars, chat tools, CRM widgets, and iframes are useful until they break layout, slow the page, or fail on mobile.
Jun 29, 2026 · Forms, Tracking & Data
Read articleWebsite Tracking & Data Troubleshooting
When forms, analytics, ecommerce revenue, APIs, dashboards, and CRMs disagree, the fix starts by tracing the data path from user action to final destination.
Jun 29, 2026 · SEO, Pages & AI Launches
Read articleNeed a Page Live Fast? What It Needs to Launch
A useful page is not just a headline and a button. It needs a clear job, the right sections, mobile structure, forms, tracking, internal links, and enough polish to launch without turning into a giant process.
Jun 29, 2026 · SEO, Pages & AI Launches
Read articleSEO Audit Done? How to Implement the Fixes
SEO recommendations do not help much while they sit in a spreadsheet. Technical SEO implementation turns crawl notes, audit tasks, internal link gaps, schema needs, and template fixes into real site changes.
Broken website starting points
When something broke
These posts are built for the moment when the site is acting weird and you need a sharper name for the problem before asking for help.
If a post helps name the symptom and the site still needs work, Website Fixes handles visible bugs, while WordPress Support covers CMS, theme, plugin, and page-builder problems.
When an article points to audit notes, crawl fixes, redirects, schema, or internal links, use Technical SEO Implementation. When the issue is GA4, GTM, forms, pixels, or reporting, use Analytics & Tracking.
For specific broken-site symptoms, compare embeds, iframes, and widgets, tracking scripts and pixels, forms and modals, or CMS, plugin, and theme weirdness before deciding whether the request belongs in Website Fixes, WordPress Support, tracking, or front-end cleanup.
Website Repair Help: Safe Triage & Next Steps
If your website is broken and the next thought is fix my broken website, identify what is broken, when it started, what changed, and whether rollback, cache cleanup, plugin/theme isolation, hosting review, or developer repair is the safest first move.
- Name the website problem before choosing a service
- Collect the URL, symptom, device, and recent changes
- Route the issue into fixes, WordPress, SEO, tracking, or launch work
Website Tracking & Data Troubleshooting
When forms, analytics, ecommerce revenue, APIs, dashboards, and CRMs disagree, the fix starts by tracing the data path from user action to final destination.
- Name the website problem before choosing a service
- Collect the URL, symptom, device, and recent changes
- Route the issue into fixes, WordPress, SEO, tracking, or launch work
Need a Page Live Fast? What It Needs to Launch
A useful page is not just a headline and a button. It needs a clear job, the right sections, mobile structure, forms, tracking, internal links, and enough polish to launch without turning into a giant process.
- Name the website problem before choosing a service
- Collect the URL, symptom, device, and recent changes
- Route the issue into fixes, WordPress, SEO, tracking, or launch work
SEO Audit Done? How to Implement the Fixes
SEO recommendations do not help much while they sit in a spreadsheet. Technical SEO implementation turns crawl notes, audit tasks, internal link gaps, schema needs, and template fixes into real site changes.
- Name the website problem before choosing a service
- Collect the URL, symptom, device, and recent changes
- Route the issue into fixes, WordPress, SEO, tracking, or launch work
| AI Development | AI-built sites can look close while missing the production details that make a site usable: forms, tracking, routing, metadata, deployment settings, accessibility, and maintainable structure. | Website Fixes | AI-Built Website Not Ready to Launch? Cleanup Checklist |
| Front-End & Layout | JavaScript issues on websites leave clues: console errors, failed network requests, recent plugin or theme changes, cache/optimization conflicts, scripts blocked by CORS or CSP, and symptoms like dead buttons, broken menus, forms that hang, or widgets that never load. | Website Fixes | JavaScript Issues on Websites: Console & Broken Actions |
| Start Here | If your website is broken and the next thought is fix my broken website, identify what is broken, when it started, what changed, and whether rollback, cache cleanup, plugin/theme isolation, hosting review, or developer repair is the safest first move. | Website Fixes | Website Repair Help: Safe Triage & Next Steps |
| Start Here | When the site is already broken, the useful move is to protect the current state, reproduce the symptom, identify the affected business path, and fix the smallest verified cause. | Website Fixes | Fix My Broken Website: Safe Repair Order |
| Front-End & Layout | JavaScript issues usually show up when JavaScript is not working: broken menus, dead buttons, forms that never finish, widgets that fail to load, or features that work on one page and fail on another. | Website Fixes | JavaScript Not Working? Website Troubleshooting |
| Forms, Tracking & Data | Analytics looks wrong, conversions disappear, tags fire twice, pixels are missing, or a tracking script is pasted in three different places. | Analytics & Tracking | Tracking Scripts and Pixels Are Broken: How to Spot the Problem |
| Forms, Tracking & Data | The form submits but nobody gets the lead, validation fails, a popup will not open, or the thank-you flow no longer tracks correctly. | Website Fixes | Forms and Modals Not Working: Where Website Leads Disappear |
| Front-End & Layout | If a WordPress layout is broken on mobile or desktop, check CSS files, cache and minification, plugin or theme updates, page-builder spacing, responsive breakpoints, CDN behavior, mixed content, and recent template changes before editing blindly. | Website Fixes | WordPress Broken Layout Fix: Mobile & Desktop |
| SEO, Pages & AI Launches | A technical look at how TopoRank crawls a site, strips template noise, discovers semantic clusters, scores link support, and turns internal linking into a measurable optimization loop. | Technical SEO Implementation | Topological Relevance and Vector SEO: A TopoRank Case Study |
| Forms, Tracking & Data | Google Ads conversion tracking can fail because the tag never fires, fires too late, fires twice, imports the wrong GA4 event, loses attribution, or triggers on the wrong page. | Analytics & Tracking | Google Ads Conversion Tracking Not Working? Check the Full Path |
| Forms, Tracking & Data | Form tracking fails when the tracking method does not match the way the form actually submits. GTM setup needs to follow the real form behavior. | Analytics & Tracking | GTM Form Tracking for GA4: Why Form Events Go Missing |
| WordPress & CMS | When a WordPress site breaks after a plugin update, the goal is to isolate the affected behavior, identify the plugin/theme/cache layer involved, and avoid making production worse. | WordPress Support | WordPress Broken After Plugin Update? What to Check |
| Ecommerce & Checkout | A WooCommerce checkout problem can be a payment issue, JavaScript conflict, cache problem, session failure, plugin conflict, shipping/tax setting, or tracking mismatch. The first job is to identify where checkout fails. | Website Fixes | WooCommerce Checkout Not Working? Start With the Failure Point |
| WordPress & CMS | The site behaves differently after an update, one page ignores the template, the builder output is strange, or a plugin almost works but not quite. | WordPress Support | CMS, Plugin, and Theme Weirdness: Why Existing Sites Get Strange |
| Front-End & Layout | Maps, videos, calendars, chat tools, CRM widgets, and iframes are useful until they break layout, slow the page, or fail on mobile. | Website Fixes | Embeds, Iframes, and Widgets Breaking Website Pages |
| Forms, Tracking & Data | When forms, analytics, ecommerce revenue, APIs, dashboards, and CRMs disagree, the fix starts by tracing the data path from user action to final destination. | Analytics & Tracking | Website Tracking & Data Troubleshooting |
| SEO, Pages & AI Launches | A useful page is not just a headline and a button. It needs a clear job, the right sections, mobile structure, forms, tracking, internal links, and enough polish to launch without turning into a giant process. | Landing Pages | Need a Page Live Fast? What It Needs to Launch |
| SEO, Pages & AI Launches | SEO recommendations do not help much while they sit in a spreadsheet. Technical SEO implementation turns crawl notes, audit tasks, internal link gaps, schema needs, and template fixes into real site changes. | Technical SEO Implementation | SEO Audit Done? How to Implement the Fixes |
Specific broken-site symptoms
Specific website problems
JavaScript Issues on Websites: Console & Broken Actions
JavaScript issues on websites leave clues: console errors, failed network requests, recent plugin or theme changes, cache/optimization conflicts, scripts blocked by CORS or CSP, and symptoms like dead buttons, broken menus, forms that hang, or widgets that never load.
- Use when a specific visible symptom is blocking the site
- Good background before sending a website fix request
- Links into the service path that usually handles the repair
Fix My Broken Website: Safe Repair Order
When the site is already broken, the useful move is to protect the current state, reproduce the symptom, identify the affected business path, and fix the smallest verified cause.
- Use when a specific visible symptom is blocking the site
- Good background before sending a website fix request
- Links into the service path that usually handles the repair
JavaScript Not Working? Website Troubleshooting
JavaScript issues usually show up when JavaScript is not working: broken menus, dead buttons, forms that never finish, widgets that fail to load, or features that work on one page and fail on another.
- Use when a specific visible symptom is blocking the site
- Good background before sending a website fix request
- Links into the service path that usually handles the repair
Tracking Scripts and Pixels Are Broken: How to Spot the Problem
Analytics looks wrong, conversions disappear, tags fire twice, pixels are missing, or a tracking script is pasted in three different places.
- Use when a specific visible symptom is blocking the site
- Good background before sending a website fix request
- Links into the service path that usually handles the repair
Forms and Modals Not Working: Where Website Leads Disappear
The form submits but nobody gets the lead, validation fails, a popup will not open, or the thank-you flow no longer tracks correctly.
- Use when a specific visible symptom is blocking the site
- Good background before sending a website fix request
- Links into the service path that usually handles the repair
WordPress Broken Layout Fix: Mobile & Desktop
If a WordPress layout is broken on mobile or desktop, check CSS files, cache and minification, plugin or theme updates, page-builder spacing, responsive breakpoints, CDN behavior, mixed content, and recent template changes before editing blindly.
- Use when a specific visible symptom is blocking the site
- Good background before sending a website fix request
- Links into the service path that usually handles the repair
CMS, Plugin, and Theme Weirdness: Why Existing Sites Get Strange
The site behaves differently after an update, one page ignores the template, the builder output is strange, or a plugin almost works but not quite.
- Use when a specific visible symptom is blocking the site
- Good background before sending a website fix request
- Links into the service path that usually handles the repair
Embeds, Iframes, and Widgets Breaking Website Pages
Maps, videos, calendars, chat tools, CRM widgets, and iframes are useful until they break layout, slow the page, or fail on mobile.
- Use when a specific visible symptom is blocking the site
- Good background before sending a website fix request
- Links into the service path that usually handles the repair
Troubleshooting-to-service paths
Troubleshooting paths with service context
Use these reading paths to move from the symptom to the page that can help fix it.
Website Fixes Use this when a post describes a real layout, script, form, embed, mobile, CMS, or production bug you need fixed.
WordPress Support Use this when the problem points toward plugins, themes, Elementor, PHP templates, CSS, JavaScript, or WordPress admin behavior.
JavaScript Issues on Websites: Console & Broken Actions JavaScript issues on websites leave clues: console errors, failed network requests, recent plugin or theme changes, cache/optimization conflicts, scripts blocked by CORS or CSP, and symptoms like dead buttons, broken menus, forms that hang, or widgets that never load.
Fix My Broken Website: Safe Repair Order | The Web Guy When the site is already broken, the useful move is to protect the current state, reproduce the symptom, identify the affected business path, and fix the smallest verified cause.
Article-to-service routes
Turn the article into the next practical website action
The posts are written to help name the problem. These links point from the reading path into the service pages that usually handle the work.
- Broken-site service
Website Fixes Use Website Fixes when a post describes a real layout, script, form, embed, mobile, CMS, or production bug you need fixed.
- WordPress service
WordPress Support Use WordPress Support when the problem points toward plugins, themes, Elementor, PHP templates, CSS, JavaScript, or WordPress admin behavior.
- SEO service
Technical SEO Implementation Use Technical SEO Implementation when the article connects to audit implementation, schema, internal links, redirects, crawl cleanup, or page structure.
- Page-build service
Landing Pages Use Landing Pages when the need is a new service page, local page, campaign page, paid traffic page, form, CTA, or launch-ready page.
- Tracking service
Analytics & Tracking Use Analytics & Tracking when the post is really about GA4, GTM, pixels, form tracking, ecommerce data, or unreliable reporting.
- Request path
Contact Use the form when the post helped name the symptom and you are ready to send the URL, context, timeline, and desired outcome.
Know what broke?
Send the URL, symptoms, what should happen, and what changed recently. That is enough to start a useful conversation.