Reply To: Traffic dropped again after the update

[Nathan]

Yeah, I’d still be checking logs before blaming the update itself. The “same posts, same plugins” line usually turns out to be a lie by omission with WordPress stuff — cache layer, cron weirdness, some plugin silently changing output, whatever. If crawl’s normal and there aren’t 4xx/5xx spikes, it’s probably not some giant Google penalty drama. If crawl dipped or the rendered HTML changed, that’s where I’d look first. I’d be more suspicious of a plugin conflict than the update itself, honestly.