WordPress is the most popular Content Management System, or CMS, with over half the CMS market. That’s a pretty good endorsement for it, but it also means it’s a bigger target for hackers. Because of this, updating your WordPress website is just as important for site functionality & security as updating your Windows computer.
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You’re ready to get started with a self-hosted WordPress.org website and now need a hosting provider. Or, you have a provider, but are about ready to pull your hair out from frustration. Either way, this is a checklist of what to look for when selecting your new hosting company, and
You may have recently seen this message on one of your WordPress sites: The plugin xyz has been deactivated due to an error: The plugin does not have a valid header. What does that mean and why did it happen?
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Website accessibility is becoming and bigger and bigger topic on the internet, and for good reason.
Having your website accessible to everyone, regardless of their abilities, is just good business. But, website accessibility can also feel like attempting to slay a 12-headed hydra monster while wielding a penknife.
So, in this article, we are going to tackle one head of the hydra monster, and we’re going to give you a simple formula for doing it. Selecting your accessible fonts.
Recently, we onboarded a new Agency into a maintenance plan for their client sites. The agency thought they had things under control and were quite surprised when they discovered the truth.
Read MoreCase Study: What one Agency discovered when they got their sites managed
A boutique investment house needed an easy way to get documents to and from their clients. They also needed this investor portal to be both easy for investors to use and easy for portal admins who didn’t have a lot of tech-savvy.
Read MoreCase Study: White label development for boutique investment house’s investor portal
You’ve set up your WordPress site, there’s just one issue.
Your website can’t send mail.
This means your contact forms don’t work, new user emails don’t work, password reset requests can’t be sent. It’s not a good situation. The good news is, there’s a pretty simple fix.
Website security is a top priority for website owners. Cyber threats like hacking, phishing, and malware attacks are becoming increasingly common, but there are measures you can take to protect yourself and your sensitive information. In this article, we will discuss the best practices for securing your website. Website Security
So let’s be honest, one of the main draws of WordPress besides the low price is the freedom to do what you want to with your website. But like most things in life, freedom comes with responsibility. This blog post came out of a WordPress meetup that I was recently
If you’ve gotten the notification from ManageWP that you have extra database tables in your WordPress install, here’s a quick and easy video on removing those extra database tables. Here’s what the notification would have looked like from ManageWP: Backups completed successfully. We have detected database tables we believe do
You’ve been told by countless SEO guides & Webmaster Tools that if you move a URL you need to use a 301 redirect. But they usually don’t tell you what exactly it is or how to do it. This article will cover the what and how for 301 redirects on
Wistia has grown in a lot of popularity as a video hosting service with a lot of premium options, however, many WordPress plugins still don’t work well with it. The good news is, anywhere that you can put an HTML5 video with mp4 extension, you can put a Wistia video. All you have to know is how to generate the URL.
The questions that you need to answer before you start building your online store.
Read MoreUltimate List of WooCommerce Questions You Need to Answer Before Building Your Online Store
Many people have websites and offer free downloadable materials to their visitors. You could be a CPA with a PDF brochure or a custom window installer with an excel file for cost estimates. You want to provide materials, but you also want to gather the visitor’s email address and contact
Read MoreOffer Free Downloads with Contact Form Email Submission
There are a lot of companies out there offering managed WordPress hosting now, but the question is, who’s the right company for your needs? I’ve been working with WPEngine, Flywheel, GoDaddy, and Kinsta managed WP hosting for a few years now, so here’s my analysis of the companies and why
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Lots of business websites need to post a quick announcement. Maybe you’re closing for a holiday, maybe a major storm is causing problems, or maybe you’ve got a limited time special to announce. Whatever the reason, we get a lot of requests to add a simple announcement to websites. So
Read MoreHow to Post an Announcement to Your Website in Under 5 Minutes
Thanks to the 5.2 updates to WordPress, the good old maintenance screen for WordPress is gone. Now we have “The site is experiencing technical difficulties.” screen. So what does it mean? Well, frequently, it means “wait 5 minutes”.
Read MoreHow to fix “site experiencing technical difficulties” error
A client recently came to me with an issue: one of her friends had a hacked WordPress site, and GoDaddy (their hosting provider) had restored the files, but the site still wasn’t working. Unfortunately this example is far too common — what many people forget is that hosting companies maintain their
Chrome version 56 which is scheduled for release in January 2017 will be announcing to the world whenever it visits a webpage that transmits password or credit card information insecurely. So what does that mean for you?
If there’s one thing that I hate even more than email spam, it’s probably comment spam. I’ve tried a lot of plugins over a lot of sites, and here is what I’ve found to be very effective.