How to Ensure Maximum Cybersecurity on Your WordPress Website
For anyone planning to build a professional website, WordPress is the first option that comes to mind. After all, it is the preferred choice for website designers and owners worldwide, making it a market leader among all CMS platforms. This popularity makes WordPress sites the most targeted by hackers and ... Read more
iThemes Security Presents: WordPress Disaster Week (2021)
Every year iThemes holds a three day webinar series where they cover one of the most important topics related to WordPress and online business, ‘website security’. This is a FREE event, however, you do need to register. If you can not attend this even live, anyone that is registered will ... Read more
How to Automatically Migrate Your WordPress Site to WP Engine
WP Engine is the leading provider of Managed WordPress hosting. As the first hosting company to bring a WordPress only hosting solution to market, they have built an extraordinary platform. Like everything else they do, WP Engine has made migrating your site easy and frustration free. With the use of ... Read more
How Hosting with WP Engine can Reduce your Website Maintenance Efforts and Risks
The brutal truth, in most cases, you are the problem. There, I’ve said it! The website owner is the biggest threat to any WordPress site. If you’re not taking the proper steps to protect your website, who is? I can tell you it’s not your five dollar a month hosting ... Read more
Building a Website with Genesis Blocks
If you’re still hesitant to use the WordPress block editor for building your sites, I want to highlight a site I just built with the Genesis Blocks plugin. My goal going into this was to use as few plugins as possible and build the site with the WordPress core block ... Read more
Adding Code Snippets to Your WordPress Site
We recommend when you need to add code snippets to your site you either add the code to your themes functions.php file or you use a functionality plugin. Below I will show you how to use both of these methods. First Back Up Your Site! Before moving forward, please perform ... Read more
WordPress Black Friday 2020
We’ve been working hard to gather as much information as we could about the various WordPress companies offering Black Friday deals in 2020. This is not an exhaustive list by any means, but it is a list of some really good deals. WordPress Hosting These are some of the best ... Read more
Which of Liquid Web’s Brands is Right for You?
In this article I’m going to layout details about each of Liquid Web’s brands, with the intent of helping you identify which brand is right for you and your business needs. If you’re confused by the title, and my use of the word ‘brand’, let me explain. Liquid Web is ... Read more
How to Integrate Stripe with WordPress
When you’re using WordPress for collecting payments or selling products, there are a few ways you can integrate with Stripe easily. In this article, I’ll go over a few of the most ideal solutions. However, I do need to warn you, I am a bit biased and will be strongly ... Read more
6 Tips to Help You Avoid WordPress Problems
When it comes down to it, there are a few main things that lead up to problems and issues with WordPress websites, most of them come down to the same cause, the user. Let me explain. The single biggest threat to a WordPress websites is the user. The website owner. ... Read more
How to Troubleshoot a WordPress Plugin Conflict
When something with your WordPress website breaks, it can often be a cause of a conflict between plugins and a theme, or the theme and WordPress, or a couple different plugins. These conflicts are quite common. Our support team has had an unusual amount of request for help with the ... Read more
How to Get iThemes Security Pro Free
There are two ways you can get iThemes Security Pro plugin free. In this article I will explain each of them and how you can take advantage of this opportunity. What is iThemes Security Pro? I have a very detailed write up of iThemes Security here, but the most important ... Read more
Creating Custom Blocks for the WordPress Block Editor
WP Engine just announced the launch of a new plugin called, Genesis Custom Blocks, this is not to be confused with their page builder plugin, Genesis Pro. This new plugin is awesome! It will save you a ton of time when building custom blocks for the WordPress block editor, and ... Read more
iThemes New WordPress Membership Plugin
iThemes has acquired the Restrict Content Pro WordPress membership plugin from Sandhills Development and if you’re currently an iThemes Plugin Suite member, you have instant access to the new membership plugin. What Is Restrict Content Pro? This is probably the most robust WordPress membership plugins available today. Like every premium ... Read more
Building Websites with the WordPress Block Editor
In this article I want to show you what is possible with the default WordPress Block Editor and a few free plugins. The site I will be showing throughout this article was built without custom code and without spending any money on plugins. Where It Starts For Me Because I ... Read more
Easiest Way To Get Started With Elementor
The easiest way to get started with a WordPress page builder, like Elementor, is to use existing templates. A template is a prebuilt page used for a specific page builder that can be imported and manipulated with, in this case, the Elementor page builder. Elementor has always provided several templates ... Read more
VPS Hosting – What You Need to Know
In this article I’ll start with a break down of the different types of hosting environments. Then I will focus on VPS hosting, explaining why it’s an ideal solution, who it is for, and which company your should look to for quality VPS hosting. Break it Down When it comes ... Read more
WordPress Page Builders: Elementor or The Block Editor?
In this article I want to provide you with a little bit of insight on each of these WordPress page builders so that you can know which is right for you and your projects. I’m going to avoid getting too technical in this article. It is important that you understand ... Read more
WooCommerce Hosted Solution from GoDaddy
In this article I will discuss this WooCommerce hosted solution built by GoDaddy. I’ll review the product, discuss how it compares to the alternatives, introduce you to other solutions, and address the biggest question, ‘should you even consider using GoDaddy’s product?’. Before we get into the specific product, or any ... Read more
Jetpack Payments & What You Need to Know
This article covers the “payment feature” for Jetpack and WordPress.com subscriptions. If you read my article, WooCommerce Payments, What You Need to Know, then this article might sound familiar. Like WooCommerce Payments, Jetpack or WordPress Payments has its pros and cons. The Biggest Benefit As I see it, this payment ... Read more