GoDaddy Managed WordPress Hosting Hacked!!
If you were one of the 1.2 million customers compromised because of GoDaddy’s poor decision to avoid using best practices to protect your usernames and passwords, I hope you’ve taken this opportunity to move your website(s) to a hosting provider that takes security and protecting your site more seriously. Before ... Read more
Should you Enable Auto Updates for Your WordPress plugins and themes
Since the release of WordPress version 5.5 (August 2020), we’ve had the ability to enable or disable auto-updates for plugins and themes in the WordPress dashboard. I know for some, like those business owners that manage their own sites, this has been a welcomed feature. You’ve likely been told or ... Read more
WordPress Hosting Black Friday 2021 Sales
It’s the biggest sale time of the year, and with the WordPress community, it’s no different. As my inbox continues to fill up with details of the coming Black Friday offers, I decided that posting them here would be a good way for our readers to find them. While this ... Read more
WordPress Black Friday 2021
It’s that time again, WordPress Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the biggest sales event in the WordPress community. For some WordPress products, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the only days they offer discounts, so you will want to take advantage of these. WordPress Hosting These are some of the ... Read more
Nexcess Adds two New Features To Their WordPress Hosting Platforms
In September (2021) Nexcess announced that they have added the Plugin Performance Monitor and Sales Performance Monitor to their Managed WordPress and Managed WooCommerce hosting platforms at no additional cost! Incase you’re not familiar with these two features, let me break them down a bit for you so you can ... Read more
Liquid Web or Nexcess Hosting
Which should you use? Without knowing your situation I can’t exactly answer that question for you, but I can help you decide for yourself which brand has the right products for your needs. If you want a detailed breakdown of each brand, I suggest you read through this guide, Which ... Read more
Flywheel Growth Suite – Is It Worth Making the Move?
Our long time readers and subscribers will know that we are 100% all in on WP Engine hosting and have been for twelve years. However, if I’m being completely transparent, Flywheel’s Growth Suite product has our team discussing the possibilities of making the shift. I think it helps that Flywheel ... Read more
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