WordPress is arguably the most popular CMS on the planet. Hundreds of millions of organizations and businesses use WordPress to host their websites including TIME magazine and Snapchat. In fact, 62% of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the US (Inc. 5000) use...
Your website is the most crucial element of your online marketing efforts. This is why it is imperative that you maintain it regularly to ensure that it is accessible to your target audience, 24/7. Many people believe that once their website is up and running they...
SiteLock is a service that I have come across many times as a website developer. People have unwittingly fallen for the "need" to have SiteLock to "secure" their websites from their hosting companies. Many hosting companies even have some licensing deals with...
Most business owners understand the importance of owning a website, but neglect to think about the need for regular website maintenance once the site goes live. If you fail to account for regular website maintenance, you risk losing valuable customers or clients,...
Let us be clear about one thing – there is no concept of ‘do once and then you are done’ as far as websites are concerned. In fact, you need to continue taking care of your website and conduct ongoing website maintenance procedures to ensure that it continues to...
For any website to be successful enough to attract traffic in the long run, it is imperative that the front end, i.e. design element graphics, and content should be top-notch. However, once you have your website up and running, you will realize that while content is...
The number of WordPress based websites crosses 10 million. Around 500 websites are added daily making WordPress the fastest growing CMS currently. Major updates are released after 152 days, on average, and since the platform’s launch, 32 main updates have been...
WordPress 4.9.3 was released earlier this week and many sites auto-updated, just as they normally do. But in a sad turn of events, the release of 4.9.3 included a bug which broke the WordPress auto-update feature for future versions, unless manual action is taken on...
I'm sure you have heard it before — if not from me, then from some other web professional. "You need to be blogging." Yes, I say it all the time to clients. Some heed the advice, and it does pay off for them over time, but others just feel like it's a waste of time....
Do you have backups of your website? Do you have a provider that keeps regular backups? Incidentally, this is not something I would leave to just your host's discretion to do. I have heard countless stories from people who assumed their website host had backups of...
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