Category: WordPress

Getting started with a WordPress maintenance plan

So you've decided that you need help with your company's WordPress presence.Great! That’s the first step, but now what? Eric Meyer, the founder and owner of Curious Minds, goes over what to expect.

What are the Different Types of WordPress Vulnerabilities, Part 2: SQL Injection

We’re back with another chapter in our series on the different types of WordPress vulnerabilities. This chapter focuses on one of the more common types, SQL injections.

WordPress Vulnerabilities Part 1 : Brute Force Attacks

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

Why You Should Avoid Nulled WordPress Plugins

Plugins are great! They help optimize your site, make it run faster, better, stronger prettier, and more. If you want to do it, chances are, there’s a plugin for it.

Choosing a Web Hosting Provider for Your WordPress Website

There’s a lot to consider when choosing a hosting provider. Sometimes it all feels like a little too much, and before you know it your head is spinning from the number of options available.

Improving Stability and Security on Your WordPress Site

Have you ever heard of the term “deferred maintenance?” It’s commonly used in the real estate business to describe work needed on a property that has been delayed until the owner has the time and money to deal with it.

How to Protect Yourself from WordPress Vulnerabilities

Now that your website is live, it’s time to keep it that way. You don’t want all that hard work to go to waste! What are some steps you can take to keep your WordPress site safe from vulnerabilities?

What are the Different Types of WordPress Vulnerabilities?

A vulnerability is defined as “the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically, or emotionally.” Of course, you’re not actually being physically attacked.

How to Decide if a WordPress Site is Right for You

So you know you need a website, but the sheer number of choices available is overwhelming. You’ve heard about WordPress, but aren’t sure if it’s the right choice for your site.

Security and WordPress Maintenance

When it comes to securing your WordPress site, you have a few options. You could hire a team of developers to handle everything. You could figure out how to do it yourself.

How to Properly Set Up Transactional Email on Your WordPress Site

What are transactional emails? The name may sound fancy or technical, but almost everyone has experience with them.

How to Set Up Custom Messages Based on Product Category for WooCommerce

When building a WooCommerce site, part of the setup involves putting together the customer order notification emails that get sent when a purchase is made.

Why Keeping Your WordPress Site Up to Date Keeps Everyone Happy

It’s been a slow month, that’s all. You look at the traffic history and analytics on your website over the last few weeks. People aren’t staying.

Differences Between a Prebuilt Theme vs. Building a Custom Theme

WordPress is one of those great moments where a group of people built something that is not only flexible, but easy to use. There is no shortage of “WordPress Themes,” out there.

Configuring WPEngine for WooCommerce

Many people underestimate WooCommerce. Internally, there’s a lot going on. It’s frequently disliked for a lack of full-featured e-commerce functionality.

Automatic Updates, and Why They’re Unreliable

Automatic anything can be a godsend. Ice dispensers, bill payments, and doors are just a few of the automations we enjoy on a daily basis.

Proper Deployment Procedures and the Importance of Version Control in WordPress Development

Have you ever worked in a group setting? Each person has their own list of responsibilities, deadlines, and goals, but everyone on the team is utilizing the same file base for storing updates to the project. Has this happened to you?

WordPress Security: How to Protect Your Site from Brute Force Attacks with URL Masking

Imagine it’s 10pm on a Friday night. You’re catching up on some (insert cool, recent TV show), trying to relax. Suddenly, you get a concerning text from your employee telling you to look at your website.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Custom WordPress Themes

Once your WordPress website has a design that is ready to be fleshed out, one of the first things that you need to decide is how to achieve that design’s look and feel.

What is Enterprise WordPress Maintenance? Part 1

If you are using WordPress as a critical part of your marketing or e-commerce infrastructure, understanding and addressing the ongoing maintenance needs of your installation is of paramount importance.

Do I Need a Staging Site?

Picture this – you’re making a change to your custom WordPress E-Commerce theme. You click save, and you get the infamous white screen. You refresh the page a dozen times and wonder where you went wrong, and what you did to deserve this fate?

Getting the Most out of Your WordPress Plugins

WordPress launched in 2003 as a simple way for people to start blogs. Since then, WordPress has grown into the top content management system (CMS), and application framework in the world.

Do I Need to Update WordPress?

It starts with a simple enough question. Do you want to update to the newest version of WordPress? You start wondering if you should update. Is it necessary? What are the consequences?

What’s Security Got to Do With It? Understanding Site Security & WordPress

If you use WordPress for your website, you need to take security seriously. WordPress’ popularity as a content management system (CMS) makes it a popular target for hackers.

Headless CMS and WordPress: What You need to Know

Today’s companies are producing more content than ever before. And many are finding a need to populate content across multiple websites or delivery channels.

The Ins-and-Outs of Enterprise WordPress Maintenance: What You Need and Should Expect

WordPress has earned a reputation as a user-friendly content management system (CMS). Its ease-of-use makes WordPress an ideal solution for organizations of every scale–including major enterprises.

Using WordPress for Enterprise? Here’s What You Need to Know

You may think of WordPress as the content management system (CMS) underpinning personal and small business blogs everywhere. And that’s very true.

What to look for in a WordPress Maintenance Service

WordPress reigns supreme as the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. But while WordPress has an impressive reach, the CMS also has significant vulnerabilities.

Mapping external domains to sites on your WordPress network without a plugin

In this tutorial, I will show you how to map external domains to sites on your WordPress network, without the use of a plugin. I have found some conflicting information on this process.