Posts Tagged ‘maintenance’
On Facebook outages and why it’s still ok to “own your own content”
Over at PostStatus David Bisset has a thoughtful post about brushing off the recent Facebook/Instagram/WeChat outage with quips about “own your own content.” Time will tell if Facebook being down on Oct 4th will be the single greatest system failure in tech in 2021. There’s been some good writing explaining what went wrong (and the fact that mistakes…
Read MoreIf you get email from GSuite saying remove links (you’re probably ok)
First things first: if you got a confusing email from GSuite that says something like “[Action Required] Remove internal links to the G Suite Domain Contact page for your organization” don’t panic! Bottom line up top: They’re just recommending that you clean up any old links to an out-of-date service that you probably weren’t aware…
Read MoreWebsite consultation
Of course we do office consultation for maintenance clients. When we say you get one hour a month for standard site maintenance we mean it. Sometimes that involves fixing something that wasn’t working quite right on the back end. But sometimes it involves a one-hour strategy consultation on how to blog effectively. No, we won’t…
Read MoreExpert cleaners can fix that. Like when I leave a pen in the laundry. Or when someone breaks your website…
I can’t say how cleaners feel about cleaning ink-stained shirts to be honest, but we love fixing websites. Broken or misbehaving or just plain old websites are like the world’s best puzzle. I’ve been washing and drying my own clothes for a very long time. But I can still make rookie mistakes. Like this weekend when…
Read MoreOnce you get your website secure it’s easy to keep it secure!
It’s a mistake to say “WordPress is insecure.” Yes, it may have once been insecure but then Toyota’s cars once had motorcycle engines! A lot’s changed. David Hayes recently said this very clearly. It is very common for people who know very little about WordPress to say that it’s insecure. And there’s some reasons from history that this diffuse…
Read MoreWordPress market share passes 27%
People occasionally ask me why we specialize on WordPress even though we could support numerous other platforms. To say “that’s where all the websites are” would be overstating it a bit. But it’s not and understatement to say “27% of all websites now run WordPress.” Here’s the lead paragraph for the post on WP Tavern. WordPress Passes…
Read MoreGoogle: pages should show what real people want to see
There are two main things you can do to improve your website’s SEO Part One: the “marketing” side One part is all about marketing in the best sense of the word: identifying the people you want to reach identifying how they think about your products, services, ideas, or interests Then creating content that meets their interests speaks to…
Read MoreExact Electric – HTML to WordPress Conversion
Exact Electric, LLC is a full-service electrical contractor serving Seattle and the greater Puget Sound region. When they were ready to add blogging and social media to their site they approached us to rebuild their old HTML site to a new, responsive WordPress site. We definitely can’t take all the credit since it was a…
Read MoreWordPress vulnerabilities compared to Google, Apache, MySQL
We’re very aggressive about fixing vulnerabilities in our client’s WordPress websites. We monitor multiple security sites to make sure we stay informed so we can apply fixes as soon as possible. Does that mean WordPress in inherently vulnerable? Is its reputation deserved? As the graph from the white-hat security firm WP White Security shows the…
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